THE STAR RATING FOR SCHOOLS LEAD PARTNERS
The Lead Partners are world-leading NGO’s involved in school road safety that have supported SR4S’s development. Their initiatives can help organisations interested in improving the safety of children and ultimately delivering 5-star pedestrian journeys to, from and around schools. The Lead Partners can help you mobilise the speed management and infrastructure treatments to make this happen.
AIP Foundation
Established in 1999, AIP Foundation works in partnership with local governments and communities around the world to address road safety through our five gears: Targeted education, Communications for change, Global and legislative advocacy, Access to helmets and Research, monitoring, and evaluation
Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport – EASST
Road crashes are the leading cause of death for young people in every world region, and globally account for more fatalities than diseases such as malaria. While, air pollution, a consequence of heavy congestion and a reliance on motorised transport, leads to millions of premature deaths every year.
Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA)
The FIA represents millions of members worldwide with local clubs undertaking a range of school based education, advocacy and training programmes including Star Ratings for Schools.
Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez
The objective of the Fundación is to promote children and adolescents´ safety as road users to reduce the number of deaths and injuries in road traffic crashes in Uruguay and the region, keeping Gonchi´s memory alive, a source of inspiration for our everyday work.
Child Health Initiative
The objective is to provide a voice for the particular needs and rights of children within transportation and urban mobility policymaking; to highlight the serious and costly health impacts on the young of unsafe roads and air pollution; and to demonstrate, through applied research, programmatic support and technical assistance, the many effective solutions that are available.
Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety
The NGOs are a key part of the road safety equation, as they make road safety an issue that is personal, real, and in need of urgent attention. They are instrumental in generating a demand from the public for safer roads, and when they base their interventions on evidence about what works, they can contribute in significant ways to saving lives on the roads.
Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)
GRSP plays a powerful role in capacity building and training of road safety practitioners, engage actively in advocacy at all levels, provide road safety programme coordination at the global level and are a recognised expert source of road safety knowledge and good practice.
International Road Federation (IRF)
Its mission is to promote the development of roads and road networks that enable access and sustainable mobility for all. Its approach is centered on key strategic components of knowledge transfer & information sharing, connecting people, businesses and organisations and policy, advocacy and training.
As a not-for-profit organisation, based in Switzerland and with a presence and network over five continents, IRF provides a neutral and global platform for the road and mobility sectors.
Safe Kids Worldwide
Safe Kids works with an extensive network of more than 400 coalitions in the United States and with partners in more than 30 countries to reduce traffic injuries, drownings, falls, burns, poisonings and more. Safe Kids has helped shape and pilot-test the Star Rating for Schools approach and application.
Youth for Road Safety (YOURS)
Young people have a right to be adequately informed, consulted and empowered on road safety. YOURS believes that youth themselves have a vital role to help save lives on the world’s roads. After all, this is the biggest threat to their lives. Young people can do so much to contribute.
YOURS is a direct follow-up of the United Nations World Youth Assembly for Road Safety in 2007 and was officially launched in November 2009 during the opening ceremony of the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow, Russia.