Understanding And Overcoming Challenges
Around the world, girls and women face unique challenges to participating in sport. These challenges are personal, practical, economic, political and cultural. In Pakistan, the...
Choosing The Right Sport
The success of your programme will depend, in part, on what sport or physical activity you select. Encourage girls to focus on a single sport. Often girls are given basic...
Using A Curriculum
A well-designed curriculum, or a set of sessions that guide teachers and coaches on teaching a certain skill, idea or lesson, can be indispensible for programmes addressing issues...
Building Support
Communities, not individuals or independent organisations, build successful and sustainable sport programmes. Perhaps the single most critical factor in designing a sport...
Creating a Safe Space
Participants and their families must trust that all activities associated with a sport programme occur in a secure environment. Addressing safety concerns must be a top priority...
Recruiting Girls
Step 1: Identify the Potential Participant
When designing a sport programme, it’s critical to first identify the girls who will be targeted by the program. Who do you want to...
Developing Girls' Leadership
Girls’ leadership can and should be an important part of programme design. Developing the leadership abilities and opportunities within a programme for the adolescent girl...
Designing For Girls With Disabilities
When developing your sport programme, actively recruit girls with physical, sensorial and other disabilities and design the programme with their needs and unique skills in mind....
Mixing Genders
By necessity or by choice, there are times when boys and girls are integrated into a sport programme. Common scenarios include organisations that share resources, such as play...
Measuring Impact
Measuring the impact of a sport programme on adolescent girls as well as the surrounding community provides important information for organisations, not only to help prove what...