In tandem with the 4th UN Global Road Safety Week, university students, as part of the Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) program, will raise awareness about the need to #SlowDown to save lives in their communities. With support from AIP Foundation, the student ambassadors drafted a ‘Save Lives. Slow Down’ Joint Statement that calls

AIP Foundation conducted road safety trainings to more than 220 staff to Cambodia Airports, the operator of the country’s three international airports. Held on 21-30 March, the workshops provided an overview of the key road safety issues on Cambodia’s roads as well as practical tips on how to drive safely. Outside the classroom, airport staff

For two weeks, AIP Foundation discussed helmet safety, speeding, and defensive riding techniques with undergraduate students at RMIT University’s campuses in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The presentations were part of the university’s Defensive Rider program, an initiative that aims to educate the young drivers on how to navigate Vietnam’s roads safely. RMIT University is a

Members of the Legal Development Program (LDP) conducted a brainstorming meeting for Thai government officials that focused on developing ideas for new speeding legislation and enforcement efforts. The group discussed setting speed limits, installing signage, and developing punishments for violating laws. It also created a timeline and code of conduct for improving speeding law enforcement

Hoang Thi Na Huong, Deputy CEO of AIP Foundation, discussed the importance of child helmet use during a webinar hosted by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety as part of the “Crash Course in Key Risk Areas” series. She shared information on the importance of wearing helmets while riding on motorcycles. She also

During the third Media for Policy Influence workshop, hosted by AIP Foundation, Legal Development Program (LDP) members developed potential mass media campaigns to advocate for the reduction of urban speed limits, focusing on messages, decision maker analysis, and community identification. They also met with Thanathorn Rattanapanop, a representative from Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and

The first “Media for Policy Influence” workshop was recently hosted by AIP Foundation, with the support of the World Health Organization, as part of the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety’s Legal Development Program (LDP). The focus of the workshop was to hone LDP members’s understanding of how to successfully influence the media to advocate for

AIP Foundation attended a seminar with other involved stakeholders to consider amending the Land Traffic Act of 1979. The focus for the changes center on instituting new penalties and fines for those who disobey the law, whether that be in the form of speeding, drink-driving, or violating parking rules. These changes are intended to improve

To usher in the second year of the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS)’s Legal Development Program, AIP Foundation, with the support from BIGRS and the World Health Organization, has hosted an academic forum entitled “Urban speed control: a way forward to reduce road fatalities”. The forum was attended by over 30 participants, including

Volunteers were out in full force at police checkpoints in Songkhla Province at the start of the Songkran Festival, the Thai New Year celebration, in hopes of promoting safe driving and educating locals about new road safety regulations. AIP Foundation was joined by 74 volunteers in total, among them representatives from Chevron Thailand Exploration and