Experts Tackle Tough Issues in Round Two
The first answers to the Sport & Development e-Debate's second Round of questions have already started to come in.
Two tough questions have been put to the experts in this second Round.
The first question was: Delivering a balanced or holistic approach in S&D programmes is often advised, but difficult to implement. What are three main challenges we face in trying to maintain a balance between sport and other components?
Helen Alderson pointed to the challenge of integrating sports with other development components:
"Integrating the benefits of sports/physical activity into other key development components such as education, gender equality, health is difficult as the latter are often considered more “serious” issues that need to be addressed." Read the rest of her comments here
Jan Rijpstra advised building on sport and going from there:
"In my opinion you have to take a sports programme at its most fundamental level. On that basis you can build on the other components such as addressing gender inequality, social inclusion, and health." Read his full comments here.
As a second question, we asked the experts to describe a bad example of trying to embed sport in other interventions aimed at addressing health issues...not everyone seems to have an answer on this so we're looking to you to help us out on this one.
Can you think of 'worst practices' of sports programmes that were aiming to improve health but did not achieve a good balance between addressing health issues and developing sport? If so, post your answer below!
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