27 January 2004 Cape Town

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Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Sport
and Recreation
27 January 2004Cape Town
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Introduction

• Last presentation on 27 February 2001.
• TIC presentation
• Detailed overview of SCORE
• Today Progress Report on Key Results Achieved
• Project Highlights
• Key Challenges Faced

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Vision
To be an international leader in the field of
community development and voluntarism,
utilising sport as a powerful medium to bring
about sustainable development empowerment,and
to build international and intercultural
understanding relationships.
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Objectives

• Build strong, healthy communities.

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Objectives
Give children a chanceto play and learn.
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Objectives
Provide NEW sportsopportunities.
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Objectives
Promote Equity, Friendship, Fairplay andExchange
through Sport.
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Objectives
Develop partnerships.
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Objectives
Train trainers and develop community leadership
capacity.
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Objectives
Promote voluntarism.
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What do we do?

• Develop and Train Community structures to
  facilitate activities.
• Add capacity to the work of other partners e.g.
  National and Provincial government.
• Recruit, train and prepare volunteers.
• Place support volunteers in communities.
• Monitor and evaluate programmes.

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How do we do it?

• Involve target communities in all stages of
  programme implementation.
• Stakeholder consultation.
• Public meetings.
• Community action plan.
• Implementation by local sport structures.
• Quality training.
• Added capacity by volunteers.

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Key result areas.

• Community Capacity Building.
• Sports Development.
• Physical Education
• Infrastructure Development.
• Equity
• Volunteerism.

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1. Community Capacity Building

• Established 45 local sports councils.
• Conducted 120 sports leader courses, 1475
  trainees.
• 93 sports admin courses, 800 trainees.
• Conflict resolution workshops.

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1. Community Capacity Building

• Facilitator training.
• Youth development training.
• Sport business training.
• 65 male, 35 female.

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1. Community Capacity Building

• Economic Factors
• Skills development
• Investment in community assets e.g. facility,
  equipment.
• Work Experience
• Network of opportunity
• Income generation opportunities for community
• Income for volunteer

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2. Sports Development

• Introduced in excess of 20 different sports.
• Good success in sports such as Handball,
  Gymnastics, Girls Football, Basketball,
  Volleyball.
• Generally good working relationships with
  federations.

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2. Sports Development

• Approximately 250 local tournaments, /- 17 000
  participants.
• 45 female participation.
• 251 sports specific and general workshops, 9 781
  participants, 35 female participation.

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3. Physical Education

• On average 35 000 to 40 000 learners per week,
  approximately 48 females.
• Work in about 140 schools
• PE Workshops

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4. Infrastructure Development

• Built 36 facilities, 14 to be completed.
• Expertise in facility development, contracted to
  build 9 netball courts.
• Trained facility management committees.
• Created approximately 20 local jobs per
  facility.
• Total value of facilities approximately R20
  million.

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Limpopo

• Tshakuma
• Tiyani
• Apel
• Moshate
• Mohodi
• Blouberg
• Rabali

• Tshidimbini
• Mapuve
• Garadingwana
• Metz
• Madobi Makhasa
• Bathlabine
• Thomo

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Mpumalanga

• Driefontein
• Swalala
• Schoemansdal
• Marapong
• Sun city
• Tjakastad
• KwaZanele

• Lebohang
• Marapyane
• Hoyi
• Vukuzakhe
• Dikgwale
• Zaaiplaas
• Empuluzi

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Eastern Cape

• Nqamakwe
• Steynsburg
• Cradock
• Seymour
• Alexandria
• Peddie

• Nthabathemba
• Lady Frere
• Libode
• Flagstaff
• Mt Frere
• Mt Fletcher

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Western Cape

• Murraysburg
• Dysselsdorp
• Zoar
• Riviersonderend
• Wolseley

• Lamberts Bay
• Velddrif
• Khayelitsha
• Masiphumelele

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5. Equity

• 250 girls in sport events, 15 860 participants.
• Self Defense workshops.
• Assertiveness training.
• 61 leadership courses for women.
• 50,5 female participation at school level.

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6. Voluntarism

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Volunteers

• Approximately 600 volunteers from 23 countries.
• Current split is 63 African,37 non-African.
• Well developed recruitment, orientation,
  evaluation and support system.

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Volunteers

• Youth Sports Exchange Innovative volunteer
  exchange between
• Norway
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• South Africa
• Namibia
• (Co-Ordinated by SCORE in Africa)

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Some Success Stories

• Helga Van Kampen
• Jackson Moetjie
• Toetie Madlingozi
• Jane Mandean
• Rakel Rauntun
• Ndiphiwe Gidi
• Mpumi Lallie

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Finance
R16 million
R16 million
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Income by Donor
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Current Donors Funding

• Norwegian Olympic Committee Confederation of
  Sport
• UK Sport
• Commonwealth Games Canada
• European Union
• Royal Netherlands Embassy

• Terre des Hommes
• Sport Recreation South Africa
• Provincial Governments
• Individuals
• Small foundations

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Projects Partners

• Integrated Community Sports Project (EU)
• Living Sport (Kicking Aids Out Network)
• Building Capacity for Sport and Recreation
  (SRSA)
• Developing Sport through Volunteerism and
  Capacity Building (North West)
• North Cape

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Integrated CommunitySports Project ICSP - EU

• Increased participation in Sport.
• Greater participation in sport by Women and Girls
• Integration and Fairplay
• Increased Sports Leadership and Organisational
  Capacity

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ICSP continued

• 4 year Project,ends in June 2004
• Enabled the recruitment of South African and
  Southern African volunteers.
• Established recruitment presence in Europe
• Infrastructure development and human capacity
  development in the same project.
• Follow up required in communities.
• Initial vision included expansion to other
  provinces.

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Living Sport(The Kicking AIDS Out! Network)

• Key programme, HIV/AIDS Intervention programme.
• Other health, physical activity programmes
  planned.

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Living Sport Objectives

• Increase awareness of benefits of sports and
  recreation.
• Make sport a mechanism to mobilize awareness
  around HIV/AIDS and Life Skills.
• Promote behaviour change towards healthy
  lifestyles.

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Living Sport Objectives

• Provide training in life skills, and how to
  integrate them with sports.
• Increase awareness among youth, and especially
  young women and girls, of health related issues
  that impact on their lives.

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Living Sport- The Kicking AIDS Out! Network

• SCORE
• Norwegian Olympic Committee and Sports
  Confederation
• Commonwealth Games Canada
• UK Sport
• Sport and Recreation Commission of Zimbabwe

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Living Sport- The Kicking AIDS Out! Network

• Edusport Foundation (Zambia)
• Sport in Action(Zambia)
• National Sports Council of Zambia
• Mathare Youth Sport Association (Kenya)
• EMIMA (Tanzania)

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Living Sport- The Kicking AIDS Out! Network
An international network of organisations
working together using sport and physical
activity to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and
motivate behavioral change. The network shares
information and best practice, promotes policy
development, supports local projects.
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Living Sport- The Kicking AIDS Out! Network

• Methodology includes
• Peer Education
• Movement Games
• Role plays
• Sports activities.

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Building Capacity forSport and Recreation

• Objectives
• Capacity Building leading to sustainable,
  effective utilization of SRSA funded sports
  facilities.
• Scope
• At least 2 communities per province (9 provinces)

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Building Capacity forSport and Recreation

• Outputs
• Sustainable clubs, programs and fixtures.
• Formation of Local Sports Council Facility
  Management Team.
• Multi-coded use of facility.
• Database of trained community members.
• Hype of sports activities in the community.

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Building Capacity forSport and Recreation

• Sports Leader courses
• Sports Administration workshops
• Facility Management training
• Sports coaching workshops
• Active Youth Course
• Kicking AIDS Out! Activities
• Tournaments, festivals, competitions, fun!

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ProgressBuilding Capacity for Sport and
Recreation

• Needs assessment community profile completed in
  all 18 target communities
• Volunteers recruited, trained for each community
• Host families prepared in each target community
• Some sports festivals sports leader training
  workshops completed
• Clear action plan in place with support
  monitoring mechanisms

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North West Province

• Began working in North West in partnership with
  Dutch organisation in late 1990s
• Currently implementing partnership project
• Developing Sport through Volunteerism Capacity
  Building
• Goal use SCORE volunteers to train local
  community volunteers to run sustainable sport
  activities

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SCORE International

• Namibia
• Began in 1999 in partnership with Ministry of
  Youth Sport, now Ministry of Basic Education,
  Sport Culture
• Majority Namibian volunteers (train in RSA)
• Zambia
• Began in 2002 in partnership with National Sports
  Council of Zambia

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SCORE International

• ZimbabweRecruit send volunteers trained SRC
  in volunteer management in 1999
• MozambiqueVisited projects in 2003 with IOC
  ILO, conducting needs assessment and placing
  volunteers (2004)
• LesothoConducting Kicking AIDS Out training for
  NOC (2004)

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Sport DevelopmentInternational Momentum

• The Magglingen Declaration (18.02.2003)
• creating a better world through sport
• Report from the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on
  Sport for Development Peace (2003)
• sport should be better integrated into the
  development agenda

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Sport DevelopmentInternational Momentum

• UN General Assembly Resolution Sport as a means
  to promote education, health, development peace
  (17.10.2003)
• 2005 International Year of Sport Physical
  Education
• SASC Zone VI other partners
• Workshop Agreed Values Principles for the
  Donor-Recipient Partnership (2003)

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SCOREThe Future?
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Strengths

• Experience Expertise
• Tangible, Sustainable Results
• Rural focus
• Sport as a tool for development
• International Presence Network

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Weaknesses

• Currently (Foreign) Donor dependent
• No corporate sponsors
• SA network not as strong as it should be (eg.
  Federations)
• NGOs still seen by some as a threat rather than
  as partners

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Threats

• Donors withdrawing from South Africa
• Short term funding for projects only impacts
  potential for sustainability
• Reluctance by donors and funders to support
  (necessary) infrastructure management costs
• Donor funding increasingly goes to government and
  not directly to civil society
• Competition from wealthy northern NGOs

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Opportunities

• Income generation accredited training,
  facilities building consultancy, volunteer
  training
• Expansion in the Zone, sharing building
  capacity
• Lobby donors prioritise sport seek additional
  funding
• Lobby for role of sport on development agenda
• New, more effective partnerships eg. with
  government at different levels

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Conclusion
The chief finding of the U.N. Interagency Task
Force on Sport for Development and Peace is that
well designed sport based initiatives are
practical and cost effective tools to achieve
objectives in Development and Peace WE THANK
YOU !!!