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This publication has been produced by the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group (SDP IWG). The SDP IWG was established in 2004 to articulate and promote the adoption of policy recommendations to governments for the integration of sport and physical activity into their national and international development strategies and programs. It comprises elected government representatives, United Nations (UN) agencies, and civil society organizations. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the chair of the SDP IWG. Right To Play, an athlete-driven international Sport for Development organization, serves as the Secretariat.

The SDP IWG emerged from the work of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace and will culminate in the presentation of a comprehensive set of policy recommendations to national governments at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. The work of the SDP IWG is made possible by generous support from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Sport Division of Austria's Federal Chancellery, and Right To Play.

For more information on the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group please visit http://iwg.sportanddev.org.

Disclaimer

The projects and programs in this publication are, what we believe to be, a representative sample of Sport for Development and Peace initiatives. They do not represent an exhaustive list, as new Sport for Development and Peace initiatives are emerging on a daily basis.

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information presented here was correct at the time of print. As these programs are dynamic in nature, more up-to-date information may soon become available. Where provided, readers can visit the organizational websites listed at the end of each profile for more information.

The SDP IWG Secretariat believes that the welfare of children is paramount. To protect the identities and interests of children, some names within this publication have been changed.

Opinions expressed herein are those of the contributing organizations, and not necessarily those of SDP IWG members, or those of its Secretariat, Right To Play.

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CONTENTS

Foreword by Johann Olav Koss

CHILD AND YOUTH GENDER EQUALITY DEVELOPMENT 46 SportWorks Pakistan 49 Go Sisters 2 Living For Sport 52 Women in Paralympic Sport Leadership Program 5 Sport and Play for Traumatized Children and Youth 55 Moving the Goalposts Kilifi 8 LEARN & play, Afghanistan 58 Ishraq 11 Dreams and Teams Poland 14 Sport in Action 17 Grumeti SportWorks 20 Physically Active Youth INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 62 Sports for Life HEALTH AND PREVENTION 65 Sport as a Tool for Social Integration and Personal Development OF DISEASE 68 Cambodian National Volleyball League (Disabled) 71 Basic Education through Sport and Play for Children 24 Thailand Migrant SportWorks Project in West and Francophone Africa: Play to Learn 27 Dads Against Drugs 74 Sport and Leisure for Children and Youth with Disabilities 30 Caribbean Healthy Lifestyles Project 33 National Social Sport Program 36 PLAY SOCCER 39 Alive and Kicking Kenya SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND 42 Agita Sao Paulo PEACE-BUILDING 78 Sharek Youth Forum 81 Espérance 84 SportWorks Chad 87 Youth in Action Sierra Leone 90 Scotiabank Salud Escolar Integral 93 Fight for Peace 96 PeacePlayers International – Middle East 1 INTRODUCTION_Wed Oct 24.qxd 11/6/07 3:07 PM Page 4

Foreword by Johann Olav Koss

On behalf of the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group Secretariat, it is my great pleasure to introduce From the Field: Sport for Development and Peace in Action, a collection of dynamic projects and programs that are using sport to achieve diverse development objectives.

From the Field highlights Sport for Development and Peace initiatives from the local, regional, and national levels around 5 key themes: i) child and youth development, ii) health and prevention of disease, iii) gender equality, iv) inclusion of people with disabilities, and v) social integration and peace-building. The initiatives featured come from the diverse regions of Africa, Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean.

The project descriptions presented here have been compiled through personal interviews with Sport for Development and Peace practitioners in the field. The stories are therefore presented in the words of those people most intimately involved. Although most of the programs were conceived less than 10 years ago, their early impacts are demonstrative. The lessons learned, and anecdotal evidence, including in some cases personal stories, are particularly compelling. While further monitoring and evaluation efforts are needed to demonstrate long-term effectiveness, the qualitative data presented herein is a testament to the power of sport as an agent for development and social change.

As Head of the Secretariat to the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group (SDP IWG), I want to sincerely thank all those who have contributed their testimonies and stories. Without their active participation, this publication would not have been possible. I also want to thank you, the reader, for your interest in Sport for Development and Peace.

Sport for Development and Peace efforts cannot be fully realized without the support and participation of diverse stakeholders, including practitioners at the field level, and government actors across all sectors. By learning from the experiences of those who are implementing initiatives at the field level, policy-makers will be better equipped to affect policy change in the area of Sport for Development and Peace. By working together, we can synergize our efforts to achieve collective goals in support of development and peace.

Johann Olav Koss President & CEO, Right To Play Head of the SDP IWG Secretariat

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5 CHILDREN AND YOUTH 2 BluesectionWedOct24.qxd11/6/079:38AMPage6 6 CHILDREN AND YOUTH table tennis,gymnastics,football andvolleyball. locations wereequippedwithsportsequipmentfor damaged sportstadiuminBavarat.Allthree secured foractivities,aswellthepartially- Rajaie. Warehouses nearthetwocampswere Bavarat andthecampsatAmirKabirShahid facilities wereselectedforprograms:thevillageof Three locationslackingpsycho-socialsupport and Youth inAugust2004. initiated SportandPlayforTraumatized Children the SwissAcademyforDevelopment(SAD) positive socialinteractioncouldbere-established, Bam, andtoprovideacontextinwhichstable psycho-social rehabilitationofthechildren To PROGRAM DESIGN supportthedailycopingstrategiesand SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP counselling andpeersupport. problems intheirownlivesand receiveinformal provided aforumforparticipants toraiseissuesor ideas andexperiences.Thesediscussionsalso AIDS, andinvitedtheparticipantstodiscusstheir or health-relatedtopic,suchasrespectHIVand during whichcoachesidentifiedarelevantsocial Activities werefollowedby“friendshipcircles” Bavarat, andthreetimesaweekinthetwocamps. Sport andplayactivitieswereheldeverydayin possible andactivitiesbeganinOctober2004. in localschoolstoattractasmanychildren sport trainingmethods.Theprojectwasadvertised issues relatingtopost-disasterrecovery, trauma. SADstaffprovidedtraininginpsycho-social and itsaftermathunderstoodthetragedy because theyhadalsoexperiencedtheearthquake recruited expresslyfromthelocalpopulation Experienced maleandfemalesportcoacheswere aswell

Sport and Play for Traumatized Children, Bam, Iran • • • • • • • • • Youth receivedfinancialsupportfrom: Sport andPlayforTraumatized Childrenand RESOURCES • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION with theproject. and alsoservingtostrengthentheiridentification participants appropriateclothinginwhichtoplay Sponsors donatedsportsclothesandshoes,giving Werner andHelgaDegenFoundation Sika AG Nestlé Iran KLM RoyalDutchAirlines Holcim DHL Germany Association “ReadytoMove” sport shoesforparticipants) Adidas SalomonGermany(sponsorshipand Swiss AgencyforDevelopmentandCooperation implementing partneruntil2005) People inNeed(CzechNGOwhichactedasan the activities) lived andprovidedwarehousestobeusedfor (administered campsinwhichparticipants Task ForceoftheGovernor'sOffice basketball andtabletennis. and interactconstructively. Childrenplayvolleyball, Team forchildrentoworktogether offeropportunities sports Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage7 discuss theirpersonalproblemswiththem. recovery. confideintheircoaches and Manyprojectparticipants thechildren’sactivities aswellsupporting mentalandemotional Coaches arekeyfiguresintheBamproject, organizingsporting • • • • • IMPACT process ofhealing. parents timeontheirowntobegin Structured activitiesforchildrenalsogave often haddifficultyendingclasses. hours beforethelessonsbeganandcoaches children oftenwaitedoutsidethewarehouses environment wasenormous.Staffreportthat The children’s enthusiasmforapositive,team of teamworkandfairplay. each otherandregularlydemonstratedprinciples sharply. the incidenceofanti-socialbehaviourdeclined After onlyafewmonthsofprogramactivities, constructively andcouldnotplayinateam. program. Theyhaddifficultyinteracting degree ofhostilityatthebeginning aggression. Manyparticipantsdisplayedahigh important forumforchannelingfrustrationand Group andteamactivitiesprovidedan with mycoach.” statement “Iusuallysharemyprivateproblems survey, 37ofthe50fullyagreedwith coach islikeafriendtome.”Inthesame children fullyagreedwiththestatement“My participants inOctober2005and49ofthese the childrenofBam.SADsurveyed50young supporting thepsychosocialrehabilitationof participants andplayedanimportantrolein positive rolemodelsformanyoftheyoung Coaches emergedastrustedconfidantesand three locationsuntil2006. Close to300childrenwereinvolvedinthe Participantsbecameverysupportiveof

Sport and Play for Traumatized Children, Bam, Iran SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • LESSONS LEARNED • project activities. Parents andfamiliesneedtobeinvolvedin the childrenhaveexperienced. (religion, culture,language)andthetraumathat they understandboththelocalcontext chosen fromthelocalcommunitytoensurethat key toprogramsuccess.Coachesmustbe Selection andcontinuoussupportofcoachesis of localgirls. successful andsecuredlong-termparticipation for theiractivities.Thisprovedextremely therefore necessarytofindasafe,coveredspace playing sportswithboysorinpublic.Itwas dynamics. InBam,girlswerenotaccustomedto It isvitaltounderstandandrespectgender For moreinformation,visit: MORE INFORMATION coaches andotherlocalstaff. elements oftheprojectandcapacity-building project staffwillfocusonstrengtheninggender sustainability totheproject.Goingforward, this arrangementwillbringlong-termsuccessand camp residents,theSADteamisoptimisticthat challenges causedbydecentralizationofformer covered byNestléIran.Despitelogistical is runexclusivelybythelocalteam.Costsare project isbasedinthevillageofDehShotorand in Bamandthesurroundingareas.Today, the have returnedtomorepermanentaccommodation The campsweredismantledin2006andpeople LOOKING AHEAD http://www.sad.ch

7 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage8 8 CHILDREN AND YOUTH LEARN &play, Afghanistan PROGRAM NAME Assistance) (AfghanistanHilfe meansAfghanistan Germany AfghanistanHilfe Paderborn, LEAD ORGANIZATION Province,Afghanistan Kabul andParwan LOCATION streetchildren Children, particularly PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES Education to Long-Term Commit Children to Street Motivates Football Program andgames. inregularsports and participate toattendschool in Kabul,givingthemtheopportunity LEARN & playtargetsdisadvantagedgirlsandboys SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • OBJECTIVES cooperation andconflictresolutionskills. and usesportsasanopportunitytoteach To developthefootballtalentsofparticipants languages. practical skillsincomputersandforeign mathematics, readingandwriting,aswell relevant fortheirfuturesuccessincluding environment todevelopskillsandtraining To sports andgames. to attendschoolandparticipateinregular children inKabulbygivingthemtheopportunity To providestreetchildrenwithasafe improvethequalityoflifefordisadvantaged

Lutz Ebhardt ever forthenation’s future. and developmentofchildren aremorevitalthan the ageof18,initiativesfocused onthewelfare Today, withmorethanhalfofall Afghanisunder aged childrendonotattendschool. or havebeenorphaned.Nearly50%ofprimary- survive, manyhavebeenleftwithonlyoneparent dying beforetheirfifthbirthday. For thosethat highest intheworld,withonefivechildren child mortalityratesinAfghanistanareamongthe Children’s Fund(UNICEF)reportsthatinfantand violence iscommonplace.TheUnitedNations public health.Securityremainstenuousand diseases andtuberculosisarechronicthreatsto access tosafewaterorsanitation,anddiarrhoeal Afghanistan. ThegreatmajorityofAfghanislack infrastructure, publicservicesandcommunitiesin Almost threedecadesofconflicthavedestroyed PROGRAM CONTEXT Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage9 the skillsneededforimprovedlong-termprospects. academic trainingtoprovidethesechildrenwith children totheprogramandisthencombinedwith drugs. Sport,specificallyfootball,isusedtodraw associated withit,includingbegging,crimeand on thestreetsandpracticesthatareoften program istoencouragechildrenrenouncelife the opportunitytoattendschool.Theaimof their familiesandarethereforeunlikelytohave generation activitiestosupportthemselvesand Most ofthechildrenareinvolvedinincome- been orphanedorarefromsingleparenthomes. eight andtwelvewhoarelivingonthestreet,have The programtargetschildrenbetweentheagesof these children. sports andeducationtocreateopportunitiesfor around Kabulalone.LEARN&playbringstogether as many20000childrenliveonthestreetinand surrounding areas.Theorganizationestimatesthat address issuesfacedbychildreninKabulandthe initiated theLEARN&playprojecttospecifically In September2004,AfghanistanHilfePaderborn PROGRAM DESIGN commit totheprojectforfiveyears. in theproject.To beeligible,childrenmust are enrolledingovernmentschoolstoparticipate afternoon. Shiftsalsoallowthosechildrenwho group attendsinthemorningandone in shiftstoallowmorechildrenattend;one Province ineasternAfghanistan.Classesareheld has twocentres,oneinKabulandParwan environment forparticipantstolearn.Theproject AfghanistanHilfe Paderborn,providingasafe teachers, areheldinbuildingsbelongingto Classes, taughtbyMinistryofEducationapproved increase theiremployabilityaftertheprogram. skills, includingbasiccomputing,designedto language, oftenEnglish.Inaddition,theylearn as reading,writing,mathematicsandoneforeign Children learnfundamentalacademicskillssuch hours oflessonsandatwo-hourfootballpractice. Participants receiveonemealandattendthree arefemale. intheproject;overone-thirdofparticipants participating Approximately 600childrenbetweentheagesof8and12are • • • • • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION ongoing moralsupporttoprojectstaff) curriculum designerandprovidesimportant, Association (FIFA) (provides fundstopaya Fédération InternationaledeFootball knowledge withglobalnetwork) Streetfootballworld (sharestechnical working intheproject'snon-formalschools) Ministry ofEducation(registerstheteachers run clinicsforcoaches) Handicap International(providestrainerswho partner, organizesteamsandtournaments) Afghanistan FootballAssociation(sports of project) provides alladministrationandcoordination AfghanistanHilfe Paderborn(leadorganization,

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9 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage10 10 CHILDREN AND YOUTH • • • • • • IMPACT • • receives fundingfrom: by AfghanistanHilfePaderborn.Theproject administrative costs.Alladministrationisprovided year. Thisincludesalldirectprojectcosts,butno LEARN &play’s annualbudgetisUS$140000per RESOURCES tensions. in acountrywithdeeprooted ethnicandtribal skills fromthisexperience— importantskills positive conflictresolutionand problemsolving report thatthechildrenlearn andpractice playing withothersonateam.Staffmembers Program beneficiariesarealsobenefitingfrom involvement infootballandothersports. with otherchildrenasadirectresultoftheir confident, moreenergeticandcooperative Project staffreportthatchildrenaremoreself- project. teachers, allwomen,currentlyworkonthe opportunities forcommunitymembers.Five providing skill-buildingandemployment teachers fortheproject'snon-formalschools, Education, LEARN&playhasregisteredmany With thecooperationofMinistry mately 60%ofthechildreninprogram. school; thisnumberhasincreasedtoapproxi- 10% oftheparticipantsalsoattendedformal At thebeginningofproject,approximately future employmentprospects. and languageskillswhichwillimprovetheir attend non-formalschoolandlearncomputer children inAfghanistantheopportunityto This projectallowsthemostdisadvantaged aregirls. Parwan Province.Between35-40% pating intheprogram,400Kabuland200 There areapproximately600childrenpartici- UBS OptimusFoundation,Switzerland AfghanistanHilfe Paderborn,Germany SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • from theirexperiences. other organizationstoshareresourcesandlearn regions ofAfghanistanandformpartnershipswith play hopestoexpandactivitiesliketheseintonew receive academicandsocialassistance.LEARN& into thesenewinitiativesandwillcontinueto Participants ofLEARN&playwillbetransferred street footballleagueandasportsacademy. staff willformotherinitiativessuchasa Before theprojectconcludesatendof2008, LOOKING AHEAD • • • LESSONS LEARNED inter-personal skillshaveimproveddramatically. course oftheproject,theircommunicationand would nototherwisehavecontact.Overthe people, bothpeersandadults,withwhomthey The projectallowschildrentomeetarangeof children arenormallymarginalizedfromsociety. their successinfootball;orphansandstreet neighbours andpeers.Thisisentirelydueto receive agreatdealofrecognitionfrom profile intheircommunities,andtheplayers The LEARN&playfootballteamshaveahigh such asimprovedcoordinationandstrength. Physical activityprovideshealthbenefits, and adaptdeliverymethodsaccordingly. coordinators musttakethisintoconsideration are limitedinconflictsituations.Project Financial, humanandinfrastructureresources strong partners,bothlocalandinternational. This projectwouldnotbepossiblewithout keeping childrenandyoungpeopleinaproject. Sport isavaluabletoolforattractingand at or contactAliAskarLali,ProjectCoordinator http://www.streetfootballworld.org For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION immeasurable. theymotivation through theproject.Theconfidenceand the festivalusingEnglishthattheylearned able tocommunicatewithotheryoungpeopleat they hadeverlefttheirowncountry, theywere in LEARN&play. Thoughthiswasthefirsttime experiences, bothduringthewarandasparticipants of peopleatthefestivalanddescribedtheir two yearspreviously, spokeinfrontoflargegroups These children,whohadbeenlivingonthestreets attended asprojectparticipants. schooling, onlythetwoyearsofclassestheyhad during thewarandhadreceivednoformal FIFA World Cup.Thechildrenhadbeenborn ballworld festivalwhichwasheldduringthe2006 from AfghanistantoBerlinattendthestreetfoot- LEARN &playbroughtthreeyoungparticipants FEATURED SUCCESSSTORY [email protected] gainedfromtheseexperiencesis Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage11 Dreams andTeams Poland PROGRAM NAME British Council LEAD ORGANIZATION Czech RepublicandSlovakia Poland, andlater, Hungary, Latvia,Ukraine, LOCATION schoolstudents,aged14to18 Secondary PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES • • • • OBJECTIVES SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP physical educationteachers. secondary schoolsandtobuildthecapacityof To with disabilitiesthroughsportingactivities. To encouragegreatersocialinclusionofyouth sporting events. who areconnectedbytheirparticipationin community ofculturally-awareyoungpeople To createandstrengthenaninternational skills throughsports. team-building, managementandorganizational To developyoungpeople'sleadership, increasetheprofileofphysicaleducationin

Dreams and Teams Poland Europe Across Eastern Cultural Ambassadors Builds Leadersand EventsPlanning Sport and toteachteamworkcommunicationskills. school students.Activitiesaredesignedtobeinclusive Young festivalsforlocalprimary leadersorganizesports as anoutletforcompetition. play, learn andinteractconstructively, ratherthan promoting physicalactivityas anopportunityto students andschoolsadifferentvisionofsport, from participating.DreamsandTeams offers discouraged manystudentswithlowerskilllevels feature ofcommunisterasportprogramswhich characterized byahighlevelofcompetition, teams. SportinPolishschoolsisoften participate inphysicaleducationclassesorschool school studentsinPolandwereoftenreluctantto Staff atDreamsandTeams observedthatsecondary in othercountriesaroundtheworld. secondary schoolsintheUKarelinkedto sport. ThroughDreamsandTeams' globalinitiatives, cultural awarenessamongyoungpeoplethrough which workstodevelopleadershipandcross- and theYouth SportTrust, aUK-basedgroup technical anddevelopmentcooperationoverseas, British Council,Britain'sagencyforeducational, Dreams andTeams isaprogramdesignedbythe PROGRAM CONTEXT

11 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage12 12 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Young Leaders mustdecidehowtoeffectively children withdisabilitiesinto sportsactivities. in Poland,forexample,arestriving tointegrate Each countryhasitsownpriorities. Manyschools young peopleinthearea. designed toforgestrongerconnectionsbetween neighbouring countries.Theregionalprogramis schools butalsowiththeircounterpartsin Schools intheregionlinkwiththeirUKpartner Czech Republic,Hungary, SlovakiaandUkraine. in fiveotherEasternEuropeancountries:Latvia, established regionallinksin2006betweenschools schools, theDreamsandTeams program In additiontolinkingPolishschoolswithUK link schoolandimplementjointsportfestivals. conducted, inwhichYoung Leaderstraveltothe addition, regularexchangesbetweenschoolsare communicate viaemailandvideoconferences.In with theirlinkschoolintheUK.Participants plans andconductsactivitiesinconjunction continue tomeetregularlyatschool.Eachschool After completingtheirtraining,Young Leaders training fromYouth SportTrust. Teams schools)whohavethemselvesreceived by localtutors(usuallyteachersfromDreamsand communications. Theworkshopsareconducted event planning,culturaldiversity, fundraisingand event. Workshops areprovidedonleadership, them howtoorganizeandhostasuccessfulsporting intensive week-longtrainingsessionwhichteaches Once selected,Young Leadersparticipateinan and degreeoffluencyinEnglish. high-level achievement),leadershipqualities participation insport(thoughnotnecessarily Leaders) onthebasisoftheirinterestand Dreams andTeams participants(calledYoung Teachers andheadteachersselectprospective PROGRAM DESIGN

Dreams and Teams Poland SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION which thestudentssecurefromlocalbusinesses. mented bysponsorshipandin-kinddonations exchanges betweenschools.Thebudgetissupple- including training,sportsfestivalsandstudent proposed budgetis£240000.Thiscoverscosts, and theregionalprojects.For2007-2008, combined budgetof£154000forboththePolish In 2006-2007,theBritishCouncilprovideda RESOURCES • • • • • wheelchair accessible. must ensurethatfacilitiesandgroundsare accommodate them.Inaddition,eventleaders rules orpointstructuresshouldbechangedto disabilities andmustalsodecidewhetherornot involve childrenwithbothphysicalandmental School administrations,includingheadteachers teachers whoareleadersintheircommunities) School SportAssociation(helpsidentify (coordinates activitiesinschools) Ministry ofPrimaryandSecondarySchools events andconferences) Dreams andTeams atOlympicCommittee meetings, openssportfestivalsandfeatures National OlympicCommittee(attendsplanning attends eventsandtakespartinmeetings) Ministry ofSport(liaiseswiththeBritishCouncil, Children andYoung festivalinPoland. Leadersat asports • • • • • Dreams andTeams PolandandtheUK IMPACT regional programs. are nowaregularfeatureofthePolishand experiences inthepr sport eventswasone participants reportthatorganizinginclusive people withdisabilitiescanaccomplish.Many dramatically changedtheirperceptionsofwhat Participants andcommunitymembershave project activities. international friendshipsevenoutsideof Young Leadersaremakinganefforttomaintain in breakingdownculturalstereotypes. in EasternEurope)hasbeenextremelypositive with theUnitedKingdomandothercountries The internationalexchangecomponent(both students inbothcountries. organized jointlybyEnglishandPolish all fiveschoolsinPoland.Sportsfestivalswere Exchange visitsinbothdirectionswereheld skills improvedgreatly. report thattheirEnglishandregionallanguage and eventplanning.Inaddition,participants fundraising, leadership,sportsadministration on arangeofimportantskills,including Three hundredYoung Leadersreceivedtraining ogram. Inclusive of themostrewarding festivals Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage13 • • • • • Hungary) Ukraine, Poland,Latvia,CzechRepublicand Regional DreamsandTeams Program(Slovakia, participants fromthreeorfourcountries. many sportsfestivalshavebeenorganizedwith hold aneventwithallsixregionalpartners, Though ithasnotbeenlogisticallypossibleto an officialcomponentofschoollife. and Teams students,recognizingtheprogramas award schoolcreditstoparticipatingDreams In Hungary, thegovernmentisplanningto children, including20withdisabilities. organized asportsfestivalfor100local trained inUkraineandwiththeirpeers,they Five youngleaderswithdisabilitieswere spectators attended. participated inthesefestivalsand6178 festivals wereorganized,5508children During the2006-2007schoolyear, 99sports Leaders acrosstheregion. 2007, theselocaltutorstrained732newYoung There arecurrently100localtutors.In2006-

Dreams and Teams Poland SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • LESSONS LEARNED Olympic Games. activities leadinguptothe2012LondonSummer program. DreamsandTeams planstodevelop In thefuture,morecountriesmaybeaddedto connections betweenprojectsindifferentcountries. project staffwillcontinuetostrengthen The regionalprojectisinitssecondyearand LOOKING AHEAD • • • Children andYoung festivalinPoland. Leadersatasports and spectators. management skills,involvingbothparticipants youth canlearnandpracticeleadership Sport providesanengagingcontextinwhich roles inprojectplanningandimplementation. young peopletotakeactiveandresponsible often needadditionalconvincingtoallow structures persist,teachersandadministrators In schoolswheretraditional,hierarchical order togrowandrealizetheirpotential. Young peopleneedchallengesintheirlives positive rolemodels. older thanthemselves.Young Leadersare they areorganizedbypeoplewhonotmuch that theyenjoytheactivitiespreciselybecause organized byYoung Leadersfrequentlystate Children whoparticipateinthesportsfestivals the community. abilities acknowledgedbyfriends,familyand with disabilities,canparticipateandhavetheir barriers. Marginalizedgroups,suchaschildren Sport cancontributetobreakingdownsocial or http://www.britishcouncil.org For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION receive thishonour. planning meeting,thefirstYoung Leader to administrators andwasinvitedtoastrategic valuable informationtoDreamsandTeams the children'scamp.Hecontinuestoprovide every summerhereturnstothevillagehelprun One oftheteenagerslefttoattenduniversity, but with disabilities. and hasalteredthevillage'sperceptionofpeople changed thelivesoffamilieswhoparticipated with disabilitiesandtheirfamilies.Thecamphas an NGOthatrunsasummercampforchildren During thesameyear, thetwoteenagersfounded sporting eventsinthecommunity. event establishedatraditionofregularinclusive had beenconfinedtotheirhomesoryards.The they venturedintothevillage;previously, they the childrenwhoparticipated,itwasfirsttime sports eventeverheldinthevillage.Formanyof local childrenwithdisabilities,thefirstinclusive year, theywentontoorganizesportstrainingfor several festivalsattheirschoolandinthesecond year oftheproject,theytookleadinorganizing Poland wereespeciallyenthusiastic.Inthefirst Two teenagersfromtheLakeDistrictinnorthern excited abouttheproject. children, andmostwenthomeempowered planned andimplementedasportsfestivalfor ing. Aftertheweek-longsession,newleaders country travelledtoWarsaw totakepartintrain- Poland project,Young Leadersfromacrossthe In 2001,thefirstyearofDreamsandTeams FEATURED SUCCESSSTORY http://www.britishcouncil.pl

13 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage14 14 CHILDREN AND YOUTH in Zambia and LifeSkills Health Education TeachesSport inAction Sport PROGRAM NAME in Action Sport LEAD ORGANIZATION Six districtsinZambia LOCATION in ruralandurbanareas Children andyouth,aged4to26, PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES andgames. prevention throughsport aboutHIVandAIDS Children inZambialearn SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • OBJECTIVES in Zambia. To and educationalactivities. behaviour throughtheuseofintegratedsport To empowerchildrenandyouthtochange motherhood. AIDS prevention,reproductivehealthandsafe skills andhealtheducation,includingHIV opportunities toteachcivicresponsibility, life To developsportsprogramswhichprovide Sport in Action/Kicking AIDS Out! Network improvephysicalfitnessandqualityoflife mobilize andempowerZambians. and accessibleideasinitiativesareneededto create opportunitiesfordevelopment,innovative fourth lowestintheworldatjust38years.To living withHIVandAIDS.Lifeexpectancyisthe million orphansand1.7Zambiansare shortages andpoverty. Zambiahasover one “triple threat”ofhighHIVprevalence,acutefood Zambia’s developmentisunderminedbythe As oneofthepoorestnationsinworld, PROGRAM CONTEXT

Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage15 developed solutions.Inschools whereteachers conducted assessmentstodetermine whynotand which didnothavephysical educationprograms, Sport inActiontargetedanumberofschools Sport inschools and coaches. training inthesetraditionalgamestoteachers of cooperation.SportinActionstaffprovide such astheimportanceofeducationorvalue messages whichstillresonatewithmodernissues, to children.” Manytraditionalgamescarry only forfun.Theyarealsoteachinglifeskills states that“ourforefathersnevercreatedgames Clement Chileshe,founderofSportinAction, indigenous gamespopularbeforecolonisation. Communities haveforgottenmanyofthe Traditional gamesprograms realities, risksandchallenges. develop preventionandlifeskillsforaddressing that affecttheirlivesandcommunities,to participants todiscusstheseoftensensitiveissues and AIDS.Theseeducationalactivitiesencourage play activitiesthatbuildawarenessaboutHIV community healthcentrestodeliversportand Sport inActionworksgovernmentclinicsand HIV andAIDSpreventionactivities projects include: in communitiesthroughoutZambia.SportAction who trainleadersandsupportrunactivities full-time staffmembersandhundredsofvolunteers and communitylevel.SportinActionhas10 building capacityattheindividual,organizational are taughttorunactivitiesandmanageprograms change. Volunteer coaches,trainersandleaders communication andencouragingbehaviour as aforumforprovidingeducation,stimulating Sport inActionusessportandphysicalactivities PROGRAM DESIGN SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION Sport forDevelopmentorganizations. member ofKickingAIDSOut!,aglobalnetwork sport asatoolfordevelopmentandisfounding Sport inActionisoneofthepioneersusing street youth. reduce thestigmaattachedtoorphansand brings groupsofchildrentogetherandhelps street kidsandyouthfromthecommunity— local community. Shareduse—withorphans, orphanage whicharealsoopentochildreninthe Action hasinvestedinnewsportsfacilitiesatthe and helpskeepthemoffthestreets.Sportin sport givesthemconstructiverecreationalactivities in Lusaka.Forthechildrenlivingorphanage, Fountain ofHopeorphanageandoutreachcentre Sport inActionintroducedsportsactivitiestothe Sport forcommunityoutreach drive action. partnership withtheMinistryofEducationto efforts werenotsuccessful,theyleveragedtheir education, andwhereSportinAction’s awareness where managementdidnotsupportphysical with balls,netsandshoesforchildren.Inschools Schools whichlackedequipmentwereprovided leverage gamestoteachlifelessonsandskills. physical educationtechniquesincludinghowto five-day capacity-buildingworkshops,teaching lacked sportstraining,SportinActionconducted community, supervisesandadvisessports policy andhelpscoordinate activitiesinthe Ministry ofSports(provides sport-oriented Zambia) teacher traininginitiativesin26districtsof Action activitiesinschoolsandcooperateson Ministry ofEducation(coordinatesSportin • • • • • • • Sport inActionreceivesfundingfrom: RESOURCES • • • • • Save theChildren-Sweden International AllianceforYouth Sport The SwissAcademyforDevelopment Management The InstituteofSportandRecreation Durham University UK Sport Confederation ofSport Norwegian OlympicCommitteeand Play volunteersinKickingAIDSOut!activities) campaign. SportinActionhastrainedRightTo and traininginitiatives,includingameasles Right To Play(partneronarangeofprograms all sportsbodiesinZambia) National SportCouncilofZambia(supervises children) Action coachestoworkwithspecialneeds for childrenwithspecialneeds,trainsSportin Special OlympicsZambia(supportsactivities people livingwithphysicaldisabilities) (supports andfacilitatessportsactivitiesfor National ParalympicCommitteeofZambia partnerships) (facilitates traininginOlympicideals,creates National OlympicCommitteeofZambia international bodies) facilitates partnershipswithlocaland between sportingbodiesandGovernment, associations andothersportingbodies,liaises

15 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage16 16 CHILDREN AND YOUTH • • • • • IMPACT • • • • • • The Wallace Groupinvolves: universities facilitateSportinActionprograms. Volunteers fromtheWallace GroupofUK for commongoals. become morecohesive.Peopleworktogether among participantsimprovesandcommunities involved intheproject,socialinteraction Communities reportthatastheybecome five schools. capacity andprovidedsportsequipmentto The “sportinschools”initiativedeveloped increased theirself-esteem. improved standingintheircommunitiesand including healthandleadership.Theyhave knowledge andskillsinarangeofareas, Sport inActionvolunteershavedeveloped health educationincludingHIVprevention. including activitiesthatteachlifeskillsand opportunities notpreviouslyavailable, are nowexposedtopositiverecreational Children andyoungpeopleacrossthecountry participated inSportActionactivities. In 2006,approximately65000people University ofWales InstituteCardiff(UWIC) Bath University Stirling University Durham University Northumbria University Loughborough University SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • LESSONS LEARNED across thesector. the country, bringing alevelofqualityassurance as wellforphysicaleducation practitionersacross to provideformaleducationfor staffandvolunteers Action alsohopestocreateaneducationalfacility activities aroundthecountry. conduct monitoringandevaluationofproject like topurchaseavehicleenablestaffbetter talented volunteers.SportinActionwouldalso control andprovideemploymentopportunitiesfor better managevolunteers,ensureincreasedquality Action wouldliketobeablehiremorestaff evaluation arekeypriorities.Inparticular, Sportin Going forward,projectqualityandmonitoring LOOKING AHEAD • • • • into strongleaders. training andguidedeffectively, theycangrow When youngpeoplearegivenfunctional expand theirskillsandknowledge. areas wherepeoplehavefewopportunitiesto input theprojectcanmake,especiallyinrural Investment inpeopleisthemostimportant ability oftheseprogramsiscapacity-building. A keycomponentinthesuccessandsustain- populations suchasstreetchildrenandorphans. Sport isavaluabletoolforreachingvulnerable information abouthealthandservices. children andyouthcanbereachedwith Through positiverecreationalopportunities, in them. of thesegamesalreadyhavelessonsembedded transmitting healthandsocialmessages.Many Indigenous gamesareextremelyeffectivein a rangeoflanguagesanddialects. health information—mustbetranslatedinto effective communications.Materials—like Local languagesarecriticallyimportantfor Finally, Sportin or email http://www.kickingaidsout.net For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION you removethesupportandstickcannotstand. throughout hisorherlife.Ifyouremovethesand, sand istheeducationthatsupportschild child’s life:thestickrepresentschildand to illustratetheimportanceofeducationina possible. Programstaffusethisgameasananalogy object istokeepthesticksupportedaslong to removethesandwithoutmovingstick.The upright inaconeofsand.Onebyone,childrentry Mariako isatraditionalgameusingstickheld Traditional Game:Mariako behaviours? Howcanwereduceourrisks? others didnot.Why?Whatareexamplesofrisky people dribblinggot“caught”bytheviruswhile dribbling representsriskybehaviours.Sometimes that playersthrowareliketheHIVvirusand uses thesituationasahealthanalogy:balls activity, afacilitatorbringsthegrouptogetherand which willguideahealthdiscussion.Afterthe throwing) andsimultaneouslycreatingacontext practicing aspecificsportsskill(dribblingand throw ballsatthepersondribbling.Eachplayeris participants lineupparalleltotheconesand football inandoutofalinecones,whileother This speciallydesignedgameinvolvesmovinga with HIVEducation Health Game:FootballSkillsDrillCombined FEATURED GAMES [email protected] Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage17 abouthealthissues. a positiveenvironmentandteachinformation Games andactivitiesareorganizedwhichbringchildrentogetherin Women’son differentthemes,suchasPeaceDayorInternational Day. Regular “playdays”arescheduledduringtheschoolyearfocusing Grumeti SportWorks PROGRAM NAME Right To LEAD ORGANIZATION Tanzania three wardsofSerengetidistrict, Mugumu, KyambahiandNatta, LOCATION schoolchildrenandteachers Primary-aged PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES Right To Play/GrumetiSportWorks Tanzania Play Fosters HolisticChildDevelopment Initiative School-based Sports SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • • OBJECTIVES and educationalinstitutions. networks, especiallybetweenlocalgovernment To provide educationalgamesandsports. To buildthecapacityofteachersandcoachesto in theSerengetidistrictandnationally. To integratesportsintotheschoolcurriculum play activities. the provisionofregularandinclusivesport To strengthencommunitypartnershipsand promotehealthychilddevelopmentthrough time fororganizedsportsandplay. significant domesticcommitmentsthatleavelittle level. Children,particularlygirls,alsohave high, therearefewresourcesavailableatthelocal also limited.Thoughnationalsupportforsportsis physical, socialandemotionaldevelopment,are and recreation,whichareimportantforhealthy and medicalfacilities.Opportunitiesforsports infrastructure, andlackinginadequateschooling limited communicationandtransportation Serengeti isanimpoverishedruraldistrictwith significant obstaclestohealthydevelopment. Children inTanzania’s Serengetidistrictface PROGRAM CONTEXT

17 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage18 18 CHILDREN AND YOUTH with minimalequipment. learning outcomesandaredesigned toberun work togetherasateam.Allactivitiesinclude children tointeractinanewsocialcontextand highly sensitivetotribaldifferences.Sportallows designed tofacilitatesocialcohesioninacountry leadership skills.Inaddition,activitiesare activities toimprovehealthandteachlife program usesspeciallydesignedgamesand Serengeti districtthroughsportandplay. The healthy, holisticdevelopmentofchildren inthe Grumeti SportWorks wasinitiatedtofosterthe PROGRAM DESIGN Right To Play/GrumetiSportWorks Tanzania tosucceedandwin. and boyshaveequalopportunities involve girlsintheprogram,designingactivitieswhere to in theGrumetiregion.Programstaffmakeaspecialeffort Grumeti SportWorks schools iscurrentlyactivein9primary SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION trained asSportWorks coaches. children, aged5to15.Over50teachershavebeen nine primaryschoolsreachingapproximately3000 Grumeti SportWorks projectiscurrentlyactivein together childrenfromallgrades. divided intomixedagegroupsandactivitiesbring their ownclasses.Inothers,thewholeschoolis schools, teachersrunactivitiesindividuallywith appropriately totheschoolschedule.Insome administration totailorprogramactivities participating school,RightTo how theyimplementtheprogram,and,ineach Individual schoolshaveadegreeofautonomyin and othersportsnecessities. equipment kitwhichincludesballs,nets,whistles After becomingcertified,theirschoolreceivesan ment aswellsports-andgame-specificskills. planning, conflictresolutionandchilddevelop- skills relatedtoleadership,communication,event inclusive sportandplayactivitiesfocuseson prepares themtoorganizeandmanageregular certified RightTo Playcoaches.Thetraining across thedistrict.Teachers aretrainedtobecome schools, leveragingteacherstoreachchildren The Grumetiprojectisimplementedthroughlocal District SportsandCultureOffice District OfficeforEducation administration andteachers district, withactiveinvolvementoftheschool Nine primaryschoolsinTanzania’s Serengeti Playworkswiththe • • • • • • • IMPACT company. by GrumetiReserves,aTanzanian eco-tourism Fund, anon-profitorganizationfoundedin2002 Grumeti CommunityandWildlife Conservation Grumeti SportWorks receivesfundingfromthe RESOURCES school children. respect fromboththecommunityand Becoming acoachhasbroughtteachersgreater involvement inthissportsprogram. Teachers arereapinghealthbenefitsfromtheir leadership andcapacity-buildingopportunities. Coach certificationhasprovidedteacherswith differences andtensionsamongparticipants. common goalonasportsteamhasreducedtribal Teachers reportthatworkingtogetherfora report thatattendanceissignificantlyhigher. attendance. Ondayswithsportspractice,teachers Sport iscloselylinkedwithimprovedschool cooperation andfairplay. Children learnlifeskills,suchasleadership, bodies andincreasetheirstrength. their health.Theylearntotakecareof long-term choiceswhichimpactpositivelyon Children learnthattheycanmakeshort-and Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage19 SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP education, forfutureintegration intotheprogram. that focusonHIVandAIDS awarenessand SportWorks isdevelopingcommunitypartnerships as localsportsteamsandclubs.Inaddition, building withexistingcommunitystructures,such the district.Thisexpansionwillincludecapacity- mainstream thesportsprograminallschools more schoolsby2008andeventuallyhopesto Grumeti SportWorks willbeexpandingintonine LOOKING AHEAD • • • • • LESSONS LEARNED infrastructure shouldbetakenintoconsideration. When designingprogramactivities,thelocal difficult tocollectanddisseminateinformation. working inruralareasasitmaybemore Program activitiescantakelongerwhen not compromisedbylinguisticshortfalls. have clear, consistentcommunicationwhichis of aptitudevarieswidely. Itisimportantto most teachersinSerengetidistrict,butthelevel languages. Englishisasecondlanguagefor It isessentialtotranslateeverythingintolocal avoid duplication. build onpresentresourcesandexpertise existing localstructures.Thisallowsprojectsto It isworthtakingthetimetoworkwithin sustainable. which makestheprojectstrongerandmore education officerandthemunicipalgovernment, SportWorks nowhasthesupportofdistrict essential totheproject’s success.Grumeti Working withlocalgovernmenthasalsobeen project. crucial tothesuccessandsustainabilityof teachers motivatestheteachers/coachesandis Support ofschooladministrationandhead and staginganextremelysuccessfulevent. Women'son International Day, thefemalestaff tooktheinitiative,planning about takingcharge.Onceitwasdecidedthataplaydaywouldbeheld the GrumetiSportWorks coaches,buttheGrumetiwomenwerestillhesitant environment hadbeenestablishedbetweenRightTo Playprogramstaffand female coaches.Eighteenmonthsintotheproject,apositiveworking Women’sInternational pointforGrumetiSportWorks’ Daywasaturning FEATURED SUCCESSSTORY the schoolpopulationandcommunityatlarge. sports day, andtherecognitionoftheir malepeers, event andwererewardedwithahugelysuccessful role. Theytooktheinitiativeatallphasesof up inmeetingsbegantakingamuchmoreactive themselves. Thesewomenwhohadneverspoken planned, organizedandstagedtheentireday running asportingeventfortheschool,andthey Day, thesefemalecoacheswereinvolvedin In theweeksleadinguptoInternationalWomen’s the coaches. by ahighleveloftrustbetweenprojectstaffand relationship hadbeenestablished,characterized months intotheproject,apositiveworking interacting voluntarilywithprojectstaff.Eighteen activities, rarelyaskingquestions,sharingideasor at firstreluctanttotakeanactiveroleinproject coaches. Projectstaffreportthatthewomenwere three maleandelevenfemale,whoalsoserveas One ofSportWorks’ projectschoolshas14teachers, team ofapproximatelyfivepeople. Coordinator willruntheprojectandsupervisea and monitoringevaluation.AlocalProject will beresponsibleforallstafftraining,logistics, international staffatGrumeti;localsupervisors project offices.By2008,therewillbeno the projectishiringlocalstaffandsettingup To strengthenprospectsforlong-termsustainability,

Right To Play/Grumeti SportWorks Tanzania projects/grumeti-sportsworks-tanzania.htm http://www.sportanddev.org/en/projects/see-all- International Platformat available ontheSportforDevelopment More informationonGrumetiSportWorks isalso at or contacttheprojectmanager http://www.righttoplay.com For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION [email protected]

19 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Blue sectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/074:28PMPage20 20 CHILDREN AND YOUTH Physically ActiveYouth PROGRAM NAME Physically ActiveYouth LEAD ORGANIZATION which wasonceablacktownship Katutura, Namibia,alow-incomecommunity LOCATION and Grade12exams those preparingfortheirGrade10 schoolstudents,particularly Secondary PROGRAM FOCUS SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • • OBJECTIVES physical fitness. healthy lifestylechoicesandincreased To keepyouthinschoolwhilepromoting and possibilities. exposure toawiderrangeoflifeexperience confidence andsenseofselfprovide To positivelyinfluencetheparticipants’ cooperation andteamwork. greater academicdiscipline,concentration, To usesportsandphysicalactivitytopromote qualify fortertiaryeducation. to successfullycompletehighschooland To maximizetheopportunityforat-riskyouth

Physically Active Youth for Life-LongSuccess Combines Tutoring andSport for At-RiskYouth inNamibia After SchoolProgram and increasetheirchancesofacademicsuccess. inthePAYParticipants programgainself-esteem facilities topreparestudentsfortheseexams. schools continuetolackresources,teachersand the legacyofapartheid.Traditionally, non-white Katutura, highfailurerateshavebeenfuelledby activity and/orunsafesexualbehaviour. In behaviour suchassubstanceabuse,criminal unskilled youthwhoareatriskforreckless exam, creatingalargepopulationofunemployed, fail andapproximately40%theGrade12 half ofallNamibianswhosittheGrade10exam barred frompost-secondarystudies.Approximately in Grade12.Studentswhofailtheexamsare mandatory exams,oneinGrade10andasecond access highereducation,theymustpasstwo In orderforhighschoolstudentsinNamibiato PROGRAM CONTEXT 2 BluesectionWedOct24.qxd11/6/079:38AMPage21 students arebenefitingfrom theprogram. need tocompletesecondary school.Currently86 that studentscontinuetoreceivethesupportthey extends upwardstoGrade12inorderensure skills atanearlierage.Theprogramnowalso (from Grade8andup)inanefforttobuildstudy however, theprogramacceptsyoungerparticipants help Grade10studentspasstheirexam.Today, The programwasinitiallydesignedspecificallyto and volunteers. from theUniversityofNamibiaandPAY trainers and sportsprogramsareprovidedbystudents to discusscommonissues.Tutoring, counselling youth fromdifferentsocio-economicbackgrounds annual youthconferencethatbringstogether and environmentaleducationtakepartinan excursions focusedaroundleadershipdevelopment week. Studentsalsoparticipateinspecial theme (e.g.,lifeskills,gender, environment)each Fridays arereserved“opendays”withadifferent athletics session,MondaysthroughThursdays. academic tutoringfollowedbyanhour-long Students intheprogramreceivetwohoursof basketball androadbiking. PAY participantsengageinsoccer, cricket, teach lifeskillsliketeamworkandconcentration. who lackconsistencyintheirprivatelivesandto used toprovideapositiveroutineforadolescents term planningskills.Physicalactivitiesarealso discipline, aswellshort-,medium-andlong- program andareusedtoteachstudentsabout and physicalactivityarecentraltothePAY AIDS educationandlifeskillsworkshops.Sports team sports,self-developmentstrategies,HIVand through acombinationoftutoring,physicalactivity, the academicandhealthneedsofKatuturayouth Physically ActiveYouth (PAY) addressesboth PROGRAM DESIGN SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION • • • • are providedby: Funding andsupportforPhysicallyActiveYouth (office space,transportation). costs arecoveredbyadditionalin-kinddonations members andastipendforthedirector).Many coordinator, twostudentassistants,staff per yearincludingsalariesforPAY staff(program Direct programcostsareapproximatelyUS$56000 RESOURCES clinics andoccasionallyequipmentsuchasballs) and Volleyball Federations(providecoaching Local sportsfederationssuchastheBasketball UK Sport(providestwointernsperyear) interns peryear) Commonwealth GamesCanada(providestwo as communitycentresandplayingfields) Youth Affairs(providebusesandvenues, such The DirectorateofSportandthe society) recognizes PAY studentgroupsasacampus University ofNamibia(providesofficespace, UK Sport(primarydonor) Commonwealth GamesCanada(primarydonor) • • • • • • • IMPACT join inthefuture. There isalongwaitinglistof peoplehopingto program wasreferredbyapreviousgraduate. program. Infact,everyonecurrentlyinthe Many relativesofparticipantswanttojointhe drug-taking andanti-socialbehaviour. is evidenceofdecreasedincidence Though difficulttomeasurestatistically, there themselves inspecialprogramjournals. as evidencedbythewaystudentsareexpressing self-esteem afterparticipatingintheprogram, Participants alsodisplayheightenedfeelingsof in non-physicalways. allowing themtocommunicatemoreeffectively found todevelopbettercommunicationskills, out physically, priortothePAY program,were academic performances.Boysthattendedtoact program participantsaswellimproved fewer incidentsofdisruptivebehaviouramong Teachers andprogramstaffreportdramatically program. concentration skillsasaresultofthePAY their studentsdisplaybetterplanningand levels ofstudentdiscipline.Teachers notethat The PAY programhascontributedtoincreased school performance. Grade 10showsignificantimprovementin Participants whobegininGrade8ratherthan program, thegreatereffectontheirgrades. The longerchildrenareinvolvedinthe opportunities. skills andwillhavebetteremployment school longer, theyarelearningadditional program. Becauseparticipantsarestayingin identified as“likelytofail”beforethePAY achievement astheparticipantswereall passed theirGrade10exam—amajor In thepilotprogram,32of35participants

21 CHILDREN AND YOUTH 2 BluesectionWedOct24.qxd11/6/079:38AMPage22 22 CHILDREN AND YOUTH eventually havegraduatesrun theproject. ownership intheprogram.The goalisto give participantsandgraduates asenseof Moving forward,staffarealsoexploringwaysto additional sourcesoffundingarebeingexplored. programming. Moneyisthebiggestlimitationand are committedtomaintainingahighqualityof they donotcurrentlyhavethecapacityandstaff also liketoexpandintoothergeographicareas, participants. AlthoughinthefuturePAY would variety ofeducationmaterialsusedtoengage organizers arehopingtoupdateandexpandthe participants fromawideragerange.Asresult, The programisnowgrowingtoincludemore LOOKING AHEAD • • • • • • • LESSONS LEARNED often abetterinvestmentthansendinginterns. expertise isavailable,fundingforsalaries challenges fortheprogram.Wherelocal International internscanpresentcontinuity of theproject. self-confidence isthemostimportantgoal and schoolareimportant,butgaining sense ofself-worth.Achievementinsports Make sureparticipantsareincreasingtheir their strategicobjectives. Involve thegovernmentandworkinlinewith human elementintherushtomeettargets. Focus onpeopleanddon'tlosesightofthe reinforcement. encouraged toworkhardthroughpositive entitlement. Instead,participantsshouldbe Providing rewardscancreateasenseof youth aswell. Involve theparentsandtheywillmotivate community tomeetlocalneeds. Start fromthebottomupandworkwith SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP at Program Coordinator or contactMarie-JeanneNdimbira, (currently underconstruction) http://www.pay.iway.na For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION medicine inTurkey. a universitypre-medprogram.Today, shepractices she notonlypassedherexam,butwasadmittedto the tutorstohelpherprepare.With theirsupport, offer supportforGrade12,Scolasticaconvinced Grade 12exam.Thoughatthetime,PAY didnot knew shefacedanotherchallengeinclearingthe activities. ShepassedherGrade10exam,but tutors andparticipatedinarangeofprogram upcoming exam.SheworkedhardwiththePAY was identifiedassomeone“likelytofail”her in Grade10.LiketheotherPAY participants,she Scolastica joinedthepilotprojectwhenshewas FEATURED SUCCESSSTORY [email protected] 3 yellowtemplate-ver6.qxd11/6/079:42AMPage1

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HEALTH Sport and Play Help Fight Infectious Diseases

in Thailand Project) Play/Thailand Migrant SportWorks Ian MacDonald (on behalf of Right To

Students from Huay Maloi School, Sangkhlaburi District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Children of Burmese and Thai migrant • To improve community health and strengthen The World Health Organization estimates that workers, especially those aged 6 to 12, control and detection of five major infectious over one million Burmese migrants have crossed and adult health promoters in schools diseases by providing accessible health education the border into Thailand and that up to 500 000 and community health centres through sports and games. remain unregistered. Unregistered migrants face • To promote healthy child development among financial, security and language barriers to obtaining migrant and local populations through physical health services. These barriers, combined with the LOCATION activity. mobility of the migrant population, present a Sangkhlaburi, Thong Pah Pum, Kraburi • To empower youth and adult Burmese and Thai major challenge in the management of infectious and Tha Sae Districts, Thailand volunteers to lead health promotion activities diseases, especially malaria, tuberculosis, dengue and games. fever, pneumonia and diarrhoea. • To mobilize communities into action, encouraging LEAD ORGANIZATIONS further integration into the national health care The Royal Thai Government, assisted by a range of Right To Play and the American Refugee system and active involvement in their own international organizations and NGOs, is committed health care. to extending health services to all populations, Committee International including migrant workers, and to fighting infectious diseases. PROJECT NAME Thailand Migrant SportWorks Project 24 yellowtemplate-ver6.qxd 11/1/07 4:37 PM Page 3

PROGRAM DESIGN

The Thailand Migrant SportWorks Project operates in three provinces along the border region between Thailand and Burma where there is a high incidence of the five infectious diseases. To teach disease prevention and encourage healthy lifestyle HEALTH choices, the project employs a set of simple, interactive games embedded with health messages, including messages relating to the five diseases. Though primarily aimed at children, the health games also appeal to adults, many of whom gather to watch the children play or attend matches and tournaments that lead into health discussions. Active learning is stressed because abstract health Students from Ban Hin Pao Child Development Center, Tha Sae District, Chumphon concepts are made more concrete and are therefore Province, Thailand play a Red Ball Child Play easier to discuss and remember. activity (health game) about the transmission and prevention of malaria called “Mosquito Circle”. The activity sessions are led by health volunteers The Project operates in two contexts: on school- from the nearby Wang Lum Health Center. based sites, specially trained teachers act as facilitators for health activities that have been integrated into the formal curriculum; and, on Project) Play/Thailand Migrant SportWorks Ian MacDonald (on behalf of Right To community-based sites, volunteers connected to local health centres run health education activities DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION RESOURCES and games with out-of-school children. PARTNERS The Thailand Migrant SportWorks Project has Community-based sites are especially important • Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) been operating under a grant from the United because Burmese migrant children cannot attend (management of health volunteer network States Agency for International Development school in Thailand. To reach these children, and training) (USAID), administered through the American Thailand’s well-developed system of health • Thailand Office of Vector Borne Disease Control Refugee Committee International. The USAID volunteers has been extended to reach migrant (OVBDC) (technical training on preventing the grant contributed just under US$300 000, with a communities. These volunteers provide health spread of disease) matched contribution from Right To Play of just education in villages and, with the support of the • ASEAN Institute for Health Development of under US$100 000. SportsWorks team, now use games as an integral Mahidol University (primary health care component of reaching children. SportWorks management training for MoPH and OVBDC supports the ongoing development and activities health staff) of this volunteer network through training, the • Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical production and distribution of Information, Sciences (technical assistance, e.g., laboratory Education and Communication (IEC) materials, work, equipment and technical training) equipment provision, and the development of • Rotary Hospital Medical Supplies for sport and play infrastructure. International Distribution • Project C.U.R.E.

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Teacher volunteer and students from Pan Wan Border Patrol Police School, Tha Sae District, Chumphon Province, Thailand play a Red Ball LOOKING AHEAD Child Play activity (health game) about the transmission of diarrheal diseases called “Invisible Bacteria”. The health games are now well established in the targeted communities and project staff are working to ensure long-term sustainability. In particular, staff are supporting the upgrade of facilities and equipment for team sports such as volleyball and HEALTH football. This initiative not only provides much IMPACT needed equipment and safe play spaces, but also serves as an incentive for volunteers and • The project reaches up to 1000 children each communities to continue implementing and month, including 700 school children involved supporting regular sport and play activities. in regular sport and play activities and 300 Project) Play/Thailand Migrant SportWorks Ian MacDonald (on behalf of Right To A second health game manual is also being children who participate in monthly community- developed to increase the resources available to based health events and games. volunteers. Training of local staff and partner • Participants and their families have increased organizations continues. their knowledge of infectious diseases and LESSONS LEARNED disease prevention. Children in particular learn that they can play an active role in their own • Keep program activities simple: simplify games, FEATURED GAME health. activities and training. If volunteers can learn • Approximately 100 Migrant Liaison Officers to use an activity quickly, momentum can be High Fever, Low Fever and Migrant Health Volunteers have been maintained. “High Fever, Low Fever” is an example of a health trained, as well as approximately 15 teachers. • Not only is training in program methods game which illustrates the symptoms of malaria. In addition, a group of trained youth volunteers important, but educating facilitators on how to now lead activities in one of the well-established work with children is equally important. Children stand in a line with a ball, which repre- migrant settlements. • Working with volunteers who are also part of sents the fever associated with malaria. When the • Volunteers acquire concrete skills in facilitation, the health education network gives added ball is passed over the children’s heads, the fever leadership and health education. They receive legitimacy to their role in the project and rises; when the ball is passed between the legs, the recognition and respect from community reinforces the idea of sport as a tool to fever falls. Volunteers use the activity as a starting members and peers. promote health. point for discussing symptoms, treatment and • Children have contact with adults from their • Sport offers opportunities for active learning avoidance of malaria. own community who are positive role models. at all ages. This is especially important for children growing • Games and activities are useful in cross-cultural up in a socially marginalized population such contexts because they easily overcome language MORE INFORMATION as a migrant workers’ community. barriers. For more information, visit the Right To Play • Children receive social and physical benefits • Close cooperation of partner organizations is website at: http://www.righttoplay.com/site/ from regular physical activity. vital. This project would not have been possible PageServer?pagename=Thailandmigrant • Sports infrastructure is improved in communities: without the collaboration of community or contact the Right To Play Asia Regional Office equipment and facilities are repaired or built development specialists, health experts and at: [email protected] and locals are trained to maintain them. government bodies.

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Charity football match featuring DADs team against a team of ex-football players and soap opera stars. Funds were raised for DADs activities in schools and the community. HEALTH Concerned Fathers Start Football Initiative to Tackle Drug Problem

in the Community Dads Against Drugs (DADs)

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Young people, 16 to 24 years old, • To engage young people in a non-threatening In 2000, a needs assessment commissioned by the at risk of drug misuse and their families and non-judgemental way in order to inform Kirklands Area Neighbourhood Watch identified them about the risks of drug misuse. drug abuse as a central issue requiring immediate LOCATION • To prevent young people from starting to use attention within the community. Almost everyone Hull, East Yorkshire, England drugs and to support those who do with in the community had been affected by drug use, referrals to services in the community. either directly or indirectly. When the results of • To provide social support to families tackling the study were made public in 2001, a group of LEAD ORGANIZATION drug issues in their local communities. concerned fathers decided to form an organization Dads Against Drugs that would promote drug awareness and healthy living to their children and support families in need. The program was designed around football PROGRAM NAME in an attempt to engage youth through a medium Dads Against Drugs that spoke to them. Response to the initiative was so great that demand for the program quickly spread across the city.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Skills For Life DADs also provides “Skills for Life,” a European Dads Against Drugs’ (DADs) primary anti-drug Social Fund-accredited literacy and numeracy campaigns are coordinated around football program for beneficiaries who are 16 and older. programs delivered in primary and secondary Since 2004, a Skills for Life tutor has been con- schools, colleges, prisons and the wider ducting weekly sessions dedicated to improving community. DADs employs experts on a range career-oriented literacy and numeracy, focusing HEALTH of health topics, including drug use and smoking on topics such as CV writing. cessation, who set up regular sports events where they provide heath information for parents and youth and workshops on demand. DADs also DELIVERY AND provides families, particularly those who have IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS had contact with drugs, with an outlet for social support and offers a referral service, making • East Riding County Football Association beneficiaries aware of the support which exists • Local Strategic Partnership (One Hull) in their community. The program is designed • Hull Community Network around building trust and providing information • Voices in Players, North Hull about drugs and healthy living when the time is Community Group right. Currently, in the community program, • Future Through Football (Hull) football games are held four nights per week. • Humberside Police Service Additionally, there are two rugby sessions a week. • HM Prison Hull Games are facilitated by approximately 20 DADs • Kingston upon Hull City Council members, including volunteers and social workers. Area Committees • Local Education Authority To further support their drug awareness campaign, • Humberside Learning Consortium DADs initiated a number of other projects including:

A comic book series RESOURCES DADs created a pair of cartoon characters called Bark’um the Dog and Rooney the Cat, which are DADs relies on grants, pursuing funding specific featured in a comic book series focusing on to certain initiatives. Business partners include: problems in the community, such as drug use and crime. These comics are distributed to children • Humberside Police CopShop through DADs events. (funding for neighbourhood program, coaches and publicitiy) The DADs Football Theatre Company™ City Venture (funding) DADs created a theatre company which stages • Learning and Skills Council Hull (funding for productions and produces musical theatre CDs. • 2006 program of neighbourhood renewal skills) There is also a short film presently in production. Strawberry (website design) All theatre activities are supported by the DADs • Social Enterprise Hull volunteers. To raise funds, DADs also produced • a Christmas song which was written for them and

DADs uses football to promote healthy living amongst participants. Dads Against Drugs (DADs) highly requested by Radio Humberside listeners.

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IMPACT LOOKING AHEAD • More than 40 youth are engaged each week in The pervasive nature of drugs in the media can regular football matches and an additional undermine the work that DADs is trying to 10-15 through rugby. Participants receive age- accomplish. DADs will tackle this issue with the appropriate information on the consequences launch of a new campaign and an even stronger of drug use. emphasis on drug awareness education. Other HEALTH Dads Against Drugs (DADs) priorities include exploring ways to help partici- • Young people are introduced to a range of Children also become engaged through the DADs program. positive role models through their involvement pants develop informal networks, which are in sports and programming activities. invaluable support structures for families and • “Skills for Life” meets weekly, with five to ten LESSONS LEARNED youth, and adding rugby, cycling and walking to regular participants learning literacy, numeracy its range of sport programming. and job search skills. • It is important to be open and transparent on a • Participants are supported with accredited programming level. DADs is therefore willing In addition, because of the non-continuous nature coaching certificates. to share positive and negative experiences of of funding, DADs is assessing possibilities for • Special one-day penalty shoot-out events, held establishing an award winning program. income generation, including setting up a small regularly during the summer, draw up to 150 • Be optimistic and persevere. While there are multi-media business. participants and their families. people who will offer valuable support, other • Over 20 inmates participate in weekly football people may want to knock you down when you matches and drug awareness sessions held in are doing well. FEATURED SUCCESS STORY Hull Prison, and DADs expects rugby practice, • People do not always start with a level playing to begin shortly, to draw 20-30 weekly players. field. There are many who are disadvantaged DADs staff approached a beneficiary to register • Over 50 prison inmates have earned Level 1 and deserve a helping hand. It is sometimes him as a member of the program, and found that Coaching certificates and 10 have completed surprising how well they respond if they are he had no fixed address. As a regular player at externally accredited refereeing qualifications given the right opportunities. DADs football matches, he made connections with through DADs initiatives. • Football can engage people, but it also has people that became friends. This network of • Over 10 000 DADs comics have been distri- negative elements e.g., hooliganism and spec- friends became an informal support network, pro- buted in the past five years, promoting the tators fighting or shouting obscenities at viding him with accommodation at their homes on project’s anti-drug message. players. rotating nights. The support of this group has • Football brings people together, and informal • Enthusiastic and committed staff are key to an given him a great deal of confidence and he has social networks form spontaneously, providing organisation’s success. Sometimes they are hard since found a steady job which now supports him. support systems for beneficiaries. to find and there may be tension and resulting • DADs has won numerous awards for its work, conflict between volunteers and paid casual including the Government’s Home Office workers. MORE INFORMATION inaugural “Tackling Drugs Changing Lives” • Utilize the media, websites and electronic For more information visit Yorkshire and The Humber Regional Award in networks to promote your concept. They are http://www.dadsagainstdrugs.co.uk and 2006. See www.drugs.gov.uk invaluable sources of cost-effective publicity http://www.DADSbiz.com that reach a wide audience. (beneficiary portfolio website) or contact A series of case studies is also available at • Invest in a good website. The DADs website has Rob Broomfield, founder of Dads Against Drugs at www.DADSbiz.com. been seen in over 100 countries worldwide and [email protected] or opens new communications on a weekly basis. [email protected]

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CHLP Training of trainers in Kicking AIDS Out! activities. Youth-to-Youth HEALTH Initiative Combines Sport and Personal Development to Encourage Healthy

Lifestyle Choices Caribbean Health Lifestyles Project/Kicking AIDS Out Network

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Caribbean youth (initially girls, co-ed since 2003) • To raise awareness among youth about the Youth in the Caribbean are exposed to many social benefits of regular physical activity and to instil and environmental factors that can compromise LOCATION the value of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. their health. A 2003 survey conducted for the Jamaica, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, • To promote peer leadership skills and a sense American Journal of Public Health found that Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, of social responsibility. nearly half of males and a quarter of females • To create a forum for young people to voice reported having had intercourse before the age of Barbados, St. Maarten, Anguilla, Guyana, their opinions and to be heard. 13. Early sexual debut can significantly increase Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis • To increase opportunities for Caribbean women the likelihood of early pregnancy, HIV and AIDS and youth to participate in sports and physical and other sexually transmitted infections. Violence LEAD ORGANIZATIONS activity. is also widespread, with one in five females and two in five males reporting they had witnessed or Commonwealth Sports Development Programme, been involved in acts of violence. One-fifth of Organization of Caribbean Administrators of students in the study had carried a weapon to Sport and Physical Education, and school in the previous 30 days and nearly as many had been in a fight using weapons. Gang violence Caribbean Netball Association is frequent, with 20% of males and 12% of females having belonged to a gang. PROGRAM NAME

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PROGRAM DESIGN Youth Leaders are trained in four phases: DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS To combat these unhealthy influences, the 1) Recruitment: Open workshops are delivered by Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Project (C-HLP) was certified presenters. During workshop activities, • Organization of Caribbean Administrators of established in 2000 as a youth-to-youth initiative the presenters identify participants who Sport and Physical Education (one of the combining sport and personal development work- show potential to be trained as Youth Leaders project’s lead organizations, provides technical shops to encourage healthy lifestyle choices. The (often youth already involved in sport). expertise and coordination) program’s slogan, “your life, your health, make it • Caribbean Netball Association (organizes games HEALTH right,” emphasizes personal responsibility in 2) Stage 1 Training: Over three days, potential and trains coaches.) making these choices. The project is based on trainees are introduced to the project and three principles: taught basic presentation techniques (how to structure and deliver a presentation, how to RESOURCES 1) Participation in sport and physical activity manage group discussions). gives young people positive and empowering Resources are provided by: experiences. 3) Stage 2 Training: Trainees prepare and deliver • Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC) presentations. At the end of the second stage, International Development and Sport Unit 2) Mentors/trainers can help young people, they must plan and deliver six workshops, (funding, monitoring and evaluation) especially girls, to recognize the benefits of each on a different topic. • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) healthy lifestyles. • Ministry of Sport and Youth (in each of the 4) Certification: Trainees send a workshop target countries) 3) Leadership, attitudes and capacity can be proposal to the C-HLP head office, and if it is shaped through sport. approved, the trainees organize and deliver a Each workshop, typically three days long, costs workshop and prepare a final report. They are approximately US $7 500 to deliver. Costs The program trains Youth Leaders to plan, evaluated on the workshop they deliver and the associated with the project include lunches during organize and facilitate healthy lifestyles work- report they write. Youth Leaders can only be workshops, travel and accommodation for trainers shops. Through interactive presentations and certified in their own country, and must and incentives for participants (such as t-shirts). group activities, these workshops are designed to demonstrate the ability to draw on local All trainers and other facilitators are volunteers. help youth acquire the skills to make healthy resources while organizing an event. There is The project is run by one part-time employee and choices. Topics include HIV and AIDS education no time limit to the certification process; it can one CGC intern, with some assistance from the and prevention, self-esteem, conflict resolution, take a year or more, depending on the trainee’s administrative officer who runs the Commonwealth decision-making, leadership, nutrition, substance available time. Sports Development Programme regional office. abuse, sexuality and teenage pregnancy. Many of Associated costs include stationary, rental of the workshop activities use sports, such as For the first three years, the program targeted workshop venues and, in some countries, netball, to attract and engage youth and girls and young women exclusively, but in 2003, equipment rental, such as projectors. facilitate active learning. the first multi-sport, co-ed workshop was held in Guyana and, since that time, similar workshops have taken place across the Caribbean.

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IMPACT LESSONS LEARNED LOOKING AHEAD The Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Project’s goal is to • Currently, there are approximately 1100 adults • Volunteer retention can be a challenge as Youth establish a working staff unit in each participating and youth in the process of being trained as Leaders move onto to college/university or country including a local coordinator and at least Leaders. Some are already certified to deliver secure full-time jobs. It is important to recruit one trainer, five or six adult mentors and five or workshops, some are in the process of trainers and organizers who have a high level six Youth Leaders. C-HLP is also planning a con- HEALTH becoming certified. Adults act as mentors to the of personal commitment and a genuine ference which it envisions as a “finishing school” Youth Leaders. connection to kids. for trainers. It will establish guidelines for work- • Approximately 60 workshops have been held • Deploy resources carefully. The demand for shops and provide continued capacity-building. by C-HLP; individual countries hold at least workshops is very high, but it is important not three workshops per year. to overstretch limited financial and human • Youth Leaders develop a range of skills, resources. FEATURED SUCCESS STORY including event planning and management, • Because of the overwhelming popularity of presentation delivery, decision-making and cricket in the Caribbean, it can be difficult to The Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Project has a conflict resolution. locate funding for other sports-related strong presence in Guyana. The country has the • Both trainers and participants benefit from activities. highest number of certified personnel (six adult education in HIV and AIDS prevention, teenage • It is important to provide a positive environ- mentors and six Youth Leaders). Young people pregnancy, nutrition, substance abuse, and ment in which participants can freely consider enthusiastically endorse the principles of the other health topics. the options available to them, along with the project and have brought C-HLP into their promotion of positive lifestyles. communities, schools, churches and families. A Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Club was started and Learning about HIV and AIDS prevention through sporting activities. a headquarters has been established in a depressed region of Guyana.

The staff have displayed a high degree of independence, adapting the program to local needs and encouraging youth to become involved. One successful initiative is the homework program, which provides a quiet place for kids to work and supervisors to help them with problems. Leaders hope that initiatives like this will have a ripple effect and that the program will spread to more communities.

MORE INFORMATION For more information, contact Kathy Harper-Hall at [email protected] or

Caribbean Health Lifestyles Project/Kicking AIDS Out Network [email protected]

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Community Sports Days, initiated by the Secretary of Sport in 2007. Individual towns organize sporting events and awareness raising activities on the importance of physical activities. The town with the largest number of participants receives a prize from the Secretary. These photos were taken in the municipality of Coronel Pringles, a town of 24 000 in the province of Buenos Aires. HEALTH

National Social Sport Program Targets Health, Disease

Prevention and Social Inclusion www.deportes.gov.ar

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Children and youth and primary and • To use sport as a tool for improved health and The concept of sport for social development began secondary school teachers social inclusion, integrating children and young in Argentina in the early 1950s when the country people of all social and economic backgrounds. was ruled by President Juan Peron. The President LOCATION • To increase public access to sport and physical understood that sport could not only be used as a activity, especially among young people. means of improving physical fitness, but also for Argentina • To stimulate and facilitate sport and sport enhancing other aspects of individual and commu- instruction in the educational system. nity life. President Peron developed a massive, LEAD ORGANIZATION • To develop a resource of professional trainers nation-wide and inclusive social and recreational who also have a focus on social responsibility. games program named after his wife, Eva, better Secretary of Sport • To facilitate cooperation among ministries, known as Evita. NGOs and sports clubs, providing increased PROGRAM NAME national access to sport facilities and expertise. Sport for social development became part of Argentinean law in 1974, when the military National Social Sport Program government created the Secretary of Sport, and mandated it to use sport as a social tool to

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improve people’s lives. However, despite this The country’s network of school teachers is also Community Sport Days rich tradition of support for sport, a 2003 national leveraged to provide vital outreach services and to “Community Sport Days” have also been initiated survey found that over 46% of respondents were mobilize and encourage youth and their families to to promote the health benefits of physical activity “physically inactive.” 1 exercise. Teachers receive special training on a and sport. Towns are asked to plan awareness raising number of health issues, including diabetes and events and sporting activities that involve the asthma, and are taught how to incorporate a range community in bicycling, walking, hiking and team PROGRAM DESIGN of health needs into physical fitness programs. sports. The town with the greatest number of HEALTH Provincial teachers’ federations send representatives participants receives a symbolic prize from the The Secretary of Sport launched the National to receive training in the capital, and then conduct Secretary. The project began in 2007 and was so Social Sport Program to boost physical activity in training with their colleagues when they return. successful that it will become a regular event all segments of the population, but particularly throughout the country. among children and youth. The program is Evita Games designed to improve health and prevent illnesses The Evita Games, initiated under the Peron exacerbated by inactivity, such as diabetes, heart Government, were revived in 2001 and now take DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION conditions and obesity, and to promote social place annually. The focus of the games is “non- PARTNERS inclusion and cooperation. There are several key federated” youth, or youth who do not belong to initiatives under the program: a sport club. The National Sport Program brings together the expertise of many Ministries. Secretary of Sport Sport Clubs and Schools The Evita Games include local-, state- and national- staff point to this cooperation as an area of great To reach young people, the Secretary works level competitions in sports including track and success under the national program. Ministries closely with existing structures, mainly schools field, football, volleyball, basketball, chess and a that cooperate on the National Social Sport and the extensive system of local sport clubs. track and field category for people with disabilities. Program include: There are between 7000 and 8000 sport clubs in There are three age categories: 13-14, 15-16 and, Argentina, ranging in size from a few hundred 17-18 year olds. During the Games, National Drug • Ministry of Health (instrumental in initiating members to tens of thousands of members. These Enforcement staff conduct awareness raising inter-ministerial cooperation, gathers and clubs have great social and historical importance activities on the dangers of sport-related and disseminates data on health and fitness) in Argentina, providing a safe space for children recreational drugs. In 2006, the Secretary of • Ministry of Education (network of teachers and youth as well as access to sport facilities and Culture facilitated artistic activities, such as local used to mobilize people to greater physical structured activities for the community. traditional dances, singing and painting. fitness) • Ministry of Social Development (facilitates The government supports clubs in a range of ways, greater involvement of welfare recipients in helping smaller clubs financially and providing sport programs) monitoring services to other organizations. Sport • Secretary of Tourism (helps coordinate clubs receive special rates for utilities and do not pay around country, such as Evita Games) taxes. In addition, the government provides capacity- building on legal and safety issues (for example, on The National Sport Program also works with the regulations around operating a swimming pool) many local NGOs, sports clubs throughout the and trains club staff on fundraising techniques. country, and provincial and state secretaries for sport, who have strong partnerships with local and city authorities.

1 The study defined “physically inactive” as those who did not participate in at least 20 minutes of intense activity, such as cycling, swimming or domestic tasks, three times a week, or at least 30 minutes of moderate activity, such as walking, five times a week.

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RESOURCES IMPACT LOOKING AHEAD The 2006 budget for the Secretary of Sport was The Secretary of Sport’s future plans depend on the US$25 million. • In 2006, approximately 700 000 boys and girls financial situation in Argentina, which is still recov- participated in the Evita Games at local, state ering from the currency devaluation of 2000. Sport The budget was divided as follows: and national levels. The national level competi- clubs form a significant part of the country’s econo- tion hosted approximately 8000 young people my and, as these clubs recover financially, greater HEALTH • US$8 million for social sport and sport who had won at the local and state levels. programming opportunities will arise. Additionally, development (including support for sport clubs, • National events such as the Evita Games are buildings and facilities that belong to the State are programs and the Evita Games) reawakening public interest in, and awareness not always well maintained by people in the com- • US$12 million for high level/elite sport of, sport by youth. The Secretary of Sport is munity. The Secretary hopes to educate people on • US$5 million for a national sport training capitalising on the huge publicity that the event the need to maintain this infrastructure. In the and recreation centre receives to promote its social sport message future, the Secretary also hopes to implement wide- nationally. spread programs targeting the health needs of the The National Social Sports Program also works • The National Social Sport Program has provided elderly and people with specific health problems with provincial government bodies and can draw capacity-building opportunities to thousands of such as asthma and diabetes. on their budgets for program activities in return primary and secondary school teachers and for coordination and human resources support. sport club staff members. MORE INFORMATION For more information, visit http://www.deportes.gov.ar Community Sports Days feature bicycling, LESSONS LEARNED walking, hiking and team sports. • To be effective nationally, sports programs should build on existing structures, such as schools and sports clubs. This avoids duplication of infrastructure and expertise, and capitalizes on the high-level of trust the public has for these institutions. • When Ministries work together, a great deal can be accomplished and duplication can be avoided. Sport can be an effective tool to promote healthy choices and social inclusion. • High profile events, such as the Evita Games, should be balanced with smaller, local initiatives, such as capacity-building in local sport clubs. • Support from a range of stakeholders, including other government ministries, NGOs and sports clubs, improves the long-term sustainability of a program and will help the process of main- streaming social sports into the daily lives of www.deportes.gov.ar

www.deportes.gov.ar Argentina’s youth. Community Sports Days promote the health benefits of physical activity.

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PLAY SOCCER works in disadvantaged communities where children and young people have little access to recreational opportunities. The program focuses on young children to provide early access to life and sporting skills. Girls are particularly encouraged to join the program, both as volunteers and as participants.

HEALTH Soccer Program Focuses On Child and Community Development

in Africa Play Soccer

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Youth, aged 5 to 14, particularly girls, • To establish a low-cost, accessible and sustainable Soccer is a global phenomenon and an essential link in the most disadvantaged communities community-based soccer program for disadvan- that unites children, communities and countries. taged children and youth, particularly girls, as a When harnessed properly, soccer also has the ability LOCATION vehicle for development and improved health. to inspire and empower mind, body and spirit and • To promote volunteerism, primarily from youth, create opportunities for development and health. Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Malawi, as a means of building the capacity and Yet millions of children in Africa have no access to Zambia and South Africa leadership necessary for communities to drive structured soccer activities, positive coaching or their development process. even basic equipment. • To encourage broad-based, long-term socio- LEAD ORGANIZATION economic development from the community PLAY SOCCER level to the national level, around a core Sport for Development program. • To promote collaboration with other civil society PROGRAM NAME organisations, NGOs, government ministries and PLAY SOCCER development agencies to maximize impact and the efficient use of scarce resources.

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PLAY SOCCER is a community based program for international umbrella which coordinates the disadvantaged children and youth, particularly girls, that encourages mass participation in soccer as a vehicle PLAY network and drives program development. for development. The program teaches health, sport PLAY SOCCER particularly encourages girls to and life skills through year-round programs in Ghana, participate both as volunteers and as participants. Cameroon, Senegal, Malawi, South Africa and Zambia.

DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS HEALTH

The creation of partnerships is an important facet PROGRAM DESIGN Play Soccer of PLAY SOCCER’s program delivery. PLAY SOCCER focuses on bringing the power of The long-term goal of PLAY SOCCER is to mobilize sport to disadvantaged communities with no local human resources and assets to catalyze other Some key partners in the project’s history include: available recreational soccer activities. The program development activities. The program seeks to build • Fédération Internationale de Football targets young children to maximize lifetime benefits the capacity of local human resources, and through Association (FIFA) (PLAY SOCCER is an related to early childhood education opportunities collaborations with the government, private sector, implementing partner for Football for Hope) and community involvement. Children register and other NGOs, to create opportunities around • Grassroots Soccer (NGO collaborating on without charge for the year-long program with PLAY SOCCER that will lead to broad sustainable HIV and AIDS program enhancements) sessions that are usually held twice a week. socio-economic development from the grassroots up. • Credit Union Association of Africa • SOS Children’s Villages Sessions include participatory activities and To this end, once the core soccer program is • Right To Play (especially with annual Global games followed by “learning circles” and are established, program enhancements are encour- Peace Games for Children and Youth) focused around three core components: aged. These enhancements are often designed to • Football Associations in each project country support the Millennium Development Goals and 1) Soccer skills (e.g., dribbling, goalkeeping involve the larger community, and may be imple- and tactics). mented in collaboration with other local or regional RESOURCES organisations. Many of these enhancements are at 2) Health and physical development early stages in the development process, but are The fundraising target for 2007 is US$1.2 million (e.g., nutrition, hygiene, HIV and AIDS and already beginning to benefit communities. For or $75 per child. malaria prevention). example, PLAY SOCCER Ghana has developed a mobile library at program sites. In other countries, PLAY SOCCER benefits from the support of several 3) Social development and life skills (e.g., gender income generating activities which employ local international organizations, including: equality, friendship, teamwork, fairness, rights skills and materials have been developed. Some • Johnson & Johnson and responsibilities, caring for the environment, products will be sports related, others are oriented • United Nations Federal Credit Union communication and leadership). to health and social benefits. • Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Community members, particularly but not PLAY SOCCER was first established in Ghana in • Fédération Internationale de Football exclusively youth, are trained as instructors for 2001 and today has organizations in six African Association (FIFA) the program. PLAY SOCCER has also developed countries: Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Malawi, manuals for these instructors that structure the Zambia and South Africa. All national PLAY three core components into a soccer-based Sport SOCCER organizations affiliate under the for Development curriculum.

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IMPACT LOOKING AHEAD Recognizing that volunteers are the determining • In December 2006, the program was reaching factor in program quality and impact, PLAY over 7000 children with 207 volunteers. Eight SOCCER is investing heavily in training. In thousand children are enrolled in the 2007 addition, a certification process for volunteers will program. be introduced to formalize and give “job market” HEALTH • Participants acquire knowledge about health, as value to the in-service training they receive. well as social and sport skills, and participate in community-based activities which encourage There is huge demand for the program in both personal and community development. existing and new countries but expansion continues Play Soccer • PLAY SOCCER has become a conduit for to be subject to the availability of funding. By the In December 2006, PLAY SOCCER served over 7000 children with 207 information. Participants and their families are end of 2007, PLAY SOCCER plans to expand to volunteers in six countries. Expansion has been steady since the program was founded in Ghana in 2001. learning about the health, education and eight countries and reach 14 000 kids. By 2010, community services they can access. the program hopes to be in 15 countries, reaching • Local staff and volunteers benefit from education 25 000 children. PLAY SOCCER will continue to programs and leadership training, and gain forge partnerships with other organizations as it confidence through increased responsibilities expands, both to strengthen programming and to in their communities. avoid duplication of efforts and services. • Leadership training and the development of role models have a positive impact not just on the individual, but on the community as well. FEATURED SUCCESS STORY

PLAY SOCCER uses volunteers to run both the sporting activities and One of PLAY SOCCER’s Malawian volunteers is educational elements of the program. Volunteer instructors deliver curriculum on a range of topics, including health (HIV and AIDS) and a talented leader with a good connection to the social issues (caring for the environment). Coaches and instructors gain children he coaches. With no formal training valuable personal and professional skills through their involvement in the program. LESSONS LEARNED prior to his involvement with PLAY SOCCER, he nonetheless excelled at developing and • Early childhood is the optimum time to reach implementing local programs. Because Malawi is children and to encourage the love of sport and a small country, he became quite visible in his learning. community and eventually the country. The • Volunteer instructors’ skills are the most Malawian Football Association has now arranged essential ingredient in PLAY SOCCER’s success. for him to take a coaching course, which will Investing in volunteer training and resources allow him to prepare for a possible career in must be a priority. sports management. • Volunteers need to develop skills and qualifications that are transferable and will help them make a living. MORE INFORMATION • Maintaining a low-cost organizational structure For more information, visit and minimizing bureaucracy helps keep http://www.playsoccer-nonprofit.org or contact programs affordable for the communities. Judy McPherson at [email protected]

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Alive and Kicking football tournament, Kenya. HEALTH

Lack of Access to Sport Drives Economic Opportunity

and Health Initiative Alive and Kicking, Kenya

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT School-aged youth, especially those at risk • To use sport as a tool for health promotion and Before sport’s potential as a tool for health and of contracting malaria or HIV and AIDS disease prevention in rural communities. development can be truly harnessed, the problem • To provide inexpensive, tough, repairable of access to sports must be addressed. Many LOCATION footballs, netballs and volleyballs suitable for developing countries lack functioning sports African conditions and climates and thereby infrastructure and have little or no access to basic Kenya expand access to sport and organized games. equipment, such as footballs. Currently, many • To create employment opportunities for people balls that are used in Africa are expensive and LEAD ORGANIZATION in rural areas through the production of sports unsuitable for the high temperatures and rough equipment. terrain. Alive and Kicking UK Alive and Kicking, Kenya was founded in 2005 on PROGRAM NAME the principle that a gap in the market — the need for affordable, durable sports equipment — can be Alive and Kicking Kenya used as an entry point both to create economic opportunity in rural and urban communities and implement health programming.

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PROGRAM DESIGN community and health centres. Recognizing the primary role of women in improving the health Alive and Kicking sets up ball stitching centres of their families, the program pays particular which create sustainable job opportunities in areas attention to reaching mothers with all its messages. with few other employment options. Leather ball panels are produced in a central location and then Alive and Kicking is currently collaborating with sent to these stitching centres which require little the World Health Organization to transform rural HEALTH equipment, are easy to establish, and are spread stitching centres into multi-purpose hubs offering out to create employment in multiple communities. a range of social services in inaccessible The balls produced carry printed health messages communities. The centres will continue to about HIV and AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis or manufacture sports equipment, and, at the same social messages including anti-drug or anti-rape time, will play an expanded role as sport and themes. Balls are then sold to schools and youth healthy living centres, providing access to basic groups, as tools for health education conducted by health services and supplies such as oral peer educators, teachers and coaches. rehydration therapy and mosquito nets.

At the same time, Alive and Kicking leverages the widespread popularity and convening power of DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION sport to bring large groups of people together for PARTNER the purpose of communicating important health messages. Schools are encouraged to organize • UK Sport (provided start up funding and matches with students in neighbouring villages. in-country support in Zambia, putting Alive Information about upcoming games is circulated and Kicking in touch with potential partners) and thousands of people gather to watch. Alive and Kicking uses short theatre pieces and educational role-play before and after these games and distributes RESOURCES additional health materials. This approach is particularly effective in remote, rural areas where Alive and Kicking is able to cover production and other forms of entertainment are often limited. operating costs by selling footballs for a small mark-up. Donor money from the Football Drawing on the power of celebrity athletes and Association (England) and the Elton John sport figures as role models and communicators, Foundation is being used to start and fund the Alive and Kicking has also produced a series of rural health program. evidence-based posters with HIV prevention messages, featuring top Kenyan athletes and sports people. Posters are available to schools and

Alive and Kicking has stitching centres in rural and urban areas. These stitching centres provide sustainable employment for over 100 people in Nairobi and the number of jobs in rural areas will increase as Alive and Kicking expands its rural production network. Ball stitching serves as the

Alive and Kicking, Kenya catalyst for skills training and grassroots economic development.

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The Alive and Kicking roadshow bus full of footballs and volleyballs, Kenya.

LOOKING AHEAD HEALTH

Access to sport remains a challenge in many rural African communities. Alive and Kicking hopes to increase sport’s reach through its efforts to produce and distribute inexpensive, durable sport equipment. However, these efforts are constrained by limited resources that make it difficult to hire qualified, trained staff.

Alive and Kicking, Kenya Alive and Kicking hopes to secure greater resources by connecting to, and mobilizing schools, youth clubs and local and national football clubs in the IMPACT LESSONS LEARNED northern hemisphere. Alive and Kicking plans to introduce a sponsorship program that will enable • Alive and Kicking currently produces over • Sport is an effective way to bring together large individual and organizational/company donors to 5000 balls per month, using sport to promote groups of people in rural areas in order to purchase footballs on behalf of schools or health in hard-to-reach rural communities. provide information and education on health communities. This feature will be available on the • Kenyan schools and youth groups report that issues. Alive and Kicking has found commu- Alive and Kicking website and through a catalogue Alive and Kicking balls provide a positive entry nities to be very receptive to the messages, produced in time for December 2007. point for health education with youth. HIV and especially in the positive environment of a malaria education can easily be conducted large community event. Alive and Kicking also hopes to sell balls on a during or after sporting activities by teachers, • Sport is a highly effective tool in promoting larger scale through primary and secondary school coaches, trained volunteers and peers. health messages to young people, in particular systems in targeted countries. The program will be • Over 100 people are employed in the factory in sex education for teenagers, which can present approaching Ministries of Education to persuade Nairobi, and the number of jobs in rural areas a challenge in rural communities which may be them to buy the balls they produce on the basis will increase as Alive and Kicking expands its more conservative. that they are more affordable and last longer. rural production network. Production has also recently begun in Lusaka and in South Africa. • Ball stitching serves as the catalyst for skills MORE INFORMATION training and grassroots economic development For more information, visit in rural areas. http://www.aliveandkicking.org.uk • Alive and Kicking’s model of a combined rural or email [email protected] production centre and basic health facility has been authenticated by the National AIDS Control Council and the National Malaria Control Council in Kenya.

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Agita Sao Paolo organizes large scale events to raise awareness about the benefits of regular, moderate exercise. On April 4, Agita brought thousands together for a Walking Day (called “Caminhada Dia”).

HEALTH Health Promotion Program Encourages Physical Activity

to Fight Disease Agita Sao Paolo / CELAFISCS

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Students, blue and white collar workers • To fight the sedentary lifestyle in Sao Paulo by In 1996, Brazil’s Centre of the Physical Fitness and the elderly encouraging regular, moderate exercise and Research Laboratory Sao Caetano do Sul increasing awareness of the benefits of physical (CELAFISCS) estimated that 80% of the 37 million LOCATION activity. inhabitants of the state of Sao Paolo (called Paulistas) • To remove physical, environmental and social were not involved in any kind of physical fitness or Sao Paulo State, Brazil barriers to physical activity, such as lack of sports. Obesity and accompanying ailments including bicycle paths or public spaces for walking, in heart attack, stroke and diabetes are only some of the LEAD ORGANIZATION cooperation with local planning authorities. dangerous and costly effects of a sedentary lifestyle. • To stimulate research on the health benefits of The Centre of the Physical Fitness Research physical activity and disseminate results as Agita Sao Paulo was founded in 1996 through a Laboratory Sao Caetano do Sul widely as possible. partnership between CELAFISCS and the State Secretary of Health to promote the physical and social benefits of regular, moderate exercise. In PROGRAM NAME Portuguese, agita means to move the body, but the Agita Sao Paulo term also suggests changing thought processes and becoming a more active citizen. Agita Sao Paulo’s message encompasses both senses of the word.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Additionally, Agita organizes “mega-events” that attract and involve thousands of people at a time. Agita Sao Paulo is a health promotion program The 2007 “World Day for Physical Activity,” aimed at increasing the level of physical activity for example, marked the launch of Sao Paulo’s among Sao Paulo residents, particularly those not initiative to allow bicycles on the metro system. involved in any sport or fitness. It is based on a Awareness raising activities were held and theoretical model in which both the social and the residents were encouraged to try the new system. physical environments must be influenced in HEALTH order for lasting behaviour change to occur. DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION The program promotes a goal of at least 30 minutes PARTNERS of cumulative physical activity every day as well as encouraging Paulistas to incorporate physical To implement its program, Agita Sao Paulo works activity, even in very small amounts, into all with over 350 government institutions, non- aspects of their daily lives, including commuting, governmental organizations and private companies. household chores and office tasks. Teachers, Some groups are very small, others, such as the community leaders and members of companies Secretary of State for Education, are large. are trained in the Agita method and promote the The Education Department governs six million

social and health benefits of moderate exercise to students and 300 000 teachers, and is invaluable Agita Sao Paolo / CELAFISCS in disseminating the program’s message. Agita Sao Paolo's logo is the “half hour man” representing the target their peers and colleagues. of 30 minutes of cumulative exercise each day.

The Agita program also aims to increase public knowledge about the benefits of physical activity RESOURCES and disseminates its message widely, using subway advertising and personnel in schools and Agita Sao Paulo’s projected budget for 2007 is workplaces. To create change in the physical US$350 000. Direct funding is mainly provided environment, Agita works with local authorities by the State Secretary of Health; indirect funding to build or better utilize existing structures to (e.g., event sponsorship, donations in kind) is provided by a range of partners, including Agita Sao Paolo works to combat the sedentary lifestyle in Sao Paolo facilitate physical activity. For example, Agita by encouraging regular, moderate exercise. Walking groups meet has successfully lobbied transportation authorities Petro Bras. regularly to exercise together in parks and other public spaces. to allow people to bring bicycles on subways, encouraging people to ride, rather than drive, to the nearest transit station. Program staff have also worked with the Secretary of Education to open school sports facilities to community members at times when schools are not in session. Agita Sao Paolo / CELAFISCS

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IMPACT LESSONS LEARNED FEATURED SUCCESS STORIES A Community Success Story: Walking Clubs Agita Sao Paulo spends approximately 30% of its • To succeed in large populations, strategic In 2001, the Secretary of Health in Sorocaba, a city budget on evaluation to gather information which partnerships and committed allies in a range of 600 000 approximately 200 kilometres from Sao the organization uses to further advocate for its goals. of organizations are necessary. Paulo, worked with Agita to create a walking club. Reported impacts include: • Agita Sao Paulo’s message of 30 minutes of The community’s response to the club was very HEALTH • The number of people who describe themselves daily activity is successful because it is clear enthusiastic; participants saw positive results rap- as “sedentary” and “regularly inactive” has and inclusive and empowers participants with idly and enjoyed the social element of walking in declined significantly. small, easy steps. a group. There are now 27 walking clubs in the • In the general populace, those who had never • Agita succeeds in part because of its “two hats” state and their widespread popularity has brought heard of the program were twice as likely to be approach, dealing with both the governmental pressure to bear on local governments, who have sedentary as those who were familiar with Agita’s sector and the NGO and private sectors. Staff in been pushed to reorganize many public spaces message. the governmental sector change regularly, so into areas more suitable for walking. • The program is extremely effective with women. the program’s continuity comes in part from Recent Agita studies have found that women’s partnerships in the NGO and private sector A Personal Success Story responses to the program were even more positive spheres. The Head of Sao Paulo’s State Treasury than men’s, suggesting that the program’s stress • Transparency is vital to creating strong Department suffered from a number of health on cumulative, moderate exercise is particularly partnerships. problems, including high blood pressure and the appealing to women. threat of diabetes, heightened by his weight of 137 • The decision-makers in Sao Paulo’s health sector kilograms. He decided to join one of Agita Sao have heard and understood the Agita message: the LOOKING AHEAD Paulo’s walking clubs and began walking in parks organization is reaching 70% of health sector and other public areas with the local group. The decision-makers, and estimates that 30 to 35% of Sustainability is an ongoing challenge for Agita first time he walked 100 metres, his wife was so this group know the program’s message. Sao Paulo. The project is constantly seeking ways excited that she cheered and hugged him in front • Between 2000 and 2004, hospitals in Sao Paulo to mobilize new partnerships in the community, of his walking group. Since joining the club, he reported a 50% decline in admittances due to including in the private sector. To this end, Agita has lost 39 kilograms, changed his diet and exer- strokes and a 57% decline in diabetes-related Sao Paulo is launching a partnership with the cises regularly. In fact, he is now preparing for a admittances. Federation of Industries (FIESP) to promote health marathon. • Agita Sao Paulo’s efforts to encourage physical in the workplace in response to increasing rates of activity played a significant role in these obesity among workers. FIESP has approximately statistics. 1000 administrators in the state of Sao Paulo and MORE INFORMATION • The World Bank reported that Agita was not only members of this group have begun training in the For more information, visit cost-effective but actually saved the Brazilian health Agita method, disseminating a simple message http://www.agitasp.org.br system US$310 million per year (based on projected and facilitating physical activity through improve- or email [email protected] costs of expenditure on illnesses related to inac- ments in the social and physical environment. tivity, including diabetes and high blood pressure). Going forward, Agita staff would also like to • The model is being replicated throughout Brazil reach more minority groups. and Latin America and the World Health Organization has characterized it as an instructive model for other developing countries. • The Agita Sao Paulo model received the Panamerican Organization Health Promotion Award in 2002. 44 SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT & PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP redtemplate-ver6.qxd 11/1/074:43PMPage1

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Sport Program Empowers Women and Fosters Community

GENDER EQUALITY Integration

in Pakistan Pakistan Play/SportWorks Right To Boys in the SportWorks program participate in an “over and under” game.

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, • To use sport as a transformative activity which For nearly thirty years, Afghanistan has been particularly girls and women, and the local can provide new leadership and participation ravaged by conflict, beginning with the Soviet Pakistani population opportunities for Afghan girls and women. invasion in 1979 and continuing through the rise • To develop local capacity to provide ongoing of the Taliban to the US-led invasion in 2001. sport and play activities that teach leadership, A measure of stability was reached with 2002’s LOCATION communication and conflict resolution skills democratic elections, but it is estimated that over Peshawar and Quetta, Pakistan to Afghan refugee boys and girls. two million displaced Afghanis remain in • To develop the capacity of Afghan coaches to neighbouring Pakistan. Life for these refugees is implement inclusive sport and play activities often precarious, with widespread poverty and LEAD ORGANIZATION to promote healthy lifestyles. little access to services like healthcare and Right To Play and Insan Foundation Pakistan • To overcome tension and mistrust between the education. (in Urdu, “insan” means human) Pakistani and Afghani populations and to create opportunities for positive interaction.

PROGRAM NAME SportWorks Pakistan

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PROGRAM DESIGN Insan conducts regular monitoring and evaluation of their programs to identify weaknesses and build The SportWorks program was initiated in 2002 in on strengths. Every month, coaches report on their Quetta and Peshawar, Pakistani cities close to the group’s achievements and lessons learned, Afghan border where the vast majority of Afghan comparing these to local and global Sport for refugees reside. The project enhances healthy Develop-ment projects. Supervisors, in addition to child development by providing access to regular, conducting coach evaluations, also encourage structured physical activity combined with important coaches to identify areas which need improvement social and life skills training, such as teamwork, so they can receive appropriate support. decision-making and leadership. Children receive health education through discussions generated by specifically designed games and activities. Insan DELIVERY AND also uses sporting activities and events to over- IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS come tension and mistrust between the Pakistani and Afghani populations and to create opportunities • Right To Play (training, strategic guidance and for positive interaction. financial support) • International Rescue Committee (SportWorks is Insan staff select and train coaches from both the being implemented in the schools IRC is local Pakistani and Afghani communities. supporting) GENDER EQUALITY Coaches receive training related to child rights, • Afghan Teacher’s Association (helps identify gender equality and peace-building and they are schools to include in programming) taught how to run sporting activities that promote • Afghan Consulate in Pakistan (provides data these concepts. Twenty-three coaches, four super- on refugees and supports programming) visors and two project coordinators (PCs) receive regular workshops and refresher training sessions on sport, health, community development and RESOURCES disciplinary alternatives to corporal punishment (beatings are forbidden in all schools in the SportWorks Pakistan’s budget for 2006 was SportsWorks program). US$183 611. The project is supported by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. SportWorks Pakistan operates in 13 Afghan schools in Peshawar and ten in Quetta, involving both Afghan and Pakistani children. Daily activities have been integrated into the school curriculum and are delivered by Insan-trained coaches. In addition, four annual Play Days are held, on World Peace Day, International Women’s Day and other locally celebrated holidays.

Girls are engaged through sport Pakistan Play/SportWorks

and play in the SportWorks program. Right To

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IMPACT LESSONS LEARNED • The project has grown from four schools in • In a context where men have traditionally held 2002 to 23 schools in 2007 and from 1500 leadership positions, not only do women need beneficiaries to over 5000. Seventy percent of to be encouraged to take on leadership roles, these beneficiaries are female. but men need to be involved in providing these • Coaching has offered leadership opportunities opportunities and working with women. which would otherwise be unavailable, • Hiring local staff is critical to success. Locals particularly to women. There is a strong female have a much deeper understanding of the presence at all levels of the project: most cultural, religious and political issues and will be more likely to have the trust of the commnity.

coaches and coach-trainers are women; and Pakistan Play/SportWorks Right To much of the project leadership is female. Outside experts can provide technical • Enrolment in schools has increased dramatically. assistance in project design or monitoring tools, Boys of the SportWorks program participate in soccer. In both Pakistan and Afghanistan, schools are but the frontline staff should be local. traditionally teacher-centred and dominated by • Key segments of society must support program rote learning and corporal punishment, which objectives. It was important for Insan to get the have been built must now be sustained; school leads many children to chose work over school. support of the community elders, who were facilities, sport councils, mothers’ groups and • With the introduction of SportsWorks initially opposed to the project. Once the elders GENDER EQUALITY volunteer coaches are valuable resources for the programming children and parents alike are saw that the activities were not contrary to their community. A key challenge ahead will be retain- more enthusiastic about school attendance. religious or cultural beliefs, their support came ing skilled coaching staff, many of whom wish to • Schools now have functioning playgrounds and more easily. return to Afghanistan. community members take an active role in • Project staff must be creative in building maintaining these facilities, which were awareness and acceptance in the larger In 2007, SportWorks Pakistan will also expand to previously often in poor condition and full community. Afghans do not have many public include a new component: providing rehabilitation of refuse. gatherings and very few families allow children and relief services for children, youth and adults • The infrastructure of the schools is vastly to attend school, so initially, project staff had to affected by the earthquake which struck Pakistan improved, with access to drinking water and organize public events to raise awareness of and India in 2005. Operations will expand to the sanitation facilities. their project and go door-to-door to share northwest frontier province cities of Mensehra, • The Afghan and Pakistani communities in program objectives. Bagh and Balakot. Quetta and Peshawar have developed more • It takes time for social transformation to occur. positive relations with one another. As a direct Though the project can now claim numerous result of organized sports activities, Pakistani achievements, results were hard to track initially. and Afghan children are able to play and study MORE INFORMATION For more information, visit together and project staff believe that this http://www.insanpk.org/ or contact the Project message of peace is being transmitted from the LOOKING AHEAD Manager at [email protected] children to their parents and to the communities at large. Though there is still some resistance in the local • The project has been successful in creating a Pakistani community, from those who feel culture of sport in Afghan communities. threatened by Afghan integration or competition Children are allowed, even encouraged, to play. for limited resources, the project is today well This was not true before the project began. established. Structures and institutions which

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Peer Education Program Uses Sport to

Empower Girls Go Sisters Zambia works with girls aged 5 to 15 throughout Zambia, combining physical activity with leadership training, health education and opportunities for economic empowerment. The program, which began with a national girls’ sports tournament in 2002, now reaches in Zambia over 5300 girls and young women. Go Sisters, Zambia GENDER EQUALITY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Girls, aged 5 to 15, in and out of school • To empower girls through sport by combining In Zambia, girls face a wide range of cultural, social physical activity with leadership training, and economic challenges that can negatively impact LOCATION opportunities for economic empowerment, and their health, development and future potential. 36 communities in six of Zambia’s nine health education, with an emphasis on HIV Adolescent girls are the least-served demographic in and AIDS prevention and awareness. terms of knowledge about HIV and AIDS. Though provinces • To increase girls’ participation as players and females have a higher HIV and AIDS prevalence peer leaders in organized sports and to increase than males in the region, they are less informed LEAD ORGANIZATION the number of sport-related opportunities about sexual and reproductive health issues than available to them. their male counterparts. Traditional gender Education through Sport (EduSport) • To encourage widespread girls’ participation in socialization teaches females to be submissive, Foundation, Zambia sport to improve their physical, mental and which can make it difficult for them to abstain emotional health. from sexual relationships or negotiate protected sex. In addition, girls tend to receive little support from PROGRAM NAME their families or communities in their efforts to stay Go Sisters in school. Opportunities to learn or take active roles in their communities are less available to girls, affecting their long-term independence and employability.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Programs are also held outside of school hours to reach girls who are no longer in school. In addition, IMPACT Go Sisters is a girls’ sports program run by girls, Go Sisters runs workshops called Boys by Girls for for girls and with girls. Go Sisters seeks to improve Girls to raise awareness of gender issues among boys. • EduSport is implementing the Go Sisters the quality of life for girls in under-privileged program in 36 different communities in six of communities by using sport to create a platform Go Sisters annual sports festival Zambia’s nine provinces. for building leadership capacity, teaching life skills First held in 2002, the annual “Girls’ Empowerment • Peer leaders have positioned themselves as and promoting health education. In particular, Go Through Sport” tournament is another key initiative positive role models for children and other girls Sisters uses female peer educators as role models for of the Go Sisters program. Aimed at girls under 16 in their communities. Between 2002-2005, participants, encouraging girls to set high aspirations. from Zambia and neighbouring countries, benefits Go Sisters trained 5300 girls as peer leaders. of the festival include: These girls reached out to 53 000 indirect Peer educators in the formal school system • highlighting girls’ sport and showcasing beneficiaries through sports programs and Working with the Ministry of Education, participants’ talent and achievements; leadership activities. In 2005-2006, an additional Go Sisters trains peer educators to assist physical • building participants’ confidence, both on 174 girls were trained as peer leaders and these education departments in developing sports and and off the field; girls reached out to 3132 indirect beneficiaries. health education programs for girls. Peer educators • creating a forum for sharing knowledge across • In Lusaka, Go Sisters has eight netball teams, attend a “Leadership Camp” where they are trained communities and countries; and six volleyball teams and 17 football teams. in sports skills, coaching techniques, leadership • providing opportunities for girls to meet and In the remaining 5 provinces, there are eight and health issues. Girls attend two, four-day work- make friends with peers from other regions. football teams, five volleyball teams, four GENDER EQUALITY shops and are monitored for six months to see basketball teams and each province has an In 2007, Go Sisters expects 37 girls’ teams to how they use their newly acquired skills and aerobics club. attend, with a total of 516 participants in the knowledge. Workshops are typically attended by • Peer educators and participants benefit from tournament. Girls will compete in football, netball 25 to 30 girls who will go on to train other girls life and leadership skills training and health and basketball. This year’s theme will be “girls from their schools to be peer educators and education. unite against AIDS.” sustain the program. To encourage peer educators • Go Sisters participants now speak openly and to stay in school, they receive financial assistance knowledgeably about issues that affect them to pay their school fees. DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION such as HIV, early marriage and reproductive PARTNERS health. Peer educators return to their schools and design • Program staff report that participants programs with their beneficiaries, encouraging • Commonwealth Games Canada experience fewer early pregnancies than active participation of girls at all stages. Programs (provides funding and capacity-building) non-participants (though Go Sisters lacks the are designed to provide girls with a forum in which • Ministry of Education (helps coordinate resources to gather quantitative evidence). to discuss a range of topics, such as healthy activities within the school system) • Go Sisters participants are now involved in a lifestyles, HIV and AIDS, gender equality and range of valuable volunteer roles in their protection from abuse. Activities vary depending communities, including giving care and on the facilities available in each community and RESOURCES support to people living with HIV and AIDS. can include: sport leagues, sports tournaments with different themes and messages, discussion work- In 2006, Go Sisters had a budget of £26 000. Go Sisters shops, leadership camps, aerobics, exchange pro- receives funding from the following organizations: grams between project sites and community service. • UK Sport • Save the Children Norway • Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sport (NIF)

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LOOKING AHEAD The EduSport Foundation plans to decentralize LESSONS LEARNED operations by setting up structures in each Demand for Go Sisters is high and EduSport is provincial capital. Go Sisters programs will be • Sport is a valuable programming tool that can struggling to keep pace. Increased funding for coordinated from these regional offices. provide a forum for developing leadership and program implementation would improve this life skills. In addition, sports can create a sense situation and the organization hopes to attract more of belonging among participants, forging sponsorship from local companies in the future. MORE INFORMATION valuable friendships among participants and For more information, visit team-mates. In the next five years, Go Sisters will become more http://www.edusport.org.zm/go_sisters.html • Girls can achieve great things if given an involved in advocacy work, using mass media to or telephone the Go Sisters office at opportunity, supported and encouraged to promote youth empowerment and gender equality. +260 1 221 919 work together. Go Sisters also hopes to establish resource centres • Peer coaching is an effective and sustainable where girls can gather and discuss issues, conduct method for empowering girls and encouraging research into areas of interest and get involved in behaviour change. programming and coordinating project activities. • In order to empower girls, boys must be enlightened.

Go Sisters is an initiative of the EduSport Foundation Zambia, a member of the global Kicking AIDS Out! network. The network and its members use GENDER EQUALITY physical activities to teach participants about HIV and AIDS and how to protect themselves against HIV. Go Sisters, Zambia

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African Summit held in Kenya in 2005

Sport Program Builds Leadership Capacity and New Opportunities for Women with Disabilities International Paralympic Committee (Women in Paralympic Sport) International Paralympic Committee (Women GENDER EQUALITY

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Women interested in taking on leadership • To strengthen women’s involvement in sports Girls and women in many developing countries positions in Paralympic sports, typically leadership positions through the Paralympic can be physically and socially isolated because of women with a disability environment and to build the leadership cultural practices which can limit their mobility. capacity of these women through training and In addition, opportunities available to men to mentoring. participate in physical activities or gain access to LOCATION • To facilitate the development of Paralympic training are few and far between for women. Africa, Europe, Oceania, Asia and athletes at all levels of achievement. For girls and women with a disability, these the Americas • To create a regional, and eventually, global restrictions are compounded. The International network of women trained in sport leadership. Paralympic Committee (IPC) reports that, as a result, women are chronically under-represented LEAD ORGANIZATION as both leaders and athletes at events and games. International Paralympic Committee To address this imbalance, the IPC determined that training was needed for National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) on how to involve women in PROGRAM NAME programs by addressing their specific needs. The Women in Paralympic Sport Leadership Women in Paralympic Sport Leadership Program, a global initiative to support gender equality Program through “bottom-up” training and capacity building, was therefore created.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Summit participants return to their communities DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION armed with a range of skills and supported by a PARTNERS The Women in Paralympic Sport Leadership Program network of peers who can advise and assist on encourages the development of opportunities for future initiatives. Participants are encouraged to • National Paralympic Committees (regional women to participate in sports both as athletes organize national- and local-level training and to and national) and as organizers, reaping physical, social and use their new abilities to direct local activities • UK Sport (expertise and funding for African psychological benefits. Through the program, particularly for girls and women with disabilities. segment of initiative) women gain access to structured, supervised • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) activities (often a key to being granted permission Recent African Summits have led to a range of (provided leadership and training as local to leave the house) as well as to trainers and peers in-country activities at the national level. partner in Niger) who provide a social network. The leadership For example, as an outcome of a summit in Kenya, • Government ministries and officials, such as component of the program provides training and participants created a national committee of 11 Ministries for Women in countries of operation mentoring for women; often their first exposure to people with representatives from all eight personal and professional growth opportunities. provinces. The committee organized a nation-wide calendar of events to coordinate program activities. RESOURCES NPCs are asked to nominate individuals who will The committee, currently in its first year of participate in regional training events and then bring operation, will communicate and coordinate with • UK Sport their new skills and know-how back to their home local partners and plans to conduct leadership • Local or national organizations or committees countries. Women and persons with disabilities training with local staff. focusing on women’s issues GENDER EQUALITY are strongly encouraged to participate due to their • National governments in countries of operation personal connection; however others can participate The Women in Paralympic Sport Leadership as well. Program is a global initiative. The program is currently underway in Africa, with training The training component of the program includes a sessions being delivered in English and French. combination of international summits and national Activities have begun in the Middle East and and local training sessions. Summits are held to Europe and will begin in the Americas in summer allow participants from a region (such as the 2008. Oceania and Asia will follow. Middle East or East Africa) to come together and learn about activities and initiatives being implemented by NPCs and other NGOs and community groups. Strategic planning activities are held to set priorities and goals for the region. In addition, summits focus on capacity-building through modules on leadership skills, influencing change, advocacy, communication skills and networking. in Paralympic Sport) International Paralympic Committee (Women

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IMPACT1 LESSONS LEARNED LOOKING AHEAD As the program rolls out globally, an ongoing • Over 100 individuals from 25 countries have • Girls and women with disabilities have strong challenge and program focus will be to provide participated in three Regional Summits and voices and a great deal of experience. They just consistent, high quality capacity-building to all two National Trainings. need an opportunity to share with others. participants, while also adapting training and tools • Women in the Leadership Program have started • Policy needs to meet practice for continued to suit local and regional contexts. Going forward, programs for girls and women to participate in and sustainable leadership development of the IPC will also focus on enhancing monitoring sport in Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, Niger, women, especially women living mechanisms to capture the impact of events and Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Central Africa with disabilities. local activities which are taking place as a result of Republic, Togo and Gabon. • A group is stronger than one individual. leadership training and strategic planning. • The National Paralympic Committee of Niger Forming a committee brings strength, purpose, organized the Women in Paralympic Sport and peer-to-peer support to a group of Leadership Summit for French-speaking individuals who have common goals MORE INFORMATION nations and, as a result, in collaboration with and objectives. For more information, visit the government, now has the partners and • The implementation of local activities is http://www.paralympic.org or contact plans to organize a sport competition just for dependent on the skills of those trained. Amy Farkas, the IPC’s Development Manager at women in December 2007. It is vital to develop training that supports [email protected] • Women involved in the program have daily activities on the ground. GENDER EQUALITY developed a national and international network of contacts to support them in their work. • Increased access to paralympic sport is fostering social integration, self-empowerment and improved mental and physical health for both leaders and athlete-participants.

1 Impact data does not reflect activities in Europe which were rolling out shorty after the IPC was interviewed for this report. International Paralympic Committee (Women in Paralympic Sport) International Paralympic Committee (Women

The Women in Paralympic Sport Leadership Program is a global initiative to increase gender equality in the Paralympic movement. Women’s leadership capacity is built through training and mentoring. Women and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to take on positions of leadership in the movement.

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MTGK referees All MTGK matches are refereed by girls who are trained by the Kenya Football Federation. Girls are taking responsibility, making hard decisions on the pitch and showing that they are the leaders of the future.

Football Program Empowers Women with Health Education and Leadership GENDER EQUALITY Opportunities Moving the Goalposts Kilifi

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Girls between the ages of 8 and 20 • To improve the health, life skills and social Kilifi is a rural district on the coast of Kenya, in status of girls and women in Kilifi. which about 65% of the population cannot meet LOCATION • To use sport to provide opportunities for girls their basic food requirements. Girls and women Kilifi District, Kenya to learn and practice leadership, decision- in the Kilifi District are further disadvantaged by making and organizational skills. gender inequality and often suffer from low school • To provide participants with access to attendance, heavy domestic responsibilities, early LEAD ORGANIZATION information about reproductive health, HIV pregnancy and vulnerability to HIV and AIDS. Moving the Goalposts Kilifi and AIDS, girl child rights, and services When girls reach puberty, family restrictions on available in the community. movement often make it difficult for them to meet • To provide safe places for girls to discuss with peers, participate in group activities and in PROGRAM NAME issues that impact their lives. some cases, continue to attend school. Many girls Moving the Goalposts Kilifi • To develop talents which would otherwise become isolated with little access to information go undetected and undeveloped, such as about health issues and few opportunities to be active sporting excellence, leadership and training. decision-makers in their families or communities.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Every year, three tournaments are also held for DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION primary, secondary and out-of-school teams. PARTNERS Moving the Goalposts uses football as an outreach Project participants are involved in planning, tool to tackle gender disparities in health, education organizing and evaluating tournaments and events, • Ministry of Education (coordinates with head and employment in the Kilifi district. Football giving them the opportunity to learn and practice teachers and leverages support for programs in games and tournaments provide a safe space for organizational skills. Reproductive health schools) girls and young women to meet, socialize positively education and other public health messages are • Ministry of Gender and Sport (provides and receive access to health and leadership incorporated into the tournaments through opportunities for girls to become involved in training. The project operates activities both within dramas, video shows, posters and guest speakers. larger forums) and outside of the school system. • Jua Arts (local drama group, performances All matches are officiated by girls who have been with messages about HIV and AIDS) Currently, football leagues for approximately 50 trained by the Kenya Football Federation. Players • Girl Power Initiative, Nigeria (reproductive teams play every Saturday from February to are encouraged to coach their own teams. Moving health organization which provides capacity- November. Each football team is visited six times the Goalpost Kilifi has been offering coach building opportunities) by a peer educator to discuss topics including training for participants since 2005. • Mathare Youth Sports Association (provided menstruation, HIV and AIDS, decision-making and help in coordinating early tournaments, girl child rights. Peer educators record questions capacity-building) that arise during the sessions for follow-up visits. GENDER EQUALITY Moving the Goalposts Kilifi RESOURCES

Moving the Goalposts Kilifi was set up with a small seed grant from the British Council in 2001 and is currently supported by registered charity Moving the Goalposts UK, Ford Foundation, Alistair Berkley Trust, Safaricom Foundation, Mama Cash, UK Sport and individual donors.

The 2006 budget for Moving the Goalposts Kilifi was US$85 000. This included all league and tournament activities, training and peer education programs, monitoring and evaluation, staff salaries and related costs and a small percentage to overhead (7%).

Beat the Player Girls playing football in Kilifi is not a strange sight. The community is proud of what the girls are achieving and the recognition they receive. The MTGK players are often featured in the local press and have been aired on BBC TV and ITV in the UK.

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Watch me Play! LOOKING AHEAD This girl was captured juggling the ball at a tournament. Girls are developing their talents as footballers, breaking down gender stereotypes and showing people that if they can play football they can do lots of other The staff are working to build up monitoring and things that boys and men do, if they are given a chance. evaluation mechanisms to measure the impact of their interventions. Like all initiatives at Moving the Goalposts, evaluation will be participatory. Indicators and survey tools are being developed and tested in preparation for long-term, project- IMPACT wide evaluation.

• The program has grown from 120 participants A new initiative focused on slightly older girls in 2001, to approximately 3000 participants in is also being developed. A small group of 2007. approximately 20 participants will receive • In 2005, 40 girls were trained as coaches. business and financial training in order to launch In 2006, 60 new coaches were trained. their own small enterprises. This financial • Sixteen girls have received referee training empowerment program will eventually be from the Kenya Football Association. replicated more widely. • Three Moving the Goalposts’ peer educators are now employed full-time by the Kenya Medical Future plans for Moving the Goalposts are Moving the Goalposts Kilifi Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kilifi and two dependent on the funding the program receives. GENDER EQUALITY have found part-time work with the Red Cross. Both KEMRI and the Red Cross report that the skills the girls developed as peer educators LESSONS LEARNED FEATURED SUCCESS STORY helped them secure these jobs. Involving girls in every aspect of the project Moving the Goalposts’ participatory approach • Leah, 20, dropped out of school after only five • can be empowering and beneficial for the provides participants with opportunities to years of primary education. She came to Moving participants. Project staff must be vigilant about build leadership, management and decision- the Goalposts as a volunteer, and after two and a upholding this ethos. In many situations, it making skills that they would not otherwise half years, a paid position opened up. Leah now would be easier to take a shortcut or use have access to. works as the office assistant, dividing her time experienced professionals for tasks. However, Success on the football pitch is generating between administrative tasks and peer education • allowing the girls to take on new pride among community members. Girls who in the field. In a piece of creative writing, she responsibilities ultimately strengthens the have participated in the Kilifi program are stated that without Moving the Goalposts, she project, even though it means that mistakes being recognized within the district, and would probably be a single mother like many may be made along the way. nationally, as a result of their achievements. other girls her age. Instead, she is a respected staff Involve parents early and comprehensively. The school system strongly supports Moving • member, a trainer and a role model for younger • Parental support helps participants stay the Goalposts activities and teachers report that girls in the program. involved in project activities. peer education has resulted in girls being better Working with a range of stakeholders is informed about reproductive health. • important for achieving success. Local MORE INFORMATION government, the Department of Education and For more information, visit http://www.mtgk.org the Ministry of Health have all supported Kilifi or contact Margaret Belewa, Project Coordinator at project activities. [email protected]

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Safe spaces for program activities are crucial for the success of gender-based sport programs.

Sport Furthers Empowerment and Education for Girls in Rural

Upper Egypt Nadia Zibani/Population Council GENDER EQUALITY

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Out-of-school girls between 11 and To create safe spaces for out-of-school In 1997, in collaboration with other research 15 years old • adolescent girls, aged 11-15, in rural partners, the Population Council conducted the Upper Egypt. first representative national survey reporting on LOCATION • To improve girls’ functional literacy, the lives of Egyptian youth. Findings showed that 14 villages in the rural Upper Egyptian recreational opportunities, life skills, health out-of-school girls in Upper Egypt were the most knowledge and attitudes and mobility. disadvantaged group, facing significant gender gaps Governorates of El-Minya and Beni-Suef, • To positively influence social norms concerning in schooling, health and livelihood prospects. and expanding to another 30 villages girls’ capacities and life opportunities. Out-of-school girls are more likely to be engaged in El-Minya, Beni-Suef and Assiut in poorly paid farm work and risk early marriage, early childbearing and poor pregnancy outcomes. LEAD ORGANIZATIONS Adolescence is a key developmental phase and Population Council, Save the Children USA, conditions that girls experience during this time Centre for Development and Population have a significant impact on their adult lives. Lack Activities and CARITAS of access to education means limited skills and life options, while lack of access to health information can affect their health and the health of their PROGRAM NAME children in the future. Ishraq

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PROGRAM DESIGN movements, agility and prop manipulation (e.g., As a result, an accompanying program called balls, hoops) and basic information on hygiene, New Visions was introduced to encourage girls’ Ishraq’s goal is to develop girls’ skills, increased nutrition, and health. brothers and other young male relatives to think self-confidence, build citizenship and leadership and act in a more gender-equitable manner. abilities and raise expectations for the future. During the remaining ten months of the program, The main curriculum includes three components: girls select one individual sport (such as table Monitoring and evaluation 1) literacy training (3 hours twice a week); tennis) and one team sport (such as handball, Monitoring of Ishraq is conducted by the 2) life skills training (1.5 hours twice a week); basketball or volleyball) where they apply their Population Council on an ongoing basis and and newly acquired skills, including throwing, includes a research component with baseline and 3) sport (1.5 hours twice a week). kicking, volleying and passing. Life skills topics end line surveys to assess impact. are also covered including first aid, environmental Sport is used by Ishraq to develop girls’ self- awareness, reproductive health, marriage, confidence, team spirit, negotiation and leadership pregnancy and motherhood, family planning and DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION skills and to teach girls about health issues in violence against women. PARTNERS order to improve their overall health. The emphasis is on enjoying sport and participating, rather than Ishraq girls meet at local youth centres for three • Population Council (research and sport attaining excellence. hours a day, four days per week, over a period of components) 13 months. Youth centres were specifically chosen • Save the Children USA (implementing Ishraq teachers, also called promoters, are young, for the program as part of on-going efforts to shift agency in Minya) GENDER EQUALITY female secondary school graduates from the community perceptions. Securing these spaces • CARITAS (delivers literacy component) community. Promoters attend a series of work- typically reserved for boys was a significant • Centre for Development and Population shops which familiarize them with the literacy, achievement. Activities (delivers schooling, life skills life skills and sport curriculum content and equip training and New Visions) them with the necessary skills and tools to be able New Visons • National Council on Childhood and to conduct classes. Promoters are a crucial link Adolescent boys, particularly the brothers of Motherhood (government partner) between the girls, their families and the Ishraq adolescent girls, are critical actors in girls’ lives. • Egyptian National Council for Youth (provides staff, calming hesitant parents on the one hand Once girls reach puberty, brothers often monitor access to youth centres and may begin providing and voicing and addressing the girls’ concerns their behaviour by restricting their mobility. sport equipment) on the other.

The girls of Ishraq increase their mobility through participation in the program. Sport Activities In conservative rural Egypt, girls play traditional games up to the age of 10 or 11 but, with the onset of puberty, their movements becomes much more restricted. As a result, introducing the concept of sports for adolescent girls was a major challenge. A three month introductory phase was therefore used to launch the program featuring a series of orientation meetings held with parents and community members to increase acceptability of the sports activities for girls. During this phase, girls were introduced to the basics of sport including

the benefits and elements of fitness, body Nadia Zibani/Population Council

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IMPACT LESSONS LEARNED • Over 650 girls have graduated from the pilot • To change behaviours and attitudes, the commu- project and follow-up project in Minya. An nity must be involved in all stages of the project. additional 530 girls are now enrolled in projects • In conservative communities, gatekeepers such in Beni Suef and Minya. as brothers and parents must understand and • In the first year of the program, 90% of support the program, or girls will probably not participants who took the government literacy be allowed to participate. exam passed. 66% of participants have • Safe spaces for girls to meet and participate in re-enrolled in formal schooling, compared activities are of paramount importance. with 4% of girls not involved in the program. • Participants self-perceptions have changed dramatically. Girl’s no longer look down on LOOKING AHEAD themselves. • Participants have experienced greater status in The project is scaling up and will continue to grow. the family, are more involved in family decision- Program staff are looking for partners to adopt the making, and understand their own rights more Ishraq model and have asked the Egyptian National clearly (e.g., right to education and health). Council for Youth to build fences around Youth GENDER EQUALITY • The program has had a tremendous impact on Centres so girls can move freely. They are also female genital mutilation. Most girls in the seeking to increase sustainability by involving program are already circumcised but participants project graduates as future promoters and by adding understand they have a choice for their daughters. a livelihood component to the program that will Nadia Zibani/Population Council Girls of Ishraq may chose to participate in table tennis, • Most participants have been able to delay help retain girls responsible for supplementing a non-contact team sport. marriage. When girls have a concrete role family income. (e.g., as a student), they have a stronger basis to RESOURCES counter family pressure for early marriage. Down the line, organizers are hoping to institution- • Many program graduates are mobilizing and alize efforts at the government level so that the organizing their own projects with local girls. project can be scaled up nationally across Egyptian Funding for the program is provided by: In many communities, graduates continue to villages. For example, staff would like to involve Ford Foundation/Egypt • meet regularly and discuss issues relevant the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, Dickler Family Foundation • to their lives. which can help girls to obtain birth certificates Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Daughters are becoming more actively involved (many were not registered when they were born Nike Foundation • • in family decision-making. and are therefore not eligible for formal schooling). UK Sport • Boys are seeing sisters reading for the first time. UK Department for International Development • • There has been acceptance of girls’ greater United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Egypt • • mobility. FOR MORE INFORMATION For more information, visit The program is expanding from a pilot to a national http://www.popcouncil.org/projects/TA_EgyptIshr project. This will result in a different budget aq.html or contact Nadia Zibani, Program structure as cost-effective measures are developed Coordinator, at [email protected] or Abeer for the interventions. Salem, Senior Development & Communication Officer at [email protected]

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24 Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage2 62 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Sports for Life Sports PROGRAM NAME (now calledVeterans forAmerica) Vietnam Veterans ofAmericaFoundation LEAD ORGANIZATION province inAngola Moxico, theeastern-most LOCATION such aspolio. by musculardegenerativediseases, amputations andpeopleaffected soldierswithabove-the-knee Former PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES Community inAngola and RespectforDisability Team Drive Rehabilitation Sports SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT &PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP support andunderstandingatthecommunity trauma canbeoverwhelming.Without proper physical mobility. Theaccompanying emotional Losing alimbcanaffectmorethanperson’s disability. soldiers, manyofwhomhavebeenleftwitha challenges remain,includingre-integratingformer education andgovernancehasbegunbutmany peace. Reconstructioninthespheresofhealth, Angolans’ livingmemory, thecountryisnowat peace accordin2002,forthefirsttimemost Angola sinceWorld War II.With thesigningofa Ethnic conflictsandcivilwarhaveplagued PROGRAM CONTEXT • • • OBJECTIVES role toplayinsociety. disabilities haveaproductiveandpositive To makecommunitiesawarethatpeoplewith their ownlives. tools andconfidencetochange To givepeoplewithdisabilitiesinMoxicothe and tofacilitateintegrationintothecommunity. physical andemotionallivesofparticipants To usesportsasavehicletoenhancethe recognition oftheirabilities. participants fromtheircommunities aswell Matches areusedtobringpositive attentiontothe skills, likeself-confidence,trustandteamwork. emotional andmentalrehabilitationbuildlife traditional dance.Thesesportsareusedtofoster basketball, amputeefootball,trackandfield Sports forLifetrainsparticipantsinwheelchair mobility, strengthandendurance.Inaddition, engage indailyactivitiestoincreasebalance, physical therapycomponenttoparticipants,who existing rehabilitationcentres.Itprovidesastrong Sports forLifeisaprogramthatgrewoutof 20 to35yearsold. majority ofthelong-termparticipantsarebetween Beneficiaries rangeinagefrom6to57years.The about theabilitiesofthoselivingwithdisabilities. and tobuildawarenessinthelargercommunity new opportunitiestothedisabilitycommunity, to usesportasatoolforrehabilitation,offer Vietnam Veterans ofAmericaFoundationin2003 The SportsforLifeprojectwasinitiatedbythe PROGRAM DESIGN developing alcoholanddrugproblems. few occupationsareavailableandmanyrisk ultimately destructive.ForamputeesinMoxico, level, theexperiencecanbeisolatingand Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage3 Anita Keller, projectcoordinatorwithVietnam Veterans forAmerica. Back row:Zango,oneoftheproject'samputeefootballplayers)and Angola project),ManuelGaiato,akaNelito(currentlyprojectmanager). Front row:USwheelchairmarathonerCheriBlauwett(visitingthe to alcoholabuse. counselling toparticipants, particularly related program stafftoinvitealocal NGOtoprovide practices consistentlyandon time.Thisallowed such asavoidingdrugsandalcoholattending own healthandtotrymakepositivechoices set bytheplayers.Playersagreedtomonitortheir ment oftheprogramwhichincorporatedcriteria A fairplaysystemwasinitiatedatthecommence- leading discussionsondisabilityissues. orphanages, conductingsportsdemonstrationsand in thecommunity, makingvisitstoschools and program beneficiariesconductoutreachactivities issues, includingHIVandAIDS.Inaddition, leading discussionsonarangeofhealth-related who receivetrainingtoactaspeercounsellors, As partoftheprogram,participantsselectleaders SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • • Local governmentalgroups PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION military flights) transportation forathletesandequipmenton Angolan Army(arrangesnation-wide validation totheproject) services program,givesverbalsupportand referrals fornewathletesthroughthesocial Ministry ofLabourandSocialAffairs(provides validation toproject) patients/athletes, givesverbalsupportand Ministry ofHealth(providesreferralsfornew sports facilitiesinMoxico) competitions, coordinatesmaintenanceofall occasional cashsupportandprizesfor Ministry ofSportandYouth (provides Sports forLife,Angola Sports logistical aid. of benefits fromlocaldonations now workonavolunteer reduced, andthedirectortwopart-timetrainers and twofull-timetrainers.Fundinghasbeen Originally, paidstaffconsistedof afull-timedirector donating US$25000to$30peryear. continued supportbeyondtheinitialgrant, Development (USAID).TheFundhasprovided the UnitedStatesAgencyforInternational War Victims Fund,whichisadministeredthrough The programisfundedbyagrantfromtheLeahy RESOURCES • • • • • National andinternationalgroups Assistance. Commission onDe-MiningandIntersectional People’s Aid,DanishChurch,theNational including theMinesAdvisoryGroup,Norwegian especially inimmediatepost-warsituations) community (whichprovidessupportandlogistics Sports forLifealsoworkswiththede-mining local transportation) (provides officespace,internet/phoneaccess, Dom Bosco,internationalCatholicmission trains teamcaptainstobepeerhealthcounsellors) expertise, includingHIVandAIDSworkshops, GOAL Ireland(providesmedicaltrainingand sports orattendedathleticevents) validation, somemembersparticipatedin organization (primarilyverbalsupportand AMMIGA, anationalveterans’disability and validation) organization (providespublicity, verbalsupport LARDEF, Angola'sbest-knownnationaldisability logistics fornational-leveltrainingsessions) national competitions,providesspaceand National ParalympicCommittee(organizes basis. Theprogramalso equipment and

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• Success at national-level competitions by Sports national NGO and integrating into the Ministry of IMPACT for Life teams resulted in the first positive Youth and Sport system. The Ministry plans to recognition that the geographically and expand the amputee football program nationally • Beneficiaries include approximately 35 politically isolated Moxico had received since and especially in central Angola, which is heavily basketball players, 60 football players, 12 track the war. Government officials have since visited affected by landmines and is home to many and field team members, and 100 women who Moxico and realized that the standard of living amputees. Trainers are running workshops and practice traditional dance. Secondary is far below the national average. They have teams and competitions are being organized in beneficiaries include two orphanages pledged to provide electricity and running water. Luanda and around the country. (approximately 200 children in each), whom the players visit twice a week. • The health, leadership and life skills training FEATURED SUCCESS STORY participants receive give them the opportunity LESSONS LEARNED to turn their lives around. Some have secured Manuel Gaiato, called Nelito by his friends, paid employment, a significant achievement in • Sport should be a core component of a contracted polio as a young child and has spent a region still recovering from war. development program — not a luxury to add most of his life in a wheelchair. After seeing some • Program participants have raised awareness of once a project is functioning. photos of wheelchair sports, he decided he wanted disability issues nationally through their • Sport for Development programs should be driven to become involved in the Sports for Life project appearances on television and radio programs. by the commitment and passion of program staff to fulfil a lifelong dream of being able to play The football team won wide recognition for and participants, and do not necessarily require basketball. Physically, he was very weak and polio speaking to the National Assembly about a large budget in order to be successful. had left his muscle structure poorly suited to disability issues. basketball, but he persevered and practiced with • All participants have experienced an enormous the team regularly. He was elected team captain increase in self-confidence and esteem and now LOOKING AHEAD and began speaking at schools and sports events. feel real hope for the future. • Spectators began attending matches almost The football, track and basketball teams continue Now, at 30, Nelito is the spokesperson for disability immediately and players began to be recognized to train regularly and several Moxico athletes have rights in eastern Angola and is well known as local celebrities in their communities. been chosen to play on the national wheelchair throughout the country. He works as project director

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION • Players have been able to demonstrate to their basketball team. Sports for Life would like to of Sports for Life. Widely recognized for his families and communities that they can be self- expand activities throughout the eastern region of participation in sports, Nelito also meets regularly sufficient and can even help others in need. Angola, but this will only be possible with some with government officials and policy-makers, • Program staff report that participants have outside financial support. The program also hopes lobbying to improve living conditions for people experienced an enormous increase in to increase opportunities for participants to gain with disabilities. A gifted speaker, leader and self-confidence and esteem. job-related skills. For example, electricity has only athlete, Nelito has the potential to bring lasting • Community visits undertaken by the teams have recently become available in Moxico, but few people change to the lives of many Angolans. put them into leadership roles. Program staff know how to fix the generators. Sports for Life recall players “blossoming” as they dressed hopes to bring in an electrician to train participants. MORE INFORMATION in suits and confidently spoke to community For more information, visit members. The Sports for Life rehabilitation centre was http://www.veteransforamerica.org/?Page=Module • As a direct result of participant lobbying, recently taken over by Angola's Ministry for Health, &ModuleID=319 or contact Nelito Gaiato, Program wheelchair basketball and amputee football so changes in organizational structure will need to Director at [email protected] or Anita have been adopted at the national level by be made to guarantee long-term sustainability. Keller, Humanitarian Affairs Manager at Veterans Angola’s National Paralympic Committee. Sports for Life is in the process of registering as a for America at [email protected]

64 SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT & PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage5 Morocco Disabilities in for Peoplewith Development and Personal Social Inclusion Fosters Sport and PersonalDevelopment as aToolSport forSocialIntegration PROGRAM NAME Handicap International LEAD ORGANIZATION Morocco LOCATION disabilities, aged10 to45 Moroccans withphysical,mentalorsensory PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES peers ofallabilities. forathletestomeetandinteractwith provide opportunities Suchevents featuring athleteswithandwithoutdisabilities. with needs ofathletes and field events. with athletesfromaroundtheworldcompetinginarangeoftrack MeetingofAthleticism”lastyear,Marrakesh hostedthe“International SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP asaToolThe photosarefromtheproject"Sport forSocialIntegrationandPersonalDevelopmentPeoplewithDisabilities", • • • OBJECTIVES Disabilities toprovidesportand leisureactivities. Moroccan AssociationsforPeople with To with disabilitiesinsportandphysicalactivities. Moroccan SportFederationtoincludepeople To physical activities. with disabilitiesinMoroccousingsportand To reinforcethetechnicalcapacityof strengthenthecapacityofRoyal improvethesocialintegrationofpeople Competitionsaredesignedspecificallytomeetthe disabilities,buttheeventwasinclusive, have disabilities. 1.5 millionMoroccans,or5.12% ofthepopulation, International in2004,estimates thatmorethan disabilities. Asurvey, conductedbyHandicap vulnerable populations,includingpeoplewith The firsttosufferfromtheseinequitiesare to healthcare,educationandsocialparticipation. across regionsandsocialgroupsintermsofaccess mental bodies,therearesignificantinequalities Despite effortsbygovernmentalandnon-govern- from 112thpositionin2001to123rd2006. standards ofliving,showsMoroccoregressing Development Index,ascalecomparingglobal Development Programme'sannualHuman been insteadydecline.TheUnitedNations 1956. Atthesametime,livingconditionshave tripled sincethecountrygainedindependencein Morocco’s population,estimatedat30million,has PROGRAM CONTEXT ProjectinMorocco. theHandicapInternational

65 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage6 66 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION isolated individualsandtheir communities. effective toolinforgingthebonds betweensocially emotional healthandsportcanbeanextremely important toanindividual’s physical,mentaland integration. Interpersonalrelationshipsarevitally in accesstorehabilitation,healthcareandsocial to beinvolvedinsportsandaddressinequalities increase opportunitiesforpeoplewithdisabilities for SocialInclusionandPersonalDevelopmentto Handicap InternationallaunchedSportasaTool PROGRAM DESIGN of peoplewithdisabilities. eventshighlighttheabilities Inclusive sporting Morocco Handicap International A highprofilefootballtournament forplayers disabilities and1300without disabilities)in2006. approximately 2000runners(700livingwith Disabled Peopleand“RaceforAll”whichattracted raising. EventsincludeInternationalDayfor offer country-wideopportunitiesforawareness- not onlyintegratepeoplewithdisabilitiesbutalso and/or supportinginclusivesportingeventsthat Development isdirectlyinvolvedinorganizing Sport asaTool forSocialIntegrationandPersonal 3) and leisureactivitiesforpeoplewithdisabilities. which makenoise,tosupportandencouragesport adapted equipment,suchasballsfortheblind including wheelchairs,appropriateclothingand Handicap Internationalprovidessportsequipment, 2) Provisionofadaptedsportsequipment development, proposalwritingandfundraising. offering traininginmanagementskills,project and sportsclubsforpeoplewithdisabilities, also providesinstitutionalsupporttosmallprojects international partnerships.HandicapInternational and helpthemdevelopstrategic,national seeks toreinforcethecapacityoftheseorganizations to professionaltraining).HandicapInternational for peoplewithdisabilities(frombasiceducation Associations specializinginhealthandeducation approximately 600MoroccanDisability but lackingexpertiseindisabilitysports)andthe Sport Federation,(specialistsinsportprovision particular, thestaffworkswithRoyalMoroccan provide inclusivesportandphysicalactivities.In the capacityofexistingMoroccanorganizationsto Handicap Internationaliscommittedtobuilding Moroccan institutions 1) Capacity-buildingandnetworkingfor Development focusesonthreekeyareas: Sport asaTool forSocialIntegrationandPersonal SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP Organization ofinclusivesportsevents increase by2.5%for2007. Committee andFIFA. Thebudgetisexpectedto donors, includingtheInternationalParalympic Handicap Internationaland50%frominstitutional million in2006,50%ofwhichcamefrom Development hadabudgetofapproximately1 Sport asaTool forSocialInclusionandPersonal RESOURCES • • • • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION a popularsportwithhighlevelofskill. representation ofpeoplewithdisabilities,playing 20 000people.Thiseventpromotedapositive national televisiontoanaudienceofestimated Morocco andthefinalgamewasbroadcaston tournament wassponsoredbytheKingof with disabilitieswasalsoheldin2006.This living withdisabilitiesinapilotproject) (FIFA) (developingfootballactivities forpeople Fédération InternationaledeFootballAssociation in workingwithmentaldisabilities) Special Olympics(providestechnicalexpertise disability, gainingexpertiseinsportprovision) health andeducationforpeoplelivingwitha Moroccan DisabilityAssociation(provides inclusive sportsactivities) provision, gainingexpertiseinproviding Disabled People(specializinginsport Royal MoroccanFederationforSportwith and technicalsupport) International ParalympicCommittee(funding Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage7 spectators fromthecommunitycometowatch suchevents. by promotingpositiveimagesofpeoplewith disabilities.Thousandsof These wheelchairracescontributetotheproject’s awarenessraisingactivities activities. equipmentandorganizationofinclusivesporting of adaptedsports The projectinvolvescapacitybuildingforMoroccan institutions,provision Social IntegrationandPersonalDevelopment forPeoplewithDisabilities.” Handicap International’s asaTool projectinMoroccoiscalled“Sport for • • • • • • • Impact onpeoplewithdisabilities IMPACT Impact onInstitutions each time. in ordertoimproveplanninganddelivery of eventsconductedunderprogramauspices, Handicap Internationalprovidesassessments quality sportingevents. commitments tocontractsandorganizing structures anddiagnostictools,respecting monitoring andevaluationsystems,reporting Institutions receivehelpinestablishing disabilities, includingover30sportclubs. in bothsportandservicesforpeoplewith managers, trainersandorganizationsspecializing Handicap Internationalhasbuiltthecapacityof referees, technicalspecialists)at32organizations. of approximately40staffmembers(trainers, Handicap Internationalisbuildingthecapacity Through theRoyalMoroccanSportFederation, with eachother. abilities theopportunitytomeetandinteract as wellinclusiveevents,givepeersofall Competitions forpeoplewithdisabilities, advise them. equipment andtrainedpersonnelwhocan including appropriatetechnologyand Beneficiaries haveaccesstoqualityservices, sporting clubsandregularevents. approximately 1500beneficiariesthrough Handicap Internationalisreaching

Handicap International Morocco • LESSONS LEARNED • • • benefit enormouslyfromthem. resources tocreatethesepartnershipsbut Local organizationsoftendonothavethe and theInternationalParalympicCommittee. Internationale deFootballAssociation(FIFA) organizations, suchastheFédération and maintainpartnershipswithinternational important tostrengthenlocalcapacitybuild projects inresource-limitedsettings,itis To specializing insport. specializing indisabilityissuesandthose initiatives bringtogethertwokeygroups:those Successful SportforDevelopmentandPeace planning processiscriticalforsuccess. important, andtheirparticipationintheevent mental, physical,andsocialdisabilitiesis and collaborationoforganizations disabilities isasignificantchallenge.Partnership Staging eventswhichincludealltypesof with others. learn abouttheirowncapacitytocompete disabilities tostrengthentheirself-esteemand can provideopportunitiesforpeoplewith Through participationincompetitions,sport sustainSportforDevelopmentandPeace working with [email protected] or contacttheMoroccoprojectteamat http://www.handicap-international.org.uk For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION partnership andcooperationhasbeenveryfruitful. in sport.Bothgroupsbringvitalskillstothe specialize indisabilityissuesandthosespecializing focus onbringingtogetherorganizationsthat issues. HandicapInternationalwillmaintainits and continuingtoraiseawarenessarounddisability supporting thecapacityofotherorganizations, play sportsatalllevelsbyorganizingevents, for peoplewithdisabilitiesthroughoutMoroccoto Development willcontinueofferingopportunities Sport asaTool forSocialIntegrationandPersonal LOOKING AHEAD

67 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage8 68 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION (Disabled) Cambodian NationalVolleyball League PROGRAM NAME (Disabled) Organization Cambodian NationalVolleyball League LEAD ORGANIZATION provincial development Throughout Cambodiawithafocuson LOCATION targeted. are particularly Athletes betweentheagesof18to54 degenerative diseasessuchaspolio. andpeopleaffectedbymuscular survivors The disabilitycommunity, includinglandmine PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES in Cambodia Community of Disability Drives Reintegration League Sport into theircommunities. integrate peoplewithdisabilitiesback League (Disabled)usesvollyballto The CambodianNationalVollyball SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP • • • • OBJECTIVES throughout Cambodia. To buildaccessible,multi-usesportsfacilities and landmineissues. its participantstoraiseawarenessofdisability To leveragemediacoverageoftheleagueand of nationalreconciliation. To usesportasatoolforthecontinuation training andcompetition. other peoplewithdisabilitiesthroughsports landmine/unexploded ordinancesurvivorsand To assistinthesocio-economicreintegrationof

Cambodian National Volleyball League (Disabled) Organisation in theworld. capita ratesofpeoplewithphysicaldisabilities means thatCambodiahasoneofthehighestper with asignificantpopulationofpoliosurvivors, have sufferedamputations.Thisfigure,combined approximately 40000landminesurvivorswho it isgenerallyacceptedthatCambodiahas to reap.Whilecensusdataisdifficultobtain, countryside andthedevastationtheycontinue the landmineswhichlayburiedthroughout most long-lastinglegaciesofyearsconflictis and 70s.Years ofcivilwarfollowed.Onethe resulting fromtheVietnam conflictinthe1960s Cambodia wasaffectedbyregionalinstability PROGRAM CONTEXT Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage9 Training College. locally, in cooperationwithDonBoscoVocational wheelchairs whicharedesigned andmanufactured uniforms andallnecessaryequipment, including they canbethrownofftheteam.CNVLDprovides is strict:ifplayersarenotpunctualandhealthy, Expectations ontheathletesarehighanddiscipline stipend (US$450),mealsandtransportation. four timesperweek.Inreturn,theyreceivea months, signacontractandagreetoattendpractice Players committotheirteamsforaperiodof8 for wheelchairracing. village hasatleastonekilometreofroadsuitable used forbasketball,volleyballorbadminton.Every wheelchair accessibleconcreteslab,whichcanbe sports facilitiesaroundthecountry, consistingofa involved inconstructingsimplebutmulti-purpose CNVLD organizesandtrainstheteamsis from companionshipandcamaraderie. played inteamstoallowparticipantsbenefit amputees andseverecasesofpolio).Allsportsare population ofpeoplewithdisabilities(e.g.,double also recentlybeenaddedinordertoreachawider throughout thecountry. Wheelchairracinghas sport ofCambodiaandisextremelypopular chosen becausevolleyballisthenationalteam The CNVLD’s coresportisstandingvolleyball, to supportthemselvesfinancially. all playersreceiveastipendwhichallowsthem worth increasedramatically;andeconomically, level, participants'confidenceandsenseofself- mobility throughregularexercise;onapersonal physically, athletesgainorregainadegreeof sport happensonanumberofdifferentlevels: into theircommunities.Reintegrationthrough disabilities, includingformercombatants,back or CNVLD,usessporttoreintegratepeoplewith The CambodianNationalVolleyball League(Disabled), PROGRAM DESIGN SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION of resources. begin playingintheleague,butthereisashortage 40 newteamshavebeenidentifiedandarereadyto CNVLD currentlyhas16teamsof12people.Over women tobeinvolvedatalllevels. managers arewomenandCNVLDencourages national staffmembersand90%ofthelocalproject overall projectmanager. AllfouroftheCambodian Local projectmanagersarebeingtrainedbythe a sportscoordinatorandvolleyballcoordinator). (an overallprojectmanager, amediaspokesperson, expatriate staffmembersandfourCambodian CNVLD isrunatthenationallevelbytwofull-time and supportsCNVLD'sactivitiesinternationally) Swiss AcademyforDevelopment(promotes advisors) Development (AusAID)(providestechnical Australian AgencyforInternational courses) (provides technicaladvisorstoconducttraining National OlympicCommitteeofGermany to manyparticipants) rehabilitation centresandprovidesprostheses (builds jointsportfacilitieswithCNVLD,runs International CommitteeoftheRedCross program) disabilities forCNVLDtoincorporateintothe (locates andorganizesgroupsofpeoplewith Ministry ofVeterans andYouth Rehabilitation • • IMPACT • • provided by: transportation, mealsanduniforms.Resourcesare including thecoach'ssalary, stipendsfortheplayers, Each teamcostsUS$7000annuallytosupport, RESOURCES Medico International. Shoes, ANZRoyal,Hagar, ConfirelCambodia,and Corporation, AirCateringCambodia,Kingmaker currently supportedby:DHL,Siemens,Sunway favour ofcorporatesponsorship.CNVLDis CNVLD isgraduallyphasingoutdonorfundingin respect. conflict areabletoplaytogetherwithgenuine Former soldiersfrombothsidesofCambodia’s the program. of CNVLD’s athletesarenowemployedoutside self-confidence andotherlifeskills,over60% before joiningtheprogram.With improved demobilized soldierswhowereunemployed The majorityofCNVLD’s athletesare (CIDA) Canadian InternationalDevelopmentAgency AusAID

69 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage10 70 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION • LESSONS LEARNED • • • • • part ofateamtheirhopewas renewed. contemplate suicide,butby becoming acknowledge thatlosingalimbmadethem gain fromtheprogram.MostCNLVD athletes Hope isthemostimportantattributeparticipants Award in 2006. CNVLD wontheUnitedNationsBestPractice the firsttimeintheirlives. participants tomakelong-termplans,oftenfor The stablepresenceofCNVLDenables prostheses. never wornshortsarenowshowingofftheir program. Peoplewithdisabilitieswhohad amount ofconfidencefromparticipatinginthe Athletes ontheCNVLDteamsgainanenormous Landmines. about theInternationalCampaigntoBan raise nationalandinternationalawareness (rather thanrelyingondonorfunds)andto securing corporatesponsorshipforteams This hasallowedtheorganizationtobegin media coverageinCambodiaandinternationally. CNVLD teamsreceiveanenormousamountof currently underconstruction. in wheelchairsintoacustom-builtfactory Kingmaker haspledgedtobring1000women years, employer andinthenextthree CNVLD endorsedKingmakerShoesasaquality avoid exploitationofworkerswithadisability. carefully vettingworkplacesandemployersto CNVLD supportsthisideabutiscommittedto sports tomakingthemexcellentemployees. attributing thedisciplinetheylearnplaying hired someCNVLDathletesinitsfactory, manufactures Timberland andClarkshoes,has Kingmaker Shoes,aCambodianfirmthat SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT &PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP • • support todevelopprograms. result, manycountriesfindit difficulttoobtain volleyball doesnothavethis designation.Asa sitting volleyballasaparalympic sport,standing the InternationalParalympicCommitteerecognizes groups torecognizestandingvolleyball.Although Program staffalsoplantolobbyinternational alongside thelocalcoach. will haveachildren’s coordinatorworking standing volleyball;inthefuture,eachcommunity groups totraintheminwheelchairsportsand participants inselectedregionsworkwithchildren’s children withdisabilities.Currently, coachesand CNLVD alsohopesto expanditsprogramsfor which materialscanbemanufacturedlocally). teams, andaddingathirdsport,powerlifting(for opening newvolleyballandwheelchairracing CNVLD willcontinuetogrow, asresourcesallow, LOOKING AHEAD • • • all socialandeconomicclasses,political of nationalreconciliation,integratingpeople Sport hasthepowertocontributeprocess combine workandsport. Practice timesareflexible,allowingpeopleto training andultimately, outsideemployment. wage. Participantsareencouragedtoseekjob a stipendfromtheproject,itisnotliving beneficiaries dependent:thoughathletesreceive Programs likeCNLVD shouldavoidmaking corruption, bothlocalandforeign. gained areputationforbeing“tough”on Corruption shouldnotbetolerated.CNVLDhas capacity ofsporttofosterpositivesocialchange. programs stilldonotrecognizetheunique Many internationaldevelopmentandaid participate inwheelchairsports. playing standupsportsandpreferto Many femaleamputeesarenotcomfortable affiliations andphysicalabilities.

Cambodian National Volleyball League (Disabled) Organisation Meoun competesinwheelchairraces. http://www.standupcambodia.org For moreinformation,visit MORE INFORMATION dignified.” founder ofCNVLD,describesheras“extremely Broadcasting Corporation.ChristopherMinko, profiled inaprogramairedbytheCanadian media attentioninCambodiaandwasrecently chair races.Shehasreceivedagreatdealofpositive National Volleyball League,competing inwheel- now ahealthyathletewiththeCambodian Moeun nolongerworksinthericefieldsandis suffering serioushealthconsequences. completely submerged.Sheenduredthisforyears, because Moeuncannotstand,herbodywasalmost knee deepinwaterwhileplantingcrops,but months eachyear. Normally, aricefarmerstands worked inthericefieldsplantingcropsforthree with herarms.Forthepasttwentyyearsshe another, shemustdragherselfalongtheground and cannotwalk;tomovefromoneplace Moeun, 40,contractedpoliowhenshewasagirl FEATURED SUCCESSSTORY Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage11 Africa: PlaytoLearn for ChildreninWest andFrancophone andPlay Basic EducationthroughSport PROGRAM NAME Division oftheGhanaEducationService Right To Playand the SpecialEducation LEAD ORGANIZATIONS Ghana LOCATION Students withdisabilitiesandtheirteachers PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES Ghana in Disabilities Children with Supports Play Program and Sport activities in Dzorwulu specialschool. activities inDzorwulu Right To Playrunsspeciallydesignedsports

Right To Play and Special Education Division of the Ghana Education Service SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • OBJECTIVES activities andfunforchildrenwithdisabilities. To promotetheimportanceofphysical other importantlifeskills. emotional development,goodhygieneand and grossmotorskills,fosterhealthy disseminate healthinformation,enhancefine teachers torunsportandplayactivitiesthat To buildthecapacityofspecialeducation specifically forchildrenwithdisabilities. focused onhealthy, holisticchilddevelopment, To implementregularsportandplayactivities trained personnelandschools available. terms ofincreasingthenumber andqualityof But muchmoreneedstobedone,especiallyin protection oftherightschildrenwithdisabilities. Disability Actsupportingtherecognitionand The GovernmentofGhanarecentlypasseda schools mayhaveavailable. information thattheircounterpartsinregular may limitthesechildren'saccesstoservicesand medical histories.Inaddition,socialconstraints to conditionsofpoorhealth.Manyhavecomplex Children withdisabilitiesareparticularlyvulnerable intellectual and/orphysicaldisabilitiesinGhana. 800 000school-agedchildrenlivingwith Based onthe2000census,thereareasmany PROGRAM CONTEXT

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PROGRAM DESIGN DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS To address the challenges associated with the development, health and health education of • Five pilot project schools within the Greater children with disabilities, Right To Play, in Accra region, The Volta region, and the partnership with the Special Education Division Eastern region (SPED) of the Ghana Education Service, launched a pilot project in five schools. The project was designed to strengthen basic education and teacher RESOURCES capacity through the integration of sport and play into physical education and life skills programs. Right To Play is responsible for covering costs related to monitoring and evaluation of the Right To Play coordinated workshops for 22 program and trainer salaries. Funding for these special education teachers that trained them to is provided by the Norwegian Agency for organize and manage regular and inclusive sport Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the and play activities. Workshops focused on devel- Forever Young Foundation. Going forward, it is oping skills related to leadership, communication, anticipated that these activities will continue inclusion, health and child development as well with support from the Canadian Interational as sport- and game-specific skills. Prior to these Development Agency (CIDA) as part of a training sessions, Right To Play collaborated with multi-year, regional program entitled Basic SPED to adapt the games and activities for children Education through Sport and Play for Children with disabilities. An autism and special education in West and Francophone Africa: Play to Learn. consultant volunteering with Right To Play assisted The Government of Ghana covers all other costs in the delivery of the workshops along with four associated with SPED initiatives. Right To Play staff members.

The workshops prepared teachers to plan and run

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION regular sport and play activities with specially designed learning outcomes that support life skills development, health education and healthy physical, social and emotional development. Follow-up visits were conducted at the five schools to observe sport and play activities in action and additional training was coordinated as needed. In an additional workshop, teachers were also trained on a monitoring and evaluation component of the program to help track and measure activities of the program on a monthly basis. Right To Play and Special Education Division of the Ghana Education Service

An annual fun game organized by the Special Education Division for all special schools in Accra.

72 SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT & PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage13 • • • • • IMPACT Right To PlayandSpecialEducationDivisionoftheGhanaService. children whoneeditmost. Sport andplayarebringing joy andlaughterto cooperation, sharingandcleanliness. learning, includingdisciplineandleadership, children becauseofthelifeskillstheyare Teachers reportthatit'seasiertomanagetheir learned moreeffectivewaystoteachthesetopics. health, hygieneanddiseaseprevention Teachers haveimprovedtheirknowledgeabout more engaging. games intoallfacetsoflearningmakinglessons improved. Teachers havebeenabletointegrate The qualityofteachingandlearninghas with intellectualorphysicaldisabilities. sport andplayactivitiesfornearly450children Twenty twoteachersarenowrunningregular SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • • LESSONS LEARNED with disabilitiesintothewidercommunity. Sport isaviabletooltointegratechildren influencing long-termbehaviourchange. be highandcanpresentachallengefor Drop outratesforchildrenwithdisabilitiescan enrolment ofchildrenwithdisabilitiesinschool. and familyleveltoencourageincreased Education needstotakeplaceatthecommunity Program activities at Dzorwulu specialschool. Program activitiesatDzorwulu at For moreinformationcontactJoyceAshun MORE INFORMATION to ongoingbudgetchallengesatSPED. disabilities. However, theseinitiativesaresubject adaptations ofthegamesforchildrenlivingwith international experttorefineandimprovethe sector. Thepartnerswouldalsoliketoengagean incoming teachersacrossthespecialeducation coaches whowilldelivertrainingtoexistingand schools nationallyandtotrainacoregroupof to expandtheprogramallspecialeducation Right To PlayandSPEDwouldliketocollaborate LOOKING AHEAD [email protected]

73 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage14 74 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Disabilities inBangladesh of ChildrenLivingwith Rehabilitation andInclusion ProgramDrives Sport and Youth withDisabilities andLeisureforChildren Sport PROGRAM NAME Programme Handicap International/Bangladesh LEAD ORGANIZATION Tangail andMymensingh) Bangladesh (districtsofManikgonj, LOCATION aged 8to30 Children andyouthwithdisabilities, PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT &PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP opportunities forsocialinclusion. opportunities delivering rehabilitation,aswellproviding leisure activitiesareanexcellentmethodof and Sports to medicalortherapeuticservices. with adisabilityandmostdonothaveaccess As manyas14millionBangladeshisareliving • • • OBJECTIVES of allabilities. sport andleisureactivitiesforyoungpeople To developlocalcapacitytoprovideinclusive people withdisabilities. To changethecommunity’s attitudestoward and leisureactivities. children andyouthwithdisabilitiesusingsport rehabilitation andpersonaldevelopmentof To promotethesocialinclusion,physical

Sport and Leisure Activities for Children with Disabilities, Bangladesh 1 initiatives. are largelyexcludedfromnationaldevelopment is extremelylimitedandpeoplewithdisabilities Access tobasicphysicaltherapyandotherservices estimates placethatnumberashigh14million. (approximately eightmillionpeople).Other million peoplehavesomeformofdisability that 5.6%ofBangladesh’s populationof147 conducted asurveyinJuly2005whichrevealed Organizations Working withtheDisabled(NFOWD) Handicap InternationalandtheNationalForumof PROGRAM CONTEXT Bangladesh Health and Injury Study,Bangladesh HealthandInjury October2005 1 Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage15 • • • success indicators,including: and localDPOsareabletoachievearangeof Through physicalactivityHandicapInternational and school. partners andbringthemtoprogramactivities has adisability. Thechildrenpickuptheir without disabilitiesarepairedwithapartnerwho a peersupportprogramthroughwhichchildren cooperation. Inclusionisfurtherencouragedwith people ofdifferentabilitiesandtopromote events. Gamesareadaptedtocreatechallengesfor district andinter-district competitionsandspecial chairs andcrutchorwheelchairraces)aswell (including cricket,badminton,football,musical sessions inavarietyofsportsandleisureactivities Program activitiesincludetri-weeklypractice partners astheprojectexpands. three districtstonewstaff,volunteersand International, andnowdeliversworkshopsinthe professionals, wastrainedbyexpertsfromHandicap consisting ofthreestafftrainersanddisability National ResourceTeam wascreated.Thisteam, — 60%ofwhomhaveadisability. Inaddition,a programs reachingnearly1000youngpeople volunteers havebeentrainedandarerunning for youngpeoplewithdisabilities.To deliver inclusiveandsustainablesportsprograms the capacityofstaffandvolunteerstodevelop Disabled People’s Organizations(DPOs)tobuild International workswiththreeBangladeshi Youth withDisabilitiesprogram,Handicap Under theSportandLeisureforChildren PROGRAM DESIGN and communitylife; Social cohesion:greaterinclusion inschool and confidence; Psychological well-being:increasedself-esteem and rangeofmovement; Physical development:improvedmusclemass date,25 SPORT FORDEVELOPMENT &PEACEINTERNATIONAL WORKINGGROUP • • donations in-kindfromlocalenterprises. events, DPOleadersalsoraisefundsandreceive Handicap InternationalFrance.Whenplanning Agency forDevelopmentandCooperation euros peryearandisfundedbytheSwiss The programbudgetisapproximately80000 RESOURCES • • • • PARTNERS DELIVERY ANDIMPLEMENTATION equipment, suchasballsandnets. International providesDPOswithadaptedsports latrines andclassrooms.Additionally, Handicap expertise toincreaseaccessplaygrounds, more accessiblebyprovidingfundsandtechnical supports DPOsintheireffortstomakeschools Under theprogram,HandicapInternationalalso the abilitiesofpeoplewithdisabilities. Educational outcomes:raisingawarenessabout vocational andsocialskillsdevelopment; Personal andprofessionaldevelopment: equipment, staffingandcapacitydevelopment) Handicap InternationalFrance(provides Development Tangail DisabledPeople’s Organizationfor Development Manikgonj DisabledPeople’s Organizationfor for Development Mymensingh DisabledPeople’s Organization Program. the HandicapInternational andplay through Girls involvedinsport

Sport and Leisure Activities for Children with Disabilities, Bangladesh • • • • • IMPACT the playingfield. disabilities afterobservingtheirabilitieson villagers’ attitudestowardpeoplewith International staffreportasignificantchangein public sportingeventsand Handicap Community membersaredrawntotheproject’s development improvingemploymentprospects. vocational trainingandsocialskills The projectinvolvesparticipantsinbasic community andinaworkplace. child canbeincludedonateam,in members aresurprisedtodiscoverthattheir with parentsandcaregivers.Manyfamily program staffhaveopportunitiestoconnect Through thesportandleisureactivities, people —60%ofwhomhaveadisability. and runprogramsreachingnearly1000young Twenty-five volunteertrainersnoworganize to helptheprojectgrow. events andtrainstaffinpartnerorganizations by DPOs,whicharenowabletoplantheirown been establishedandleadershipisbeingtaken A six-person“NationalResourceTeam” has

75 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION Purple SectionOct21.qxd11/1/074:55PMPage16 76 DISABILITY AND INCLUSION • • • LESSONS LEARNED children withandwithoutdisabilities. inclusive groupsevenlybalancedbetween priority andtheprojectwillaimtocreate 200 childrenperdistrict.Inclusionisanongoing expand to12districtsby2010,withanaverageof partnership withthreeDPOs,theprojectwill months. Currentlyoperatinginthreedistricts experience significantgrowthinthenexttwelve Handicap International’s Bangladeshprogramwill LOOKING AHEAD abilities andneeds. appropriate activitiesandmatchsportstotheir services needsprofessionalstopinpoint has nothadaccesstotherapyorothermedical professionals. Apersonwithadisabilitywho takes timeandrequirestheservicesofdisability Changing thelifeofapersonwithdisability attitudes intheprojectareas. workshops whichhavesignificantlyaltered has conductednumerouscommunity actions andactivities.HandicapInternational disabilities canbechangedthroughconcrete Society’s attitudestowardspeoplewith participate inawiderangeofactivities. that peoplewithdisabilitiesareableto provide peoplewithanopportunitytosee physical activity. Publicsportingevents conditions canworseniftheyengagein homes becausetheirfamiliesbelievethat often over-protected andconfinedtotheir with disabilities.Childrendisabilitiesare communities abouttheabilitiesofchildren It isimportanttoeducatefamiliesand

Sport and Leisure Activities for Children with Disabilities, Bangladesh SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT &PEACE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP their confidenceandhealth. improves Involving childrenwithdisabilitiesinsports colleges. curriculum atuniversitiesandteacher-training disability issuesintheBangladeshinational Project staffareadvocatingfortheinclusionof institutions, suchasschoolsandcommunitygroups. integrate projectactivitiesmorecloselyintoexisting In addition,HandicapInternationalhopesto story: joined thesportandleisure activities. Hetoldhis Abdul Moniris18yearsoldandhasrecently FEATURED SUCCESSSTORY team at international.org.uk/ International websiteat For moreinformation,seetheHandicap MORE INFORMATION competitions. he willsoonwearthevillagecoloursinlocal started learningtobowlonthecricketpitchand Abdul isnowlearningtorun.Hehasalready ahead oftime,andheagreedtowatchthegame!” proud. Fortunately, thetrainershadspokentohim to playsports,stillcameseeme,andhewasso together. Myfather, whohadalwaysforbiddenme were alsosurprisedtoseethatwecouldplay imagined thatIcoulddoitandmyteam-mates It wasthefirsttimeinmylife.Icouldn’thave players acceptedusandweallplayedtogether. I wasn’taloneinbeinghandicapped,theother others. Ithoughtwasdreaming!Andbecause suddenly foundmyselfonaplayingfieldwiththe “After beingtrainedaloneforseveralweeks,I play sports.Abduldescribestheexperience: program ofphysicaltherapytopreparehim Handicap Internationalstaffstartedhimona motivation andhiswishtoplayonateam, After identifyingAbdulinhisvillage,seeing watching. Itisverydifficult.” have neverbeenabletoplay, onlystayalone, could losebecauseofme.SinceIwasverysmall have meontheirteambecausetheysay been abletoplay. Boysofmyagedon’twantto grade. Ilikefootballandcricket,buthavenever but Icannotrun.gotoschoolandamintenth say exactlyhowoldIwas.begantowalkalittle, “I hadpoliowhenIwasachild.Myparentscan’t [email protected] or contacttheBangladesh http://www.handicap- Green SectionWedOct24.qxd11/1/075:01PMPage1

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Bridges Youth Incubators Program—youth leaders leading activities with children, acting as mentors (learning about sports, the environment and receiving general emotional and academic support). PEACE

Sport Furthers Youth Development and Job Training in the Occupied

Palestinian Territory Forum Sharek Youth

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Children aged 8 to 14, youth aged 14 • To use sports to teach life skills and strengthen Years of political and economic instability have to 25 and youth organizations in the leadership capacity of children and youth. resulted in a steady decline in the standard of Sharek network • To increase employment prospects for students living in the occupied Palestinian territories. by providing specialized job training including Daily life for residents is characterized by poverty, coach training. lack of mobility and the threat of violence. High LOCATION • To build the capacity of Palestinian youth unemployment, particularly among youth, further Occupied Palestinian Territory, organizations to affect positive social change. contributes to social instability. Youth between 14 Gaza and the West Bank • To encourage volunteerism among young people and 25 represent half of the population. Creating and induce them to take an active part in opportunities for youth and fostering leadership designing and implementing educational, sport development are critical challenges facing LEAD ORGANIZATION and social projects. Palestinians. Sharek Youth Forum

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PROGRAM DESIGN A Step Forward Sports RESOURCES A Step Forward Sports was launched in 2006 Sharek Youth Forum was launched in 1996 to to teach university students to coach younger The Swiss Agency for Development and specifically target youth development and create children and empower them to use sport as a tool Cooperation began funding Sharek activities in new opportunities for young people. From the for youth development and social cohesion. 1999 and is the organization’s core funder. outset, sports played a central role in the Sharek Students attend a program of interactive work- strategy and were integrated into all core shops on specific techniques for teaching sports Since 2004, Sharek has also received support PEACE programming. In particular, the organization and fostering life skills and character development. from the following national and international emphasizes sports as a context in which to develop Participants also receive training in interview organizations: leadership skills, confidence and discipline in an techniques and CV writing to prepare them for • United Nations Development Programme environment of tolerance, cooperation and respect. their careers. • United Nations Volunteers • UNIFEM (United Nations Development Sharek delivers programs directly through its Partners Program: Strengthening and Capacity Fund for Women) network of 22 youth centres. In addition, Sharek Building of Youth Organizations and Groups • European Union partners with over 90 other organizations — Sharek has partnerships with 20 municipal • Welfare Association approximately 70 NGOs and 20 municipal government bodies and over 70 NGOs, mainly • Save the Children USA government bodies — enabling the implementation youth clubs and youth NGOs with strong sporting • AGFUND (the Arab Gulf Fund for United of core programming in harder to reach areas, such programs. Sharek provides training, capacity Nations Development) as rural villages and refugee camps. Sharek is building, funding and fundraising support to • International Olympic Committee organized and operated entirely by youth and these organizations. depends heavily on volunteers. In 2006, more than Other donors have supported individual Sharek 2500 youth volunteers were active in campaigns, Sharek is also committed to creating safe and initiatives and projects. projects and activities such as workshops and appropriate public spaces where young people can sports days. Sharek’s core programs include: play. Sharek and its partner organizations restore playgrounds and football pitches throughout the Bridges — Youth Enrichment Incubators occupied Palestinian territories.

Bridges brings together children with low academic Youth leaders doing activities with children. achievement and youth volunteers who serve as mentors. The youth volunteers are trained in basic DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION child development theory and taught activities to PARTNERS strengthen the children's academic and social skills. Structured play, educational games and Operating with the motto “working together, not sports are a key component of the Bridges apart,” Sharek has rapidly strengthened its program, offering a safe and age-appropriate forum presence on the ground through cooperation with in which children can learn the principles of fair different partners. These partners include: play, cooperation, sharing, discipline and respect. • Universities and colleges in the region • Over 70 Palestinian NGOs, of which 35 are youth clubs and youth NGOs with strong sporting programs • Twenty municipal government bodies Sharek Youth Forum • More than 40 private sector companies

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IMPACT LOOKING AHEAD Despite ongoing challenges, especially logistical • In 2006 over 5000 children were direct issues caused by restrictions on the movements of beneficiaries of Sharek programs and over volunteers and beneficiaries, Sharek plans to 10 000 children benefited from programming expand into more refugee camps and rural areas. PEACE done through Sharek’s partner organizations. Project staff hope to link youth inside the • In 2006, 500 youth coaches were trained occupied Palestinian territory to those outside the through A Step Forward Sports and an borders in refugee camps. additional 2000 coaches were trained by Sharek partners. • In 2006, 6145 Palestinian children participated FEATURED SUCCESS STORY in Bridges activities such as homework assistance and sports activities, guided and Since losing her father in the violence Farah was supported by 404 youth volunteers. finding it increasingly difficult to relate to her • In 2007, Sharek Sea Camps gave 12 000 family and peers and her grades were dropping children and youth safe and constructive quickly. Her mother approached the Bridges summer holidays. volunteers for help building her confidence back up. • During the first phase of the partnership Forum Sharek Youth Youth leaders doing activities with children. program, Sharek provided capacity building to Bridges staff were confident they could help Farah, over 120 youth organizations. and went to her house to invite her to participate • Through the Partnership Program, Sharek has in their programming personally. She agreed to rehabilitated public football playing grounds in LESSONS LEARNED come only for assistance with her schoolwork and, Gaza and West Ramallah. The Sharek Youth at first, did not speak to any of the other children. Centre in Jenin is currently restoring 25 football • Youth are not only the leaders of tomorrow; But after several months, she began to form a bond fields in Jenin Camp and Jenin City. they can be important community leaders, peer with her mentor, who gradually involved her in • Anecdotal evidence from parents and teachers trainers and coaches, today. other activities and with other children. indicates that participating in structured sport • Strong partnerships with a range of different and play activities reduces feelings of groups are essential for responding to the Farah’s mother reports that the program had made frustration and loneliness among children and varying needs of beneficiaries and for ensuring a huge difference in her daughter's life. She said youth and contributes to their sense of program success. that “the shock has finally left the girl.” She is belonging and hope for the future. now able to relate to others at home and at school. • Today Sharek Youth Forum is the biggest independent youth network in the occupied Bridges has given thousands of children like Farah Palestinian territory. new hope for the future.

MORE INFORMATION For more information, please visit Sharek’s website at www.sharek.ps or email [email protected]

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A Football tournament in Gyseni in 2005. Espérance uses football to promote peace amongst children and youth. PEACE Football Club Leverages Sport for Conflict Resolution and Community

Education Espérance/Isabelle Lemaire

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Youth, aged 8 to 19 • To promote stable and lasting peace in Rwanda In 1994, the ethnic divide between Rwanda’s Hutu by using football to develop young people’s and Tutsi populations erupted into a genocide in LOCATION capacity to resolve conflict peacefully. which more than one million people were killed Rwanda • To increase participation of girls and young in the space of one hundred days. Today, the women in football, and to provide gender difficult process of reconciliation and rebuilding training to participants and community is still underway. Victims and perpetrators live LEAD ORGANIZATION members to increase awareness of the issues side-by-side in villages and try to remain focused Youth Sports Association, Kigali faced by girls and women. on the future, despite prevalent reminders of the • To use sporting events to contribute to peace past, including the ongoing genocide judiciary and reconciliation efforts and raise awareness process. The government and many civil society PROGRAM NAME about health and human rights issues. organizations are focusing on educating youth Espérance about the genocide but the subject remains extremely sensitive. History is a daily reality in Rwanda.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Sports as a forum for education • United National High Commission for Refugees Espérance staff also organize large sporting events (UNHCR) (involved in Espérance's education Espérance is a community sports club, founded in in communities which bring together thousands of work) 1996, two years after the genocide. Program staff people and create opportunities for community • Kigali Institute of Education (students describe the prevailing climate in the country at education. During breaks in these events, facilitators collaborate with Espérance on project work) the time as “opposed to leisure and fun activities”, give talks, generate discussions and perform short PEACE but Espérance believed that sport and play were theatre pieces focused on topics like HIV and essential to reconstruction. Espérance started a AIDS awareness and prevention. RESOURCES football league in Kigali and encouraged both boys and girls to join. Today, Espérance leverages the In addition, staff use these events to publicize the Espérance Rwanda receives support from: power and popularity of football to teach conflict Gacaca, a system of community justice instituted • Fund for Peace Initiatives of the German resolution skills to youth participants and provide by the government in 2001 to deal with the Government a forum for community education on health and aftermath of the genocide. The Gacaca has three • Swiss Working Group for Sport and legal issues. official objectives: Development • Swiss Agency for Development and Football for Peace/Football pour la Paix 1) To reconstruct what happened during the Cooperation In 2002, Espérance Football Club began imple- genocide. • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische menting the Football for Peace program, adapted Zusammenarbeit (German Technical from a model started in Medellin, Colombia. 2) To speed up legal proceedings. Cooperation Group) Football for Peace fit well with Espérance’s focus • Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (German on youth and gender. It was also an appealing 3) To aid in the process of reconciliation Development Service) model as it included structures to develop in Rwanda. • Ziviler Friedensdienst (German Civil participants' conflict resolution skills. Peace Service) Espérance uses its outreach activities to raise Football for Peace has three main principles: awareness of the system and its benefits to Espérance is an NGO with between 240 and 250 communities. Espérance has between five and ten private members who make financial contributions, 1) Teams must have equal numbers of boys and staff members depending on the scale of the sometimes as small as half a dollar. girls (normally three of each). NGO's activities.

2) Only girls can score goals. The only way a team can win is by supporting and valuing female DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION players. PARTNERS

3) There are no referees. Participants must • streetfootballworld (Espérance is a streetfoot- exercise what organizers call “self-responsibility,” ballworld network member and a partner in dealing with issues of fair and foul play developing and sharing the know-how of themselves and learning valuable conflict Football for Peace with colleagues world-wide) resolution skills. • Ministry for Sport, Youth and Culture (the Minister gives his political support to events To keep the game exciting, Espérance pitches have that take place on a national or international large goals and no goalkeepers, so many points are level, adding legitimacy and raising the profile scored. of the project)

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Espérance uses football to promote peace in Rwanda by teaching conflict resolution skills. FEATURED SUCCESS STORY Games are played without referees: players must regulate all play themselves and work together On many occasions, Espérance staff arrived in to create a positive and fair atmosphere. a village with the intention of starting a co-educational football league, only to be told that there were no girls or young women with an interest in the sport. The staff were told this time PEACE LESSONS LEARNED and time again, but their experience proved otherwise. In fact, many girls and young women in • When reconciliation occurs, it tends to be rural Rwanda love football, but were never given manifested within people's everyday experiences, the opportunity to play or even attend matches as not necessarily at the political level. spectators because it was not considered Espérance/Isabelle Lemaire • Sport can be an extremely effective tool for appropriate. social development, promoting gender equality, IMPACT healthy choices and peaceful conflict resolution. By showing community members the benefits of Sporting events provide a forum in which football — for both girls and boys — Espérance • Espérance has 250 members, one third of people from different backgrounds can meet staff have changed attitudes all over Rwanda. Today, whom are girls. and interact, sharing an intense but positive girls play on football fields all over the country, • Espérance held 93 AIDS awareness-raising and inclusive experience. and an increasing number of mothers, sisters and sports events in 2005 and 2006, with an average • Football for Peace is an excellent door opener grandmothers of players are attending the games of 558 participants per event. for non-formal educational activities especially as spectators, benefiting from community • Anecdotal evidence from Espérance staff and in extremely poor rural areas. education opportunities and social interaction. families indicates that young people are transferring the conflict resolution skills they are learning in sports to their everyday lives. LOOKING AHEAD MORE INFORMATION • Participants learn to regulate their own football For more information, visit matches, organize their own teams and set Espérance plans to continue its growth, spreading http://www.streetfootballworld.org strategies for training. to more of Rwanda's rural areas. To this end, • As a result of refereeing their own matches, Espérance is working to develop communication Soon Espérance will be represented on the players have become much more self-assured materials, such as a website, to promote the Kimisagara website. Kimisagara is the Kigali-based and are learning to express their convictions project and raise funding to conduct needed Centre for Peace Building and Conflict Resolution and exercise greater independence of thought. capacity-building. Espérance is also trying to in the Great Lakes Region. • The incidence of fouls in games is very low. create a Great Lakes network which would carry When everyone on the field can call a foul, Football for Peace across borders to Uganda, players tend to minimize negative behaviour Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic and value fair play. of Congo. Project staff are looking for strong • Girls are being recognized for their contribution partners in these countries. and value as team members. Staff report that spectator groups are now often more than In 2010, South Africa will host the FIFA World 50% female. Cup and Espérance hopes to send a delegation to • Espérance players have become members promote Football for Peace at this global forum. of Rwanda's national football team.

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A host versus refugee football match at the “No Winner, No Losers” tournament.

PEACE Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building are the Focus of School- and Community-Based Sport

Program in Eastern Chad Chad Play/SportWorks Right To

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Children and youth in refugee camps and • To increase capacity of teachers, coaches and Since 2003, the crisis in Darfur has displaced an host communities in Eastern Chad as well community leaders to provide ongoing sport estimated 1.6 million people and caused over as teachers, refugee coaches, community and play activities to teach leadership, 210 000 refugees to flee across the border into leaders and partner organizations communication and conflict resolution skills. Eastern Chad. The challenges presented by the • To increase access to regular and inclusive influx of Sudanese refugees are compounded by sport and play activities as a means to promote increasing numbers of internally displaced LOCATION peace and healthy lifestyle behaviour, with a Chadians due to inter-ethnic clashes and resource Chad focus on vulnerable groups, including children scarcity in the country. Tension in Eastern Chad and young persons. remains high. • To increase capacity of non-governmental LEAD ORGANIZATION organization (NGO) and community-based The effects of these displacements are devastating Right To Play organization (CBO) staff to support long-term and are of particular concern to marginalized and access to regular and inclusive sport and play vulnerable populations, including children and activities for children and young persons. women. In the camps, it is difficult to keep PROGRAM NAME children occupied. This can lead to heightened SportWorks Chad vulnerabilities for these children, including increased risk of HIV and AIDS or enrolment in rebel groups and militia.

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PROGRAM DESIGN of “Sports Councils” which are responsible for the DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION ongoing oversight and management of sport and PARTNERS Right To Play uses specially designed sport and play programs, including supporting existing play programs to improve health, build life skills, coaches and eventually training new ones, as well • CARE Canada (Iridimi Camp) and foster peace for children and communities as managing sport equipment and infrastructure • International Federation of Red Cross and Red affected by war, poverty, and disease. In Eastern (e.g., creating and maintaining safe play spaces), Crescent Societies (Treguine and Bredjing Camps) Chad, the SportWorks project is active in Iridimi, and coordinating sports leagues and special • Christian Children’s Fund Chad PEACE Treguine, Bredjine and Mile Refugee Camps, and initiatives like community sports festivals designed • The Foundation for the Refugee Education Trust in the host communities of Iriba, Hadjer Hadid around specific peace or health messages. • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Guereda. Right To Play’s local project • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Chad coordinators work with community leaders, Six staff from Right To Play are active in the • Chadian Red Cross schools, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) communities coordinating capacity-building and • Secours Catholique et Developpement (Mile) and community-based organizations (CBOs) to coach training. They are supported by 25 volunteers identify individuals, mostly teachers, to be trained from the refugee and host communities who help as coaches. These individuals participate in with community outreach, project organization training workshops that prepare them to organize and support newly trained coaches with large and manage regular and inclusive sport and play class sizes.

activities. Workshops focus on developing skills Community leaders, including women, related to leadership, communication, planning, being trained to be Right To Play coaches. conflict resolution and child development as well as sport- and game-specific skills.

All Right To Play activities include learning outcomes and are designed to be run with minimal equipment. In the Chad project, particular emphasis is placed on games and activities that promote peace-building and community cohesion and teach conflict resolution skills. These include activities focused on teamwork, fair play and inclusion and integration of different ethnic groups. In addition, special commmuity play days are organized around “No Winner, No Loser” competitions that encourage the spirit of peace and fair play and often feature peace messages from influential religious, traditional or local authorities.

In addition to coach training, Right To Play also focuses on building capacity at the NGO and CBO level to support sport and play activities and

ensure that programs are sustained over the long- Chad Play/SportWorks

term. Right To Play facilitates the establishment Right To

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RESOURCES LESSONS LEARNED FEATURED SUCCESS STORY Right To Play’s SportWorks project in Chad is Community Leader Quote: funded by the US State Department and the Royal • Having the buy-in and visible support (e.g., at Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and receives events) of community and government leaders “Grâce à Right To Play, nos enfants se sont smaller grants from the Greensboro Foundation is important for success and sustainability of rapprochés des enfants réfugiés, ce qui n'existait PEACE and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. programs. pas par le passé. Nous nous réjouissons pour cette • Well-connected and knowledgeable community initiative qui brise les barrières et préjugés. Nous volunteers facilitate the efficient set up of attendons que Right To Play étende ses activités IMPACT projects properly tailored to specific dans tous les villages environnants des Camps de community needs. réfugiés pour restaurer la confiance nécessaire • To date, more than 400 coaches have been • The security situation in the refugee pour la paix.” trained and are now leading regular sport and environment can switch quickly and programs — Chef de Village de FODJI play activities with 7716 children and youth in need to be set up to respond quickly and both the refugee and host communities. appropriately. “Thanks to Right To Play, our children are getting • Regular and inclusive sport and play activities • Transportation and access (due to weather, closer to refugee children, which we have not seen are engaging children and youth and providing security and/or distance) to remote camps before. We are happy about this initiative which structure and normalization to their lives. needs to be considered in project planning, breaks down barriers and prejudices. We are • Children and youth are regularly exposed to design and budgeting. waiting for Right To Play to extend the activities to activities that focus on peace-building skills all neighbouring villages, to restore the relationships like fair play, teamwork and conflict resolution. and trust needed for peace.” • A five-day peace campaign was held featuring LOOKING AHEAD — FODJI Village Chief inter-camp and inter-community (refugee-host) sports competitions and peace messaging. Capacity-building will continue to be a main focus • Potential tensions between refugees and the as this project moves forward. Once a solid base of MORE INFORMATION host population are mitigated through regular coaches are trained and regular programming is For more information, visit sports tournaments and meetings. well established, Right To Play would like to train http://www.righttoplay.com/site/PageServer? • Refugee children regain self-worth and coaches to introduce its HIV and AIDS awareness pagename=Chad_ProjectPage self-esteem through the opportunity to play and prevention curriculum into the core sport and or contact Fidèle Sonon at with Chadians. play program. Monitoring and evaluation of the [email protected] • Communities have been receptive to the peace project will also be an important component of messages and peace-building activities around efforts moving forward, particularly focused on special community events. tracking coaches and children, and collecting data • “Sports Councils” have been formed in each of on school attendance, conflict frequency, health the host and refugee communities. knowledge and related behaviour. • Safe play spaces have been built in the communities including football, netball, basketball and volleyball courts. More are planned. • Based on activities to date, partner organizations report that sport and play activities in the schools will lead to an increase in school attendance.

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Njagbewema Fachima (Peace) female soccer team active in promoting gender justice and non-violent communication skills.

Football is at the Centre PEACE of Initiative to Reduce Conflict and Improve Social Cohesion

in Sierra Leone in Action Sierra Leone Youth

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Dispossessed and disadvantaged rural • To use football to reduce conflict and build a In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a brutal women, youth and children culture of peace, tolerance and respect for eleven-year civil war that was characterized by human rights. gross human rights abuses. Massive property LOCATION • To protect, promote and enhance the rights of destruction and widespread fighting uprooted or rural youth and women and to provide training disrupted almost the entire population. Eight slum districts in Freetown leading to income generation opportunities. Traditional systems of authority at the village level and in Kono District, Sierra Leone • To provide young people with increased self- were largely destroyed. In 2006, the United esteem, confidence, and discipline, and to Nations Human Development Index placed Sierra create opportunities for youth to be involved in Leone second from the bottom on a worldwide LEAD ORGANIZATION decision-making around issues which influence scale which measures life expectancy, education Youth in Action Sierra Leone their lives. levels, and overall standard of living. The majority of Sierra Leone's population faces extreme poverty, illiteracy and a lack of employment opportunities. PROGRAM NAME There are few opportunities for social interaction Youth in Action Sierra Leone or recreation.

In this context, the positive environment created by sports can be a powerful tool for social engagement and dialogue.

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PROGRAM DESIGN Economic empowerment YASAL is a member of the following international YASAL opened an Education for Production organizations: The activities implemented by Youth in Action Centre in Kono for rural youth and women that • streetfootballworld (creates opportunities for Sierra Leone (YASAL) are directly or indirectly provides both skills-training and a safe space for YASAL to learn from other organizations which focused on reducing and resolving conflict and sport and recreation opportunities. The Centre use football as a tool for social development improving community cohesion and economic teaches tailoring, soap-making, weaving and other and provides contacts with potential donors) PEACE opportunity, especially for women and youth who income-generating skills and offers literacy classes • Africa Youth Foundation (disseminates ideas) commonly face discrimination. Sport, football in and training in human rights, gender issues, • Coalition on Mining (disseminates ideas and particular, is used to attract and engage environmental protection and HIV and AIDS provides learning opportunities on extractive communities. Key initiatives include: prevention. sector)

Football matches followed by guided discussions YASAL’s national coordinator oversees one Furthermore, YASAL is supported by FIFA and known as “reflection circles” program coordinator and 18 coaches. All YASAL streetfootballworld in the framework of the As YASAL’s most visible community initiative, initiatives employ participatory methodology. Football for Hope movement. this intervention establishes a mechanism for They are initiated at the request of beneficiaries community members to learn valuable skills and implemented, as much as possible, by which contribute to constructive discussions, program participants under the leadership of RESOURCES negotiation, and planning. Peer educators initiate YASAL staff. YASAL operates clubs for girls and guide discussions on issues such as gender and women in all project areas. Most funding for YASAL activities comes from discrimination, domestic and gender-based consultancy fees, action research (social science violence, crime, and HIV and AIDS prevention. research designed to bring about change) and Within the reflection circles, participants make DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION training conducted by staff members. action plans to address community concerns. PARTNERS Support for specific project activities has been Countering Youth and Child Exploitation through • Youth Development Movement, Freetown provided by: Football (CYCEF) (provides training in vocational skills such as • The Justice Sector Development Program, This initiative uses football to build trust and team hairdressing and tailoring, as well as leadership, Freetown (a project of UK's Department of spirit among youth and encourages them to discuss youth development and HIV and AIDS prevention) International Development which funded six issues which affect their daily lives. Participants • Women’s Centre for Peace and Justice (provides months of workshops on gender and justice) are involved in planning and organizing activities, education on girl child rights, violence and • The International Rescue Committee, USA as well as initiating and leading discussions. discrimination against women) (constructed carpentry workshops and supports Football draws participants to the project and • Kono Women's Network (promotes women’s vegetable production for women and training builds a positive environment for other rights and advocacy, trains project participants) for community management teams) interventions, which include: HIV and AIDS • Kono Women's Development Cooperative • The Internal Migration Organization (provides education; environmental initiatives, human rights (provides training in vocational skills and materials for the Education Centre and training and advocacy programs and the development of promotes women’s participation in agriculture) in vocational skills and adult literacy) football pitches and training of coaches. • Women in Need in Kono (promotes women’s rights and provides training in advocacy In addition, YASAL receives some support from techniques) private local donors.

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• YASAL has helped to increase the participation human rights issues. Football will have a role to IMPACT of rural women and youth in decision-making play in this advocacy work, as will partnerships bodies, such as town and district councils. with NGOs and international organizations. • YASAL’s programs reach approximately 3200 • As the economic situation in communities children (under 18) and 2300 youth as well as improves, participants display increased Funding is being sought to address a number of 872 women. Men also participate in all project confidence and are more able to fight injustices challenges including a lack of adequate training activities. such as discriminatory inheritance or marriage and learning materials available to staff and the PEACE • Through guided discussions on the football laws. Staff report a much greater openness to need for additional staff. YASAL also hopes to pitches, YASAL has initiated and sustained discussing these issues and advocating for open a program office in Freetown. community discussions and educational change. activities on a range of human rights issues, including gender-based violence, access to FEATURED SUCCESS STORY education and children’s rights. LESSONS LEARNED • Though the civil war is not far in the past, Villagers in Kono district have accused local gold program participants are gradually beginning to • Football is an inexpensive instrument for mining companies of seizing land and destroying talk about the causes of the conflict and ways community mobilization, bringing groups of crops; the companies insist they have a legal right to avoid future strife. people together and galvanizing them around to the property. • YASAL staff have reported significant issues as diverse as women's rights, attitudinal change in program communities. environmental protection and land rights. YASAL organized a football match between the Men are beginning to discuss women’s rights • When given an opportunity, women and mining authorities and members of the community. and the option of not circumcising their children can provide valuable contributions to After a long period of suspicion and anger, the two daughters. decision-making processes. groups have been brought together in a positive • Staff report an increase in civic responsibility • Team spirit and trust can be built quickly in the setting and are finally beginning to communicate among participants, including performing context of a football match. without intermediaries. Though the issues are community work, caring for communal spaces, • Sport is an effective platform to engage young complex, suspicion has given way to constructive and reaching out to marginalized members of people in constructive, satisfying activities dialogue. the community such as the elderly. such as soap making, carpentry and tailoring. These activities provide opportunities for MORE INFORMATION self-employment and feelings of involvement For more information visit in the community. http://www.streetfootballworld.org/Projects/ YASAL’s children’s football club called “young stars” yasal/index_html/de in Kroobay, Freetown. or contact Saa Moses Lamin, LOOKING AHEAD the National Coordinator at [email protected] The project will continue working on important or by post: issues, including improving conditions for women c/o 29 Main Motor Road, and supporting women and children in their Brookfields efforts to gain access to land and livelihood PMB 798 opportunities. In addition, project staff hope to Freetown, Sierra Leone broaden and deepen their advocacy skills, in order to remind the government of its responsibilities

Youth in Action Sierra Leone Youth and to educate and engage policy makers in

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Children warming up for a sporting activity during a physical education class. PEACE

Sport and Play Teaches Life Skills

Scotiabank Salud Escolar Integral, El Salvador in El Salvador

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Present and future teachers in all subject • To use sport, play and physical activity to teach El Salvador today is struggling with the aftermath areas, but especially physical education, life skills, especially conflict resolution, in of a brutal civil war (1981-1992) that killed an and their students primary and secondary schools. estimated 70 000 people and left a legacy of gang • To build the capacity of local teachers to violence. In a population of just six million, close to deliver inclusive, child-centred and 3000 murders are reported each year. In particular, LOCATION developmentally appropriate lessons through El Salvador's large youth population is facing El Salvador in-service and pre-service training. serious social and economic challenges. To address • To support El Salvador's Ministry of Education these challenges, many are looking to the country’s in redesigning the national physical health and school system which has the potential to act as a LEAD ORGANIZATION education curriculum to promote holistic child force for positive change, providing a safe haven Centre for Healthy Development through development and healthy choices. for children to gain the skills that will enable Sport and Physical Activity, Brock University, them to make peace a part of their daily lives and develop leadership capabilities for the future. Canada

PROGRAM NAME Scotiabank Salud Escolar Integral

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PROGRAM DESIGN DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS IMPACT The Centre for Healthy Development through Sport and Physical Activity initiated Scotiabank Salud • Ministry of Education El Salvador (supports • In 2006, 11 workshops for over 800 in-service Escolar Integral (SSIE) in 2005 to empower current SSIE workshops and is collaborating on reform and pre-service teachers were held. Fifteen and future teachers to use physical education to of school curriculum at all levels) workshops are scheduled for 2007, which will promote a new vision for children’s health and to • Pedagógica University (trains physical education reach approximately 1000 teachers. PEACE teach life skills, especially non-violent conflict teachers, new curriculum adopted for 2007) • SSIE staff report that teachers are highly resolution. The program was expressly designed to • Canadian Embassy in El Salvador (provides motivated, even willing to attend training be part of the school system in order to maximize networking support and connections with local outside regular working hours. reach to youth under 15 and to leverage the school partners) • In 2007, Universidad Pedagógica de El Salvador system's ready network of 50 000 teachers. • Plan El Salvador (active in rural areas and opened their new three-year physical education provides network for project) training program with 52 prospective teachers. Program staff from Brock University organize • Youth Secretariat (government agency dealing • In 2005 and 2006, one school was selected to capacity-building workshops for in-service and with youth, supports SSIE efforts in schools) pilot sports demonstrations with students. Six pre-service teachers in El Salvador. These work- visits were held at this school, involving 370 shops provide a mixture of theoretical and practical students. In 2007, five presentations are examples of how health and physical education RESOURCES scheduled, reaching approximately 500 students. can be vehicles to help children and youth develop • SSIE has had a positive impact on school important life skills. Teachers are taught games Scotiabank El Salvador and Scotiabank Canada are attendance. Though the program does not yet and activities that promote health and fitness, but generous financial supporters of the project and have the capacity to monitor this numerically, whose primary goal is to teach “hands on” team- have provided invaluable links to key Salvadoran anecdotal evidence from teachers and parents building skills. Physical activities in which contacts. SSIE receives additional funding from indicates that students are much less likely to cooperation, fairness and inclusion are rewarded, Canada’s International Development Resource miss school when they know a physical rather than athletic skill or fitness level, are Centre (IDRC). education lesson is scheduled. stressed. Teachers are also taught to bring students together after each activity to discuss embedded skills and messages, and how these ideas can be Preparing for games during a workshop (Canadian staff visiting). transferred to daily life.

In addition to capacity-building, SSIE is helping to affect change at the national curriculum level on two fronts. First, SSIE has worked with Universidad Pedagógica de El Salvador to introduce a new, collaboratively designed curriculum for students striving to become physical education

teachers. This curriculum has received strong

Ministry of Education support. Additionally, SSIE Salvador El is supporting the government of El Salvador on a

longer-term project to redesign the national school Integral,

curriculum. The focus of the new curriculum in Escolar

all subject areas will be on nation-building for the Salud future. SSIE is helping to reorient the physical

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LESSONS LEARNED FEATURED GAME FEATURED SUCCESS STORY Crossing the Volcano One of the teachers who attended a SSIE workshop • Physical education can teach a wide range Crossing the Volcano involves teams of six to eight went back to his classroom, where he had one of vital life skills, such as cooperation, children who stand at one side of a room or field. particularly difficult student, an aggressive boy team-building and fair play. They are given seven objects, such as flattened who bullied and threatened other students. The PEACE • Important team-building skills can be learned soccer balls, foam swimming devices or hula teacher employed the activities from the workshop through team sports like football, provided that hoops, which they use to cross the playing space. but was frustrated by the lack of immediate these sports are well-mediated to impart these The first person lays their object on the ground progress with this student. The teacher persevered. lessons. SSIE has had great success focusing on and stands on it. The second person steps on the At the end of the year, the boy approached his games and activities, rather than sports, partly first object and then places their object further into teacher and asked to speak privately. He said that because players have no preconceived notions the playing space and moves onto it. Each player he wanted to apologize for his behaviour, and that about goals or strategy when the game is does the same, creating stepping stones across the though he still had trouble interacting with others, unfamiliar. field or room until the whole team can cross to the he was beginning to understand the effects of his • It is important to create broad-based other side. The first round of the game is simple, behaviour. He saw things differently now. partnerships with diverse groups. SSIE involves because there are plenty of objects. However, each universities, government bodies and NGOs, time the team crosses the space, the instructor MORE INFORMATION as well as teachers and teacher trainers. takes away one object. Each subsequent crossing For more information, visit • Listen to local needs and orient project activities requires more and more trust and cooperation http://www.fahs.brocku.ca/chdspa/SSEIEng.html to solve problems identified by participants. between team members to balance together on or email [email protected] fewer and fewer objects.

LOOKING AHEAD Because games like this one have many possible outcomes, the discussions can take a variety of Ultimately, SSIE is striving to empower directions. For example, instructors can equate the Salvadorans to lead and sustain this project. To negative outcome of a hasty decision in an activity this end, Canadian staff have adopted a “train the to the negative health consequences of ill trainer” model, working with a small group of considered decisions. The post-activity discussions Salvadoran physical educators who will begin are a vital component of the SSIE approach. delivering the in-service training nationwide. In Friends and partners of Scotiabank Salud Escolar Integral. addition, following the efforts of one group of physical education teachers to create a regional

association, SSIE staff are supporting a wider Salvador effort to create a professional association of El

physical education teachers at the national level. Integral, Escolar Further down the road, the project also hopes to Salud involve children with special needs, ultimately

training teachers to integrate them into activities Scotiabank with their classmates.

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Boxing, wrestling and martial arts are key activities for project participants. Project staff believe that sport can provide young people with opportunities to earn respect and success from peers, discouraging them from becoming involved in street gangs. PEACE Boxing Program Fights for Peace in Community Plagued by Crime

Fight for Peace, Brazil and Drug Violence

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Youth, aged 7 to 25 • To use sport to bring unity to groups divided by Complexo de Mare in Rio de Janeiro is divided violence in Rio de Janeiro and to address issues into territories controlled by three different drug LOCATION connected to violence, drug trafficking and gangs. factions. Drug trafficking and criminal activities Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • To use sport to positively channel aggression are highly visible and seem, to many youth, to be and frustration and teach participants about the most socially and financially rewarding option conflict resolution. available to them. Drug-related violence is LEAD ORGANIZATION • To provide a safe environment in which youth common place and services and opportunities Fight for Peace (Luta Pela Paz) can learn life skills, receive formal and for young people are limited. informal education and job training, and obtain referrals to social services both within and PROGRAM NAME outside of the community. Fight for Peace

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PROGRAM DESIGN Working with families Fight for Peace currently employs 15 staff Fight for Peace works with young people and their members, including youth workers, coaches and Fight for Peace was initiated to overcome divisions families. Program staff have made over 900 home a coordination team. Eighty percent of the staff among young people and to offer alternatives to visits in the past three years, constructing a picture come from the community, and 60% were crime, drug trafficking and violence. The program of each person’s perspective and daily life. Fight originally project participants themselves. The is sport-based and includes education, vocational for Peace staff stress that “every case is a case,” Centre hosts up to 350 participants at any given PEACE training and leadership components. The main highlighting the importance of individual responses. time. Boxing is still the most popular sport at the pillars of the Fight for Peace model include access Centre, but wrestling and capoeira, a traditional to work, education, youth leadership, social action, Though sport is at the centre of the project, a Brazilian martial art, are being added to the and sport. Boxing was chosen as the program’s range of other programs are held at the Centre, curriculum. Initially launched as a program for primary activity as it offers a unique opportunity including: boys, girls now make up 37% of all project to discuss issues of violence and it appeals to the • primary education classes in the evenings for participants. targeted group of youth beneficiaries. young people who have dropped out of state school; The Fight for Peace Centre • computer classes (currently attended by over Housed in a modern sports complex, the Fight for 170 young people); Peace Centre provides a safe space for program • partnerships with local businesses which participants. The Fight for Peace team fosters an provide job placements and referrals for important spirit of belonging for participants and participants; regular boxing tournaments allow participants to • weekend social events; publicly compete and gain respect. Luke • a youth council that participates in project Dowdney, Fight for Peace founder and former coordination with project staff; and British Universities Amateur Boxing Champion, • youth leadership classes. asserts that “this status is something they could otherwise only gain by picking up a gun.”

Citizenship classes Fight For Peace provides Each participant must attend a weekly youth important educational and vocational opportunities workshop, known as a Citizenship Class, in order for participants. The Fight For to be admitted to sport training. Classes are Peace Centre holds regular focused on themes relevant to the lives of the computer classes, currently attended by over 170 young young people and provide a safe space in which people, and provides job they can express their opinions and discuss issues. placements and referrals Through this process, Fight for Peace hopes to with local businesses promote integration and confidence by providing youth with the necessary tools to question the status quo and find solutions to difficult circumstances with the support of their peers. Fight for Peace, Brazil

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DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION LOOKING AHEAD PARTNERS IMPACT In 2006, an external evaluation commission by the • Residents’ Association, Rio de Janeiro • Parents report that their children are much United Nations Development Program revealed • Viva Rio (Fight for Peace was originally calmer at home and their relationships with that Fight for Peace provided successful social established in 2000 as a Viva Rio project but is family members are more positive. interventions which could be replicated in other PEACE now in the process of establishing itself as an • Staff and parents report that participants are communities where armed violence exists. The independent NGO) succeeding at school and are more likely to Fight for Peace program is now expanding complete secondary certificates. internationally for the first time in East London, • Youth participants are present at all staff England and in South Africa. In coming years, the RESOURCES meetings and contribute to operational and project hopes to expand to a new country every programming decisions. Such active year, with the goal of opening ten centres around Fight for Peace’s annual budget in Rio de Janeiro involvement gives beneficiaries a strong the world. is US$250 000. Resources are provided by: sense of ownership in the project. • Laureus Sports for Good Foundation • Youth benefit from a range of counselling, • Save the Children Sweden educational and skill-building opportunities. FEATURED SUCCESS STORY • Canadian International Development Agency • Initially, membership was focused on ex-drug (CIDA) traffickers, but now a much wider spectrum Alberto’s father was murdered when he was young, • Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK of participants are involved, integrating boys and he could easily have been lured into gang life. • The Stuart and Hillary Williams Foundation with girls, and street children with more Instead, he joined the Fight for Peace Centre, • Dreams Brasil privileged youth. where he has been a member for years. In 2006, • The Hewlitt Family Foundation he travelled with the Club to Belfast for a boxing • The Dawson Family Foundation tournament. He won his fights and, along with • Emesron Fittipaldi (Brazilian former F1 fellow boxers from the Centre, was recognized by World Champion) LESSONS LEARNED the Mayor of Belfast. Today, he is finishing secondary-level education and starting to look for In future, the Centre aims to build a private gym • Listen to the people your project serves, a job. Fight for Peace founder, Luke Dowdney, that charges monthly fees for adult community especially the young people. describes Alberto as a hero who chose a members, contributing to financial sustainability. • Understand what draws people to your project non-violent path: “this is a hard struggle — it’s or activity and maintain a strong focus on this harder to stay in school and struggle with poverty element. Fight for Peace is a boxing club as than to pick up a gun.” well as a social project, and the boxing must remain high quality. • Committed staff are key to the project’s success. MORE INFORMATION They serve as organizers, counsellors and For more information, visit coaches, but also as role models to program http://www.fightforpeace.net participants. or contact Luke Dowdney at • When replicating the project in another [email protected] country, seek local partners and staff to be involved in planning and implemention. Make sure you trust these partners as you will be an outsider and they will have to guide you.

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PeacePlayers International uses sport to encourage friendships between youth of difference backgrounds. PEACE Basketball Program Brings Together Israeli and

Palestinian Youth B Sigafoos, PeacePlayers Intl - Middle East

PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES OBJECTIVES PROGRAM CONTEXT Palestinian, Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli • To bridge divides, change perceptions and Israel and the West Bank are home to Arab, Jewish youth, 10 to 16 years old foster friendship between youth from different and Palestinian families, but while these cultural backgrounds. communities may live in the same neighbourhoods, LOCATION • To teach life skills to young people growing up they have limited opportunities for positive in conflict regions (anti-violence, conflict interaction. Children attend segregated schools Israel and the West Bank resolution). and maintain friendships only within their own • To impart values for peaceful co-existence, communities. As a result of their lack of contact, LEAD ORGANIZATION sportsmanship, and leadership. these youth often know little of each other beyond • To raise awareness of cultural similarities and media and myth. Historical and cultural separation PeacePlayers International differences and promote respect for diversity. and mistrust is compounded and perpetuated by • To increase girls’ participation in sports. the continuing cycle of violence. Children in the PROGRAM NAME region have never truly experienced peace. PeacePlayers International – Middle East

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PROJECT DESIGN The Twinned Basketball Clubs DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION The Twinned Basketball Clubs have two main PARTNERS PeacePlayers International launched its Middle components: East projects (PPI-ME) in 2005 to create conditions • Jerusalem Girls’ Basketball League/Project to for Israeli, Arab and Palestinian youths to 1) Joint basketball activities and life skills sessions Advance Girls’ Basketball in Jerusalem experience positive interaction with members of which emphasize team-building and promote (partnered with PeacePlayers this year and, different communities, and ultimately form lasting meaningful interaction between Palestinian and for the first time, had Arab girls in the League) PEACE and meaningful friendships with people from the Israeli youth. Participants are rewarded for • Jerusalem YMCA (the YMCA is one of the few “other side”. PPI-ME focuses on communities with sportsmanship, effort and leadership, rather play spaces where both Arabs and Jews come of limited opportunities for sports and recreation and than for scoring the most points. their own volition) targets children aged 10 to 16 who are old enough • Arab-Jewish Community Centre, Jaffa to pick up sport basics, but still young enough not 2) Leadership training for older Palestinian and • Regional Council of Emek Hefer to have internalized prevailing prejudices. PPI-ME Israeli youths who eventually earn the • Municipality of Qalansuwa also emphasizes increased participation of girls opportunity to be employed as coaches and • Wingate Institute of Physical Education, Israel in sports. mentors for children. This component provides (coaching certificates) capacity-building and employment for young • Khadoori College, Tulkarm (college interns PeacePlayers focuses on basketball, a team sport people. receive training from PeacePlayers and a Coach which is less developed than football, the national Certificates) favourite, but carries few of the cultural or political Activities and skills sessions occur regularly associations that are connected with football. throughout the school year (minimum every two PPI-ME operates two year-round programs: weeks) and participants also play in inter-club RESOURCES tournaments held several times a year. 1) Twinned Basketball Clubs, involving both PeacePlayers receives funding from numerous Palestinian and Israeli youth, and The BasketPal Program private donors, foundations and corporations, PPI-ME believes that “peace between communities including: 2) BasketPal, a single identity program catering must begin with peace within the community”. • Daimler Chrysler Corporation Fund exclusively to Palestinian youth in the West This principle is the foundation for the West Bank • Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Bank. BasketPal program, which aims to integrate youth • Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family from refugee camps and the surrounding areas, Charitable Funds PPI-ME participants are trained by approximately teaching life skills such as leadership and • The Wasserman Foundation 35 coaches, who are long-term employees of the cooperation in the context of sporting activities. • The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation program, and 20 Palestinian interns, who work in • Walter S. Mander Foundation the BasketPal Program. • The Adi Dassler Fund • The Alan B. Slifka Foundation In contrast to many inter-group encounter programs, all PPI-ME projects are long-term. Ideally, participants join at the age of 10 and continue until they are 16, when they can choose to become program leaders. PeacePlayers charges a participant fee, but this is only symbolic and does not prevent participation from youth whose families cannot afford the program.

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IMPACT LOOKING AHEAD FEATURED SUCCESS STORY In the coming years, staff hopes to solidify its Beit Safafa, located between Jerusalem and • The program reached 200 participants — Middle East curriculum and focus on more Bethlehem, is the only Arab village left in West all male — if its first year. With high demand locally-specific content. In addition, staff Jerusalem. Home to three extended Palestinian for programs, by 2007 PPI-ME was reaching 600 development will play a priority role moving families, the town of 8000 inhabitants has been PEACE youths (200 through BasketPal and over 400 in forward. Many coaches were selected because they marked by conflict and discrimination. Between the twinning program). Almost half of all are positive role models for participants, but are the wars of 1948 and 1967, the village was split participants are now female. not always trained in group facilitation. Project between Jordan and Israel, and to this day, some • Behaviour change among participants has been staff will work on giving them a wider range of residents carry Israeli citizenship and others dramatic. One International Program Director coaching and facilitation skills. PPI-ME will also Palestinian. Many residents have left the town. described the “U-turn” his participants have keep working to promote change at the institutional experienced: “[Today] you would not believe level, forming partnerships with Ministries and Despite these hardships, Beit Safafa was among that when we started working in Tulkarm that schools. the first village in the region to open a sports club, the kids were aggressive and violent — they but basketball was always overshadowed by the wouldn’t even shake each others’ hands after In five years, the project hopes to be financially local love of football. When PeacePlayers a game.” self-sufficient, relying on local sponsors rather International opened its Middle East office, Beit • Long-term, regular contact between participants than international donors. Safafa was one of the first locations chosen for ensures that they have the opportunity to form programming. real and lasting friendships, an essential component for attitudinal change in the FEATURED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT In 2005, PPI-ME started the first basketball school community. SESSION in the village, with a team of fifteen 12 year olds. As the coordinator of the Beit Safafa program has Targeted skills: Leadership and inter-group expressed, “just when we felt abandoned by both relations sides (Israelis and Palestinians), PeacePlayers-ME LESSONS LEARNED Targeted age group: Older children jumped in.” The teams have competed in Participants rotate between stations that include competitions in Israel and Palestine, and received • Positive personal relationships are one of the different team-building/inter-group relations a great deal of positive local media coverage. In strongest conditions leading to attitudinal activities as well as actual basketball games that the program’s second year, 45 young people joined change in the community. are played on integrated teams. Activities may the centre, creating two boys’ teams and a girls’ • Start small and scale-up when the project is include creating a team logo or cheer or opening a team. Local pride in the team and their ready for expansion. Work first on quality and dialogue with the assistance of trained facilitators. accomplishments is high. then expand to reach a wider population. Time is also devoted to tackling specific issues • Be patient and sympathetic with staff members: affecting a team. For example, if the players need MORE INFORMATION in difficult political surroundings, everyone is to improve fair passing between players of For more information, visit coping with limitations and cultural challenges. different ethnicities, a session will be specifically http://www.playforpeace.org • When hiring staff for a sports program with a devoted to that issue. or contact Karen Doubilet, social mission, it is important to find people Middle East Managing Director who are not just skilled coaches, but also at [email protected] positive role models for young people.

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Cover Photos (top left to bottom right):

Regular “play days” are scheduled during the school year focusing on different themes, such as Peace Day or International Women’s Day. Games and activities are organized which bring children together in a positive environment and teach information about health issues. Right To Play/Grumeti SportWorks Tanzania

A health volunteer and a youth volunteer consult the health game handbook prior to leading a Red Ball Child Play activity (health game) for Burmese and Thai children in their village near Had Jik Health Center, Kra Buri District, Ranong Province, Thailand. Ian MacDonald (on behalf of Right To Play/Thailand Migrant SportWorks Project)

Girls and boys playing together. Right To Play/SportWorks Pakistan

Establishing children’s playgrounds: through the partnership program, Sharek has restored children’s playgrounds throughout the occupied Palestinian territory. Sharek Youth Forum

Handicap International’s project in Morocco is called “Sport as a Tool for Social Integration and Personal Development for People with Disabilities.” The project involves capacity building for Moroccan institutions, provision of adapted sports equipment and organization of inclusive sporting activities. These wheelchair races contribute to the project’s awareness raising activities by promoting positive images of people with disabilities. Thousands of spectators from the community come to watch such events. Handicap International Project in Morocco Green Section Wed Oct 24.qxd 11/1/07 5:01 PM Page 24

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