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Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Sport
and Recreation
22 June 2004Cape Town
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Introduction

• Last presentation on 27 January 2004.
• Detailed overview of SCORE
• Progress Report on
• Key Results Achieved
• Project Highlights
• Key Challenges Faced

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Objectives

• Build strong, healthy communities.

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Objectives
Give children a chanceto play and learn.
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Objectives
Provide NEW sportsopportunities.
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Objectives
Promote Equity, Friendship, Fairplay andExchange
through Sport.
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Objectives
Develop partnerships.
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Objectives
Train trainers and develop community leadership
capacity.
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Objectives
Promote voluntarism.
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What do we do?

• Develop and Train Community members in sports,
  sports administration and life skills.
• Build sustainable sports structures in
  communities
• Add capacity to the work of other partners e.g.
  National and Provincial government.
• Recruit, train, prepare and place volunteers in
  communities.
• Monitor and evaluate programs in communities

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How do we do it?

• Involve target communities in all stages of
  programme implementation.
• Stakeholder consultation.
• Public meetings.
• Community action plan.
• Implementation by local sport structures.
• Quality training.
• Added capacity by volunteers.

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Key result areas.

1. Community Capacity Building.
2. Sports Development.
3. Physical Education
4. Infrastructure Development.
5. Gender Equity
6. Volunteerism.

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1. Community Capacity Building

• (Results 2000-2003)
• Established 45 local sports councils.
• Conducted 120 sports leader courses, 1475
  trainees.
• 93 sports admin courses, 800 trainees.
• Introduced new sports codes in numerous
  communities.
• Facility ownership and management
• Introduced life skills courses

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1. Community Capacity Building

• Economic Factors
• Skills development
• Investment in community assets e.g. facility,
  equipment.
• Job creation
• Network of opportunity
• Income generation opportunities for community
• Income for volunteer

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2. Sports Development

• Introduced in excess of 20 different sports.
• Good success in sports such as Handball,
  Gymnastics, Girls Football, Basketball,
  Volleyball.

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2. Sports Development

• Approximately 250 local tournaments, /- 17 000
  participants.
• 45 female participation.
• 251 sports specific and general workshops, 9 781
  participants, 35 female participation.

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3. Physical Education

• On average 35 000 to 40 000 learners per week,
  approximately 48 females.
• Work in about 140 schools
• PE Workshops

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4. Infrastructure Development

• Built 36 facilities.
• Expertise in facility development, contracted to
  build 9 netball courts (5 completed).
• Trained facility management committees.
• Created approximately 20 local jobs per
  facility.
• Total value of facilities approximately R20
  million.

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5. Gender Equity

• 250 girls in sport events, 15 860 participants.
• Self Defence workshops.
• Assertiveness training.
• 61 leadership courses for women.
• 50,5 female participation at school level.

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Volunteers

• Approximately 600 volunteers from 23 countries.
• Current split is 63 African,37 non-African
  (Jan-Jun 2004).
• Well developed recruitment, orientation,
  evaluation and support system.

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Volunteers

• Youth Sports Exchange Innovative volunteer
  exchange between
• Norway
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• South Africa
• Namibia
• (Co-Ordinated by SCORE in Africa)

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Current Donors Funding

• Norwegian Olympic Committee Confederation of
  Sport
• UK Sport
• Commonwealth Games Canada
• European Union
• Royal Netherlands Embassy

• Terre des Hommes
• Sport Recreation South Africa
• Provincial Governments North West, Northern
  Cape Mpumalanga Eastern Cape (offices)
• Individuals
• Small foundations

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Projects Partners

1. Integrated Community Sports Project (EU)
   Limpopo, Mpumalanga, E. Cape, W. Cape.
2. Living Sport (Kicking Aids Out Network)
3. Building Capacity for Sport and Recreation
   (SRSA) national
4. Developing Sport through Volunteerism and
   Capacity Building (North West)
5. Sports Volunteers (Northern Cape)
6. Youth Sports Exchange Program (YSEP)
7. Youth Leads (SA Volunteers to Denmark)

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SCOREThe Future?
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Strengths

• Experience Expertise
• Tangible, Sustainable Results
• Rural focus
• Sport as a tool for development
• International Presence Network

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Weaknesses

• Currently (Foreign) Donor dependent
• No corporate sponsors
• SA network not as strong as it should be (eg.
  Federations)
• NGOs still seen by some as a threat rather than
  as partners

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Threats

• Donors withdrawing from South Africa
• Short term funding for projects only impacts
  potential for sustainability
• Reluctance by donors and funders to support
  (necessary) infrastructure management costs
• Donor funding increasingly goes to government and
  not directly to civil society
• Competition from wealthy northern NGOs

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Opportunities

• Income generation accredited training,
  facilities building consultancy, volunteer
  training
• Expansion in the Zone, sharing building
  capacity
• Lobby donors prioritise sport seek additional
  funding
• Lobby for role of sport on development agenda
• New, more effective partnerships eg. with
  government at different levels as well as
  federations

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Conclusion
SCORE is in transition. We remain committed to
transforming lives through sport in both
communities we have worked in, as well as the
countless other communities throughout Southern
Africa that are in dire need of our services. We
welcome this opportunity to interact and network
with government at this and all levels. WE
THANK YOU !!!