In Rabat - Morocco, Dr.
Gilles Klein, the Secretary General of the World Sports AllianceIntergovernmental Organisation (WSAIGO) and the Director of Cabinet of the
General Secretariat of the WSAIGO, Mrs. Sylvie Delpech, organized informal
working sessions with representatives of the Member States of the Intergovernmental
Organization who attended the first African school Sport Forum.
Thus, the Secretary General, Gilles Klein, and the
Director of Cabinet of the General Secretariat, Sylvie Delpech, were able to
organize informal working sessions with eleven delegations of Member States of
the WSAIGO: Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Morocco, Niger, Senegal,
Togo, Tunisia, Central African Republic and Rwanda. The delegations of each of
these Countries were led by the Minister of Education or the Minister of Youth
and Sports, their cabinet directors or directors of physical activity and
sport, physical education or school sport.
The election of new presidents, the appointment of new
ministers and new administrations meant that delegations, generally, did not have
a full understanding of the purpose and benefits of their Countries’ membership
within the WSAIGO, or know about the existence of youth education programs
andtraining of managers and the negotiation of partnerships for the
construction of sports infrastructures for youth.
The Secretary General and the Director of Cabinet therefore
recalled the WSA’s history and the nature of its collaboration with the Member
States. They discussed the 2008-2015 MDG period and the difficulty of
concluding public-private partnerships with Countries under structural
adjustment agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions. They presented the
new financing paths of the SDG 2015 - 2030 period, more in line with the
innovation economy.
They announced the upcoming Initial Token Offering
(ITO), coinciding with the Davos World Economic Forum being held from the 23rd
to 26th of January of 2018, of the IGObit, the official digital token of the WSAIGO, its
affiliated entities, projects and initiatives that form theWSA
Ecosystem made for the Global Citizens, to finance economic partnerships and
local sports projects. Links to the www.igobit.com website were
sent to the representatives of the participating Member States.
The delegations of the WSAIGO Member States showed lack
of understanding of the cooperation and action to be taken between them and the
WSAIGO Intergovernmental Organization over the previous years, but demonstrated
their keen interest and even their great enthusiasm to the five (5) key
proposals presented by Dr. Gilles Klein, related to a multilateral
collaboration to be established to foster SDP initiatives in Africa. All delegations wished to revive cooperation
as soon as possible. Armed with their African experience on the ground, the
Secretary General and the Director of Cabinet declared that they will not
propose, to Africa, white elephants, i.e.: these complex but sterile
administrative scaffolds. 
They will regularly inform the delegations of the participating
Member States, as well as the thirty-eight African delegations present in
Rabat, of the evolution of the IGObit fundraising
and the possibility of sitting around a table to discuss concrete
projectsadapted to the needs of the African youth. Finally, several heads of
delegations expressed the wish to quickly start the process of becoming a Member
State of the World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organization, these
Countries include Gabon, Cameroun, Tanzania and Kenya just to mention a few.
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