Team Up

Team Up's Biography

Team Up is an Australian Government program supporting partnerships across the Pacific that use sport to bring people together, champion inclusion and create opportunity.

Team Up is a sport for development program comprising more than 35 partnerships across the Asia-Pacific that are working towards three outcomes:

Sport programs attract and retain women, girls and people with a disability, as well as men and boys
Sport organisations are safe, inclusive and accessible
Australia and Asia-Pacific partners use sport to strengthen relationships and build closer collaboration

These three outcomes all contribute to Team Up’s overall goal: Australia-Asia-Pacific sport partnerships support all people to realise their full potential through sport.

Team Up is one of a number of programs and activities driving the Australian Government’s implementation of the Sports Diplomacy 2030 strategy that support sporting organisations, athletes and the Pacific community through sport. It delivers on one of the key priorities of the strategy by using sport as a tool to strengthen communities across the Asia-Pacific. Team Up works closely with the Australian Government’s elite sports program, PacificAus Sports .

Team Up involves more than 70 partners from 15 sports (Athletics, Australian rules football, basketball, badminton, cricket, football, gymnastics, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, surfing, swimming, table tennis and volleyball) and has five focus areas: gender; disability; leadership; governance and knowledge.

Read on to find out more about how Team Up works in partnership to forge progress in these areas.