Monitoring International Sport Development

openess & integrity: monitoring international sport development

Credibility and Transparency

We ask all our partners to have robust monitoring and evaluation tools in place to be able to measure their programmes’
• efficiency (e.g. cost per activity, cost per participant, ratio of staff to participant)
• effectiveness (outputs and outcomes – e.g. impact of participation on individuals in areas of physical health, life/leadership skills, AIDS awareness and behaviour, improved self-esteem/confidence)
• strategic outcomes (e.g. broader impact of programmes on community, improved perception on quality of life, improved attitude toward another culture)

We work with partners who create their own aims and objectives to ensure that they are meeting the local needs and are committed to helping our partners strengthen and further develop their monitoring and evaluation methodologies. Importantly partners that UK Sport work with have sustainable funding strategies that rely on numerous sources of income to ensure long term sustainability. Lastly we work together with partners on regular reports and site visits to ensure the quality of delivery and measurable impact.

Monitoring and Evaluation

UK Sport firmly believes that in order to use sport as an effective tool for human and social development both the capacity of the delivery organisation itself and the quality of the sport on offer must be the very best it can be. We have been looking at ways to improve the ongoing monitoring and evaluation processes of the organisations we work with, primarily to ensure sustainable programmes that achieve their objectives, but also to help provide the evidence base needed to discuss sport as a credible method of development. Consequently UK Sport, in collaboration with UNICEF and Magic Bus, commissioned Professor Fred Coalter of Stirling University to write ‘Sport-in-Development: A Monitoring and Evaluation Manual’.

The Manual is non-prescriptive and simply provides a broad framework through which organisations running sport for development programmes can better understand their capacity building needs, better instigate programme design that ensures the hoped for objectives are achieved, and make an informed choice of means and methods of monitoring and evaluation.

The Manual draws on four case studies in Africa and India to build up a picture of best practice in different types of sport for development work. It will help ensure that ongoing and new sport-in-development projects are best placed to make a difference where it is most needed.

If your organisation is using the Manual or would like to begin to, and you have any questions, queries or comments, please feel free to e-mail them to the following address: mandemanual@uksport.gov.uk

Download the manual here

Sport-in-Development: A Monitoring and Evaluation Manual [PDF, 256k]
www.uksport.gov.uk/assets/File/News/monitoring_and_evaluation_140906.pdf

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Comic Relief Research Initiative

Comic Relief are working in partnership with UK Sport to examine the role sport can play in generating change to young peoples’ lives and their communities. This project tests the hypothesis that ‘sport contributes to the personal development and well being of disadvantaged children and young people and brings wider benefits to the community.’ Working in eight countries the aims of the project include enhancing the skills and knowledge among agencies using sport as a tool to improve the lives of vulnerable children and young people, developing sport strategies that are tailored to meet the needs of these young people and their communities and developing tested Monitoring and Evaluation processes.