AIP Foundation partnered with the George Institute for Global Health UK and the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), with support from Fondation Botnar, to discuss the results of the Slow Zones, Safe Zones program in Vietnam on Injury Prevention Journal’s blog. In 2017, Fondation Botnar launched the Child Road Safety Challenge (“The Challenge”) acknowledging the
The International Association of Traffic Safety and Sciences Forum (IATSS), invited AIP Foundation CEO, Mirjam Sidik, to the 12th Annual Asian Transportation Research Society (ATRANS) Conference, where she delivered a presentation on the importance of motorcycle crash data collection. This year, the conference took place at the Chatriam Hotel Riverside in Bangkok, Thailand, from August
AIP Foundation Cambodia Country Director Pagna Kim travelled to Washington, D.C. and St. Paul, Minnesota through a grand prize trip which was awarded to AIP Foundation as the winner of the 3M Road Safety Award for Southeast Asia in 2018. The 3M Road Safety Award recognizes one organization annually for their significant contributions to advancing
The Child Health Initiative Activity & Progress Report highlights recent global campaigns, advocacy, and practical interventions to improve the lives of children and young adults around the world. Since the Child Health Initiative’s establishment in 2016, the coalition of UN agencies, NGOs, and foundations have coordinated efforts to secure safe and healthy journeys to and
AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik attended the Safe Kids Worldwide Childhood Injury Prevention Convention (PrevCon) in Washington, D.C., which brought together 500 U.S. and international public health officials to take part in 38 peer learning sessions as part of a global effort to address evolving perspectives surrounding child injury prevention. Leading up to the convention, Ms.
AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik attended the Safe Kids Worldwide International Network Meeting in Washington, D.C., where she engaged with child injury prevention leaders from around the world to discuss ways to build capacity in the field of injury prevention. The networking meeting provided a chance to interact closely with other leaders in the leadup
On 15 June 2019, Ratanawadee Winther, Chairperson of AIP Foundation Thailand, represented AIP Foundation in the High-level Consultative Meeting for the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. The meeting was organized in Stockholm, Sweden by UNRSC and Swedish Ministries of Infrastructure and Ministry of Transport to gather high-level representatives from 23 member organizations from
Johnson & Johnson has highlighted Helmets for Kids in its annual Health for Humanity Report. Since 2012, AIP Foundation and Johnson & Johnson have partnered to provide helmets and road safety education to students at schools throughout central and southern Vietnam through the Helmets for Kids program. For the 2018-2019 school year, continued its programming at 31 project schools
AIP Foundation President Greig Craft attended the FIA Joint Conference in Sun City, South Africa where he spoke of the need for thorough monitoring and reporting, using the two-decade long campaign for increased helmet use among motorcycle riders in Vietnam as an example. After campaigning on the issue for many years, in 2007, Vietnam enacted
CEO Mirjam Sidik and Thailand Chairperson Ratana Winther joined global advocates in Chania, Greece for the Sixth Global Meeting of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety and the 27th meeting for the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration. During the high-level symposium, road safety advocates discussed the Decade of Action and exchanged ideas about
