MINEPS V Follow-Up

Ministers and further leading representatives from ten Latin American and Caribbean ministries decided to take next steps towards the implementation of decisions adopted at the 5th International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS V).

During their meeting on 18 and 19 October 2013 in Bogota (Colombia) they agreed, among others, to work towards better access to quality physical education and sport including the piloting of guidelines and tools to enhance the provision of quality physical education; to exchange information on sport policy structures through the establishment of a regional observatory; to monitor follow-up activities; and to start with a mapping of existing data collection in the fields of physical education, physical activity and sport by national agencies for statistics, self-assessment centres and research institutes.

ICSSPE Executive Director Detlef Dumon, who attended the meeting as a member of UNESCO’s Permanent Consultative Council, welcomed the initiative by UNESCO and Colombia’s national sport organisation Coldeportes.  He stressed “the importance of harnessing the spirit of MINEPS and the willingness of many governmental and non-governmental institutions to implement the decisions adopted at the conference in May.” Dumon reiterated “the need for now taking practical steps at the national and regional levels as well as to continue to convince strategic partners of the benefits of physical education, physical activity and sport for the sake of individual, social and economic development.“

UNESCO and ICSSPE are striving for further conferences in other UNESCO regions.

For further information please contact the ICSSPE Executive Office at icsspeicsspe.org.