The Next Step 2011 Conference will provide practitioners and policy makers with an opportunity to reflect, engage, debate, network and help chart the way forward for the sport for development fraternity, globally.
High Energy FM to Cover NS2K11
High Energy FM is a registered and licensed internet based radio station that is owned and operated by blind and visually impaired persons. Their mission is to give the Disabled Community and avenue to become producers, broadcasters, reporters, showing the disabled (and non-disabled community) their abilities and talents in the media environment.
High Energy FM will do live and recorded broadcasts of selected sessions, interviews, and reports from the conference, providing opportunities for those who may be unable to attend, to be part of the conference via the web.
Their radio announcer, Bhawani Persad, will be based at the Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre for the duration of the conference and shared his excitement: “High Energy is indeed happy to be associated with TTASPE to bring listeners extensive coverage of the Next Step 2011 Conference and we look forward to building a partnership for the promotion of sport for development initiatives in the Caribbean.”
A detailed schedule of the coverage will be posted on this site in the near future.
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Conference Host Country Win World’s Best Tourism Destination 2012
Trinidad and Tobago has been voted the World's Best Tourist Destination for 2012 and has also been declared the Favourite Cultural Destination in 2012. The announcement was made on October 9 when tourism organisations from 27 European Union member states voted unanimously during the Autumn Meeting of the European Union Council on Tourism and Trade in Bucharest, Romania.The designation of the World's Best Tourist Destination is the highest honour to be awarded for a country's achievements in tourism. Read more ....
ASOP Caribbean Launches at Next Step 2011
The ASOP Caribbean program is managed by TTASPE and builds on previous sport for development initiatives and established collaborations between the Aussies and the Caribbean in the use of sport as a tool for development. The new ASOP Caribbean program focuses on strengthening regional capacity to lead, plan and conduct inclusive sport based programs that are linked to regional development priorities in the Caribbean.
Dr. Morella Joseph, Program Manager for Human Resource Development at CARICOM noted: “The overall objectives of the new ASOP Caribbean program are endorsed by CARICOM and are consistent with CARICOM’s regional mandate for sport and development”.
Targeting youth leadership and inclusive participation, the ASOP Caribbean embraces a collaborative approach in the implementation of initiatives, working with Governments, NGOs, Schools, Communities and Sporting Organizations to extend the reach of existing programs that use sport to develop children, young people and persons with disabilities.
For more information about the ASOP Caribbean, visit TTASPE’s website at www.ttaspe.org
Ambassador Shabazz to Deliver Keynote
Raised in Westchester County, New York, Ambassador Shabazz is the eldest of six daughters born to Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X Shabazz. She graduated from the United Nations International School at 17 and entered Briarcliff College the following fall semester, majoring in International Law with a minor in English.
A producer, writer and diplomat she has spent over 35 years offering keynote addresses, while developing curriculums and programs for educational institutions, executive forums, diplomatic networks, penal systems, conferences and human service organizations globally-- with the purpose to motivate and encourage the young and mature alike to recognize the value in and appreciation of -- diverse cultural engagement, traditional rights of passage and perspectives, thus a genuine respect for oneself and others.
The Next Step Conference 2011 runs from November 7th to 12th at the Cascadia Hotel and Conference Center in Trinidad and Tobago and brings together Government agencies, Universities, NGOs and Sport for Development practitioners from over twenty-seven (27) countries to share knowledge and experiences in the field of Development through Sport.
Themed “Global Partnerships for Development,” Next Step 2011 is committed to strengthening collaboration among key stakeholders in the field of sport for development and provides opportunities for participants to reflect on the realities and possibilities of global partnerships around the sub-themes of policy, resource mobilization and monitoring and evaluation. The Conference is designed to allow for a significant amount of interaction and sharing between and among delegates in an effort to capture the broad and varied experiences of SfD practitioners, development agencies, researchers and leading experts in the field.
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Peace Beyond Borders Documentary to show at Conference
Peace Beyond Borders is an educational campaign that explores the power of sport to promote peace in an interactive manner. The Peace Beyond Borders documentary was developed by the Netherlands Sports Alliance (NSA), in collaboration with IKV Pax Christi and Seeds of peace Africa to highlight the use of sport in the tensed border region between Kenya, South-Sudan and Uganda where nomadic warriors have been living at odds with each other for years.
The Peace Beyond Borders documentary which had its premiere last April will be shown at the Next Step Conference on Thursday 10th November at 4:30 pm, Conference Room 1 at the Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre.
For more information about Peace Beyond Borders visit www.peacebeyondborders.nl
National Paralympic Committee Development Workshop
- A Collaboration of Experiences
The workshop was lead by the conference host agency, TTASPE. Day 1 was initiated by TTASPE sharing their experiences and sport for development programs in the Caribbean, which are aimed on improving the lives of persons with disabilities through sport. TTASPE also spoke on how through their engagement with the Trinidad & Tobago Paralympic Committee (TTPC), UK Sport and the Australian Sport Commission, they have ensured that ‘inclusion’ is a core element in both their programs and organisational philosophy.
Mr. Michael Frasier, the Immediate Past President of the TTPC, shared his experience with the participants on how sport for development contributed to the administrative strengthening and subsequent International Paralympic Committee (IPC) registration. Mr. Tyrone Marcus of the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Sport, shared the legal steps for new NPC’s to be registered with the IPC, along with policy and structural changes lead by the Ministry of Sport will impact on changes in the Caribbean.
The second half of the day was lead by Mr. Ken McKell, President of the TTPC, shared the current status and operations of their NPC and the development of a Paralympic School Development Program aimed at creating awareness for persons with disabilities at a grassroots level.
The day ended with TTASPE leading an administrative development exercise which creating a SWOT analysis and next actions for each island to improve the work already being done there.
Kicking Aids Out Curriculum Guidelines Workshop Launches
at Next Step 2011
The workshop consisted of 15 persons from Fiji, Zambia, St Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Norway and the UK shared their healthy discussions around the usefulness of the KAO modules and how they connect with the young people to whom the program is targeted, specific to each country’s context.
In typical KAO style, the workshop was highly interactive, dynamic and maintained positive energy that ensured that the participants were in a comfortable learning environment. Tomorrow the participants core work will be around guidelines for the use of the manual in implementing their respective country programs.
Next Step 2011 Community Coaching Education Symposium
Chaired by Ms. Priya Samuel of UK Sport, the Symposium was aimed at sharing the evolution of ICES along with future plans; Exploring the use of the ICES Reference Points to support organisation structural development (TTASPE); Making Sport Inclusive - specific focus on persons with disabilities (T&T Paralympic Committee); The Role of the Coach in Sport for Development (Coaching for Hope); and Coach the Whole Child (Leeds Metropolitan University).
Attendees included community coaches, administrators, national governing bodies, paralympic committees, government representatives and university students from Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts & Nevis, Norway, Netherlands, South Africa, Suriname and the UK.
The sessions were set up to engage the participants, with their varied background in community coaching from around the globe, to share their experiences, challenges, best practices and to facilitate networking.
Data and recommendations from the symposium were collected and compiled by UK Sport and will be used to enhance the delivery and ICES worldwide.
NS2K11 Opening - A Summary
The theme of collaboration along with increasing human capital through S4D was reiterated by the keynote speaker, Ambassador Shabazz, the daughter of Malcom X who drew on her personal experiences as a former physical education teacher, track and field athlete with Olympic aspirations, and through her advocacy for social development.
These themes were carried throughout the first day as presentations in relation to “Promoting Global Partnerships” by Debbie Lye of UK Sport (Global Partnerships - More than Just a Mantra) and Amy Berson and Sophie Beauvias of the Australian Sport Commission (Australian Sport Outreach Program (ASOP) Partnerships - Moving Beyond Rhetoric ). The presenters shared on how their individual organisations promote S4D relationships, their challenges and the elements that can be used utilized to form best practices in promoting global partnerships.
The morning sessions concluded with breakout sessions by Khelshala, Save the Children Foundation, Commonwealth Games Association of Canada and University of Louisville, Center for Advancement of,Texas A&M that explored sub themes which included; Serving the Poor:The Case of Kelshala in India; The significance of sport in community-led development initiatives: Case Study of the Solomon Islands; The Development of Partnerships through the Capacity Support Program; and Navigating Towards an Integrated and Inclusive SFD stakeholders engagement. These session, as are all the session in the Conference, ended with discussions and brainstorming of collaborative next actions that were captured by volunteers and will be compiled by Colin Higgs of the Commonwealth Games of Canada.
‘Policy: By who and for whom’ was the theme of the afternoon sessions. The Commonwealth Secretariat lead this element by exploring Framing Priorities: Policy and Partnerships in Sport for Development, which also highlighted the role of the Commonwealth Secretariat both in aiding with developing policies that are participant centered and managing implementing for the desired impact.
The afternoon concluded with a panel discussion on gender dialogue. The panel comprised of representative of the Guerreras Project; National Organization for Women in Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation; Norwegian Church AID and the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sport (NIF); and WomenWin. These organisations explored the sub topics of Gender Dialogues (through football); National Gender Policies working at the Organizational level; and Strategies for safe spaces in Sport: Teaming up to create Practical, Child- centered, Strategies for Protection and Gender Inclusion. This dialogue for this element of the conference was carried forward into a separate discussion and next action session later on in the night.
The day concluded with a social sponsored by the Tourism Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago, who have engaged the conference participants with a shopping tour of the City of Port of Spain, as well as, a City tour on the evening of Thursday 10th November, 2011.
Experts Reflect on Next Step 2011
Article by Usha Selvaraju - sportanddev.org
A practitioner, an academic and a member of the conference organising committee look back at the Next Step 2011 conference - fourth in the oldest series of international Sport & Development conferences...
sportanddev: The Next Step 2011 conference was recently held in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. This event helped to take stock of the field of Sport & Development and provided a space for practitioners, researchers and policy-makers to exchange with one another. How far do you think the field of Sport & Development has come since the last Next Step conference, which took place in 2007?
Alex Lyras: Since 2007 the field has grown tremendously in terms of:
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1legitimacy
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2the number of people and institutions engaged in S&D projects around the globe
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3the size of the scientific body of knowledge as well as tools
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4the capacity and ‘collective wisdom’ of the S&D community
Kex Moikabinyana: Next Step 2011 helped participants gain in-depth exposure to contemporary issues and practices in the global S&D arena.
Mark Mungal: 2011 provided many opportunities for sharing resources, ideas, tools, etc for programme implementation as in past conferences. I believe this year the dialogue matured to a more global level, engaging S&D leaders from governments, NGOs and academic institutions in a discourse that was linked to our collective global mandate of using sport as a tool to achieve the MDGs.
sportanddev: If you could go back in time and change one thing about the Next Step 2011 conference, what would it be?
AL: The only thing I would change would have been ‘time’. I wish we could have stopped time to keep us at the conference for longer. I guess we could also ‘extend time’ and start another conference where we left off, spending more time strategising and refining our global strategy and action plan as a community.
MM: I’m not keen about time machines! I prefer to look ahead because although I can learn from the past, I can’t change it.
KM: It would have been good to discuss the complex issue of quality versus scale in S&D programming in the context of long-term sustainability. It would have been good to have had more time to allow for participants to get to know one another, understand each others’ programmes and develop further links.
sportanddev: In what way do you think the Next Step 2011 conference has helped to move the Sport & Development field forward?
AL: I think Next Step 2011 helped the field in two main ways:
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1the theme of the conference set the tone and the mindset for collective reflection as a community
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2the theme and structure of the conference helped us realise even more the value and need of investing more in building partnerships and to facilitate collaborative efforts and synergies
MM: Next Step 2011 was not merely an event in the S&D calendar. It represented an ongoing and necessary part of the growth and development of this emerging field. Holding meaningful dialogue among leaders of the S&D fraternity is critical to that process. More importantly, Next Step 2011 generated key outcomes and action points. The communiqué (which will be shared on sportanddev once completed), will be a reference point and a leveraging tool for our efforts in the future. The impact of this lies in the commitment of each of us to take that important Next Step.
KM: Participants learned to structure M&E frameworks as an effective means of developing result-oriented S&D programmes and reviewing them systematically to assess their impact.
