New partners join the Child Health Initiative

The Child Health Initiative has welcomed two new road safety and youth focussed partners, Tunisian NGO Les Ambassadeurs de la Sécurité Routière (ASR) and Romanian NGO Fundația Crucea Albă (FCA) at a special end of year session.

ASR joins the Child Health Initiative with its ‘Safer roads for children and young people in Tunisia’ project which aims to ensure the recent 30km/h speed limits will be implemented, budgeted, and enforced around school zones. FCA will be working on building research to inform policy recommendations and advocacy for safer journeys to school as part of its focus on children's wellbeing, healthcare, and safety.

Afef Ben Ghenia, Les Ambassadeurs de la Sécurité Routière Founder, said: “We are proud to join the Child Health Initiative and align our efforts with this global network. Together, we can advocate for safer, healthier journeys for children and drive meaningful change for road safety and sustainable mobility.”

Ana Maita, FCA Founder, added: “It is with great joy that the Fundația Crucea Albă joins The Child Health Initiative to contribute with our decade-long experience in comprehensive programs that aim to make life safer for all children in their respective families, schools, and communities. With a total number of over 40k child and parent direct beneficiaries, we work with local authorities and relevant stakeholders in health, education, and law enforcement to create and improve a safety culture based on relevant research of local risks and needs by using a well-balanced set of social interventions attuned to novel technologies.

The session also looked back over 2024 as partners shared their highlights revealing the geographical reach and impact of their work, which included: Amend signing the French Development Agency (AFD) as an official partner of the Safe School Africa programme; the inaugural Bloomberg award was won by AIPF project with Pleiku city; the Safety 2024 conference in New Delhi organised by the George Institute and WHO; the 1,900 school rated by iRAP’s  Star Rating for School (SR4S);  two new GDCI child-centric street design publications launched at the World Urban Forum in Cairo.   

CHI partners also discussed the work going into 2025. It was agreed that the theme of realising co-benefits between road safety and climate change by advocacy programmes for safer active mobility, should be further realised in the future.

Atsani Ariobowo, FIA Foundation Director of Child and Youth Health, added: "It is great to welcome new partners to the Initiative, and we are strengthened by our collective experience. In 2025 we would like to foster further collaboration between our partners and leveraging each other's experiences, tools, resources and contacts to scale-up the safer and sustainable mobility agenda for children globally."