Meet the Coalition members behind the winning local actions projects!

We are so excited to share the winners of our Local Actions! They are from all around the world and represent some incredible actions in their community. Each project underwent a rigorous selection process. Click their picture to find out more!

Akash Upase, India

Akash, 26, is a youth worker leading Community Connect at the Blue Ribbon Movement. His project, Community Connect, is a leadership program that will build active citizenship in youth by solving local civic issues. The program intends to engage with different stakeholders such as citizens, elected representatives, and the municipal corporation to build better infrastructure for the city.

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Alex Ayub, Kenya

Alex currently works with the Kenya Red Cross Society - National Youth as a Programmes Coordinator. He is also a lawyer by profession. His project, Safe School Zones, aims to provide evidence-based data to inform decision-makers on areas of improvement around learning institutions. It further provides a platform for school communities to engage with local leaders, authorities, and other stakeholders to promote safe road usage by motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians.

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Aldo González Barrera, Mexico

Aldo is an urban planner and pedestrian activist. He has worked as an urban and architectural designer. His project, Retorno Seguro a Clases ( Safe back to School Challenge), will address the challenges for youth activists and the issue of dangerous school zones in Mexico. The project will involve the schools in the generation of local diagnoses, tactical urbanism interventions, and in committing and working with authorities to guarantee a safe return to schools in a post-pandemic world.

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Bernardo Pietrobelli, Brazil

Bernardo is currently a Master’s student in Economics and a volunteer for Fundação Thiago Gonzaga - Vida Urgente. His project, COLETI.VU, is designed to put together a group of young people advocating for an increased social participation in the city administration on road safety. It will monitor public mobility policies, propose projects and actions aimed at youth, and hold the authorities accountable to obtain their commitment towards practical actions for road safety.

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Laura Daniela Gómez, Colombia

Daniela has a degree in Political Science and is currently enrolled in post-graduate studies in Public Management. Her project, Youth influencing bike policy change in Bogotá, will strengthen the capacities of members of the Local Bicycle Board Members (Consejeros Locales de la Bicicleta) and provide them with tools to advocate for better bicycle policies to decision-makers. The project aims to develop road safety, gender, and mobility capacity-building workshops for bicycle representatives.

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Kenneth Mulinde, Uganda

Kenneth is a 29-year-old, multimedia producer. He works with Action Aid International Uganda and Youth Arts Movement Uganda. His project, Safe Ride "Be road Smart", is a participatory project that uses “Artivism” to mobilize and organize vulnerable road users and motorists in Uganda through campaigns and workshops. The program will help realize the need to observe road safety measures in safe school zones to reduce road-related deaths and injuries.

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Linda Nekesa Masibo, Belgium

Linda is a masters student at Hasselt University in Belgium studying transportation sciences specializing in road safety in the Global South. Her project, #MovingSafe2HasseltUniversity, is an online road safety education and awareness campaign for international students from outside the European Union. The project aims to increase traffic knowledge, skills, and awareness and to promote positive attitudes towards road safety among 80% of the international students at Hasselt University.

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Nkumbuye Ami, Rwanda

Amie is a medical Doctor at Kabutare District Hospital. He is the founder and president of Vision Zero Youth Council Rwanda chapter. His project, Traffic Care Youth Initiative, focuses on community awareness through teaching sessions on road safety. A radio talk show campaign will also be done to raise awareness on road safety. The project will also advocate for discussions with road safety leaders as a way to show decision-makers that the roads are unsafe for young people.

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Olivia Nalwadda, Uganda

Olivia is a young female on a mission to recourse the traffic experiences of children and youth in Uganda and Africa at large. Her project, Together for Safer School Journeys (TOSS-365), is a year-long road safety project that aims to foster youth leadership in advocating for safer school journeys. The project is to be implemented in Eastern Uganda in close collaboration with key stakeholders including in and out of school youth, traffic police, parents as well as cultural and religious leaders.

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Providence Klugan, Ghana

Providence is an accountant for the international NGO Amend Road Safety. His project, Kids' Road Safety Panel (KRSP), is about educating children from two schools with high-risk road traffic. A panel made up of dedicated and committed young people will be created to educate and correct adults that commit road safety offences around schools. The police will also be involved in law enforcement. KRSP is the standard road safety education programme recognized and accepted by the country.

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Sana’a Khasawneh, Jordan

Sana’a is an architect. She recently graduated from USJ with a master's degree in Road Safety Management. Her project, UP TO ZER0, aims to make Jordanian youth more aware about road safety and Vision Zero and encourage them to be more involved in making our roads safer for everyone. The project establishes Jordan's chapter of Vision Zero Youth Council and draws attention to risk factors that threaten the lives of the youth through creative campaigns and visual public installations.

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Titis Efrindu Bawono, Indonesia

Titis is currently a transportation planner for urban mobility arrangement. His project, Safer Street Participatory Design with Youth, involves youth learning and practicing road safety risk assessment at surrounding areas. The approach aims to raise collective awareness on road safety issues among children. Young people will take part in giving solutions based on group workshops and discussion. To assess the safer street design made by youth, the project will use iRAP Star Rating for Schools tool.

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“We received 39 youth-led projects from all over the world. It was a tough process to come up with a shortlist; I was amazed by the young leader's creativity and the quality of projects. It is exciting to start working with the 12 winning leaders; I am convinced and excited that they will deliver impactful and sustainable actions for their communities to reduce road traffic injuries and promote a sustainable mobility system. Although we have chosen 12 winners, I want to let the others know that the Coalition is still here to support your efforts through our numerous tools, activities and events!” - Selection committee

The Local Actions call for proposals invited official members of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety to develop original, impactful, and innovative projects that addressed the most urgent needs and commitments outlined in the Global Youth Statement for Road Safety. These projects have direct links with topics such as climate change, human rights, health, sustainable cities, gender equality and any other SDG that have direct connections with road safety and safe mobility.