At the first African School Sports Forum, Dr. Gilles Klein, Secretary
General of the World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organisation (WSAIGO)
invites the thirty-eight African delegations to join the Global "Sport for
Development and Peace" (SDP) initiative
In Rabat - Morocco, Dr. Gilles Klein, secretary General of the WSAIGO,
addressed the African delegations and the intergovernmental sports
organizations present to invite them to take an active part in the
restructuring of the worldwide "Sport for Development and Peace"
(SDP) sector to be organized in the spring of 2018.
At the first
African School Sport Forum held, in Rabat, on the 15th and 16th
of January 2018, duringthe introductory conference of that event, Dr. GillesKlein,
Secretary General of the World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organization,
addressed the thirty-eight (38) African delegations that were present and led
by the Minister of Education, the Minister of Youth and Sports of Morocco,
their cabinet directors or directors of physical and sports activities,
physical education and school sport. In the audience, several
intergovernmental organizations were present, including the Conference of
Francophone Ministers of Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) and the Conference of
Francophone Ministers of National Education (CONFEMEN).
Dr. Gilles Klein, thekeynote speaker, recalled the
delicate situation in which physical education, school sport and youth sport currently
find themselves on a global scale, particularly in African Countries. The
situation is illustrated by the following paradox: "The more the needs of
the populations increase, the more the public offer of physical activity tends
to decrease".
As part of the World Summits of Physical Education and
Sport convened by UNESCO, Ministers recall that access to “sport for all” is a
fundamental human right, however theyconcedethat this right is far from being
respected. For ministers, one of the major problems is investment. Access to
physical education and sport for all, management training, availability of
facilities and equipment depend on funding that is, all too often, lacking.
Following a reflection on
the financing of sustainable development and the seventeen (17)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and the need to
associate sport as a means forsustainable development, Dr. Klein invited to
thirty-eight African delegations to coordinate their views on the international
scene.
Thus, he proposed to the
President and the Secretary General of CONFEJES and to the Commonwealth
Ministers to take part actively in the think tank on restructuring the Global SDP
sector that will take place in the spring of 2018.
In her communication, the representative of the CONFEJES
replied to the Secretary General of the WSAIGO, Dr. Gilles Klein,that she will
transmit his request to the Secretary-General of the CONFEJES expressing that
her organization was able and willing to contribute to the restoration and
rejuvenation of the Global SDP sector as a componentof one of the main
objectives ofher intergovernmental organization.
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