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Happy New Year from YOURS!

by Youth For Road Safety | Nov 8, 2023 | News & Blog

We want to wish all of our supporters, partners and advisors a massive happy new year! 2011 is a big one and as we see the Decade of Action come into force, the work of YOURS is set to create a bigger impact in the years ahead.

We look back at our New Years Message in 2010 and think of all goals realised throughout the year. We have achieved some great successes many of which we visioned at the start of 2010 and implemented as our structure formulated and our network grew. But this is just the start, we have much more work ahead in close partnership and collaboration with road safety organisations around the world.

In 2011, we are witnessing history in the making as the UN Decade of Action 2011-2020 begins in May and YOURS will no doubt be celebrating this ‘beginning of change’ with great enthusiasm and passion. The year ahead is an exciting one and through all the achievements of 2010 YOURS is set to make this year a highly productive, concrete and change making one for global road safety and young people.

Some of our goals for this year include:

The support and organization of at least 1 Regional Youth Assembly
The launch of our first publication: A Road Safety Welcome Kit for Young People
Awareness campaign during the World Remembrance Day 2011
Organize road safety capacity building workshops
Maintain and expand Global Youth Network for Road Safety and provide services
Advocate for young people and road safety issues during international events
Support the launch of the Decade of Action

We have a big year ahead of us! It is not only exciting but historical on the eve of the Decade of Action. The YOURS website will also continue to grow with new features, initiatives, campaigns and media so keep coming back and checking for updates.

Here’s to 2011 and your continued support!

Warm Regards,
The YOURS Team

We say goobye to 2010! See our highlights!

by Youth For Road Safety | Nov 8, 2023 | News & Blog

The end of the year is just around the corner. As we say goodbye to 2010, we welcome 2011 with lots of excitement and enthusiasm for the work ahead. 2011 is a massive year for young people and road safety.

2011 Is an important year for YOURS. It not only marks the official start of the Decade of Action for Road Safety of which YOURS will play their part. We will also maximise on the groundbuilding of 2010 to iniate a range of projects and campaigns in 2011. In the coming year, YOURS will initiate its second Global Road Safety Campaign to compliment the World Crossing Campaign. In addition to this, 2011 sees a big focus on Young People and Road Safety with many events scheduled for the new year.

Reporting Back from Cambodia

by Youth For Road Safety | Nov 8, 2023 | News & Blog

On the first of November 2010 a Youth and Road Safety Trainers Workshop took place in Siem Reap – Cambodia, hosted by the Cambodia Red Cross an organized in close partnership with Global Road Safety Partnership and YOURS – Youth for Road Safety. Approximately 20 persons attended the workshop, the majority were youth leaders from the Cambodia Red Cross.

Workshop highlights

During the workshop Handicap International Belgium presented the data of Cambodia and the latest research on road safety (with a focus on drunk driving and helmet use). After the statistics we had a first brainstorm exercise to identify why young people are over represented in road crashes. After the brainstorm YOURS presented the complexity of youth and road safety issues. Why do young people behave like they do in traffic?

The next highlight was on the use of peer-education. Due to a presentation and an exercise (advantages and disadvantages of peer-education) the participants got a general understanding when, where and how you can use peer-education to get into touch with young people. By showing some success stories from other young people in other countries the participants were inspired by this technique.

The last session we provided was on youth communication. Due to examples we explained ´target groups´ and the approaches taken by other industries. Finally we introduced a simple evaluation technique, the 7c´s, for reviewing posters and leaflets and their effectiveness.

Next steps

The Cambodia Red Cross spent the last session on planning the next workshops and discussing the more specific needs. While writing this report, we know that the next workshop, building on this one, is a two-day workshop planned for 2-3 December in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The objectives of this workshop are:

To build knowledge and understanding of the CRC Youth Leaders in youth related road safety situation, safety helmets, drink driving and about why youth are over represented in road crashes
To increase the capacity of the CRC Youth Leaders and road safety peer education skills and their expertise in getting the message across to young people and youth communication
To introduce Good Practice Manual and Facts (data and research) about risks and consequences of non-helmet wearing and drink driving
To encourage participants to develop own initiative have to plan, organize and conduct road safety publicity campaigns throughout Phnom Penh

Overall, the event was a great success for YOURS and saw our key pillar of capacity development in action.

GRSP Asia Seminar 2010 – YOURS Participates

by Youth For Road Safety | Nov 8, 2023 | News & Blog

The GRSP/Asia Road Safety Seminar 2010 took place this year in Cambodia. The GRSP were pleased to inform us that they had about 200 participants this year and for YOURS it was a rewarding experience to take part. Clearly, this annual gathering on Road Safety, comprising of road safety experts, government agencies and NGOs, is an important platform for sharing and exchanging information in the Asia Region.

YOURS was once again privileged to have shared a stage with leading road safety orgnisations in presenting its goals to reduce road crashes in the coming years. The even culminated in a range of presentations geared towards planning for the coming Decade of Action for Road Safety starting in 2011 in the Asia region.

YOURS presented about the importance of focusing on young people in the Decade of Action in the Asia, an area of the world that has unprecedented levels of road traffic crashes affecting young people and costing 248 million US$ in Cambodia alone.

In additon to this, an internation presence from organisations investing in the region to reduce road crashes was visible. The event also launched the official Decade of Action Tag: Wear.Believe.Act giving a promotional edge to the action.

With thanks to GRSP Asia, you can download and read any of the presentations from the event for more information:

Day 1

YOURS continues to work closely to develop the Decade of Action globally and is committed to bringing attention to overrepresentation of young people in road crashes worldwide.

Seminar

Workshop

Day 2

Seminar

Workshop

Decade of Action for Road Safety Launch Website

by Youth For Road Safety | Nov 8, 2023 | News & Blog

As part of the international movement for the Decade of Action for Road Safety, an official website selling the Decade of Action Tag has been launched and is ready for you to purchase to WEAR.BELIEVE.ACT. The site also includes expert resources and infomation of road safety funding.

From: www.decadeofaction.org

Working together, we can all play an important role in achieving the Decade goals.

The first thing you can do is to get a Tag. Wear it, somehow, anyhow. Then tell your friends, family and colleagues to get their Tags too. A red ribbon is just a ribbon, until it is imbued with the hope and energies of millions of people working against HIV/AIDS. The white plastic wristband is just a piece of plastic, until hundreds of thousands of people proudly display it as they march against poverty. Now it is up to all of us to unite and make this small piece of metal – the road safety Tag – a powerful symbol of our fight against the suffering, grief and injustice caused by road deaths and injuries.

You can help by raising awareness and campaigning for safer roads in your community, school and workplace. In the Resources section of the website you will find downloadable leaflets, posters and booklets, as well as the artwork for the Tag symbol. We are adding new information all the time, so please check back regularly.

If you are a non-profit organisation (e.g. a government or government agency, charity or NGO, a volunteer group, university, school or place of worship) you can access and use the Decade of Action symbol freely by accepting terms of use and providing a small amount of information about your organisation and the ways in which you hope to support the Decade of Action for Road Safety.

Please see our Resources section here for more details. If you are a private company or corporation and would like to become an official Supporter of the Decade of Action for Road Safety, please visit our Road Safety Fund website and contact us to find out how you can partner with us to reduce global road casualties.

Spotlight On: ArriveSAFE

by Youth For Road Safety | Nov 8, 2023 | News & Blog

YOURS is very proud to feature the road safety organisation, ‘ArriveSafe’. Headed by international spokesman for road safety, Mr Harman Sidhu, ArriveSafe works with Governmental and Semi-Governmental bodies to further road safety in India and the world.

ArriveSAFE has been developing cost effective dynamic tools to enhance efficiency and deliverability of Road Safety within the existing legal framework. The organization emerged out of Mr Harman Singh Sidhu’s harrowing personal experience of a road crash in October 1996 that left him paralysed neck below due to a spinal injury and living in constant pain since then. The sudden emptiness and a strong desire that the same doesn’t happen to anyone else moved me to work in the field of road safety. YOURS observes his courageous spirit and determination and is inspired by Harman’s work.

ArriveSAFE since then has grown from an one man initiative to an organisation supported by many like minded individuals having concern for road safety and as presence in many states of India.

Main activities:

To reach out to Government, Media, Corporate Houses and Community to solicit their support to prevent colossal waste of human life on Indian roads. India holds the dubious distinction of highest road crash fatalities in the World.
To work as a pressure group to create political will and help improve road safety situation.
Advocacy through media campaigns to draw the attention of decision makers especially politicians and public in general. Sensitize masses by raising awareness about road traffic injuries, their grave consequences and thus build community involvement around the issue of Road Safety.
Develop cost effective road safety educational content [Print and Multimedia based] to increase knowledge, awareness and skills amongst the road users. The content has been developed and supplied to countries like Egypt, Suriname besides India.
To work towards changing the attitudes and behaviours of drivers by creating peoples movement for safe behaviour.
Promote a positive attitude towards enforcement laws and infuse sense of courtesy and concern among road users.
Regularly monitor relevant local and international road statistics and developments in order to effect improvements.
Study the best practices manuals published by WHO/GRSP and implement them, to the extent they can be in the given conditions.
Contributing to the “National Road Safety Policy on Road Safety” and “The National Road Safety and Traffic Management Board Bill”.
Co-coordinating with the “Law Commission of India” in formulating new Laws or amending the existing ones as per the changed circumstances by contributing to the “Consultation Paper on Legal Reform to combat Road Accident”.
Data Collection on Road Crashes – As reaffirmed in the “First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety” in Moscow, data led approach is required to focus on targeted interventions and to know their results. We are developing the crash data collection system.
Enforcement – Working closely with the Police Units to improve enforcement by computerization the processes so the habitual offenders are filtered and necessary legal activity is initiated against them.Why you started.

Impact

Road Safety which was not on the priority of the Authorities and Public is now considered as an “important issue” and State Councils and Advisory Committees are being formulated at state and community level to tackle Road Crashes.