Special training progam

The ILO has developed a program called Youth Sport Program that contributes to insert youth through partnerships with the sport Community. (Common Framework in www.un.org/themes/sport and www.ilo.org/universitas).

Policy level

The program has two levels of interventions: policy level and project level. At the policy level a workshop on the contribution of sport to the Youth National Policy in Albania was carried out in May 2004 with the support of the IOC, the NOC and the UN system in Albania and with the participation of national sport partners and of the ILO's bipartite constituents, and Kennesaw State University, Atlanta (KSU).

In Senegal and in El Salvador activities were carried out respectively in the end of 2004 and early 2005 with the Minister of Sports of Senegal and the Minister of Labor of El Salvador as main national counterparts respectively together with the National Olympic Committee and other sports federations on policy issues related to youth insertion and employment through Sport. ILO worked in team with his University partners Kennesaw State University, Atlanta particularly for the coaching component in the country.

Project level

At the project level, activities are being carried out since July 2004 in Mozambique through training for women cooperative manufacturing school uniforms for kids in an Olympafrica sport center of Boane as a starting point of a cooperative agreement with the International Olympic Committee and the National Olympic Committee of Mozambique and a local development agency and UK Sport.

Crisis situations such as the Tsunami in South-East Asia can also include the sport actors to re-insert socially the youth affected by the catastrophe. A proposal was prepared following a mission of the ILO to Thailand in January 2005.

The text in this section has been provided by Giovanni di Cola from ILO.

See also www.ilo.org/universitas for more information.

• See also the publication 'Beyond the score board: youth employment opportunities and skills development in the sports sector', edited by Giovanni di Cola, summary (pdf)