What are the key ingredients for a successful sports and gender project?

• The community needs to be mobilised and involved.
• The players and the community should assume part of the responsibility for managing the project, including organising tournaments.
• All players need to be committed.
• Girls are to be involved in all facets of the project.

What are the most serious pitfalls for a sports and gender project?

• Inadequate financing.
• Negative cultural and religious standards and values regarding gender empowerment.

What are the main dos and don'ts in a sports and gender project?

Do:

• Involve the community in planning and execution.
• Aim for transparency and accountability.

Don't:

• Mismanage funds and resources.
• Treat the community and its culture and religious standards and values with disrespect.

What are the main ingredients for a successful sports and HIV/AIDS project?

• Be innovative
• Choose a sport that is popular among young people (football is popular among all young people).
• Football attracts spectators and provides an opportunity to convene an entire community for a tournament.
• Information about HIV/AIDS is distributed throughout the community in the local languages and through accessible forms of art and theatre (drama and poetry) that appeal to people of all ages.
• All sectors and communities work together as a team (healthcare, sports, education, community and young people).
• Qualified and professional coaches and trainers.
• Integration of voluntary HIV tests.
• Focus on prevention for those not infected.

What are the most serious pitfalls for the sports and HIV/AIDS project?

• Funding needs to be sufficient to expand this initiative throughout the country.
• In some areas girls are prohibited from participating because of the prevailing cultural values.
• Misconceptions and stigmas about HIV/AIDS persist in several of the remote communities where the Kicking out AIDS project has been conducted.