Abstract

IMPACT is a European project that aims to promote road safety and explore synergies between all stakeholders in the participating countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Belgium, Argentina and China). This will be achieved by project activities focused on relevant issues such as informal education and training. The goal is to help young people play an active part in society by making their main mobility modes (walking, cycling and/or motorcycle use) both safer and an integral part of their lives as responsible road users. The Open Youth Institute for Research, Education and Development (iRED) trained youth workers and animators in the participating countries to plan and implement their own campaign. In order to ensure the efficiency of these planned activities, FACTUM OG is serving as the project evaluator. The main evaluation tools used were questionnaires targeted at different actors (partners, youth workers, young people participating in the actions, stakeholders). The questionnaires were distributed at different stages of the project (evaluation phases). The results of the evaluation served as an information source for the obtained achievements as well as for revealing what aspects of the project campaigns, communication tools and dissemination strategies need to be improved.

Highlights

  • Traffic safety is recognized as a global health issue

  • The main evaluation tools used were questionnaires targeted at different actors

  • Questionnaire 3 was completed by 58 youth workers and animators2 who participated in the iRED trainings. 43 of them participated in the implementation of the campaigns and filled in questionnaire 5

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Introduction

Traffic safety is recognized as a global health issue. Accidents are the leading reason for fatal outcomes for young people between 15 and 29 years old and the eight leading one for deaths overall (WHO, 2015). According to the “Road safety facts in the regions of the Americas” (WHO, 2013b) traffic injuries resulted in 149,992 deaths in the region in 2010. The average fatality rate was pushed up to 161 per million. Road traffic is the second leading cause of death for the people, aged 15 to 44, and the primary one for children aged 5 to 14. Vulnerable road users (motorized two or three-wheelers, pedestrians and cyclists) are overrepresented with pedestrians accounting for 23%, motorcyclists for 15% and bicyclists for 3% of the road fatalities

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