HANOI, Vietnam – June 17, 2025 Road traffic crashes result in approximately 1.2 million fatalities every year and are the largest cause of death for young people aged 5 to 29 globally. Despite having only 60% of the world’s registered vehicles, low- and middle-income countries account for 92% of road deaths around the world.  Motorcycles

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – June 13, 2025 School journeys for 17 million children across Vietnam are safer thanks to the Slow Zones, Safe Zones (SZSZ) programme, which successfully leveraged a city pilot through to a national legislative framework. The AIP Foundation-led programme addressed high speeds around schools, which is a significant contributor to the

HANOI, Vietnam – May 22, 2025 Over 18.3 million children from primary, secondary and high schools commute between home and school every day in Vietnam. Still today, many children share the road with speeding trucks, with no sidewalks to walk on, as they go to school. Alarmingly, traffic speeds around schools frequently and significantly exceed

BALTIMORE, USA –  May 16 , 2025 This year, the Global Road Safety Leadership Course took place between 4th – 16th May. Phuong Luu, Program Officer at AIP Foundation for Vietnam, was delighted to attend.  In total, 62 participants from 25 countries joined the 2024 Global Road Safety Leadership Course this month, all committed to advancing

Article originally published by iRAP HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – May 14, 2025  In a groundbreaking development, the much-anticipated new version of the Youth Engagement App (YEA) has launched during the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week, supporting the theme “Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe”.  Funded by Google.org, this upgraded version introduces a vibrant, user-friendly interface designed

PLEIKU CITY, Vietnam – April 23, 2025 As part of the recently launched Empowering Youth for Livable Cities program, two co-creation workshops were hosted by the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) and AIP Foundation. The objective of the two workshops was to collect real-time feedback from youth and local government from the first phase of the program (AI&Me:

PLEIKU CITY, Gia Lai – March 22, 2025  AIP Foundation, in partnership with Prudential Vietnam, the National Traffic Safety Committee, the Ministry of Education and Training, and local partners, successfully hosted the first-ever Interprovincial Road Safety Day, celebrating five years of the Safe Steps Kids – Road Safety program in Vietnam. The event gathered over 500 students,

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – March 20, 2025 Small steps lead to big changes, and across Vietnam, safe school zones for every student are becoming a reality thanks to the  Safe School Zones Guide Vietnam (SSZ Guide). The objective of the Safe School Zone Guide was to create a technical design guide which provides local governments across

GIA LAI, Vietnam – December 20, 2024 In Vietnam, many children share the road with speeding trucks, with no sidewalks to walk on going to school or proper infrastructure for safe cycling. Across the country, young cyclists lack the knowledge and practical experience to navigate these busy roads safely on their school journeys. These issues

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – December 17, 2024 Vietnam is advancing its commitment to safer school zones for students nationwide. One of the key goals of the National Strategy on Road Traffic Safety in Vietnam for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045 (approved by the Prime Minister in 2020), is to ensure