View Summit document - Abhinav Bindra Foundation

Recommendations

Info

24 | P a g e Annexure 2 Workshop on Sport, Youth Development and Livelihoods Concept Note SPORTS AND ITS IMPACT ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Sports is a powerful medium to engage with youth in bringing positive changes in their lives, intrinsically by being involved in sports and by imparting the soft skills and improving employability of the youth . Since a full set of indicators concerning the evaluation and impact of the MDGs on sport activities already exists, there is no need to elaborate a new set of them. A desk review, undertaken at the request of the ILO’s In Focus Programme Skills, Knowledge and Employability, has identified sport-specific skills that can be added to core skills for employability necessary to perform a job at the local, national or international level. Table 1 lists the sport-specific skills, as described in the Report of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace (United Nations, 2003, p. 8) Table 2 refers to the outcome of a desk review of various sport projects. These projects include, on one hand, a pool of sportrelated projects funded by the European Union in 2004 on the occasion of the European Year of Physical Education and Sport; and, on the other, a list of UN sport and development related projects inventoried for the preparation of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force referred to above. The aim of the desk review was to identify sport-specific skills that can complement core skills for employability, thus contributing to reinforce youth training needs for labour market insertion. As a result, an additional comparison between generic employability skills, as perceived in selected countries, and sport-specific skills selected by the ILO, table showed a more comprehensive picture of how generic and sport-specific skills match and complement one another. Analysing the differences, we find that both from a professional and personal point of view, young workers entering the labour market with sport-specific skills would be well equipped with creativity, team-building and, most of all, peaceful and tolerant behaviour vis-à-vis cultural diversity. The last skill is absolutely necessary for youth entering the labour market in a global economy with such large discrepancies and diversity. It also showed how sport-specific skills can complement core skills for employability. One would eventually like to determine how much they could improve the work environment. Workers need the opportunity to acquire and shape these skills, according to their own needs and the labour market, through sport activities and related training. We should assume that the sport specific skills could significantly improve the work environment because they fit nicely with the internationally recognized skills. Table 1: Skills and values learned through the sports sector • Cooperation • Fair play • Communication • Sharing • Respect for the rules • Self-esteem • Problem-solving • Trust • Understanding • Honesty • Connecting with others • Self-respect • Leadership • Tolerance • Respect for others • Resilience • Value of effort • Teamwork • How to win • Discipline • How to lose • Confidence • How to manage competition
Source: United Nations, 2003. Soft skills: Soft skills are a set of skills that influence how we interact with each other. The term includes such abilities as effective communication, creativity, analytical thinking, diplomacy, change readiness, problem solving, leadership, team building and listening skills. The goal of soft skills training is to give students the opportunity to learn and practise new patterns of behaviour and in so doing to enhance human relations. This is an area that has been widely accepted and established through researches as a great outcome of Sports for Development Programme. Table 2 25 | P a g e Australian key competencies 1. Collecting, analysing and organizing information 2. Communicating ideas and information 3. Planning and organizing activities 4. Working with others and in teams 5.Using mathematical ideas and techniques United Kingdom core skills Canada employability skills profile United States workplace know-how Communication Thinking skills Information Foundation skills, basic skills Communication Personal skills: improving own performance and learning Personal skills: improving own performance and learning Personal skills: working with others Numeracy: application of numbers Communication skills Information Foundation skills, basic skills Responsibility skills Thinking skills Positive attitudes and behaviour Working with others Adaptability Understand and solve problems using mathematics 6. Solving problems Problem solving Problem-solving and decision-making skills, Learning skills 7. Using technology Information technology 8. Cultural understanding Modern foreign languages Use technology Communication skills Manage information Use numbers Work safely Participate in projects and tasks Resources; Foundation skills; personal qualities Sport-specific skills selected by the H.O. Volunteering Taking care of others Interpersonal communication Respect for rules; Respect for others Managing competition (events organizer) Interpersonal skills Teamwork; Teambuilding; Multidisciplinarity Foundation skills, basic skills Foundation Skills: thinking Managing performance, and training Problem solving Meditation skills Technology systems Using technology and sport equipment Healthy lifestyle, Fair play Tolerance Case 1: The ILO Youth Sports Programme: The ILO has developed the YSP, which contributes to inserting youth within the sport community through partnership. The YSP has two levels of interventions: the policy level and the project level. At the policy level, the YSP has helped the Albanian authorities and the United Nations Country Team to review the Youth National Policy. This assistance facilitated the full integration of sports partners into the development process. At the project level, workshops carried out in 2004–2005 in Senegal and El Salvador identified areas for joint work and partnerships with the Minister of Sports of Senegal, the Minister of Labour of El Salvador and, as main national counterparts, sports federations in Senegal and the National Olympic Committee (NOC) in El Salvador. Case 2: The Dream Come True (Sri Lanka) This is a story of three women from a remote rural area of Sri Lanka known as Seenigama, which was a major war frontier in the fight between the government and the LTTE. These girls made it to the National teams in their respective sports. It is a story of their struggle and their undying thirst to achieve greatness despite being from under privileged backgrounds. These young women stand as living proof for limitless heights one could reach if given the backing, cultivated the right attitude and supported with perseverance and positive belief.
Page 1 and 2: 1 | P a g e MAIDAN SUMMIT 2011 2nd
Page 3 and 4: 2. Mr Matthew Spacie 3 | P a g e Mr
Page 5 and 6: 4. Mr Fred Coalter 5 | P a g e Cont
Page 7 and 8: Key deliberations: 1. Mr Ravi Verma
Page 9 and 10: 3. Mr P Michael Vetha Siromony 9 |
Page 11 and 12: 3. Ms Suvekchya Rana 11 | P a g e M
Page 13 and 14: 3. Mr Eddie Rock 13 | P a g e Conta
Page 15 and 16: 3. Mr DK Bedi 15 | P a g e Contact
Page 17 and 18: 3. Mr Dinesh Baliga 17 | P a g e sp
Page 19 and 20: 3. Mr Bobby John Group activity: 19
Page 21 and 22: 3. Mr Arjun J Chaudhuri 21 | P a g
Page 23: are needed at a variety of levels,
Page 27 and 28: 27 | P a g e Annexure 3 Workshop on
Page 29 and 30: 29 | P a g e club, but it also offe
Page 31 and 32: 59% of HIV positive individuals in

View Summit document - Abhinav Bindra Foundation

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?