Call for Proposals - Safer Road Users - Round 12 Last date 27 June 2017
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Call for Proposals - Safer Road Users - Round 12
In 2010, Bloomberg Philanthropies launched the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries. A competitively awarded grants programme is an important part of the initiative. The Road Safety Grants Programme is managed by the Global Road Safety Partnership, one of the eight implementing partners of the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, and supports projects to develop and deliver high-impact, evidence-based road safety interventions designed to strengthen road safety policies and their implementation.
Eligibility: The Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety focuses on improving road safety policies (including laws, regulations, and standards) in 5 countries, and on improving (where possible) and implementing evidence-based road safety policies in 10 cities. There are a number of evidencebased interventions aimed at reducing road traffic deaths and injuries. The Road Safety Grants Programme focuses exclusively on the passage and implementation of evidence-based policies which address key behavioural risk factors (speeding, drink driving, lack of seatbelt use, lack of child restraint use, or lack of helmet use). Which countries are eligible to apply?
Applications addressing national level road safety policy reform and/or its implementation with comprehensive provisions on behavioural risk factors will be accepted from China, India, Philippines, Tanzania and Thailand.
Which cities are eligible to apply?
Applications addressing city level implementation of one or more behavioural risk factors will be accepted from Accra, Addis Ababa, Bangdung, Bogota, Bangkok, Fortaleza, Mumbai, Ho Chi Minh City, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai.  Applications seeking to reduce city speed limits, or strengthen city legislation related to one or more behavioural risk factor will be accepted from Bandung, Bangkok, Fortaleza, Mumbai, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, and Bogota.
Who can apply for a grant? Governmental and non-governmental organizations based in eligible countries and cities can apply for grants within the following parameters:
• Governmental organizations with relevant authority over road safety policy and/ or its implementation. Road police and military agencies are not eligible to apply. • Non-governmental organizations (including but not limited to civil society organizations and educational institutions) with relevant advocacy experience on policy reform/and or its implementation
Additionally,
• Applicants must be registered legal entities in the country of project delivery, capable of entering into contractual arrangements, receiving foreign funds, and assuming legal and financial obligations.
• Applicants cannot be recipients of financial support from alcohol, firearms, pornography, or tobacco industries.
• The Road Safety Grants Programme does not fund individuals.
• If you are a current grantee organization, please discuss development of Concept Note with your technical advisor.
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