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Advancing the Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals through Sport

Discover how cities and urban communities can leverage sport as a driver of sustainable urban. Hear city voices, gain global insights, learn about innovative financing approaches and unlock technical resources and collaboration opportunities.

Ollie Dudfield

Moderator

date November 7, 2024 | 13:00 - 14:30
place
SDGs in Action - room C
organization
International Olympic Committee
country
Switzerland
language
English, Arabic, French
Reference: 
SDG-C 13

Summary

This side event “Advancing SDG Localisation through Sport” will share insight, learning and collaboration opportunities on harnessing sport as a driver for sustainable urban development.

The event will feature thought leaders and officials from governments, development banks and development financing institutions, the sport and Olympic movement and civil society. Together they will discuss approaches to plan, deliver and finance policies and strategies that enhance and strengthen the role of sport as a driver of positive economic, social and environmental development.

Building on practical experiences from cities, this session will explore the value proposition of integrating sport and physical activity into cities’ analysis and planning tools, approaches to build local capacity to deploy sport as a tool for sustainable urban development, and opportunities to utilise concessional, blended and impact-orientated investment tools to scale access to sport, physical activity and active recreation as a tool for

Objectives

a. Increase awareness of approaches, financing options and return on investment of mainstreaming sport, physical activity and active recreation in the SDG localisation agenda.

b. Share insights and learning on mainstreaming sport, physical activity and active recreation as a tool for accelerating sustainable urban development across municipalities of varying sizes, geographic locations and cultural contexts.

c. Promote the opportunity to access technical resources and technical assistance to mainstream sport, physical activity and active recreation through the UN Habitat and International Olympic Committee collaboration.

d. Explore opportunities to mobilise concessional, blended and innovative financing for infrastructure and programming to enable the full realisation of the contribution of sport, physical activity and active recreation as a tool for inclusive and sustainable development in cities and urban settlements.

Session panelists

Panelist
Role
Organization
Country
Ms. Shipra Narang Suri
Chief, Urban Practices Branch, Global Solutions Division
UN-Habitat
Ms. Aya Medany
IOC Member
International Olympic Committee
Ms. Dy Currie
Executive General Manager
Brisbane 2032 Host City
Ms. Audrey Guiral-Naepels
Director of Urban Planning Department
Agence Francaise de Dveloppement
Mr. Javier Torner
Urban Regeneration Lead
UN-Habitat
Prefer not to say Representative Implementing City
UN-Habitat and IOC Collaboration
Sport for Sustainable Urban Development Initiative