With the approach of mega sports events to be held in Brazil (2014 World Cup and Rio 2016 Olympic Games), the discussion of sporting legacy has created forces. To discuss the theme educational sports, a round table was organized on 29 March in the program of the 7th Congress Gife, with the participation of executive manager of Share Luiz Fernando Nascimento, Claudia France of America Fellows Institute and Paula Korsakas Program Training and Study in Human Development through Sports - PRODHE / USP and mediation was made by Olympic volleyball former athlete Ana Moser Institute of Sport Education.
The REMS is the result of a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme - UNDP and Nike.
These entities were to Congress representing the Sport for Social Change Network (REMS), which aims to mobilize and strengthen organizations, groups and social movements that recognize sport as a promoter of social development, of which they are part. Briefly the mission and goals of the REMS was submitted, the concept of educational sport, the methodologies used by institutions, ending with monitoring and evaluation process. Then the audience can ask questions. Birth approached about the importance of monitoring and measurement of results generated by the work of social projects, he explained each monitoring process ranging from the establishment of the baseline generated from the main objective of the project to the qualitative assessment that is costly and needs of skilled labor.
Public circulated within five days of lectures congressional Gife this year (26 to 30 March) was formed by the main leaders of social investors in the country, as well as leaders of civil society organizations, academics, consultants and government representatives. For Nascimento, a congress with such size to make room for the discussion of educational sport, is a sign that the issue has become important in times of major sporting events. "The approach of the private sector and key stakeholders with the sporting social projects is essential. They comprising educational sport and its positive effects on the formation of the citizen, may invest more resources in this area, "he says.
7th Congress discusses Gife New Frontiers of Social Investment.
The Gife is a non-profit network that brings together organizations of business origin, family, independent and community, investing in projects with public purpose. Its mission is to improve and disseminate concepts and the use of private resources practices for the development of the common good, thus contributing to the promotion of sustainable development in Brazil, through political-institutional strengthening and supporting the strategic actions of private social investors. Congress has biennial achievement and this year the theme New Frontiers of Social Investment.
REMS is a network that links more than 40 organizations from various thematic areas of the country, who believe in sport as instrument of social transformation, among them Gol de Letra Foundation, Social Investment Fund They, Guga Kuerten Institute, Reaction Institute, Instituto Rumo nautical.
