Maidan Sport 4 Development Meet 19th May 2010

A review of the International Inspiration S4D planning model  

Debbie Lye International Inspiration Programme Director

International Inspiration Vision ‘To enrich the lives of 12 million children & young people of all

abilities, in schools & communities in 20 countries across the

world through the power of high quality & inclusive physical

education, sport & play’

International Inspiration worldwide

International Inspiration Countries

2007-2009: Azerbaijan; Brazil; India; Zambia; Palau; Mozambique; Bangladesh; Jordan; Trinidad & Tobago; Nigeria; South Africa; Malaysia

2010-2011: Indonesia; Pakistan; Turkey; Uganda; Tanzania + 3

International Inspiration & S4D

• Contributing to healthy physical and mental development

• Enhancing learning ability & achievement

• An integral part of high quality & holistic education

• Helping to increase school participation

• Providing a powerful platform for social justice & inclusion including gender equality and disability awareness and opportunity

• Promoting the right to play – CRC article 31

• Creating an effective medium for intercultural exchange & lifeskills learning

Outcomes-based Sport 4 Development partnerships The concept is to make a lasting difference by embedding

Sport 4 Development initiatives within national legal and policy frameworks while modelling best practice at the grass roots International Inspiration:

• Engages policy-makers – Government, NOC/NPC, national NGOs

• Empowers practitioners – teachers, coaches, community youth workers, young leaders

• Enables participants - children and young people to take part in sport, physical education and play

Country planning process• Desktop research into development needs & landscape• Scoping visit to meet & engage policy-makers• UK Study Visit for policy makers to observe relevant

models in the UK & develop jointly owned plan• Establishment of Country Steering Group• Continued planning in-country co-ordinated by UNICEF

& BC officers• Plan approved in-country by government, the NOC &

NPC: by the IOC /IPC, and by the IIF in the UK• Microplanning and implementation through model

practitioners – education institutions, NGOs etc.

Sport 4 girls• Girls’ education and social roles enhanced through sport in Jordan, South Africa and India

• Girls break down stigma barriers through sport in Zambia

• Young women learn new skills and community advocacy in all countries

Sport 4 Children and Young People with

Disabilities• Partnership with the IPC to

develop NPCs in II countries

• Inclusion for children with disabilities in Azerbaijan Malaysia and Jordan

• For the first time disability sport is part of Azerbaijan’s national strategy for sport

• New educational resources for children with disabilities in Malaysia

Sport 4 healthier, safer lives

• II is helping:o to increase HIV and

AIDS awareness in Zambia & South Africa

o To tackle drugs and gang culture in Trinidad & Tobago

o to protect children from the ever-present risk of drowning in Bangladesh

International Inspiration Statistics

• 16 countries to date• 4.4m children and young people have

participated• Almost 900,000 regularly engaged in PE

and Sport for the first time• 163 School links in place involving 326

schools in the UK and overseas• 21,000 teachers and coaches trained• 1,800 young peer leaders trained• 434 policy makers engaged• 9 new national policies / strategies