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Sport for Sustainable Development: Designing Effective Policies and Programmes

The Commonwealth , Australian Aid and International Platform on Sport and Development via FutureLearn

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Overview

Learn how to make a positive impact in and through sport

Sport has been recognised as an enabler of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the 2030 Agenda. Organisations worldwide are using sport to contribute to the SDGs and other goals, addressing issues ranging from health and education to employment, and conflict resolution.

On this course, you will look at the benefits and limitations of using sport in development. You will learn to design, implement, and measure the impact of sport-based policies and programmes using best practices.

You will explore key concepts on sport and gender equality, disability, human rights, social inclusion, peacebuilding, good governance and safeguarding.

This course is for anyone interested in how sport can be used in development and how to effectively use sport to enable change.

This includes government officials, intergovernmental officers, sport bodies, public policy experts, private sector professionals, civil society actors including NGOs, practitioners, academics, students and volunteers.

Syllabus

  • Setting the scene: sport, development and change
    • Introducing sport and development
    • Using sport for change
  • Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals
    • Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals
    • Approaching change
    • End of week 2
  • Creating change: strategy, policy and governance
    • Introducing week 3
    • Making good policy
    • Strategy and policy implementation
  • Human rights, inclusion and context
    • Human rights and inclusion
    • Situation analysis and stakeholder mapping
  • Making it happen: programmes and planning
    • Programme design and management
    • Planning
    • Sport: Benefits, risks and limitations
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning
    • Monitoring and evaluation
    • Measuring sport's contribution to the SDGs
  • Mobilising people, partners and resources
    • Communication and advocacy
    • Elevator pitch activity
    • Raising resources
  • The final straight and next steps
    • Making decisions
    • Final assignment
    • Wrapping up the course

Taught by

Melissa Palombi

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