Women Win Develops Girls Sport Programming Toolkit

August 23, 2019

Women Win has announced the “Girls in Motion Playbook,” a toolkit to support organisations and practitioners to design, develop and deliver adolescent girl-centred sport programmes in a variety of humanitarian contexts around the world.

The global non-profit supports organisations that use sport as a tool to empower girls and young women to know and use their rights, specifically in the areas of gender based violence, sexual and reproductive health rights and economic empowerment.

With its extensive knowledge and expertise in women’s rights, it has developed several open source learning tools, including a comprehensive guide for building sports programmes for girls and improving the inclusion of girls in existing sports programmes. 

The Girls in Motion Playbook is in response to what the organisation views as a “strong need for tools specifically designed for adolescent girls in humanitarian settings.” 

Women Win believes that sport is empowering, particularly for girls, and that it challenges gender norms. Sport participation offers girls an opportunity to build their self-esteem, leadership, courage and self-efficacy. Through sport programmes, girls' belief in their own ability increases.

The toolkit is based on the organization’s experiences and learnings from implementing partners and other organisations using sport with girls in humanitarian settings.

The Playbook will offer guidance to humanitarian actors, development practitioners, community workers, field officers and project or programme staff operating in a variety of settings, including IDP camps, rural or urban settlements, (natural) disaster-affected communities and refugee camps.

Women Win were the Official Winners of the 2017 Global Impact of the Year Award at the Beyond Sport Global Awards. Learn more about the Awards at beyondsport.org/awards.