Fields of work

Three fields

The NKS operates in three different fields

  • NKS member organisation: Sport friends:
    - Friendship ties between NKS member associations and sports organisations from the South
  • Education in the Netherlands:
    - Millennium games: teaching kit for primary schools
    - Sports development tour: information for sports programmes
    - Presentations, lectures, speeches
  • Projects in developing countries
    -  building and strengthening organisations through training and enhancement of expertise
    -  developing sports structures by supporting and setting up agencies, competitions, community clubs
    - youth exchanges

Three levels

The NKS promotes developing sports locally, regionally and nationally. Operating at these three levels allows executive (local NGOs and community sports clubs) and directive organisations (public agencies, educational institutions, and sports associations) to interact with one another and make sports development more effective. This approach enables the directive organisations to experience practice and allows them to focus more on demand. Likewise, it enables local organisations to communicate their needs for assistance. The outcome should be a self-sufficient structure.

Two groups

The members of the partnership comprise two basic groups:

  • local organisations, such as: sports associations, women's movements, healthcare organisations, youth associations, parishes and schools
  • regional and national organisations, such as ministries (sports, education, healthcare, youth and emancipation), educational institutes, sports associations and federations, the Olympic Committee and bishoprics.

Supporter instead of owner

The NKS is not an owner but a supporter of sports development projects. Local organisations should be responsible for such projects. The NKS has learned this lesson through the experience of starting its project in Suriname as more of an owner than a supporter. In the course of the project this role underwent adjustments. Based in part on this experience, the NKS has decided to act as a supporter in the future.