YOURS is happy to share with you our report to the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration that took place last week (14-15th November 2011) at the World Health Organization HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. The presentation is PREZI based and can be viewed at our link below!
Recently, YOURS presented to the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration. The Collaboration is an informal consultative mechanism whose members are committed to road safety efforts and in particular to the implementation of the recommendations of the World report on road traffic injury prevention. The goal of the Collaboration is to facilitate international cooperation and to strengthen global and regional coordination among UN agencies and other international partners to implement UN General Assembly Resolutions and the recommendations of the World report thereby supporting country programmes.
YOURS Director, Mr Floor Lieshout presented to the collaboration about our recent landmark assembly for road safety that brought together young delegates from around Africa to discuss road safety issues in the continent.
As many of us are aware, the African continent has 2% of the world’s registered vehicles but pays the price of 20% of all road deaths. Road safety is a massive deal in Africa and the African Youth Assembly for Road Safety was a great momentum for youth to meet, to inspire eachother and to share their knowledge and experiences. It was also an official starting point for the African Youth Network, under the leadership of YOURS Coordinators: Aliou Oumarou for French speaking countries and Sheila Altieno for the English speaking countries.
The PREZI report can be viewed here.