The Beyond Sports Award – the jury’s motivation

As you might have noticed (from our non-stop postings about it), we recently won what we wouldn’t hesitate to label the most prestigious award in the Sports for Development world, the Beyond Sport Award. We are immensely honored with the award and aside from being a bona fide stamp of approval, we also consider it an obligation to continuously work on improving what we do. That’s why we will invest some of the award money towards improving our monitoring and evaluation system.
Beyond Sport just sent us their jury’s motivation in selecting Play31 and we thought you might find it interesting. Here is a blurb:
“To have moved from a Shortlisted project in the 2010 Best New Project category to Winner of the 2011 Sport for Conflict Resolution Award is an absolutely outstanding achievement. Standing out among over 400 projects from more than 120 countries and territories is not easy but the Beyond Sport Judges were particularly impressed with Play 31′s five-step process that has had impressive success bringing together villages ripped apart and turned against each other through the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Not only does Play 31 exhibit a process that shows sport’s power in a reconciliation process in its purest form, the way the organisation relies on community leaders and local NGOs is truly exemplary”.

Jan 25, 2012; / Blog / No Comments