ONGs e Esporte

Cevnautas,
   O sítio anunciado pelo Lucas em nota anterior acaba de divulgar a publicação do relatório de um congresso realizado na Áustria: Football for Development: Exploiting the potential of sport as a tool for awareness raising and generating public support, em abril de 2010. O ponto de referência foi a primeira copa na África e teve muitas ONGs na participação. Nenhuma brazuca. Será que a copa no Brasil vai despertar alguma coisa parecida?

Colo abaixo o prefácio da publicação, que pode ser baixada  aqui  . Laércio

Football for Development

Sports in general but football in particular have become phenomenons that have huge potentials as channels and tools for social development due to the huge number of people from diverse backgrounds that they appeal to. They are fertile grounds to be used as platform to be used as social and development enterprise for the benefit of society. It is in this regard that in the run up to the first FIFA World Cup on the African continent in 2010, a group of development NGOs, sport organisations and human-rights initiatives came together to design the project Football for Development: Exploiting the potential of sport as a tool for awareness raising and generating public support.

This project is aimed at awareness-raising and educational work around this event for sustainability and development through football.

The two-year project which started in 2009 intends to use the popularity and universality of football as a unique entry point to raise awareness on development issues and to promote education for development among young people of both sexes. This grass-roots initiative applies a multi-agency approach.

Measurements and activities include a conference “Development through Football”, an NGO expert meeting, a cross-border school programme linked with exchange tours of mixed Kenyan youth teams, a training and exchange programme for sport journalists, activities at African Fan Zones during the FIFA World Cup in inner cities and action days with national teams and professional clubs inside stadiums.

This document presents the results, activities and proceedings at the conference Development through Football – Sustaining the potential of the first African World Cup – one of the programmes within this project which took place from the 23rd to the 24th of April 2010 in Vienna.

This pan-European conference brought together decision makers in football, sport governing bodies and public institutions as well as key actors in the field of sport-for-development within the EU 27 and sub-Saharan Africa. These diverse groups and stakeholders kicked-off a transnational networking process of exchange of expertise and good practice in the field of sport & development.

The major outcome of the conference was the adoption of an Action Plan at the end of the conference attended by representatives of 66 development NGOs and initiatives, development through sports organisations, football clubs and associations, fan initiatives, players’ unions, sport organisations and media, academic institutions as well as governmental bodies including national development agencies, United Nations and European Union institutions, from 27 different European and African countries. The Action Plan adopted affirmed the strong commitment of these bodies to make full use of the potential of football and other sports to overcome underdevelopment, poverty, address gender inequity, all forms of discrimination and social exclusion.

As you read through the pages of this document, you would realize how multifaceted the programme of the conference was; presentation of papers, plenary discussions, workshops and open forum on strategies to address issues in the areas of gender, development education, conflict, violence and peace, corporate social responsibility, global partnership, addressing the issues of exclusion, exploitation and all forms of discrimination in football as well as networking among stake holders in these areas.

The conference has been judged as a success both from the evaluation and feed back as well as references to the conference that continues to flow well after the event and the competition itself. The project is in its second year, and in addition to continuing some of the programmes in the project as mentioned above, there will be an expert NGDO conference to be held in March this year in Prague where the main outcome will be the adoption and presentation of a Good Practice Guide in the area of development through football.

At this juncture I would like to thank the partners of this project in Austria, Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic as well as our associate partners from Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, DR Congo and South Africa. My appreciation also goes to the resource persons and the participants who made the occasion a success. Our sponsors, the European Commission and Austrian Development Agency as well as other sponsors from partner countries deserve mention here since they have provided the resources for this project.

It is my hope that after reading through the document, readers would be inspired to come up with new, creative and sustainable ideas to carry through the dreams of the project and the adopted items in the Action plan.
Bella Bello Bitugu,
European Project Coordinator, VIDC-FairPlay

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