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We were pleased to join the Road Safety Actors Meeting in Brazil (9-10 June 2022) - a pre-meeting on national efforts ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting for Road Safety in New York last week. Star Rating for Schools Programme Coordinator Rafaela Machado presented on...

SR4S Global Programme Partner 3M brings visibility to an issue that is too often left in the dark. The company launched the Project School Zone Safety, a company initiative aimed to raise global awareness of the road dangers children face travelling to and from...

Image credit: AIP Foundation In May 2022, the AIP Foundation gathered with government partners, the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Transport, the Gia Lai Provincial People’s Committee, the Gia Lai...

Kathu Wittaya School in Phuket, Thailand has improved its school zone safety after modifications were assessed using the Star Rating for Schools tool, thanks to 'The 1st Bridgestone Global Road Safety Project'. This project was driven by SR4S Lead Partner AIP...

From 5 to 7 April 2022, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will host the Asia and the Pacific Transport Forum 2022 to discuss how transport will work in a changed world due to COVID-19 and its impacts. The forum will include a series of special webinars and dedicated,...

FISEVI 2022, the most important forum on children’s road safety in Latin America, has provided an important opportunity for Star Rating for Schools collaboration with iRAP regional partners to reduce the human and economic cost of road crashes – the leading killer of...

A webinar hosted by UNICEF and FIA Foundation this week has profiled striking Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) results in Paraguay, Philippines, Vietnam and Uruguay. The invitation-only online UNICEF Child Road Safety Webinar on Monitoring and Evaluation for Safe...

The latest Star Rating for Schools newsletter is out now – read some great stories of how SR4S Lead Partners are engaging partners and leading safer infrastructures around the world.   In this issue: Celebrating success in 2021 Tracking upgrades with SR4S iRAP joins...

Image credit: AIP Foundation AIP Foundation/AA Vietnam and AA Ceylon have launched safer school zone infrastructure in Vietnam and Sri Lanka, respectively, thanks to the grant provided by FIA Region II. AA Ceylon conducted an assessment at both WP/Mattegoda and...

Image credit: Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety The Star Rating for Schools tool has been used to assess safer street designs developed by youth as part of an Innovative Local Action Project, led by Transportologi in Indonesia. Transportologi conducted road...

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) is launching the 2022 Road Safety Grants Programme. The FIA Road Safety Grants Programme enable Clubs to address road safety at a local level and support the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety. As part of the...

Are you assessing road upgrades with SR4S? We have just launched a new feature and now it is much easier to add this information to your project. When creating a new location, select the option Road Upgrade and link your pre- and post-intervention assessments. Watch...

Image credit: FIA Foundation Child pedestrians are among the highest-risk groups in Mozambique for road traffic injuries. In fact, a child in Africa is twice as likely to die on the roads as a child in any other region. The government of Mozambique (Maputo Municipal...

Image credit: FIA Foundation New interventions for a Safe Routes to School pilot project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil have been launched, in a road safety collaboration between the city’s Department of Education and its engineering department (CET-Rio), supported by ITDP...

We are pleased to announce that iRAP has recently joined the Cities 4 Children Global Alliance. The alliance is an interdisciplinary network of 22 organisations working together to ensure that child rights are firmly embedded in the urban agenda. Through the Star...

Star Rating for Schools Lead Partner Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST) has released their 2021 Annual report. It highlights how SR4S has been used in projects and to advocate for safer school journeys, including: Page 3 - Advocating #Love30...

Global Programme Partner 3M conducted an 3M Asia School Zone Safety Roundtable event in December bringing together industry leaders from governments, institutes, and NGOs to discuss initiatives and plans to save kids lives in the region through improved school zone...

2021 marked twenty years since our major donor the FIA Foundation was established as an independent charity to serve the public interest. Their recently released Annual Review Report highlighted Star Rating for Schools' significant achievements. Star Rating for...

The Star Rating for Schools team have released a short video, celebrating the success of all SR4S donors, sponsors, supporters and partners. Working towards the Global Plan, SR4S partners have been prioritising safer school journeys - Creating safer journeys for...

Image credit: Vision Zero for Youth Our congratulations to the Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Claudia López for receiving the 2021 International Vision Zero for Youth Leadership Award. The Mayor of Bogotá has set specific goals are to reduce by 20% overall fatalities in...

AIP Foundation, AA Vietnam and iRAP co-hosted the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) with Hands-on Examples of Vietnam Webinar on 11 November with the support of the FIA and FIA Foundation. The webinar brought together over 60 SR4S technical experts, Region II FIA clubs...

Uruguay: Unidad Nacional de Seguridad Vial (UNASEV) receiving the Global Plan from iRAP Star Rating for Schools’ Lead Partner Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez Road safety NGOs in more than 20 countries, supported by local RAPs and YOURS, have met with national...

We love the new Global Plan!  Join the Launch of the Global Plan for the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety this Thursday 28 October and hear how safer road infrastructure will help to halve global road deaths and injuries by 2030. The Plan has been developed by...

SR4S news from Europe: Automobile Club Moldova (ACM) has started implementing the FIA School Assessment Programme, which is based on the 10 steps presented in the FIA School Assessment Toolkit. Assessments around schools are supported by iRAP’s Star Rating for Schools...