A/RES/63/135
Plan on Sport for Development and Peace contained in the report of the SecretaryGeneral to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session: 6
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(a) Global framework for sport for development and peace: further develop a
framework to strengthen a common vision, define priorities and further raise
awareness to promote and mainstream policies on sport for development and peace
that are easily replicable;
(b) Policy development: promote and support the integration and
mainstreaming of sport for development and peace in development programmes and
policies;
(c) Resource mobilization: promote innovative funding mechanisms and
multi-stakeholder arrangements at all levels, on a voluntary basis, including the
engagement of sport organizations, civil society, athletes and the private sector;
(d) Evidence of impact: promote and facilitate common evaluation and
monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards;
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Encourages Member States to designate focal points for sport for
development and peace within their governments;
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Also encourages Member States to provide institutional structures,
appropriate quality standards and competencies and promote academic research and
expertise in the field to enable ongoing training, capacity-building and education of
physical education teachers, coaches and community leaders in sport for
development and peace programmes;
Encourages the use of sport as a vehicle to foster development and
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strengthen education for children and young persons; prevent disease and promote
health; empower girls and women; foster the inclusion and well-being of persons
with disabilities; and facilitate social inclusion, conflict prevention and
peacebuilding;
Also encourages the use of mass sport events to promote and support
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sport for development and peace initiatives;
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Invites Member States and international sport organizations to assist
developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, in their capacitybuilding efforts in sport and physical education, by providing national experiences
and best practices, as well as financial, technical and logistic resources for the
development of sport programmes;
Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider signing,
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ratifying and acceding to the Convention on the Rights of the Child,2 the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities4 and the International
Convention against Doping in Sport;5
10. Invites the international community to provide voluntary contributions to
and to enter into innovative partnerships with the United Nations Office of Sport for
Development and Peace and the Sport for Development and Peace International
Working Group;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including
progress made by Member States towards implementation of the Sport for
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See A/61/373.
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