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

A/RES/63/135View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 42 Sport for peace and development, published in 2009.

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 subjects does this mandate have?

19 subjects

Budget Contributions Capacity Building Coordination Within UN System Development Education for Peace Focal Points Health International Cooperation Peace Peacebuilding Persons with Disabilities Physical Education Programme Implementation Public Information Resources Mobilization Social Integration Sports Training Programmes Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the Secretary-General’s decision to renew the mandate of a Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace and to incorporate the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group into the United Nations system under the leadership of the Special Adviser;

Also welcomes the establishment of a United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace, which constitutes a policy and communications platform that will facilitate partnerships, coordinate common strategies, policy and programmes and increase coherence and synergies, while simultaneously raising awareness within the United Nations system and among external partners;

Invites Member States, the organizations of the United Nations system, including their governing bodies, international peacekeeping missions, sport-related organizations, athletes, the media, civil society and the private sector to collaborate with the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace to promote greater awareness and action to foster peace and accelerate the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals through sport-based initiatives and promote the integration of sport for development and peace in the development agenda, by working along the following principles, adapted from the United Nations Action Plan on Sport for Development and Peace contained in the report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session:⁷

⁷See A/61/373.

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

Policy development: promote and support the integration and mainstreaming of sport for development and peace in development programmes and policies;

Resource mobilization: promote innovative funding mechanisms and multi-stakeholder arrangements at all levels, on a voluntary basis, including the engagement of sport organizations, civil society, athletes and the private sector;

Evidence of impact: promote and facilitate common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards;

Encourages Member States to designate focal points for sport for development and peace within their governments;

Also encourages Member States to provide institutional structures, appropriate quality standards and competencies and promote academic research and expertise in the field to enable ongoing training, capacity-building and education of physical education teachers, coaches and community leaders in sport for development and peace programmes;

Encourages the use of sport as a vehicle to foster development and strengthen education for children and young persons; prevent disease and promote health; empower girls and women; foster the inclusion and well-being of persons with disabilities; and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and peacebuilding;

Also encourages the use of mass sport events to promote and support sport for development and peace initiatives;

Invites Member States and international sport 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 sport programmes;

Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying and acceding to the Convention on the Rights of the Child,2 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities4 and the International Convention against Doping in Sport;5

Invites the international community to provide voluntary contributions to and to enter into innovative partnerships with the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace and the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including progress made by Member States towards implementation of the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group policy recommendations and on the functioning of the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace and the Trust Fund for Sport for Development and Peace, and to present an action plan on sport for development and peace.

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