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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Special Olympics Namibia (SON)
- Africa
- Namibia
Working with Special Olympics Namibia, CGC helped develop and implement a physical activity program focused on individuals with intellectual disabilities. This included: developing participant recruitment strategies for youth from rural settlements, establishing a youth support system by engaging their families, helping build organizational capacity to ensure the program’s sustainability, designing and implementing coaching training programs, and running athlete training camps.
