This summer, we launched a series of community road safety outreach events beginning in mid-July as part of our Walk Wise program in China. By the end of August, we held four events in five communities in Nanba Town and the greater Xuanhan County in Sichuan Province. The safety director of Nanba, Mr. Yang, and Nanba police officers facilitated

AIP Foundation presented at The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) “Road Safety High Level Conference” in Gurugram, India on the topic of best practices in road safety policy and intervention. AIP Foundation’s Communications Coordinator Rhea Goveas presented the case study of Vietnam’s motorcycle helmet campaign and universal helmet law, in the context

We recently held an information session at Sukhothai School, one of the schools in Bangkok where the new speed limit 50 km/h was introduced this February. Led by Slow Down to Save Lives project coordinator Jarunee Jarusruangchai; Pisith Wongthiathana, a Legal Development Program member; and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation’s Director of Legal Development and Consulting 2, the

AIP Foundation’s Safety Delivered program, which is supported by the UPS Foundation, reached out to Thanh Tri Primary School, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi for the first time in 2018. The school has 1,785 students and 80 teachers. This school is located along a main road with high traffic density of shipping trucks, cars, and motorcycles,

Last week, AIP Foundation organized extra-curricular activities at Muang Singhanakhon Municipal 1 (Ban Yang Ngam) School in Songkhla province for 389 students, road safety ambassadors, and teachers from 6 project schools as part of Street Wise, Phase III. The activities included simulation exercises designed to help kids as well as adults learn how to stay safe on the

AIP Foundation staff accompanied researchers from the Center for Policy Studies (CPS) and the Solidarity Center to 40 driver interviews in Bavet, Cambodia where the introduction of buses for transporting factory workers is slowly starting to replace flat-bed trucks as the main means of collective transport. The town of Bavet borders Vietnam and includes a

  AIP Foundation and 15 youth road safety ambassadors from Thuy Loi University in Hanoi joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a road safety data collection mission. The mission aimed to gather personal safety data around Hanoi’s Metro Line 3  in order to make development recommendations to the government. Using the Safetipin App, the road

Legal Development Program members recently attended the 11th ATRANS (Asian Transportation Research Society) Annual Conference. This year’s conference was entitled “Transportation for a Better Life: Lessons Learned from Global Experiences to Local Best Practices.” The conference, presided over by Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, began with a panel discussion comprised of five experts from the UK, Australia, Vietnam, and

This month, initial Road Safety Working Group (RSWG) meetings were held at garment and footwear factories for discussions on the Garment and Footwear Factory Workers Road Safety pilot program. The RSWG meetings, attended by 65 participants across three provinces included representatives from all sections of the factory – including workers, management, HR, security, trade unions, and health clinics.

  This week, AIP Foundation and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation’s Developing Work for Traffic Police to Reduce Road Accident (phase 4) Project held a brainstorming meeting on the Appropriate Speed Limit for Road Traffic Act B.E. 2522 (1979) at I Residence Hotel in Bangkok. The meeting aimed to provide a platform for agencies responsible for