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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...

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: 10 projects funded for safer school streets with FIA Programme...

Star Rating for Schools and its potential impact to reduce childhood mortality was profiled last week alongside global youth issues such as poverty, climate change, refugee displacement, gender discrimination and health at the Global Youth SDG Summit, sharing the...

Road attribute coding is one of the most important and demanding tasks in SR4S assessments. Errors can have a significant impact on the results, leading to incorrect Star Ratings. For this reason, all SR4S assessors are required to submit each location assessed for...

At the core of every iRAP programme is a partnership to save lives. Working together to eliminate high-risk roads will unlock the win-win benefits of safer roads, leading to reduced burden on families, communities, and the health system. Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand...

Star Rating for Schools‘ Coordinator Rafaela Machado has been selected to join the Youth Delegate Program of UNITE 2030 as one of 100 young global changemakers working to achieve the Global Goals by 2030. 100 delegates have been selected from 50 countries and the...

The awardees of the 2021 FIA School Assessment Programme grants (part of the Transformation grants), supported by the FIA Foundation, have been announced by FIA Mobility. Almost 250,000€ is to be provided to ten autoclubs world-wide to support activity to protect...

The Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) hosted an online “iRAP Helping Save Lives in Zambia” Workshop today, attended by 24 stakeholders, profiling dynamic work underway and planned in the country informed by the iRAP Methodology. The Workshop Programme (with presentation...

We are pleased to announce additional resources have been added to the SR4S website in Portuguese starratingforschools.org/pt/useful-resources/ This includes access to: Curso em vídeo SR4S (série de 4 partes em português) Baixe o folheto SR4S (português) Biblioteca de...

Original article and image – FIA Foundation Growing collaboration between FIA automobile clubs and long-term FIA Foundation partner, iRAP, is creating safer streets worldwide through assessment and improvements to street infrastructure. Road traffic injuries are the...

An innovative pilot  by AI & Me, supported by Fondation Botnar, is using big data and AI to map pedestrian risk around 1,000 schools in Vietnam and develop an app to connect young voices with decision-makers for safer roads. AI&Me Project Manager Shanna...

Star Rating for Schools Global Programme Coordinator Rafaela Machado was recently interviewed for an Intertraffic article 'Vision Zero and the race to reduce road deaths' (Published Monday 7 June 2021). Below are some excerpts from the article: Road safety in United...

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: Demanding #StreetsForLife Improving local economy and job...

To mark the start of the United Nations Global Road Safety Week, a new €15 million Advocacy Hub for safe streets has been launched by the FIA Foundation to support the policy change needed to limit speeds to 30 km/h (20 mph) on streets where children walk, live and...

The SR4S website has just been updated and is now available for instant translation in multi-languages to improve user experience. The content is now available in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Hindi. To view the SR4S website in the appropriate...

26 May 2021 iRAP delivered a SR4S Train the Trainer course to member organisations of the SR4S Lead Partner Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. This was an exclusive training opportunity for SR4S Lead Partners, to help them empower local partners with the use of...

Across the United States of America, child pedestrians are facing unsafe streets on their way to and from school. As part of the United Nations Global Road Safety Week, the Child Injury Prevention Alliance (CIPA) hosted a webinar on May 18, covering Star Rating for...

As part of the Youth Stars programme, Master Trainers delivered a four-week training for members of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety to understand, use, and apply the SR4S methodology and its tools to rate school zones in their communities. Each week from 15...

Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) recently celebrated with stakeholders the launch of road improvements completed at Kamanga Primary and Matero Secondary School. Children and the community have now safer journeys to school with speed humps, bridges, bollards, zebra...