Good Practice Guide on Development Initiatives through Football © INEX-SDA www.footballfordevelopment.net Table of Contents What this Guide is about 3 Criteria for Good Practice 4 Initial Considerations 4 Sustainable Considerations 5 Vienna Action Plan 6 Grass Roots Initiatives and International Partnership 8 Football Governing Bodies, UN and Government Agencies 14 Clubs, Fan Groups, Academies and Anti-racism Initiatives 17 Football Stars and Professional Players 22 Media for Development 24 Corporate Social Responsibility and Fair Trade 26 IMPRINT © 2011 Publisher: Summary of Strategy Paper 29 VIDC – Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, Möllwaldplatz 5/3, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Tel. +43 1 7133594, Fax +43 1 7133594-73, E-Mail:
[email protected], UN Forum on Sport for Development and Peace Internet: www.vidc.org, www.fairplay.or.at Author and editing: Recommendations 30 Bella Bello Bitugu Editing and advice: Bella Bello Bitugu, David Hudelist, Kurt Wachter The Project Football for Development 31 Graphic design: typothese.at / m.zinner grafik, Sanja Jelic Print: Thomas Resch KG, A-1150 Vienna Main Partners 32 This guide has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The content of Associate Partners 33 this product is the sole responsibility of VIDC and their respective project partners and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. Feedback Form 35 © INEX-SDA 2 Football for Development What this Guide is about Sport, but football in particular, to address poverty, health issue gained in this project for posterity. as a medium to address social, and exclusion – both in the North It has as its overarching aim to set community and inequity issues in and in the South.