Playing for progress: policy advocacy in sport for development
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15510%2F25%3A73630413" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15510/25:73630413 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2025.1546222/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2025.1546222/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2025.1546222" target="_blank" >10.3389/fspor.2025.1546222</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Playing for progress: policy advocacy in sport for development
Original language description
Sport for development (SFD) has emerged as a significant field of activity and has increasingly been critiqued for focusing on micro-level initiatives as a remedy to larger scale social or structural issues. This has led numerous scholars to propose more political meso or macro level approaches to deliver improved, sustainable outcomes. One such solution involves direct engagement in policy advocacy to support, and influence, policies that can directly benefit participants in SFD programmes. Against this background, our paper maps policy advocacy in the SFD field. Using results generated from a survey initiated in the context of a pan-European project, we map out the policy advocacy areas, activities and relationships within the sector. Our results show that most organisations engage in some form of advocacy, but much of this appears limited to the kind of self-interested advocacy that is designed to secure funding for organisational activities. Based on this, we argue that SFD actors should also engage in more progressive advocacy and suggest how research, as well as educational programming, can support this shift.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30306 - Sport and fitness sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
FRONTIERS IN SPORTS AND ACTIVE LIVING
ISSN
2624-9367
e-ISSN
2624-9367
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1546222
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
1
Pages from-to
1
UT code for WoS article
001457813500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105001741829