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 11 Sport for peace and development, published in 2010.

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?

13 subjects

Budget Contributions Capacity Building Cooperation Between Organizations Developing Countries Development Education for Peace Focal Points Health Partnership Peace Physical Education Sports Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Appreciates the leadership of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, supported by the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace, on issues relating to sport for development and peace within the United Nations system and beyond;

Welcomes the ongoing efforts undertaken by the newly mandated Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group, which gathered for its inaugural plenary session on 5 May 2010 and the commencement of the substantive work of the first thematic working group on sport and child and youth development;

Invites Member States, the organizations of the United Nations system, including its peacekeeping missions and integrated peacebuilding missions, sport-related organizations, federations and associations, athletes, the media, civil society and the private sector to collaborate with the United Nations Office on 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,¹⁰ and reaffirmed in the report of the Secretary-General to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth session:Error: Reference source not found

¹⁰See 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, 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 that have not yet done so to designate a focal point for sport for development and peace within their governments;

Encourages Member States to provide institutional structures, appropriate quality standards, policies 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;

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

Encourages the stakeholders referred to in paragraph 3 above, and in particular the organizers of mass sport events, to use and leverage such events to promote and support sport for development and peace initiatives and to strengthen existing and build new partnerships, coordinate common strategies, policies and programmes and increase coherence and synergies, while raising awareness at the local, national, regional and global levels;

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,Error: Reference source not found the Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesError: Reference source not found and the International Convention against Doping in Sport;Error: Reference source not found

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

Invites Member States to join and support the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group, so as to enable it to continue its work on all envisaged themes, including sport and gender, sport and persons with disabilities, sport and health, and sport and peace;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh 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 on Sport for Development and Peace and the Trust Fund for Sport for Development and Peace, and to present an updated action plan on sport for development and peace.

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