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GRSP Asia Seminar
Workshop: ´Focus on youth road safety´
4 November 2010
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Introduction
• Floor Lieshout
– TeamAlert, Capgemini, World Health Organization
– YOURS
• 20 minutes
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Agenda
• Youth vulnerability on the roads
• Challenges young people face
• Our story: an example of youth involvement
• Activities of YOURS
• Closing
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Introduction
• Facts
– Road crashes are the leading killer of young
people
– Every year more than 400.000 young people die
– Millions more are injured
– Unless more comprehensive global action is taken,
the number of deaths and injuries is likely to rise
significantly
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Young people and road safety
• Why are young people at risk?
– Inexperience
– Overestimation
– Risk taking
– Peer pressure
– Brain development
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Current situation: challenges
• A lack of awareness and recognition in the world
of the vulnerable position of young people in
traffic;
• A fragmentized approach and divergences in
strategies among youth and youth-led NGO's and
their road safety initiatives. Youth road safety
initiatives remain small-scaled and scattered;
• Absence of one strong voice to advocate on the
behalf of youth and road safety on a global level;
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Current situation: challenges
• A lack of resources for youth road safety
initiatives;
• A lack of a next generation of leaders who are
passionate about road safety and involved in
decision making within the road safety field;
• A lack of capacity development. Road safety
knowledge and best practices from youth
initiatives are not shared in a broader network.
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Youth involvement
We believe...
• that road crashes are preventable
• road safety does not stop at our borders
• in the high potential of youth
• it is young people themselves who can be at
the forefront of making a difference
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Our story: World Youth Assembly
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WYA: Discuss road safety and
youth involvement
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WYA: Adoption of UN Youth
Declaration for Road Safety
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WYA: Wish to create a global youth
NGO for road safety
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Our story: getting started
Supported by: 2009
• Creation of Youth Taskforce
– Problem statement
– Mission
– Strategy and focus
– Activities
– Branding
Funding provided by: • Preparing the launch of
YOURS
• Moscow
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What do we do?
Advocate at a global level
Inspire, Connect and Unite young people
Develop capacities of youth advocates
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Mission: Keeping young people safe on the world’s roads.
Advocating Inspire, Connect and Capacity development
Unite young people
World and Regional Youth Assemblies for Road Safety
Lobby continuously to Create a mechanism Develop workshops,
bring attention to youth (platform) where young programmes and
and road safety problems people can easily share trainings to learn and
and ask support knowledge and model from the road
experiences. safety successes in other
Organize global
countries.
awareness campaigns
Set up, maintain and expand gobal youth network for road safety
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Advocate for young people
• Advocate at the UNRSC meetings
• Advocate at high level conferences around the
globe
• Advocate for the needs of young people at the
First Global Ministerial Conference on Road
Safety
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• Youth statement in opening ceremony,
addressing more than 75 ministers, 150
governments
• Attendance of 35 young people
• Referred to in several key speeches as
´important´
• Youth Declaration Moscow endorsed
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Organize youth assemblies:
Youth Meeting Moscow
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Youth Meeting Moscow
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Youth Declaration Moscow
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Youth Declaration Moscow
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Connect young people, share
knowledge and experiences
• YOURS? MINE?
• What is the MINE Section:
– A section on our website for youth;
– They can register themselves;
– They can register their organization;
– They can easily upload their road safety
campaigns.
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YOURS? MINE?
• Why is the MINE Section:
– To identify the youth around the globe;
– To visualize the global youth network;
– To inspire each other;
– To share experiences and knowledge;
– To make easy links between youth worldwide.
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YOURS - MINE
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YOURS - MINE
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Personal profile
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Youth projects
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Mapping youth initiatives
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Mapping youth initiatives
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Mapping youth initiatives
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Mapping youth initiatives
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Capacity development
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Capacity development
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Summary
• Leading killer of young people
• Our story: WYA -> WHO -> Moscow
• YOURS:
– Advocating
– Connecting and sharing
– Developing capacity
• Involve young people in road safety
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Thank you!
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