From the 11-14 February YOURS : Youth for Road Safety held its first staff team meeting since the organization began. The appointment of two staff in addition to the Chief Executive took place towards the end of 2010 and since then, YOURS has grown in capacity and has formalized plans for the year ahead.
The years ahead are exciting times for road safety. While the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-20 is set to create significant political will to reduce the amount of crashes on the world’s roads, YOURS has made plans for the year 2011 and the years ahead.
The YOURS Team Meeting was geared around specific measurable outcomes and YOURS revised and reviewed actions and work that took place in 2010. YOURS has ambitious plans for the years ahead which include a range of new activities, advocacy campaigns, workshops and media activities. During the meeting, YOURS were able to revise and restructure our organizational approach with particular importance placed on the development of our youth network.
During the meeting, YOURS reviewed and updated its strategy plan 2011-2013 and updated its communications strategy with feedback from the YOURS Youth Taskforce.
In 2011:
- YOURS will launch a new advocacy campaign that will mobilize our global youth network into taking action and illustrating that young people will step up to the plate to play their part in the Decade of Action.
- YOURS will also finalize and publish its Youth and Road Safety Welcome Kit; a guide for young people and road safety intitiatives
- YOURS is set to develop a range of new media initiatves to engage young people during the Decade of Action and bring visability to the youth and road safety problem with active solutions.
- YOURS will continue to develop the capacities of young people as road safety ambassadors, peer leaders, role models and project managers for road safety across the world.
Our youth network is an integral part of our work and while YOURS continues to be inherently youth led, the participation of our network in the decision making of YOURS will underpin our work in the years ahead. With this clear sentiment and approach, we continue to work with young people in the preceding years to expand our reach and impact.