Final Report

Analysis by Pere MIRÓ i SELLARES
Director of Olympic Solidarity
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Decentralisation benefits everyone
The 2001–2004 quadrennial plan was characterised by some major changes in terms
of the management of the programmes and therefore presented a considerable challenge
for Olympic Solidarity as it continued to develop its programmes and budget. The
Olympic Solidarity Commission had expressed a desire to decentralise some of the
programmes towards the five Continental Associations of NOCs in order to give
them greater autonomy in the implementation of the programmes and the launch of
activities specific to each continent, always in full cooperation with Olympic Solidarity in
Lausanne.
Tennis player Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) benefited from Olympic
Solidarity’s Youth Development Programme, and succeeded in
qualifying for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens
© Getty Images/Clive Brunskill
For its part, Olympic Solidarity developed 21 world programmes
– nine more than in the previous quadrennial plan –
for the National Olympic Committees (NOCs). The creation of
the 2001–2004 quadrennial plan, marked by an increase in the
number of programmes and the decentralisation process,
required Olympic Solidarity and the Continental Associations to
embark on a major information campaign so that the NOCs
could gain maximum benefit from the programmes available.