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NMT Key to Cities’ Congestion and Pollution Reduction

June 5, 2023 1:33 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Uganda’s road infrastructure is generally unsafe with most of the roads being single carriage way without a median. This easily results into many head-on collisions since most roads lack facilities for Non-Motorized users. According to the Uganda Road Safety Performance review (2018), the last decade alone recorded that road crash... Read More


TOO YOUNG TO DIE- JOE WALKER’S 2ND EDITION

February 15, 2023 10:21 am Published by Leave your thoughts

In the world of advocacy, different strategies are put to play before results/ impacts of the drive are witnessed. For road safety, different stakeholders have implemented advocacies through awareness raising, advocating for review of regulations among others, in order to bring down the increasing road carnage statistics in Uganda that... Read More


NICOLE FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 2ND ANNIVERSARY

January 16, 2023 12:37 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Following the Saturday motorcycle/bodaboda sensitization session that was carried out at the Kitooro Market, we joined the Nicole foundation team to celebrate their two-year anniversary. Starting off the celebration was a team from St. Mark Church of Uganda Entebbe which led us in prayer according to the day’s agenda. We... Read More


ROAD SAFETY SENSITISATION IN KITOORO

January 16, 2023 10:06 am Published by Leave your thoughts

The Nicole Foundation, a road safety Non-Government Organisation (NGO) that is committed to road safety through involving the voices of young people is due to celebrate its second-year anniversary. As has been the tradition, a sensitization campaign is part of the weekend-long activities attached to the celebration. For this year’s... Read More


GRSP ROUND 17 PROJECT COMPLETED

November 29, 2022 8:31 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The two year-long Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) Project had its final activity covered yesterday at Hotel Africana. The project, whose focus was on strengthening helmet use and its regulations, as well as drink driving regulations saw us meet with different stakeholders involved in the road safety fraternity. Among the... Read More


DISTRIBUTION OF SAFE HELMETS REPORT LAUNCHED

October 18, 2022 4:24 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The 18th of October 2022 has seen the Road Safety Coalition Uganda (ROSACU) through one of its Civil Society Organisations (CSO)- Safe Way Right Way (SWRW) officially launch a report on “The distribution of Safe Helmets in the market.” SWRW had initially commissioned a market analysis aimed at understanding the... Read More


NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY ACTION PLAN 2022-26 LAUNCHED

October 14, 2022 9:24 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

The Ministry of Works and Transport has on Friday 14th October 2022 launched the National Road Safety Action Plan 2022-26 at Mestil Hotel Kampala. The plan follows the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution proclaiming 2021-30 as the second decade of action for road safety. It is important to... Read More


GOVERNMENT READY TO SUPPORT ROAD SAFETY ADVOCACIES

September 30, 2022 11:19 am Published by Leave your thoughts

The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) project about helmet use and drink driving regulations which started in 2021 is almost coming to an end. On the 29th of September 2022, we engaged stakeholders from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Works and Transport, Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), Uganda Police... Read More


ROAD SAFETY SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE A PANDEMIC

August 11, 2022 10:13 am Published by Leave your thoughts

The road safety situation in Uganda currently has put us at number six (6) globally in terms of road carnage. Members of the Road Safety Coalition Uganda (ROSACU) were on the 10th of August 2022 hosted by Members of Parliament sitting on the parliamentary committee of Physical Infrastructure to talk... Read More


BUS DRIVERS ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS RAISING

May 26, 2022 8:15 am Published by Leave your thoughts

With the most recent link bus road crash still having a fresh memory in the minds of most Ugandans, we had an awareness raising session with bus drivers at the Namayiba bus terminal premises on the 25th of May 2022 as part of our activities building up to our silver... Read More