Sport Addressing Gender Equality on International Women’s Day
March 6, 2020
International Women’s Day is this Sunday, presenting an opportunity to highlight the unique ways sport is being used to address Gender Equality. Beyond Sport has continuously supported the role that sport can play in empowering girls and women, and we are proud to highlight some of the members of our network who join us in advocating for Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender Equality:
Women Win – Advancing the Playing Field for Gender Equality, Global
Recipients of the 2017 Global Impact Award at the Beyond Sport Global Awards.
Women Win is a leading global organization that empowers girls and women through sport. Its programs leverage sport to help girls build leadership skills and become better equipped to exercise their rights. Women Win has positively impacted the lives of over 1.24 million adolescent girls in over 100 countries, using sport and play to help girls thrive as they face the most pressing issues of adolescence, including accessing sexual and reproductive health rights, addressing gender-based violence and achieving economic empowerment.
ChildFund - Pass It Back, Pan-Asia and Australia
Recipients of the Unicef Safeguarding Children in Sport award in 2017 at the Beyond Sport Global Awards.
ChildFund Pass It Back is an innovative sport for development program using rugby to equip children and young people with the tools to overcome challenges and to inspire positive social change. The program was set up for children who are dealing with poverty and inequality, leveraging rugby to provide leadership and life skill opportunities for marginalized children. It benefits more than 3000 children, more than half of whom are female.
Moving the Goalposts (MTG) Kilifi, Kenya
Winners of the 2013 Sport for Health Award at the Beyond Sport Global Awards.
MTG's project encourages girls’ participation in football, providing health education, training opportunities and empowering them to become economically independent. The program is run in Kilifi, one of the poorest districts in Kenya, with girls between the ages of 15 and 24 years being marginalized because of limited social, economic and academic opportunities. The organization helps build leadership skills through its program, eliminating gender inequality and gender-based violence.
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