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SportWORKS Projects

Commonwealth Games Canada has been involved in over 125 sport for development and sport development projects in over 30 countries around the world. Brief summaries of some of these projects are given below which includes: their geographic location, partners involved, and the associated CGC initiative.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights sport as “an important enabler of sustainable development”. It recognizes the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect, and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and girls, young people, individuals, and communities, as well as to health, education, gender equality and social inclusion objectives. Thanks to the generous support of the Government and Canada and our other donors, CGC is proud to be one of the world’s pioneers of international sport for development and sport development work.

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Skateistan

  • Europe
  • Germany
Partners: Skateistan

Skateistan is a sport for development project with initiatives in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa. It employs skateboarding as a tool to encourage interaction between youth of different backgrounds to breakdown social barriers and develop: conflict resolution skills, creativity, and leadership. Skateistan focuses on engaging the world’s hardest-to-reach youth aged between 5-17 years.

CGC has helped increase Skateistan’s potential to attract sustainable funding and improve program monitoring and evaluation practices.