SPORT, A KEY TOOL FOR INTEGRATION AND SOCIALIZATION AMONG COLOMBIAN YOUTH -

Sport, a key tool for integration and socialization among Colombian youth

Countries and dates

Colombia, 2009 to 2014

Beneficiaries

5 000 children and young people from disadvantaged areas

Impact

10 000 people reached (families, schools and communities)

Project leaders

6 non-governmental organizations managing 25 youth centres

Peace and Sport’s role

helping local actors develop their education, integration and socialization through sport projects

BACKGROUND

Colombia continues to endure the longest (almost 5O years) and most complet armed conflict in Latin America. The burgeoning drug trade in the 1980s intensified the conflict, pitting the Colombian army against FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and paramilitary groups.

The situation has triggered massive displacements of civilians. Unable or not wanting to return to their home communities, many people are now living in the outskirts of large Colombian cities often affected by education, integration and social problems.

OUR ACTION

Technical support for the six NGOs to structure and implement the projects within their 25 centres, within their 25 centres, with assistance from sports federations

Capacity-building on the theme of “developing sports activites and using them as a social and educational tool”: eight training sessions for 30 youth leaders at the centres through Peace and Sport’s federation partners

Financial support for NGOs Colombianitos in 2009 and Ffundamor in 2013 and 2014 in order to help them structure their activities and develop a financial model to ensure the long-term sustainability of their actions

Support for the six NGOs to help them diversify their sources of funding through the development of income-generating activities, to ensure that their actions are self-financed in the long term

Connecting and coordinating political and sporting institutional partners on the ground

RESULTS OBTAINED

Wider access to sporting activities: new sporting activities have been rolled out at the NGO’s youth centres located in disadvantaged areas of the country

Use of sport as a tool to address targeted issues: the multi-sport centres today use a wide range of sporting activities to strengthen dialogue and social cohesion among young people from diverse backgrounds

Development of a partnerships dynamic: relations have been strengthened between Colombian sports movement stakeholders and actors of the peace movement, enabling them to devise and implement joint peace through sport projects

Promotion of sporting values

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