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Osaka Human Sciences. 2023, 9, p. 45-62

Confronting Gender Issues with Sports for Development and Peace : The case of Zimbabwe

Okada, Chiaki

Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

English

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2023-02

The aim of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) is to use sport as a tool to overcome social issues related to poverty, health, education, peace building, ethnic reconciliation, and such. The fi eld of SDP has been developed since the mid-1990s internationally, and later in Japan, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The international contribution through sport is implemented as a Japanese governmental program titled “Sport for Tomorrow.” Another discussion about the contribution of sport to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has recently begun, and the consideration of the new role of sport in the post-COVID-19 society is also needed. Although the expected roles of sport are various in the context of SDP, more rigorous and pragmatic verifi cation will be required to represent the inherent signifi cances of sport at several levels such as in society, local communities, organizations, and individuals. The expected role of women in international development has been growing in many sectors. In 2015, the former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, declared “we cannot achieve our 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development without full and equal rights for half of the world’s population, in law and in practice.” In this study, the author attempts to verify an SDP example of “woman” and “Africa” where it is thought that for a long time, less attention has been paid not only in the context of sport itself, but also in SDP. This study aims to reconsider the value of sports for women in Zimbabwe, Africa, by inspecting sports activities conducted under diffi cult circumstances. The author focuses on SDP activities performed in a suburb of the capital city, Harare, Zimbabwe. A Zimbabwean non-governmental organization (NGO), “Young Achievements Sport for Development: YASD,” has launched a new international program for women named “GOAL,” which is funded by the Standard Chartered Bank. This program focuses on the vulnerable women who have been aff ected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and attempts to spread social knowledge about women’s “health,” “money saving,” “empowerment,” and “self-esteem” through sports and physical exercise. The author implemented an inventory survey for the coaches of the YASD Goal program to clarify the contents, outcomes, goals, and clients’ problems, and to investigate the SDP activities for women performed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

10.18910/90709

90709

Confronting Gender Issues with Sports for Development and Peace : The case of Zimbabwe

Okada, Chiaki

Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

English

2023-02

Osaka Human Sciences

9

45

62

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/90709

10.18910/90709

https://doi.org/10.18910/90709