In the last decade, the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement has received a lot of attention and recognition by the international community. SDP is described as the intentional use of sport as tool to foster personal and social improvements of people and communities most in need of development [1,2]. The intention of this abstract is therefore to introduce the potentialities of the SDP sector, and to present the Evaluation Model implemented in August 2011 within the WAR GAME! NO MORE (WGNM) project. WGNM) project has delivered sport activities for the last 3 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with Former Child Soldiers (FCS), boys and girls, aged 8 to 18. The mission of WGNM is to harness the intrinsic values of sport and physical activity to foster a long-lasting and transferable change in the attitudes and behaviors of the FCS. To do so, local sport educators have been trained and are conducting sport activities in 9 primary schools in the area nearby the city of Kindu on regularly basis (once a week x 2 hours), moreover during the summer, Sport Camps involving both FCS and non-FCS are organized as well. A first preliminary analysis using the Rosenberg Scale of self esteem and a close-answer questionnaire with Likert scale revealed that children (54 boys/ 44 girls) appreciated the project activities (98% of responders), they felt more socially engaged with peers (70,4%) and consequently the intervention could have improved their low level of self-esteem (Rosemberg Scale level 13,7 ±3,8 vs 15 ±3,1 of non-FCS). Further analysis will be extended during the next school year using PACES Scale to measure the enjoyment of physical activity participation, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for assessing the quality of their peer relationship and emotional symptoms and d-2 test, a paper-pencil test to evaluate attention and concentration of the participants. References. – Houlihan B. and White, A. (2002) – Brunelli A and Parisi P. (2011)
Exploring the field: the evaluation model of the sport for development project WAR GAME ! NO MORE with former child soldiers in Democratic Republic of Congo
LANZA, Massimo
2011-01-01
Abstract
In the last decade, the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement has received a lot of attention and recognition by the international community. SDP is described as the intentional use of sport as tool to foster personal and social improvements of people and communities most in need of development [1,2]. The intention of this abstract is therefore to introduce the potentialities of the SDP sector, and to present the Evaluation Model implemented in August 2011 within the WAR GAME! NO MORE (WGNM) project. WGNM) project has delivered sport activities for the last 3 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with Former Child Soldiers (FCS), boys and girls, aged 8 to 18. The mission of WGNM is to harness the intrinsic values of sport and physical activity to foster a long-lasting and transferable change in the attitudes and behaviors of the FCS. To do so, local sport educators have been trained and are conducting sport activities in 9 primary schools in the area nearby the city of Kindu on regularly basis (once a week x 2 hours), moreover during the summer, Sport Camps involving both FCS and non-FCS are organized as well. A first preliminary analysis using the Rosenberg Scale of self esteem and a close-answer questionnaire with Likert scale revealed that children (54 boys/ 44 girls) appreciated the project activities (98% of responders), they felt more socially engaged with peers (70,4%) and consequently the intervention could have improved their low level of self-esteem (Rosemberg Scale level 13,7 ±3,8 vs 15 ±3,1 of non-FCS). Further analysis will be extended during the next school year using PACES Scale to measure the enjoyment of physical activity participation, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for assessing the quality of their peer relationship and emotional symptoms and d-2 test, a paper-pencil test to evaluate attention and concentration of the participants. References. – Houlihan B. and White, A. (2002) – Brunelli A and Parisi P. (2011)
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