AIP Foundation collaborated with the Gia Lai Traffic Safety Committee and Police to implement a combined public awareness and enforcement campaign to reduce speed-related road crash injuries and fatalities in school zones in Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province. This campaign is part of the Slow Zones, Safe Zones program, which is the first-ever pilot program to reduce speed
Together with 72 government officials, police officers, youth ambassadors for road safety, and public and private sector representatives, AIP Foundation organized a safe driving campaign prior to the Khmer New Year in Phnom Penh. The main message of this campaign was “Travel safely during Khmer New Year without over-speeding.” Participants distributed informational pamphlets with safety information
AIP Foundation joined a stakeholders meeting held by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global road Safety (BIGRS) 2015-2019 with Bloomberg, the World Bank, the World Resources Institute, Vital Strategies, the HCMC Traffic Safety Committee, Department of Transportation, and HCMC Traffic Police to review results of various programs after four years of implementation. At the meeting, participants gave presentations
AIP Foundation collaborated with the Gia Lai Traffic Safety Committee (TSC) to celebrate the launch of a new public awareness campaign and school zone road modifications in Pleiku City as part of the Slow Zones, Safe Zones program – the first-ever pilot program to reduce speed in school zones in Vietnam, supported by Fondation Botnar and the
The People’s Committee of Gia Lai presented AIP Foundation Founder and President, Greig Craft, and Vietnam National Program Manager, Phuong Dinh, an award for AIP Foundation’s valuable road safety work in Gia Lai Province at a conference celebrating foreign NGOs contributions to the province. AIP Foundation has been promoting road safety in Gia Lai since
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
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
AIP Foundation, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), hosted the second LDP meeting of the year in Bangkok. Participants exchanged views and shared information on four key issues: speeding, school bus safety, the Road Traffic Act reform, and two- and three-wheeler safety. At the meeting,
AIP Foundation organized a Social and Policy Change Communications workshop in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Thailand, Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), and Internews, to build the capacity of Legal Development Program (LDP) members to advocate for road safety legislative and policy change in Thailand. In addition to LDP members, representatives from partner organizations
Street Wise and Songkhla Province worked together to launch a road checkpoint in preparation for the upcoming Songkran festival period, which tends to see a dangerous spike in road traffic injuries and fatalities each year. At the launch, students and teachers from participating schools wore traditional Thai outfits, seizing on the popularity of ‘Love Destiny’, a smash hit