Sport as a Means to Promote Education, Health, Development and Peace

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 49 Sport for peace and development, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2003–2017

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/71/160

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/RES/71/160	Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace	2,881	48%Compare
2014	A/RES/69/6	Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace	2,728	69%Compare
2012	A/RES/67/17	Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace	2,285	50%Compare
2010	A/RES/65/4	Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace	1,510	61%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/135	Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace	1,194	13%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

10 reports · 2004–2018

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2018	A/73/325	Strengthening the global framework for leveraging sport for development and peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/160
2016	A/71/179	Sport for development and peace : towards sport's enabling of sustainable development and peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/6
2014	A/69/330	Sport for development and peace : realizing the potential report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/67/17
2012	A/67/282	Sport for development and peace : mainstreaming a versatile instrument report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/4
2010	A/65/270	Sport for development and peace : strengthening the partnerships report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/135

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Appreciates the appointment of sports celebrities as spokespersons and Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations, representing the positive values of sport;

Encourages the strengthening of cooperation with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, sports organizations and other partners of the world of sport;

Invites Member States, the United Nations system, including the governing bodies of the United Nations agencies, sport-related organizations, the media, civil society and the private sector to collaborate to promote greater awareness and action to foster peace and accelerate the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals through sport-based initiatives and to promote the integration of sport for development and peace in the development agenda, by working along the following points, adapted from the Action Plan included in the report of the Secretary-General:1

Further develop a global framework to strengthen a common vision, define priorities and further raise awareness to promote and mainstream sport for development and peace policies that are easily replicable;

Promote and support the integration and mainstreaming of sport for development and peace in development programmes and policies;

Promote innovative funding mechanisms and multi-stakeholder arrangements on all levels, on a voluntary basis, including the engagement of sports organizations, civil society, athletes and the private sector;

Promote common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards;

Invites Member States to initiate sports programmes to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women;

Invites Governments and international sports organizations to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, in their capacity-building efforts in sport and physical education, by providing national experiences and best practices, as well as financial, technical and logistic resources for the development of sports programmes;

Encourages Member States to ratify the International Convention Against Doping in Sport;³

³United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Thirty-third Session, Paris, 3–21 October 2005, vol. 1: Resolutions, chap. V, resolution 14.

Encourages the Secretary-General to maintain the mandate of Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace and to provide guidance on the institutional future of sport for development and peace within the United Nations system;

Invites Member States to provide voluntary contributions to ensure adequate execution of and follow-up to the activities being implemented by the Office of Sport for Development and Peace in Geneva and in New York;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution and on progress at the national, regional and international levels to encourage policies and best practices related to sport for development and peace, under the item entitled “Sport for peace and development”.

Sport as a Means to Promote Education, Health, Development and Peace

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