Agreement with Mercado Libre for CRS promotion With the aim of assisting parents when buying the most appropriate Child Restraint System (CRS) for their children, we made an agreement with Mercado Libre Uruguay, to make available all the information related to child road safety. As of today, a special section within the Mercado Libre site is available to answer the main questions when buying a CRS.
Second Decade of Action for Road Safety In September 2020, governments around the world pledged to halve road traffic deaths and injuries during a new decade of action.
Safe Children. Everyone´s responsibility Together with CONASET, and with the support of ISA Intervial and FIA Foundation, we carried out an international online event to show how Chile has managed, in just a few years, to generate a cultural change that has led to a reduction in the number of children killed and seriously injured in traffic accidents.
Presentation of the Chilean success story During the event “Safe Children – Everyone’s Responsibility”, the publication “Child Restraint Systems, A multidimensional approach to strengthen their use. The Case of Chile”, which summarizes the lines of action that made up the long-term policy for strengthening the use of CRS in Chile.
Uruguay is a reference in the region for its zero alcohol tolerance law in traffic OPS and the Fundación Gonzalo Rodriguez conducted a research based on national and international publications to determine the impact of alcohol on accident rates.
Child transport to school, and safety in school zones This report is part of the Safe Latin American Children in Traffic Program that aims to contribute to the reduction of risks associated to child road accidents, focusing on children on their way to and from school.
Annual report 2021 While the world is still experiencing the COVID19 pandemic -which is said to be the worst pandemic in the last 100 years-, at the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez we continue working side by side to fight the epidemic of road accidents and to ensure safe mobility.
Improving road safety outcomes through training In 2019, thanks to the support of the UPS Foundation, the Gonzalo Rodríguez Foundation (FGR) and the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV), signed an agreement to consolidate and strengthen collaboration to generate and update public policies and regulations for road safety practices, with a focus on safe mobility.
Dominican Republic: an opportunity in Child Road Safety Central America represents a real opportunity to show substantial changes in terms of safe child mobility and child road safety. For this reason, in coordination with the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT), the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation trained 26 references from 9 public agencies in child road safety.
Safe Child Mobility in Argentina Children’s Road Safety is one of the pillars of the Gonzalo Rodríguez Foundation’s work, mainly due to its high knowledge on the subject. That is why one of the work plans in Argentina -where the Foundation already has an operational site- is precisely to develop a national road safety plan in Argentina.
Results of the Gonzalo Rodríguez Cultural Center contest On December 1st, the winners of the preliminary architectural design competition for the Gonzalo “Gonchi” Rodríguez Cultural Center were announced.
Effectiveness of control as an agent of change With the support of UNASEV and the National Directorate of Roadside Police, we held the regional seminar “Control Effectiveness as an Agent of Change”, which was attended by agents from different countries.
