Creating power and impact for gender equity in sport for social change
The four-day conference "Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change" meeting with practitioners from all over the world focussed on how sport can further enhance women's role in society. In this section you will find the full report (pdf), the short version (pdf) and you can browse through the main results.
Organising team
The conference is initiated by Nike and organized in cooperation with Association Marocaine Sport & Développement (AMSD), Mama Cash, NCDO, Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and Women Win. It has been attended by forty NGO's who run development programs in more than twenty countries.
Special guests of the conference were the Olympic Champions: Daley Thompson (Athletics, UK), Heiki Dreschler (Athletics, Germany), Donna de Varona (Swimming, USA) and Marie-José Perec (Athletics, France). Honoured hostess of the conference was Nawal El Moutawakel; she was the first African woman to become an Olympic Gold medallist (Athletics, Morocco) and is founder of AMSD.
Networking and capacity building
It was the second year of the conference discussing strategies to use sport as a tool for gender equity. As main results the participants noted that they were able to network and exchange strategies to strengthen the position of women through sports and to overcome obstacles specifically linked to girls' participation in sports.
Additionally, the attendees participated in workshops focused on advocacy, networking skills, creating a website and developing different funding strategies. The value and potential of sharing lessons learned and sharing knowledge was a central subject in parallel workshops. Vital part of the conference was an introduction to creative Monitoring & Evaluation tools. The participatory video created by participants during the conference is one of the best examples. The video can be watched on www.insightshare.org/video_main_casablanca.html
Challenge for the future
In 2006 the organisation and management was done mainly by Nike, supported by AMSD and NCDO. This year Maria E. Bobenrieth, director of Nike EMEA CR, was proud to commence that the conference became a joint effort of six partners. The organisers hope that the seeds sowed during this conference will grow and flower in the year to come, so the Sport & Devel-opment community can harvest the results during the conference in 2008, advancing the movement Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change step by step.
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