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Page 17 / 46 summaries However, while they had empirical evidence of sport’s impact on improving children’s psychological well-being, there was however today a lack of scientific evidence to measure this impact. This was linked to the difficulties in conducting research in an emergency context, to limited financial and technical capacities of disaster relief agencies, and to a small number of validated tools. Prof. Tess Kay, Professor of sport and social sciences, Brunel university, uK Professor Kay recalled that, over the last five years, evidence of the impact of sport had increased. Sport had special qualities for engaging young people as it could be attractive and enjoyable for experienced and inexperienced participants alike. Sport could reach some young people “on the margin” who do not respond to mainstream provision and institutions, and could be especially – but not only – successful in engaging young men. Sport could also directly deliver development outcomes and education messages and its informal nature could produce open and democratic relationships between young people and the adults who worked with them, making it easier for young people to ask for the information they needed to protect and manage their lives. Finally, positive experiences from sport can transfer to other contexts while developing higher confidence levels and improved decision-making and communication skills. Sport could help young people assert themselves in educational, family and community settings. She also argued that the MDGs were extraordinarily ambitious as they involved empowering individuals and communities and equipping them to make informed choices about their lives. These were great reasons to be optimistic about sport. Offering sport in the service of international development might maximise the power of sport. However, everything depend on how sport was implemented in a development context. By engaging with international development, sport was entering a different game, played under different rules. There were valuable lessons to be learnt from the approaches in the wider field of international development. <strong>2nd</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> on Sport for Peace & Development Print Table of contents
3.4. sEssiON iii is sport delivering on Legacy? Keynote addresses Page 18 / 46 mr Carlos Nuzman, President, RiO 2016 Olympic games Organising Committee <strong>2nd</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> on Sport for Peace & Development summaries As the biggest sports event to take place for the first time in the South American region, Mr Nuzman stressed that the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games presented both big opportunities and challenges to the Brazilians and their Government. The same was also applying to the other major events happening in the country prior to the Games – including the Military World Games in July 2011, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 in 2012 and the FIFA Football World Cup in 2014. With more than 10,000 athletes, 200 nations represented, 100,000 people mobilised, including over 70,000 volunteers to make it a success, the Brazilians would strive to implement their vision basing their efforts on technical excellence, human resources, and sustainable transformation through sport. Going beyond Olympic venues themselves, their strong legacy programme aimed at citizens and youth engagement would also enable the city, the state and the federal governments to work together on several programmes to improve the population’s quality of life, such as the building of new infrastructures, or the urbanisation of the favelas with comprehensive security plans. The engagement of various stakeholders to create the largest educational outreach programme and recreational activities for young people and the promotion of social inclusion was also going to be a great legacy for everyone. mr gert Oosthuizen, Deputy minister of sport and Recreation, south Africa Reflecting on the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Mr Oosthuizen stressed that it undoubtedly proved to be a watershed moment for South Africa, helping to rebrand a newly-united nation that had been – in the past decades – divided by racism. South Africa was a nation that had seen and recognised sport as a movement for good and the human spirit. This event was the illustration of the Government’s will to reinforce sport as a movement for good and for change in the current context. South Africa had worked tirelessly with its continental partners to ensure that the event would remain true to its official call to action. Print Table of contents
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