Resources

In far too many countries road traffic injuries and fatalities are increasing. We need to accelerate progress in delivering road safety around the world and for this, financing is critical. Yet too often, even when financing is available for roads and transportation, effective road safety is not the outcome. ‘Life Support’ presents the priority actions needed in order to strengthen financing and deliver results through to 2030.

The report outlines the advancement that has been made by Child Health Initiative partners since the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm in 2020. It highlights the major achievements in programmatic and advocacy work, our evolving strategic focus, and our way forward towards the second half of the Decade of Action for road safety. 

The FIA Foundation supports road safety interventions and campaigns to reduce the global toll of road traffic deaths and injuries. Read about how our active philanthropy is working to make roads safe. 

In order to accelerate progress in addressing road traffic injury, financing is critical. Governments and city authorities need catalytic support to make further progress. This is an introduction to the FIA Foundation’s advocacy agenda on how increased and improved financing is needed for scaled-up impact on road traffic injury around the world.

An investigation into the health costs of motorcycle taxi crashes in Kenya. This study sets out to understand helmet usage, and the scale and impact of motorcycle related deaths and injuries, to highlight the urgent need for immediate action to strengthen the enforcement of the Kenyan motorcycle helmet standard to help reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries linked to low helmet prevalence.

This is the latest update of the GFEI benchmarking report looking at the specific fuel consumption of light-duty vehicles (LDVs). It focuses on changes between 2019 and 2022, in particular the impact of Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) and electric vehicle (EV) market changes.

GFEI’s global targets and capacity building support policies for vehicle efficiency and electrification. Our new report on GFEI’s ZERO pathway sets out key actions to secure global fleet transformation to zero carbon vehicles by 2050.

Launched to coincide with the UN Streets for Life campaign, the FIA Foundation’s new Advocacy Hub, based within the Child Health Initiative, will focus on supporting global, national and city campaigns for 30km/h streets where children and youth live, walk and cycle.

The Manifesto calls for a transformation of urban streets by 2030 into safe, low speed and accessible space that puts people first, encouraging zero carbon walking and cycling, by deploying the ‘Speed Vaccine’: safe footpaths and crossings; protected cycleways; and maximum 30 km/h speed limits anywhere children and traffic mix.

The report highlights the disproportionate exposure to risk of child pedestrians in sub-Saharan Africa and calls for a concerted effort to provide footpaths and reduce vehicle traffic speeds.

This report provides an overview of GFEI’s work globally, highlighting how improved vehicle fuel economy is vital for tackling climate change. It was published to coincide with the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September 2018.

The report was published to coincide with the UN High Level Political Forum in July 2018, which included a focus on energy efficiency as part of a review of SDG7. The report also includes a special case study of GFEI’s work with Jamaica.

This report calls for region-wide action and global support to implement the solutions that are already proven to save lives, and to end the preventable epidemic destroying children’s futures.

Unfinished Journey: The Global Health Response to Children & Road Traffic highlights the gap between evidence on the scale of road traffic’s impact on child and adolescent health and the action.

Published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Vietnam’s 2007 introduction of a universal helmet law, ‘Head First’ details the decade-long campaign to secure the legislations, and the decade-long implementation effort since.

GFEI’s new ‘COP23 update’ shares progress made since the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris. It includes summaries of recent activities in the past year and a progress chart for all the countries where GFEI works.

This booklet describes priority interventions proven to reduce casualties, calls for new donors to the cause, and sets out the key advocacy initiatives that are building on the legacy of the Make Roads Safe campaign.

‘Investing to Save Lives’ make a compelling case for strategic investment in preventative road safety measures. The case studies, developed by Social Finance UK and Impact Strategist, are drawn from road safety programmes in Australia and Cambodia.

The report highlights the disproportionate exposure to risk of child pedestrians in sub-Saharan Africa and calls for a concerted effort to provide footpaths and reduce vehicle traffic speeds.

This advocacy research, a joint report by the FIA Foundation and UNICEF, examines the impact of road traffic injury on families living in poverty in low- and middle-income countries.

The FIA Foundation factsheets are intended to give a brief overview of the key issues in specific areas of sustainable mobility. This factsheet covers Fuel Economy.

'Financing for Development: Catalytic Funding for Global Road Safety in the SDGs' is a paper by the FIA Foundation highlighting the need for increased international financing for global road safety and partnership with mainstream infrastructure and climate SDG financing mechanisms.

'Breaking the Deadlock: A Social Impact Investment Lens on Reducing Costs of Road Trauma and Unlocking Capital for Road Safety' is a report by Social Finance and Impact Strategist examining the potential of using 'payment for success' Social Impact Bonds to deliver health cost savings through direct and transparent attribution of specific road safety interventions.

'In for a Penny: Can micro-donations benefit global road safety?' is a research report by Price Waterhouse Coopers examine the potential of corporate/consumer micro-donations as a new source of funding for global road safety.

The FIA Foundation, working with partners through the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, the Climate & Clean Air Coalition and the Partnership for Clean Fuels & Vehicles, is part of efforts to make road transport more fuel efficient and to reduce toxic tailpipe emissions.