The Global Road Safety Initiative was started as a five year project in 2005 and has now been taken on into a second phase funded by Michelin, Renault, Shell, Total and Toyota. The first phase was funded by Ford, General Motors, Honda, Michelin, Renault, Shell and Toyota. The Global Road Safety Partnership was chosen by the funding companies to be the implementing agency for the project in both phases.
The Initiative targets three regions or very large countries with substantial road safety problems. In the first phase, these were ASEAN, China, and Brazil. In the second phase, Africa and India have been added. Independent reviews have been made of the first phase of the Initiative and can be downloaded from the column on the right of this page. Key findings from the review were:
In Brazil, the programme was judged to be particularly noteworthy because of its originality, and its emphasis on building local partnerships. Other international observers have also noted the uniqueness of this programme, including the Bloomberg Philanthropies foundation who are extending the partnership model that we developed and that GRSI funded, when designing and implementing their own road safety programme in Brazil.
For detailed information on the on-the-ground work in GRSI, see our region and country pages.
