Our report summarises the campaign activities and deliverables and provides key insights on how to reshape sport and development to be more equitable, inclusive and impactful.
The world faces a range of increasingly complex and interconnected challenges. Sport reflects, and contributes to, many of these challenges but can help tackle them. The sport for development and peace (SDP) sector has grown rapidly but also faces challenges.
The sector is unequal across regions, gender, race, (dis)ability, socio-economic status etc. There is a resourcing challenge, with greater constraints than ever; a great diversity of initiatives but a lack of coordination and collective impact; while North driven, Anglo centric, neo-colonial approaches may cause an ‘own goal’ in SDP. There is limited understanding and research (especially at scale) on how sport can best contribute to sustainable change.
Given the challenges, the International Platform on Sport and Development (sportanddev), launched a campaign on Reshaping Sport and Development in 2021 with our key founding partners. Activities have run from 2022-2024 and will influence the next long-term strategy of sportanddev as we seek to better serve our diverse and amazing global community.
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