International Development through Sport

Presented by Nico Koenig

March 4, 2009Henry Hicks Building, Room 217

Dalhousie University

What is your Question?

• Write a question that you would like to have answered at the end of this session

Why Sport?

• What are the positive outcomes of sport?

• What are the negative outcome of sport?

Millennium Development Goals

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.

How can sport help?•Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

•3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education•3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector•3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

•Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases•6a: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS•6b: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it•6c: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Experts say....SDP WG found athttp://iwg.sportanddev.org/en/index.htm

Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria, and other diseases• Sport programs can be used to reduce stigma and increase social and economicintegration of people living with HIV and AIDS• Sport programs are associated with lower rates of health risk behaviour thatcontributes to HIV infection• Programs providing HIV prevention education and empowerment can further reduce HIV infection rates• Sport can be used to increase measles, polio and other vaccination rates• Involvement of celebrity athletes and use of mass sport events can increase reach and impact of malaria, tuberculosis and other education and prevention campaigns

Others say....

Kicking AIDS Out Grassroots Soccer Alive and Kicking

Experts say....Promote gender equality and empower women

• Sport helps improve female physical and mental health and offers opportunities for social interaction and friendship

• Sport participation leads to increased self-esteem, self-confidence, and enhanced sense of control over one’s body

• Girls and women access leadership opportunities and experience

• Sport can cause positive shifts in gender norms that afford girls and women greatersafety and control over their lives

• Women and girls with disabilities are empowered by sport-based opportunities to acquire health information, skills, social networks, and leadership experience

Others say...Go Sisters (Edusport)NOWSPAR“Girl Effect” (Nike)

My Experience

My Experience

• CIDA youth internships (http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/internships)• Commonwealth Games of Canada (www.commonwealthgames.ca)• Send to Partner Organizations:Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Project, Trinidad

and Tobago Alliance for Sport and Physical education, Paralympic Committee (Namibia, Zambia, Jamaica) , Physically Active Youth (Namibia) , Olympafrica Youth Ambassador Program (Lesotho)

Youth Employment Strategy (YES)Canadian Sport Leadership Corps

Hosting Organization = SCORE

What is SCORE?• Founded 1991• Non-profit NGO• Ongoing Community-

Based Programs in South Africa (1991), Namibia (2000) & Zambia (2002)

Current Focus Areas“SCORE uses sport to provide children and youth with

valuable skills and opportunities that they need to succeed in life and contribute to their communities.”

• Life & Leadership skills training for Children & Youth• Sports Volunteers• Community sports leadership & organisational capacity• Women & Girls in Sport• Kicking AIDS Out!->International Office in Cape Town , South Africa

SCORE Highlights• More the 500 000 children participated in

20+ sports• More than 600 sports volunteers from

more than 20 countries • 2000-2004

– built 40 multi-purpose facilities in South Africa– more than 30 000 participated in 470 training

workshops– Increase in women’s participation from 20-25%

to 35-40%– Established local sports councils

Looking to get on board?• SCORE - www.score.org.za• Right to Play - www.righttoplay.com• Sportventurer -www.sportventurer.com• Street Football - www.streetfootballworld.org• Grassroots Soccer - http://www.grassrootsoccer.org

OR...-Stay Local, challenges here too! What can sport do

near by???-Find an organization somewhere in the world and

drop by!

Further questions in Sport for Development…•How do we know it works? Research needed•How can we use sport best? Sport + or + sport•Can sport “Cure” AIDS?•Sport for peace? Palestine Israel conflict, Congo•What is role of elite sport role in development through sport? Olympics, World Cup•Nike + International Development? •United Nations use of sport

Links People• Commonwealth Games of Canada

– www.commonwealthgames.ca/• Sport and Development Platform

– www.sportanddev.org/• Kicking AIDS out

– http://www.kickingaidsout.net/• Next Step Conference

– www.nextstep2007.org• MYSA

– www.mysakenya.org/• Nif, Uk Sport, Unicef (international

inspiration) Australia Sport Commission

•Simon Darnell, Post Doctorate here, leading canadian academics in sport and development•Bruce Kid, Dean of Physical Education, University of Toronto•Sara Nichols, University of Ottawa, studying HIV/AIDS awareness among Aboriginal youth and women•Lois Macgregor, Learn about sport and volunteer opportunities around Halifax! help your own community•Owen Willis, International Development professor Dalhousie, worked with MYSA in Kenya•Nico Koenig, residing in Halifax, ns.koenig@gmail.com

Questions?

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