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II. Action plan
1. What activities can be implemented to achieve your goals?
Prioritize activities, fewer can be more effective than too many.
2. How do you plan to implement them (identify clear tasks)?
3. Who is responsible to each task? Identify clear responsibilities.
4. What resources are required (human and financial)?
5. By when do you plan to have the tasks completed?
Set a reasonable timeline. How will you measure your success in reaching your goals?
Concrete actions of JOC following the IOC Guidelines are:
Identifications
1. Prioritize the objectives:
A. To increase awareness of Sport and environment to all sports field in Japan.
B. Implementation of basic measurements in sports field in Japan.
I. Strategy
1. Who are the target?
A. National Federations.
a. 53 JOC affiliated national federations.
There are 53 JOC affiliated NFs who host variety of events, from grass roots competitions/
clinics to annual national championship. The commission requests all the NFs to be active
towards environment. At the same time JOC request them to make reports with photos.
b. Japan Sports Association who hosts the annual Japan Sports Festival also subordinate
47 affiliated prefectures’ (regional) Sports associations. JOC asks to implement the
environmental measures at the National Sports Festival.
B. JOC affiliated organizations such as JOC Official Partners.
There are quite numbers of JOC affiliated organizations such as JOC Official partners,
companies. JOC asks to cooperate to implement environmental measurements.
2. What exactly do we want to achieve (clearly state your goals)?
Realistic and achievable goals!
A. The commission promotes awareness of the problems on environment today to all the targeted
groups.
Rising of awareness on environment is essential among sports people who should be
conscious on the reality of environment today such as the global warming is proceeding with
much faster rate than estimated.
B. The commission encourages all the targeted groups to implement actions on the environmental
issues along with the basic guideline of JOC Sp+Env Commission to.
JOC requests to all the targeted groups to implement concrete measures that is very simple
such as saving energy and resources and separation of waste for recycling. Some of the NFs
are very active than the commission expects. JOC ask to make presentations at the seminars or
conferences as role model of conservation of environment in sports world.
3. Why is it useful or necessary to have this change?
Clearly sate the benefits/arguments:
A. It is quite useful that the sports society to be a role model for the whole society on
environmental actions. Sports activities are one of the important culture and element of our
daily life. Sport and Environment actions by sports organizations and top athletes give effective
influence to lead the whole society.
B. Best environmental conditions are needed for athletes and all sports people. Without good
conditions, top athletes would never be able to achieve best performances.
C. Keeping sports facilities clean enables cost effective operations as well as lower impact to the
environment.
D. It is very useful for educational reasons for not only youngsters who would be leaders of
environmental measure in the future but also for all the people who enjoy sports.
4. What are the barriers that may prevent us from accomplishing these goals?
Barriers; disregarding people, stereotype characteristic.
5. Who may be able to assist you (inside) and outside your organization?
A. The commission members.
B. JOC office people.
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