The Empowerment of Girls through Sports

Promoting well-being (SDG 3), comprehensive education (SDG 4) & gender equality (SDG 5)

Description

As social corporate responsibility project, NSCE sheds light on the “Empowerment of Girls through Sports” project with as core impact objective to contribute to civic and social empowerment. Globally there is a social consensus on the power of sports to ensure healthy lives, promote well-being (Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3), enhance comprehensive education (SDG 4), and to have the capacity to increase gender equality (SDG 5). Sports is recognised as a relevant area of intervention as an enabler of teamwork, self-reliance, self-esteem, and self-confidence in relation to others. Social interaction is core to sports engagement which sows the seeds for friendships and even social inclusion. The impact of sports has been recognised by the UN in developing tolerant, respectful, and peaceful relations.

The overall objective is to contribute to teenage girls and young women civic and social empowerment through strengthening the capacity of Egyptian sports organizations to promote and offer inclusive and gender-sensitive access to sport practice and competitions, especially in marginalized rural areas.

The outcomes include that

  • a minimum of 500 teenage girls have improved their self-confidence and/or autonomy by attending regular sport trainings in 22 centres and participation in races
  • a minimum of 200 new teenage girls have improved their self-confidence and/or autonomy by taking up sport practices in 22 centres
  • a minimum of 500 teenage girls and family members have been reached, are aware of sport’s positive social impacts and have improved their understanding of sport and nutrition-related gender issues
  • a minimum of 500 teenage girls have acquired skills about leadership, health, nutrition, physical activities and citizenship and are able to lead extracurricular activities and disseminate their knowledge in the community
  • 40% of the members of the Egyptian Athletics Federation are working to replicate and generalize the project’s objectives and have acquired replicable knowledge about sports nutrition, are conducting autonomous nutrition programs
  • 40% of board members of the Youth Clubs have acquired knowledge on gender and nutrition issues
  • 70% the coaches of the centres have acquired skills to conduct more inclusive and tailored activities for girls with a special focus on nutrition
  • 500 members of the local communities have attended awareness sessions and all of them have access to specific and tailored information

Services

  • Reviewing and  developing  training program
  • Negotiating as needed new /improved training space
  • Selection of applicants to sports training program. 
  • Implementation of training programs with more than 400 girls (main and substitutes) in 27 youth centers and clubs 
  • Enhancing and improving the girls’ self-esteem and anatomy by making sure most of the girls participated in local/ regional competitions; 48 girls participated in national competitions
  • Coordinating , implementing and supervising online sports practice during the lockdown of COVID-19 on Zoom. 
  • Organizing from Home Sports Practice Challenges / Competitions; 60 girls participated in the from home sports challenge and 1 coach and 3 running girls participated in the UNESCO Sports Challenge to fight against Covid 19  
  • The implementation of Awareness Raising Performances (10) on the importance of sports and nutrition for girls in 9 governorates for approximately 1100 individuals, including girls, parents, coaches and community members. 
  • Implementing online Awareness Sessions on Covid 19 and Importance of proper nutrition and Sports Practice at home, reaching 114 individuals, including coaches, girls, parents and family members. 
  • Developing and publishing accessible content publication on social media on proper nutrition, sports practice and leadership 
  • Developing and publishing social media content and awareness videos on Covid 19 (including proper nutrition for better immunity and sports practice for fighting covid 19)
  • Developing Awareness written content targeting youth centre and associations 
  • Sharing story telling short films and  the girls’ success stories live and through the social media 
  • The development of  training /awareness program in leadership, health & Nutrition and community mobilization
  • The Implementation of training of trainers on Sports Nutrition and Leadership with the coaches 
  • The implementation of Nutrition and leadership trainings with 661 individuals, including running girls and community members, parents and coaches. 
  • Had the girls hold extracurricular activities; organized a sports nutrition fair in Qalyoubia 
  • Supporting the girls to mobilize the community, and actively participate in events 
  • Encouraging the girls to spread awareness on COVID19 and importance of sports and proper nutrition for the immunity 
  • Development of tailored awareness sessions for community members and girls 
  • Specific and tailored documentation on sports for girls and nutrition is available at the centers and online 
  • Running communication platform for families and community to ensure good families’ inclusion in the activities and awareness