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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...

We are delighted to announce we will be participating at Autonomy Digital 2.0, The world’s largest platform for sustainable mobility solutions held online over the 19 – 20 May 2021.

Ahora hay una variedad de materiales de Clasificación por estrellas para escuelas disponibles en español: Kit de herramientas de evaluación escolar de la FIA -school-assessment-toolkit.fia-grants.com/es/ Aprenda a su propio ritmo - curso de video SR4S - Registrarse...

The 2021 iRAP Peter Kissinger Award recipients were announced last month in a virtual celebration attended by Peter’s wife Willie and best friend Dave Anderson. In recognition of his great contribution to iRAP and global road safety, the Peter Kissinger annual...

A Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation video highlights safer school zone results in school 107 in La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay, informed by the SR4S app. The upgrades are the result of a project partnership between the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation, Department of Canelones and...

Star Rating for Schools calls on its partners and the community worldwide to support the 6th United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) #StreetsForLife #Love30 campaign which is now live. Addressing the risk of death in road traffic is fundamental to achieve...

As the 4th and final Global Coalition for Road Safety Capacity Development Programme Series on Star Rating for Schools wrapped up, Master Training were asked to talk about their experience with the Star Rating for Schools methodology. Thanks to YOURS - Youth for Road...

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: Undertaking SR4S assessments in COVID-19 context FIA School...

The FIA have just announced that their FIA Road Safety Grants Programme will prioritise funding to school zone upgrades through the FIA School Assessment Programme. The FIA School Assessment Toolkit is an online repository with the relevant actions and documents to...

In the Philippines, there are around 35 road crash fatalities happening per day or an estimated 12,690 fatalities in a year. To tackle this issue, UNICEF Philippines, Safe Kids Worldwide Philippines (SKWP), University of the Philippines - National Center for...

SR4S’s Global Programme Partner 3M has been leading discussion on safe school zones across Latin-American countries. A core team has been defined in Latin-America, trained on SR4S and is now contacting relevant stakeholders at local and national levels to trigger...

The FIA School Assessment Toolkit has been released in Spanish. Previously available in English only, it is a web-portal for FIA Clubs around the world, to improve the safety of school journeys in their local communities. It provides over 30 documents to support FIA...