Lisbon, Portugal: The inaugural Inter Regional Sports Policy Summit drew to a close in Lisbon today with members agreeing to drive forward a common agenda in the fight for integrity, good governance and sound development in sport.
The Summit was hosted by the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) and included representatives from the major linguistic blocks and other international organisations. The outcomes of the Summit highlighted the need to create strategic task forces to address reform in the following key policy areas: sport integrity, sport and economic development, good governance and financial integrity and youth development and child protection.
Once established, the task forces will work towards developing a blue-print model for structured National Integrity Units, explore the synergies between sport and economic development through participation in the ICSS Index survey, facilitate a knowledge and best-practice exchange in order to develop model regulations in the field of good governance and financial transparency and evolve the ICSS’s Charter for Youth Development and Child Protection.
“The time has come to move beyond platitudes and instigate solid action in the areas of good governance and the integrity of sport. The past two days have shown there is a strong desire by members of the international sporting community to develop clear resolutions and bring about real change,” Mohammed Hanzab, President of the ICSS said.
“Such was the significance of the Summit that, following its conclusion, we had an audience with the Portuguese Parliament to present our recommendations and we are confident they have been well received. The ICSS is determined to drive forward the key outcomes from the Summit and we look forward to a continued close relationship with our colleagues from the linguistics blocks.The Peninsula
