Elements

A functional sports infrastructure requires the following elements:

• rank and file responsible for sports technique
• other rank and file
• establishment of associations and organisations
• support for associations and organisations
• sports equipment
• sports accommodations

In development projects the NKS performs two general types of activities:

• Building and strengthening organisations by training rank and file and enhancing expertise.
• Developing sports structures by supporting and forming agencies, competitions, and community clubs.

The scheme below illustrates the fields of activity of NKS and of partners.

Instrumental value of sports

Sports development is inextricably linked with the instrumental value of sports toward promoting social development. The NKS focuses on the themes:

• sports and peace (establishing peace and furthering recovery from traumas)
• sports and gender (gender empowerment and gender equality)
• sports and health (physical, sexual, psychological)
• sports and youth (prospects for activities)

The NKS is convinced, however, that this instrumental value of sports will be effective only if sports are instrumentalised and developed as an objective.