World Youth Assembly for Road Safety

200710-7-2008

Brussels

Today’s presentation

World Youth Assembly for Road SafetyWhy ?What ?

Follow-upEuropean Road Safety Day 2007International youth activitiesWorld Health OrganizationGlobal Youth NGO for Road Safety

WHY FACTS

per day

< 99 3600 deaths < 25 1049 deathsEvery minute and 22 seconds...

per year

1,2 million deaths

Give a voice to young people on the road safety issue

Launch the "Youth Declaration for Road Safety“

What

23 & 24 april 2007, UN Assembly Hall

600 visitors: > 200 delegates from > 100 countries> 200 young people ( Intnat. school,…> 200 observers (CDC, IFMSA, EC, ..)

Dignitaries Ban Ki Moon, Dr Chan, Tony Blair, Moby, Lula Da Silva, HE Al Khalifa, etc

Interactive (WG, DVD, Unicef, “open floor”,…)

Youth-oriented (exhibition, no involvement observers,..)

Impression

Impression

Impression

Quote

“Indeed I am very proud to associate myself with this Assembly. I think the United Nations has given young people the opportunity to prove to the world that we can commit ourselves to a solution that affects us, as young people.

But we will fail ourselves, if we fail to implement this Declaration.”

Ousman Conteh, youth delegate, the Gambia”

Follow-up European Road Safety Day 2007

• Report on the World Youth Assembly• Present the "Youth Declaration for Road

Safety“

Follow-up International activities

- Various multimedia products

- Translation of WHO posters, Youth Declaration for Road Safety

- Video clips

- Interactive web sites

- Awareness campaigns

- National conferences and organizations

- Meetings with senior government

Follow-up World Health Organization

• Events– 2nd Un Global Road Safety Week– World day of remembrance

• Support from VIP team– Communication and Multimedia– Documents– Global Youth NGO

Follow-up Global Youth NGO for Road Safety

• The idea of a youth NGO on a global level received attention during the World Youth Assembly.

• World Health Organization

Follow-up Global Youth NGO for Road Safety

Follow-up Global Youth NGO for Road Safety

• Goals:– Creating awareness in the world about road safety issues for youth– Prepare a next generation of leaders from around the world sensitive to the issue of

road safety– Foresee problems and devise methods to avoid or reduce their impact

The Global Youth NGO

Global Youth Network

Best Practices

Events

“You informed my services about your wish to create a youth non governmental organization for road safety…. On behalf of the European Commission, I am pleased to confirm its great interest in the existence of such an organization…”Grillo Pasquarelli - Director, DG Transport and Energy, European Commission

Quote

“WHO, in its capacity as coordinator of road safety across the United Nations system, would be in full support of such an initiative, as a means of investing in the next generation of leaders from around the world sensitive to the issue of road safety” Dr. Etienne Krug - Director of the Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability - WHO

Quote

Follow-up Global Youth NGO for Road Safety

• Official launch will be soon– Join us

• the bigger the network, the better

• Europe as a strong fundament

Thank You