The Guiding Toolkits section provides users with a ‘gateway’ to access further practical and detailed information for specific aspects of conceiving, conducting and learning from sport and development programmes.
Guiding Toolkits section are structured to provide practical and targeted information for practitioners, current and prospective donors, and other stakeholders in areas concerning the planning, implementation and review of sport and development programmes.
At times Guiding Toolkits go further, with materials from business management as well as from mainstream development practice that apply to the sport and development context.
As the Guiding Toolkits are designed to provide guidance and advice on the practical aspects of sport and development, the style and wording here appears largely prescriptive, meaning it gives direction. As with any advice, users are urged to consider the information from a critical standpoint, deciding for themselves how relevant and applicable this information is to the diversity of sport and development contexts. Material in this section is meant to assist and guide. A ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to sport and development is not necessary or desirable.
The Guiding Toolkits cannot aim to be exhaustive in providing all materials, tools and guides on creating and managing programmes, considering the abundance of project management, capacity building, monitoring & evaluation (M&E), partnership, etc. resources that exist. It rather aims to identify and provide access to tools and resources specific to sport and development practice.
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Credits
The Toolkit section has been developed from the Toolkit Sport for Development, originally created by NCDO and further developed by NIF and UK Sport. A number of organisations and institutes contributed to the Toolkit – their information and credits are provided throughout the Toolkit section.
