July 2018 - Sport for LifeSport for Life

Timor-Leste: first ever zero-dollar Youth Leadership Camp!

Posted on 28 July 2018
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Youth Creative for Development (the new name for Asosiasaun Desportu ba Moris) organized in Dili, from July 16 to 28, the 8th edition of Youth Leadership Camp (YLC) – the Sport for Life train-the-trainer, focused on building participants’ facilitation skills. Day 1: Participants, facilitators, partners and researchers warming up to each other This was the first ever 100% self-funded YLC: registration fees of $270 ($15 per participant x 18 participants, plus two other participants who had registered for a previous edition) were sufficient to cover the costs of running the whole…Read more

How to Assess Impact

Posted on 12 July 2018
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Please click the link or the image to download our article on How to Assess Impact. Impact Assessment can be a particular challenge as there are no generally accepted standards for doing it. As part of our work to measure our sport for development results, we wrote this article, which may be useful to others focused on generating positive world impact. We divided the process into 7 steps: 1. Identify Objectives: Why are we assessing impact? For what audiences? 2. Define the Theory of Change: How are our activities producing outputs that lead to the…Read more

SportImpact Annual Report 2017

Posted on 6 July 2018
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Click here to download the SportImpact Annual Report 2017. For those in a hurry, here is the Executive Summary: WHAT WE DID: In 2017 SportImpact focused fully on the Sport for Life project, codifying it in the Sport for Life Manual & Startup Kit, to make the project easier to implement by anyone anywhere. While discussing launches in several new countries, in 2017 we maintained the (gradually reducing) support to the ongoing field projects in Timor-Leste and Cabo Verde: In Timor-Leste, the ever more autonomous local team did more than ever with fewer resources…Read more