World Rugby Continues Partnership with International Olympic Committee To Deliver Global Sport for Good

World Rugby has said that the Global Sport for Good Initiative, they have been partners since 2024, strengthens its programmes and will broaden participation in sport, as well as increase its contribution to “resilient communities, health and wellbeing, education and inclusion.”

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The Global Sport for Good Initiative has worked with four international sports federations – World Rugby, FIBA (Basketball), World Athletics and BWF (Badminton) – and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 2024 to achieve those goals.

World Rugby said in a press release that together with the IOC and partner federations, they are placing community players’ needs at the centre of sport delivery, embedding this approach in grassroots coach education and workforce development, and improving how they measure and demonstrate impact.

500+ coaches, educators and 148 National Federations across 122 countries and 5 continents have been engaged globally as Global Sport for Good is part of the Olympic movement’s aim to positively transform lives through sport.

World Rugby Head of Education, Laws and Compliance Jock Peggie said of the role of World Rugby’s Regional Training Managers, “Putting young people at the heart of coaching, both in how we deliver, ensuring we are supporting them to play an active role in wider society is a founding principle of rugby union and a key aim of World Rugby.

I’m proud of how our Regional Training Managers, delivering all around the globe, are empowering regions and unions to look closely at the way we bring young people into our sport and help coaches to encourage those young people to lead active lives wherever they grow up.”

What Are the Global Sport for Good Priorities?

The priorities are:

1. Strengthening the delivery of sport by supporting coaches and community practitioners to put participant needs at the centre of how sport is delivered, while building their skills to increase access to sport, and create positive societal change.
2. World Rugby, sharing, exchanging and evidencing impact by unions and regions around the globe with the tools and knowledge to better measure, improve and understand the outcomes of their community training and education programmes, with a focus on health and wellbeing, inclusion, education and community development.
3. Strengthen peer learning and knowledge sharing between the four international federations, unions, regions and partners to strengthen delivery of community sport programmes and create opportunities to extend the reach and impact of sport, including through collaboration with broader stakeholders and partners.

Goals of the Global Sport for Good in Rugby

They aim to deliver the following results:

1. Societal impact is systematically strengthened within the strategies, programmes, and operations of World Rugby, member regions and member unions, contributing to more sustainable, inclusive, and impactful sport systems.
2. World Rugby, member regions and unions increase the design and delivery of inclusive sport opportunities, resulting in greater participation and enhanced development of resilience, life skills, and other positive outcomes among participants.
3. Coaches, educators, and sport practitioners across World Rugby systems are strengthened and recognised as key actors in delivering positive societal outcomes through sport.
4. World Rugby, regions and our member unions increasingly position and leverage sport as a tool for societal impact, advancing health, education, inclusion, and broader development outcomes through their policies, programmes, and partnerships.

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