Cooling down: identify and show lessons learned

This workshop aimed at identifying key lessons of the conference and valuable information the attendees gained and should share. The workshop presented an overview of all previous lessons learned in the field of gender equity in sport for social change. Secondly, participants

trained their communication & advocacy skills by developing creative ideas for effective transfer of this knowledge to target groups. Teams of participants created their version of the 'Casablanca conference report', choosing the content, medium and distribution strategy and showing their lessons to the world. The results presented incorporated important guiding principles like: audience, main message, medium, effectiveness & usability, and marketing value.

The teams of participants presented a range of creative ideas for effective knowledge transfer: organising mini-conferences locally, showing the PV video, marketing the conference website, developing a photo book, using the participants as a channel and letting them distribute copies of the report in their own networks. An important conclusion was that much can be gained by bridging the gap between the sectors gender, sport and development which now operate partly in isolation. Bringing these three fields closer together will result in a bigger intersection, thus higher impact. Potential actions to accomplish this are: creating attention for the subject on conference panels, university exchanges, training of NGO staff, and observing diversity, making sure that South gets more involved.

More info

• Full report on workshop (pdf)
• Presentation 'Cooling down: identifying & showing Lessons learned', NCDO, Tessa Kocken and Peter Paul van Kempen (power point, pdf, hand out English, hand out French)
• The conference participants received the publication 'Lessons learned', we are glad to offer you this report on this website (pdf). In the chapter Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change (pdf) you can read about challenges and tools for gender equity in sport.
• In the toolkit Sport for Development you will find more tips, links and background documents (www.toolkitsportdevelopment.org).
• The website of the International Platform on Sport and Development offers information and communication opportunities for your own organization (www.sportanddev.org).

Tessa Kocken (NCDO) and Nawal El Moutawakel (AMSD)