Martha Saavedra

UNICEF has been interested in the intersection of sport and development, particularly in sport programs that contribute to achieving the UNs Millennium Development Goals. To gain a better understanding of this, UNICEF is hosting a 3-day Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Sports-based Programming for Development. Organizations and individuals involved in sport and development will convene from around the world to share their experiences. That sports are good for child and adolescent development is known, but UNICEF wants to explore exactly how sports programs are impacting key development indicators. What are the indicators being used to determine success? How do the various organizations measure impact? How to move from the anecdotal evidence that sports works to quantitative measures of its value in certain key areas of development? In break-out sessions, participants will collaboratively develop logic models for sports based programming in three areas:

• HIV/Aids
• Education and social inclusion with a focus on gender equity
• Child protection with a focus on protection against violence and post-conflict peace-building

An expected outcome are monitoring & evaluation framework(s) for each of these areas that will lead to more results-based programming.