A review of Vietnam’s national helmet law was organized by the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and AIP Foundation today in response to the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the law. The event was a chance for delegates from ministries, departments, and provincial levels across Vietnam to conduct a comprehensive assessment of achievements, lessons
To mark the historic occasion of the 10 year anniversary of Vietnam’s 2007 introduction of a universal helmet law, AIP Foundation and FIA Foundation jointly published HEAD FIRST: A case study on Vietnam’s motorcycle helmet campaign. The report details the decade-long campaign to secure the legislations, and the decade-long implementation effort since. “Vietnam provides an
AIP Foundation and FIA Foundation celebrated a “Fun with Traffic Safety” extracurricular day to mark the tenth anniversary of Vietnam’s national helmet law today. Over 1,000 students, teachers, and staff joined distinguished guests and participants for a day full of extracurricular activities at Tien Phong Primary School, located in a suburb of Hanoi, to commemorate
AIP Foundation President Greig Craft sat down with news anchor Ms. Thu Ha of “Today’s Issues”, a popular news program on VTV1, to discuss 10 years of implementing Vietnam’s national helmet law. The interview covered topics such as the success of the law, outstanding issues with helmet use, and the importance of public awareness education
Greig Craft, President of AIP Foundation, was invited to give a speech at a workshop organized by the Directorate for Standards, Metrology, and Quality (STAMEQ) to publish the new helmet quality standard, 5756:2017, in Vietnam. In his remarks, he applauded STAMEQ’s work in publicizing the new helmet standard, particularly to relative partners such as manufacturers
AIP Foundation held a meeting for its Walk Wise program to review the program’s previous successes and coordinate stakeholder engagement for the next phase of expansion into Nanhba Township, China. The program will work with four primary schools and three secondary schools within the province to improve the road safety knowledge of students and members of the
Our Street Wise program won third place in the road safety academic work competition organized as part of the 13th Thailand Road Safety Seminar: Invest in Sustainable Road Safety held in Bangkok. AIP Foundation’s Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther accepted the award from the Interior Ministry’s Deputy Permanent Secretary and gave a brief presentation of
AIP Foundation, Fedex, and other stakeholders launched the first stop of the Walk With FedEx Tour at Nguyen Thai Hoc Primary School in Ho Chi Minh City. Over 1,000 students attended the launch. Previously, in October, the school also co-hosted an International Walk to School Month event with the Department of Education and Training and the
AIP Foundation staff attended the World Health Organization SEA Ministerial Meeting on Accelerating actions for implementation of the Decade of Action for Road Safety in Phuket. During the Ministerial Panel Session, AIP Foundation Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther participated as a panelist from the civil society sector and spoke about the importance of multisector collaboration
Four members of the Thailand’s Legal Development Program (LDP), Dr. Sanya Namee, Nichamon Thongphat, Supa Chotngam and Thanachart Paliyawate, attended the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) workshop on Improving Road Safety Legislation in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop, hosted by the World Health Organization, focused on vehicle regulations. At the workshop, the Thai LDP representatives highlighted their strategies
