Pacific Sports Partnership Program off to a Flying Start

The programme involves collaboration between the Australian Government, Australian national sporting organisations and Oceania regional sports federations and their Pacific Islands equivalents.

The aim of the programme is to create development programmes and will initially focus on cricket, football, netball, rugby league and rugby union.

Martin Roberts, manager of Pacific sports partnerships at the Australian Sports Commission, explains the purpose of the programme
‘The program is essentially about building the capacity of local sports federations to deliver what the partner countries have identified as most important to them, including some specific development outcomes in the area of social health initiatives and youth engagement’.

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