UNESCO-Laureus partnership to lead way on social development via sport

A collaboration between UNESCO and Laureus Sport for Good was agreed ahead of the Laureus World Sports Awards in Paris, bringing together two institutions with a common goal – to use the power of sport to change the world.

Both Laureus and UNESCO recognise that the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires a concerted alliance between inter-governmental organisations, governments, non-governmental organisations, and private sector entities.

The partnership between the two institutions has been a long time coming, as representatives from both bodies are proud to see it come to fruition in a tangible partnership agreement.

Both UNESCO and Laureus believe in the power of using a bottom-up approach, complementing and reinforcing each other’s efforts to create an impact stronger, wider, and deeper than the sum of its parts.

The first practical steps are to collaborate programmatically in Paris and Delhi, to collaborate around impact measurement in sport and Sport for Development as well as in research, and to collaborate on policy development and convening of stakeholders across multiple sectors to mobilise global support for sport, physical education and sport for development.

Source: UNESCO