Sport for peace and development International Year of Sport and Physical Education

Sport for peace and development

Sport for peace and development

Sport for peace and development

The embargo has had a very negative impact on the availability of the basic materials needed to develop the many existing physical education and athletics programmes.

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To publicize and promote United Nations sport for development and peace activities and programmes and the commemoration of the International Year of Sport and Physical Education, the United Nations New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace produces a fortnightly electronic sport bulletin on behalf of the United Nations Working Group on Sport for Development and Peace.

Noting the need for the development of a common framework within the United Nations to promote sport for education, health, development and peace,

Noting the need for the development of a common framework within the United Nations to promote sport for education, health, development and peace,

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The International Year of Sport and Physical Education is highlighting the significant role that sport can play in accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and adding a strong impetus to efforts to better integrate sport into the development agenda.

(e) The appointment of sport celebrities as spokespersons for the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, as a means to promote education, health, development and peace

(e) The appointment of sport celebrities as spokespersons for the International Year for Sport and Physical Education, as a means to promote education, health, development and peace

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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace

1981 1988 Senior Youth Development Officer and Deputy Commissioner of Youth, Ministry of General Education, Youth Sport and Child Development

From the increase of sports crowd, the development of sports undertakings to the rise of sports industry, sports is influencing the progressing pace of Chinese society with more powerful appeal.

The meeting highlighted the development potential of sport, and the diverse group of representatives from several countries vouched that the applicability of sport, as a means to promote development and peace is universal.

To better engage our youth, our Ministry of Community Development and Sports underwent a structural and name change in 2004 to become the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

The Secretary General emphasized that sport is a good vehicle for promoting education, health, development and peace as a part of the overall effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Those conferences will assess further the growing relationship between sport and development issues and strengthen the role of sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace.

7. Invites Governments and international sports bodies to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in their capacity building efforts in sport and physical education, by providing financial, technical and logistic resources for the development of sports programmes

Invites Governments and international sports bodies to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in their capacity building efforts in sport and physical education, by providing financial, technical and logistic resources for the development of sports programmes

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary General entitled Sport for peace and development International Year of Sport and Physical Education

(a) The holding of international conferences emphasizing the role of sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace

(a) The holding of international conferences emphasizing the role of sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace

ILO has contributed a methodology called the common framework for sport and development for youth skills development and socio economic partnerships through sport.

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Considering the role of sport and physical education as a means to promote education, health, development and peace,

(d) To recognize the contribution of sport and physical education towards economic and social development and to encourage the building and restoration of sports infrastructures

With the support of the Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, in January 2005, the Government of Switzerland initiated the Group of Friends of Sport for Development and Peace at the governmental level.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has a department devoted solely to youth development.

4. Encourages the United Nations to develop strategic partnerships with the range of stakeholders involved in sport, including sports organizations, sports associations and the private sector, to assist in the implementation of sport for development programmes

7. Encourages the United Nations to develop strategic partnerships with the range of stakeholders involved in sport, including sports organizations, sports associations and the private sector, to assist in the implementation of sport for development programmes

1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary General entitled Sport for peace and development International Year of Sport and Physical Education A 59 268 and Add.1.

1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary General entitled Sport for peace and development International Year of Sport and Physical Education A 60 217.

3. Invites Governments and international sports bodies to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in their capacity building efforts in sport and physical education

6. Invites Governments and international sports bodies to assist developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in their capacity building efforts in sport and physical education

The report of the United Nations Inter Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace clearly identifies youth as one of the greatest beneficiaries of the effects of sport, and the United Nations New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace is organizing a series of youth leadership summits to highlight the use of sport as an entry point for mobilizing youth to bolster efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

In October 2004, the United Nations New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace was created, with the financial support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to assist the Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace.

7. Encourages the Secretary General to maintain the mandate of Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace and to provide guidance on the institutional future of sport for development and peace within the United Nations system

A 60 217 Item 50 (b) of the provisional agenda Sport for peace and development International Year of Sport and Physical Education Report of the Secretary General A C E F R S

Important advances have been made in the areas of education, health, child nutrition and institution building, which are the basis for development.