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Sport for Smile
“United Nations actions
in sport for development and peace”
1 September 2011
UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace
Poul Hansen
Head of Office
General Outline
• Why Sport for Development and Peace?
• The UNOSDP
• Mandate
• Functions
• Partners
• The Millennium Development Goals
• Score the Goals – Comic Book
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Sport for Peace
• Negative sides of sport
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Why Sport for Development and Peace?
• Sport is a global phenomenon, has strong
convening power and wide-spread popularity,
especially among youth
• Fun learning environment for participants
• Inherent values and benefits of sport:
teamwork, communication, leadership, fairplay, respect (for the rules and the other),
good health, resilience, discipline, etc.
•Cost-efficient and multi-versatile tool
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The UNOSDP
• Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations on Sport
for Development and Peace
• Core Functions:
• Advocate
• Facilitator
• Representative
• UNOSDP as the gateway to the UN system regarding sport
• Host of the Secretariat of the Sport for Development and
Peace International Working Group (SDP IWG)
• UNOSDP does not fund or implement programmes directly
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Working within the UN system:
• Coordination for mega sports events through UN Inter-Agency
Groups (programmatic and communication)
• Sharing of information through the UN platform on sport for
development and peace: www.un.org/sport
• Organising expert group meetings and fora
• Preparation of the SG„s report to the UN General Assembly on
Sport for Development and Peace
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Working with Governments:
• International Working Group on Sport for Development and Peace
• Thematic issues: Sport and - Child and Youth Development,
Health, Gender, Persons with Disabilities, Peace
•Group of Friends, New York
•Co-hosting of events (policy dialogue, IYSPE 2005 etc.)
• General Assembly support (resolutions on SDP)
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Working with the international sports community:
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Working with civil society and the private sector:
• Working with Organizations like Peace and
Sport, Generations for Peace, Beyond Sport
ect. to promote S4DP
• Sport for Development NGOs such as
Right to Play, MYSA, Homeless World Cup, local
grassroots organizations etc, mainly to
implement and/or execute UN–led or UN–
funded projects and programmes
• NIKE & UNHCR for the ninemillion.org
campaign on gender and sport
• Coca-Cola & UNF, UNDP, UNCDF, UNICEF
and UN-HABITAT (2004 Tsunami)
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Sport can be used to mobilize and educate individuals and
communities (e.g. Project AIR using yoga in Rwanda).
Sport can be used to educate about and promote gender
equality, teach individuals, and integrate marginalized groups.
Sport plays a role in economic development through the provision of
employment and income opportunities (e.g. Alive & Kicking).
Sport is a universal language and a powerful tool to promote peace,
tolerance and reconciliation.
The 8 Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
•Participants, volunteers and coaches acquire transferable life skills which increase their employability
•Vulnerable individuals are connected to community services and supports through sport-based outreach programs
•Sport programs and sport equipment production provide jobs and skills development
•Sport can help prevent diseases that impede people from working and reduce health care costs
•Sport can help reduce stigma and increase self-esteem, and social skills, leading to increased employability
ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
• School sport programs motivate children to enroll in and attend school and can help improve academic achievement
• Sport-based community education programs provide alternative education opportunities for children who cannot
attend school
• Sport can help erode stigma preventing children with disabilities from attending school
PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
• Sport helps improve female physical and mental health and offers opportunities for social interaction and friendship
• Sport participation leads to increased self-esteem, self-confidence, and enhanced sense of control over one‟s body
• Girls and women access leadership opportunities and experience
• Sport can cause positive shifts in gender norms that afford girls and women greater safety and control over their lives
• Women and girls with disabilities are empowered by sport-based opportunities to acquire health information, skills,
social networks, and leadership experience
REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
• Sport can be used to educate and deliver health information to young mothers, resulting in healthier children
• Increased physical fitness improves children‟s resistance to some diseases
• Sport can help reduce the rate of higher-risk adolescent pregnancies
• Inclusive sport programs help lower the likelihood of infanticide by promoting greater acceptance of children with
disabilities
IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
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Sport for health programs offer girls and women greater access to reproductive health information
and services
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Increased fitness levels help speed post-natal recovery
COMBAT HIV AND AIDS, MALARIA, AND OTHER DISEASES
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Sport programs can be used to reduce stigma and increase social and economic integration of
people living with HIV and AIDS
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Sport programs are associated with lower rates of health risk behavior that contributes to HIV
infection
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Programs providing HIV prevention education and empowerment can further reduce HIV infection
rates
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Sport can be used to increase measles, polio and other vaccination rates
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Involvement of celebrity athletes and use of mass sport events can increase reach and impact of
malaria, tuberculosis and other education and prevention campaigns
ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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Sport-based public education campaigns can raise awareness of importance of environmental
protection and sustainability
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Sport-based social mobilization initiatives can enhance participation in community action to
improve local environment
DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
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Sport for Development and Peace efforts catalyze global partnerships and increase networking
among governments, donors, NGOs and sport organizations worldwide
Score the Goals – Comic Book
• Co-created by the UNOSDP and
other UN agencies
• Launched 24 January 2011
• Available in English, French, Spanish
• Aim to raise awareness and educate
children around the world about the
MDGs
Sport for Peace: macro and micro spheres
• Concept of the ancient Olympic Truce and its modern-day revival
• Initiatives on the elite sport level to promote friendly international
relations
• Highly mediatised and symbolic
• Both negative and positive “anecdotes”
• Positive: Ping Pong Diplomacy b/w China and the US,
celebrated historic handshake between the Presidents of Armenia
and Turkey at international football match in Yerevan
• Negative: Football War between Honduras and El Salvador,
Blood in the Water Match b/w USSR and Hungary
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Sport for Peace: unique value for UN policies and programming
• Inclusive nature and potential of sport
• Can bring people together on a neutral ground regardless of their
differences, e.g. child soldiers, former enemies and communities
previously engaged in violent conflict
• Utility of sport as non-verbal and universal language that everyone
understands or can learn quickly and which still builds social
relations
• Popularity and mass appeal of sport
• Sport can reach out to communities which may be inaccessible to
traditional development and peace-building initiatives and intervene
where other means have failed
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Sport for Peace: unique value for UN policies and programming
• Connecting business and employment opportunities to peace
processes
• Creation of production sites and sustainable jobs promotes stability
(e.g. employment of ex-child soldiers)
BUT: Sport alone cannot achieve peace
• To be successful and sustainable, sport must be one element among
others in a coherent overall peace-building strategy and toolkit
• Should be part of a multi-leveled, multi-dimensional and multi-sectoral
approach to peace-building
• Focus should be on building of conflict resolution capacity, local
ownership and predictable and sustainable programmes, not “oneoffs”.
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Negative sides of sport to be aware of, and which have to
be tackled:
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Nationalism
Racism and discrimination
Spectator violence
Exploitation of children
Doping
Match fixing and illegal betting/corruption
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[email protected]
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www.un.org/sport
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