The United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) and the
Jacobs Foundation would like to draw your attention to the Forum on Productive Youth Development through Sport in Africa, to be held from June 16-18, 2009 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya.

To what extent can sport promote the social inclusion of disadvantaged youth? How can actors interested in sport’s development potential better share resources and ideas? Which interventions and practises have proved their effectiveness in the field and are sustainable for the future? These are some of the questions this Forum will address.

Government agencies, sports organisations, the UN, sports business, NGOs and others are interested in the potential of sport to be used as a tool to reach human and social development objectives as well as to address challenges that arise from humanitarian crises.

The event is a joint initiative of UNOSDP and the Jacobs Foundation in collaboration with the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD) and the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA).

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