Country Profile
Niger
Workshops on skills building
participants
reached in 7 countries with Caravane
The Caravane Project: road safety through 7 African countries.
The Caravane Project has been, perhaps one of the most ambitious road safety projects through West Africa. Championed by the European Commission (Youth in Action) building fruitful collaborations with Africa, the Caravane took 50 youth leaders from across 7 U.E.M.O.A countries delivering a message of road safety to thousands of youth.
We supported the project and helped kick off the programme in Niger, where we trained the youth leaders delivering the project on peer education, advocacy and helped them write the African Youth Declaration for Road Safety. Equipped with road safety demonstrations, talks, petitions and meetings with high-level country officials, the Caravane spread a message of road safety awareness amongst hundreds and thousands of youth.
“Your role was crucial”
“The Caravane Project was a massive success and YOURS’ role in equipping our youth leaders with skills to engage with peers and also advocating for the African Youth Declaration was very important to this success”
Aliou Oumarou
President of the Caravane Project
Workshop Delivery in Niger
Discover how we trained youth leaders for the Caravane Project
A cross border collaboration for road safety...
The Caravane Project was initiated by Responsible Young Drivers (Belgium) and funded by the European Commission's Youth in Action programme. The mission was to build solid cooperation and partnership building between European and African youth for a common goal. We were approached by RYD to bring our skills in workshop delivery, advocacy, declaration making and media branding to join the project as consultancy partners.
The project brought together numerous national NGOs for road safety from 7 U.E.M.O.A countries including, Niger, Mali, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Senegal. Each NGO in the country had a long standing involvement in our youth network and we worked together in this partnership to offer the skills and knowledge needed to maximize outreach as the Caravane travelled through each country bringing a road safety message.
Train African young leaders...
Our role in the Caravane Project was to bring an international perspective as well as offer the African youth leaders a chance to build their skills on key areas that would needed while they would be out on the Caravane journey. Some of our objectives in this project included:
- Inspire African youth leaders to take their peer-education efforts to a skilled level;
- Engage with African youth leaders to write the African Youth Declaration for Road Safety and demonstrate who to advocate with it's key messages;
- Offer consultancy and guidance on the project's running;
- Provide media skills on how to effectively capture the project; blog writing, photo framing and video shooting.
- Provide the project with an online presence.
See the Caravane on it's journey!
As part of supporting the project, we edited the following video to offer our African Youth a video record of their incredible Caravane journey. See what the Caravane was all about, what happened and the impact it created:
Results and Impact
The Caravane succesfully delivered its mission to bring road safety awareness amongst youth in 7 countries in West Africa. It is noted that hundreds and thousands of young people attended rallies, events, festivals, presentations, demostrations and other events all created by each NGO as the Caravane entered the country.
The official report stated that over 150,000 young people were reached through this project with a focus on raising awareness on helmets, drinking driving, distracted driving, seatbelts and helmets through a range of interactive demonstrations as well as advocating for the African Youth Declaration for Road Safety. In every country, the African Youth Declaration was received by high-level officials and leaders listened to what the youth had to say about road safety.