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Safety 2018 World Conference – Call for abstracts

by Youth For Road Safety | Dec 29, 2023 | News & Blog

Injuries and violence are a major public health burden across the globe. The 13th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Safety 2018) will bring together over 1000 of the world’s leading researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and activists to share information and experiences and to discuss solutions. Conference major theme is “Advancing injury and violence prevention towards SDGs”

Conference Objectives

Inspired by the SDG commitments, WORLD CONFERENCE ON INJURY PREVENTON AND SAFETY PROMOTION 2018 (called “Safety 2018”) is convened in November 5-7, 2018 in Bangkok with the following objectives.

To share knowledge, experience, good practices, successful and non-successful stories, challenges of injury prevention and safety promotion in responses to SDGs.
To promote safety and non-violence in all policies, and advocate effective multi-sectoral actions for safety and non-violence.
To build and strengthen a global community of practice in order to promote safety and prevention of violence agenda worldwide.

Safety 2018 will take place on November 5-7, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Conference will be hosted by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, and co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institute for Emergency Medicine (NIEM) and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation.

Participants will primarily include researchers, practitioners, advocates and policy-makers in the field of injury prevention and safety promotion.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Submit now until 15 January 2018 (GMT+7)

ABSTRACTS

The abstract should contain no more than 300 words that illustrate original research, synthesis, reviews, debates or documenting experience from the field on the subjects which have never been presented at any international conference.

The abstract can be either structured or unstructured format. Structured abstract should contain the following: Background, objective, methods, findings, conclusion and policy implications. Unstructured abstract should contain essential elements for which the international reviewers can judge the merits of the works.

Essential fields in the abstract cover the following

1. Title of the abstract
2. Name, position, affiliation institute, country of all author;
3. Specify which author is a co-responding author and which author will be the presenter if abstract is qualified and selected
4. Indicate needs for funding support or not [see detail in funding opportunities]
5. Main body of abstract, not beyond 300 words
6. Please indicate which sub-themes and key word(s) most related to your abstract

SUB-THEME 1: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES (RELEVANT TO UNINTENTIONAL INJURY AND VIOLENCE)

1.1 Safety and non-violence in all policies
1.2 Injury surveillance and injury prevention research
1.3 Law, legislation and regulatory capacities
1.4 Policies and implementation on injury prevention and safety promotion
1.5 Multi-sectoral actions supporting injury prevention and safety promotion
1.6 Evidence for policies, data and statistics
1.7 Prevention, pre-hospital emergency medical services, services provisions (Accident and Emergency, trauma and critical care systems), psychosocial support and rehabilitation
1.8 Human right protection
1.9 Capacity building
1.10 Advocacy
1.11 Safety culture and risk management
1.12 Safety and injury in different settings e.g. occupational, labour, workplace, schools, home, leisure, disasters and mass emergencies, sport, transport safety, communities and public areas
1.13 Gender inequality
1.14 Alcohol related domestic violence, traffic injuries, self-harm and harms to others.
1.15 Preparedness and resilience (e.g. disaster, mass causalities, civil protection)

SUB-THEME 2: UNINTENTIONAL INJURY

2.1 Road traffic injury
2.2 Occupational safety
2.3 Burns and Fire Prevention;
2.4 Child and adolescent safety;
2.5 Consumer product safety and safety of services;
2.6 Falls in older people;
2.7 Home safety;
2.8 Prevention of intoxications;
2.9 Sport and recreation;
2.10 Safe Communities
2.11 Water safety and drowning prevention;
2.12 Other unintentional injuries

SUB-THEME 3: VIOLENCE

3.1 Violence-related injury: all types
3.2 Violence against women, female genital mutilation
3.3 Child maltreatment, implementation of Convention on Child Right
3.4 Youth violence
3.5 Abuse of elderly, person with disability, children, women, and other vulnerable population
3.6 Intimate partner violence
3.7 Sexual violence
3.8 Self-harm, suicide and effective suicide preventions
3.9 Implementation of Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
3.10 Self-inflicted violence
3.11 Collective violence

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION

The closing date for submission of abstracts is 15 January 2018 (midnight, Bangkok Time)

All abstracts must be submitted electronically at the Safety 2018 Conference website: www.worldsafety2018.org Please follow the instructions indicated in the online submission system.

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by independent international experts based on the criteria which were approved by the 2018 Safety International Scientific Committee. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to participate in the Safety 2018 Conference during 5th – 7th November 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand either as presenters in sessions or poster presentation.

For abstracts selected for oral presentation in Conference sessions, the author may be required to adjust the scope of their presentation to fit with the session objectives, content and format.

For abstracts selected for poster presentation, the secretariat will inform the guidelines for preparing the poster.

CONTACT CONGRESS SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT

If you have any question or comment, please contact the organizing committee at secretariat@worldsafety2018.org

VISIT THE SAFETY 2018 WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO

Child Health Initiative Declaration – London conference calls for action

by Youth For Road Safety | Dec 29, 2023 | News & Blog

Global action is urgently required to prevent the needless deaths of thousands of children worldwide, where young lives are cut short or seriously impaired due to toxic air and unsafe streets, the Mayors of London and Accra, alongside international agencies and global experts said at the Child Health Initiative’s ‘Every Journey, Every Child’ conference at London City Hall.

The Child Health Initiative (CHI), convened by the FIA Foundation, issued the Declaration of Every Child’s Right to Safe and Healthy Streets which comprises six articles focused on protecting children from traffic-related toxic air pollution and road traffic injury.

The Declaration calls for global leaders to sign up and commit to the protection of children who are currently using the world’s most dangerous streets, to ensure they are not breathing the polluted air that is especially damaging to growing lungs, and to provide a safe and healthy journey to school for every child worldwide.

We signed the declaration for #EveryLife

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan joined the call for action and opened the Every Journey, Every Child conference, held at London City Hall on 4th October, commending the FIA Foundation on organising the event and for “doing so much to champion the cause of sustainable transport.”

He said: “It’s sickening to know that not a single area of London meets World Health Organisation health standards, but even worse than that, nearly 95% of the capital is exceeding these guidelines by at least 50% We should be ashamed that our young people – the next generation of Londoners – are being exposed to these tiny particles of toxic dust that are seriously damaging their lungs and shortening their life expectancy. Air pollution and climate change transcend national borders and city boundaries. In this interconnected world, the fates of cities like London and Accra are intertwined and the only way to respond to these global problems is with global solutions.”

Children take a moment to participate in a conference ‘song’.

Children from Townsend School in Southwark, London joined the Mayor and the other high-level participants at the conference. They performed a rap, calling for action on air pollution to protect their health. The school has been working with the FIA Foundation and the London Sustainability Exchange on air quality testing and schools based initiatives.

In a first contribution to the Declaration’s agenda, Mayor Khan, Mayor of Accra Mohammed Adjei Sowah, and FIA Foundation Chairman Lord Robertson signed up to the Breathe Life campaign. Breathe Life, a campaign of WHO, UN Environment and Climate and Clean Air Coalition aim to mobilize cities and individuals to protect public health and the planet from the effects of air pollution. The CHI Declaration supports ‘Breathe Life’ in its call to achieve safe air quality levels by 2030. The FIA Foundation is contributing to the campaign through its coordination of the Real Urban Emissions Initiative (TRUE – www.trueinitiative.org) which is measuring the real emissions of vehicles in London and Paris to inform policymakers and consumers.

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, Chairman, FIA Foundation, said: “We’re facing a global public health emergency for our children. It’s taking place right in front of us, on our streets. Yet the international community is failing to respond with anything like sufficient urgency. Here, in London, we have a mayor who is listening to children and intervening to protect their health, working to curb toxic emissions and ensure social justice for every child. The FIA Foundation urges every city to take action to tackle the twin epidemics of road traffic injury and air pollution.”

Zoleka Mandela, Global Ambassador for the Child Health Initiative addressed the conference following Mayor Sadiq Khan. She said:

“Worldwide, these fundamental children’s rights are being violated every single day. Put simply, as we send our children out on their daily journey to school we are risking their lives. They are trying to access education and we are killing them – with toxic pollution, with dangerous traffic. In the 21st century, this cannot be allowed to happen. We have the solutions, we can save lives on our streets. Our leaders must step up and act. For every child, for every life.”

Also on the opening panel was UN Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt. He said: “Let us not forget that at the heart of this issue are children. Children who have a basic right to step out of their front door and travel to school or to meet their friends safe from injury, safe from harm.”

Based on the Convention of the Right of the Child, the six articles of the Declaration calls for policymakers at all levels to support and implement the following priorities for every child:

Action to ensure every child has a safe and healthy journey to school by 2030.
Ensuring every child breathes clean air which a minimum meets WHO guidelines. The Declaration supports the ‘Breathe Life’ campaign to achieve safe air quality levels by 2030.
Upholding every child’s right to an education without risk or injury.
Promoting healthy streets. Prioritising people not cars. Encouraging walking, cycling and outdoor play to combat non-communicable diseases.
Protection from violence both intended and unintended. Reducing urban traffic speeds to levels proven safe for children must be deployed as a priority action for child and adolescent health.
Every child has a right to be heard. Their voices demanding the basic right to a safe environment must be acted upon globally.

Founding members of the Child Health Initiative alongside the FIA Foundation are UNICEF, UN Environment, Save the Children, Overseas Development Institute and the World Resources Institute. A range of international agencies, NGOs, experts and policymakers participated in the conference.

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Walking the Talk: showing how organizations can impact real change

by Youth For Road Safety | Dec 29, 2023 | News & Blog

The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance), has launched its new publication Walking the Talk, at the Every Journey, Every Child International Conference organized by the Global Initiative for Child Health and Mobility, in London, UK.

Walking the Talk describes the response of the Alliance and its member NGOs to the call for action represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with focus on SDG 3.6: “By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents” and 11.2 “By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all.”2 The publication argues that the SDGs are a shared responsibility involving governments, NGOs, corporations, and bi- and multilateral stakeholders and that NGOs can be effective partners in achieving change.

Through its capacity-building initiative, the Alliance Empowerment Program, the Alliance is equipping NGOs to take a more evidence-based, goal-oriented, and strategic approach to their work. Launched at the end of 2015, this groundbreaking program is already gaining traction and showing results.

Walking the Talk offers a glimpse of what can be achieved with strategic investment in road safety NGOs, with reference to the Alliance Empowerment Program. It tells stories of individuals gaining new skills and mind-sets, and, as a result, NGOs becoming more visible and effective.

From a national seat belt campaign in Tunisia, which saw road deaths decrease by 35% in two months, to infrastructure improvements that have reduced road injuries around five schools in Addis Ababa, Alliance member NGOs are taking small steps that can lead to big, measurable results, and they are helping to save lives around the world.

Members of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety launch ‘Walking the Talk’ in London.

Road crashes account for 1.25 million deaths each year and are the number one cause of death for 15–29-year-olds. Without intervention, road crashes are projected to be the seventh leading cause of death globally by 2030.

Urgent action is needed to address this. The Alliance is seeking to maintain the momentum of the Empowerment Program, and we invite all stakeholders to partner with us in this journey.

Lotte Brondum, Executive Director, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety, said: “NGOs are the ears, eyes, and voice of the global road safety problem on our roads. The Alliance Empowerment Program, which has been funded by FedEx, is demonstrating how, with strategic training and investment, the effectiveness of these NGOs can be magnified and produce measurable results toward achieving the road safety SDGs. Walking the Talk shows the impact the Empowerment Program has had on our NGOs, and what differences it has made in their work.”

Etienne Krug, Director of the Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO, said: “The SDG targets linked to road safety cannot be achieved without the support of the NGO community. We know what it takes and what action is needed to make our roads safe. As an umbrella organization for road safety NGOs, the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety plays its role, representing and equipping NGOs to work as key partners toward reducing the 1.25 million road deaths around the world each year.”

About the Alliance

The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety was established in 2012 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and NGO members of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration as an umbrella organization for road safety and road victim NGOs around the world. It currently represents 200 members in more than 90 countries, ranging from large NGOs working across a number of countries to small grassroots organizations resourced by volunteers. It works through networking and sharing, advocacy, and capacity building.

The Alliance Empowerment Program is a multiyear capacity-building program. It was informed by a needs assessment conducted among Alliance members in 2015 and incorporates intensive face-to-face training, webinars, mentoring, and small grants for grassroots projects with the potential for scalability and replicability in other countries. The centerpiece of the Empowerment Program is the Alliance Advocates training, which includes an intensive two-week course and follows up with ongoing mentoring and evaluation. Between 10 and 15 Advocates are selected each year through a highly competitive application process. During the training, they create a measurable, goal-oriented action plan, which is implemented in their home country. Afef Ben Ghenia and Mesganaw Bimrew are graduates of the 2016 Alliance Advocate training.

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UN Secretary-General’s Report highlights previous two years of global action

by Youth For Road Safety | Dec 29, 2023 | News & Blog

The seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly focused on ‘Improving Global Road Safety’. The session accepted a report from the UN Secretary-General focusing on global road safety action in the previous two years to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 – the halve all deaths caused by road traffic crashes by 2020.

The Secretary-General transmitted the report on improving global road safety, prepared by the World Health Organization in consultation with the United Nations regional commissions and other partners of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration. It features a wealth of action from the global road safety community including reference to YOURS’ work at the Second High-Level Meeting on Road Safety and our work with the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety.

Summary

The present report, prepared by the World Health Organization in cooperation with the United Nations regional commissions and other partners of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, provides an update on the implementation of the recommendations contained in previous General Assembly resolutions.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; French: Assemblée Générale “AG”) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN.

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The report provides an account of activities undertaken and achievements attained by the global road safety community in pursuance of the objectives of the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) and of target 6 of Sustainable Development Goal 3 — halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020 — since the issuance of the previous report (A/70/386).

A number of notable high-level events were held in the intervening period, including the second Global High-level Conference on Road Safety, hosted by Brazil; the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Ecuador, whose New Urban Agenda included a commitment on road safety; the Global Conference on Sustainable Transport, held in Turkmenistan; and the twelfth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, held in Finland.

Together with the publication of the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015, the development of a proposal for a United Nations road safety fund by the Economic Commission for Europe and the adoption by the World Health Assembly of a resolution on road safety (WHA69.7), in which it accepted a request of the General Assembly, in its resolution 70/260, that WHO facilitate the process to develop voluntary global targets on key risk factors and service delivery mechanisms, those events continue to draw attention to road safety around the world. The report concludes with a number of recommendations to the Assembly for achieving the goals of the Decade of Action and Sustainable Development Goal target 3.6.

YOURS Referenced in UN Sec-Gen’s Report

77. [With reference to the Second Global High-Level Meeting on Road Safety] Youth for Road Safety, together with the Child Injury Prevention Alliance and the Government of Senegal, organized a road safety conference for children and youth during the second Global High-level Conference on Road Safety.

The Side-Event was a resounding success at the Global Meeting with a full house and standing room only for attendance. The report also makes reference to the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety’s Alliance Empowerment Programme in which we helped to develop and devliver the curriculum for the Alliance Advocates workshops.

63. The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety launched the Alliance Empowerment Programme in 2016 which builds the capacity of members to undertake evidence-based activities.

UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY COLLABORATION

See how youth are revolutionizing road safety awareness in Belize

by Youth For Road Safety | Dec 29, 2023 | News & Blog

We have been speaking about Belize a lot over the last few years. Namely, because the Government and the Caribbean Development Bank have been investing a lot in the country in terms of infrastructure upgrades and road safety awareness.

From 2014-2016 we worked with 34 talented young people to train them on road safety issues. These young people were selected from across Belize, young people passionate about social issues and personally affected by road crashes. A few years on, these young people are still working with the Government of Belize to raise awareness of road safety in the country.

One of our massive successes in capacity development and empowering youth is the two year programme established in partnership with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Government of Belize (GOBZ). These efforts were part of the Bank’s wider all-encompassing road safety project, which focuses on improving Belize’s infrastructure, emergency response, enforcement and education.

YOURS realized this mission by establishing a strong partnership with the government, universities, youth groups and media and to train 34 young facilitators over two years. We trained two cohorts, one in 2014 – one in 2015, and took young leaders from Belize through the full YOURS interactive workshop experience. These facilitators successfully trained a futher 2000+ youth in road safety by the end of 2015.

In 2017, the young people continue to take part in road safety activities in the country. One of the most memorable and enjoyable interventions that have been pioneered have been road safety adverts. These adverts, run across tv, radio and other media has become a catchy soundtrack to developing road safety culture amongst young people in the country.

I remember visiting Belize in November last year (2016) to see how the second cohort of facilitators were getting on. After running their tailored 3 hour workshops with schools, one of the facilitators Sylvian Neal a.k.a the Young Proti-Jay (also know as the traffic man picture on the right in the middle) revealed his identity as the guy behind the road safety adverts on tv and radio.

As a budding musician, rapper and passionate road safety advocate, Sylvian has been the voice and often face behind a selection of PSAs produced by the Belizean Youths for Road Safety in collaboration with the Belize Road Safety Project. The excitement on the eyes of the youth, often students in inner-city schools was palpable.

“Widened eyes and bright smiles of enthusiasm that the ‘Traffic Man’ was about to perform in their classroom”.

With kids singing along, some patting their knees and backpacks to provide a beat, Sylvian performs to raptures of cheers, I would call him a road safety celebrity.

He continues to use his creativity and music skills to work with the Government of Belize and raise awareness of road safety in his memorable style. More recently, they worked to raise awareness of a new roundabout (as part of infrastrcuture developments). It may seem like a small deal in Western Europe, but for a small country like Belize, getting a roundbaout is a big deal. As we know, if we fail to tell people how to use new safety infrastucture corretly, they can pose a safety challenge.

Belizean Youths for Road Safety posted: Brand New Roundabout Commercial by the Belizean Youths for Road Safety in collaboration with Sol Belize and the Belize Road Safety Initiative. Shout outs to my brother Delroy Thompson a k a Del B for the audio production, my friends at Shamax Pro for the great video production and my friends who participated in the video. At the end of the day, it is always a team effort. Check it out, people. A couple more coming soon. Help us to make our country safer.

Star Ratings for Schools App: New road safety tool from iRAP

by Youth For Road Safety | Dec 29, 2023 | News & Blog

We all want the best for our kids, but every day children are dying or being seriously injured in road crashes as they travel to their place of education. Sometimes they are killed just yards from the school entrance.

We can’t allow these tragedies to continue. Each death and each injury violates a child’s right to an education. This is why iRAP is developing the iRAP Star Rating for Schools Global App.

It’s the first ever systematic evidence-based approach for analysing the risk on roads around schools. This easy-to-use universal application is a low-cost way to support quick interventions that start saving lives and preventing serious injuries from day one.

“Our vision is of a world where all children travel safely to and from school. In the coming months, we will be sharing the stages of our journey towards realising this vision”.

The app combines an easy to use School Assessment mobile app and a Global reporting for Schools web application. Both of these components harness the computation functionality of ViDA, the iRAP star rating web application.

Star ratings are an internationally recognised measure of risk on roads which have been developed by iRAP. The least safe roads are rated as 1-star and the safest as 5-star.

It’s easy to train people to use the School Assessment app using a hand held device. The app can deliver a quick and easy measurement of safety at the site and can point towards potential treatment options.

“There is nothing more fearful for a FedEx Courier than a child darting out in front of your truck” – David J. Bronczek, President and COO, FedEx Corporation.

What will success look like?
Success will be measured by:

Number of schools assessed
Number of children made safer
Incremental star rating improvements and estimated reduction in risk
Actual before and after crash data if available
Aggregate results of conflict studies
Investment made and investment leveraged
Number of volunteer hours
School attendance rates

The App is sponsored by FedEx and supported by a number of partners including the Global NGO Alliance for Road Safety NGOs. Because of their grass roots nature NGOs have a vital role to play in identifying need and advocating for safer roads. They are at the forefront of the global effort to prevent road deaths.

By channelling local demand for road safety, they help to create the leverage that leads to life saving action across a wide range of safety concerns including seatbelts, crash helmets and speeding, as well as road safety infrastructure.The Alliance works to empower its members with skills in networking and sharing, advocacy, and capacity building. Sharing best practice and resources between members means that each NGO is able to punch well above its weight in arguing for safer roads.

This is particularly important in countries where there is little existing framework for promoting road safety.The Alliance’s Executive Director Lotte Brondum says that the app could be a ‘Great support for advocacy work for safer school zones’.

‘When you are speaking to people who are developing road designs, you need to be able to pin point the exact problem and what can be done about it. The Star Rating for Schools app could be a great tool for building that argument.

WMC Action News 5 – Memphis, Tennessee

‘She added that members of the Alliance had an excellent opportunity to try out a test version of the app collecting data at South Winds School in Memphis, Tennessee during their recent Empowerment Programme, which was sponsored by FedEx.‘They found it very easy to use and intuitive.

It is visually attractive and draws you through a simple and logical data gathering process which is directed by universally recognisable graphics. The next stage is for our members to test the app in their local environment. It’s possible that this will throw up the need for extra tools and refinements and we will be feeding this back to the development team.’

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