S4D Partners and Networks
*Sport can pool resources, create synergies, and build multi-stakeholder **networks** and **partnerships** for sustainable development and peace goals by bringing together a wide variety of actors from different sectors.” (UN, 2014)*
The long-term success of wide-ranging sport-related development programmes depends very much on finding viable strategies, people with the required skills and above all dedicated partners. In this regard, clubs, associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are important stakeholders in the areas of sport and civil society. To further promote and harness the potential of sport to achieve development goals, partnerships should be established with international organisations and networks, and with sport institutions. In order to multiply capacities and expertise in S4D, we are working with various partners in different countries all over the world.
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*“The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and **SDG17**, similarly and more broadly recognise the need for collective approaches that bring together governments, the private sector and civil society in implementing the SDGs.” (Commonwealth, 2017, p. 17)*
Through sport, **new cooperation arrangements** with partners from government, civil society, business and the academic world who spread the message of S4D within their own organisations can be forged in a range of ways. In our projects and programmes we are always working in **multi-stakeholder partnerships** in order to create synergies and to guarantee exchange.
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