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Dr Ben Sanders
The world faces a range of increasingly complex and interconnected challenges. These include escalating humanitarian conflicts, cost-of-living crises and increasing inequities. Equally urgent is the environmental apocalypse, deep-seated health issues and economic headwinds. There are also unequal power relations between the Global North and South. And much more.
Further, only 16% of the targets for the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) are on track to be met by 2030. The remaining 84% of targets show limited progress and even a reversal of progress in some cases. To make matters worse, there is a larger gap between the average SDG performance of the poorest and most vulnerable countries and the global average than in 2015.
Only 16% of the targets for the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) are on track to be met by 2030. The remaining 84% of targets show limited progress and even a reversal of progress in some cases.
Sport reflects, and contributes to, many of these challenges but can help tackle them – if used in certain ways. As such, the sport for development and peace (SDP) sector has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, but it is still very unequal. Organisations in high-income regions have more resources for programmes and more influence on policy. Covid-19 and other crises have exacerbated that inequality, with organisations/actors in more under-resourced regions at risk, while recent gains made may be lost (e.g. improvements to gender equity in sport).
One reason for the inequality in SDP is that information and resources are often siloed across the sector, inaccessible and exclusive. Having the right knowledge and tools enables actors to create a greater impact through their programmes and policies, benefitting the communities they support. To address this, we need to ‘think local and act global’ and ensure accessibility and inclusivity through design and technology, increasingly vital in today’s world.
A 2020 report authored by Oaks Consultancy in partnership with the International Platform on Sport and Development (sportanddev), Laureus Sport for Good, and Common Goal revealed that the Covid pandemic left more than a fifth of those in the SDP sector fearing for their future. This has more of an impact in under-resourced regions than elsewhere. While the Covid pandemic has been largely mitigated, there are a range of other crises that tend to exacerbate inequalities, including in sport and development, with limited time to tackle them.
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