Activating the Girls Rights in Practicing Sport" Women Soccer"
Provide an environment to help girls to practice sports in government primary schools to achieve gender equality.
About You
Contact Information
Title
Mr.
First name
magdy
Last name
saad
Your job title
Manager
Name of your organization
Tanweer Foundation for Education &Development in Minia.
Organization type
NGO
Annual budget/currency
34350 $
Location
Project Street Address
111 Makaa EL Mokarmaa St.
Project City
Minia
Project Province/State
Minia
Project Postal/Zip Code
61111
Project Country
Egypt
Your idea
Choose your sport: (check all that apply)
Soccer/Football
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What approach does your initiative incorporate?
Advocacy
Year the initiative began (yyyy)
2008
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Plot your innovation within the discovery framework:
Barrier
Girls internalize cultural stereotypes
Insight
Embed sports with other activities
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Name Your Project
Activating the Girls Rights in Practicing Sport" Women Soccer"
Describe Your Idea
Provide an environment to help girls to practice sports in government primary schools to achieve gender equality.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
Provide an environment to help girls to practice sports in government primary schools to achieve gender equality.
How many people does your innovation serve or plan to serve? Exactly who will benefit?
-Direct beneficiaries : - 400 girls from the age of 10-12 years
- 40 coach.
-Indirect beneficiaries:- 7000 student in the participating schools
- 200 parents
Do you have any existing partnerships? If so, please list and describe.
Yes , we have partnerships with following bodies:
1 - The Ministry of Education – Minia Education Directorate - Department of Minia Education - Girls Sports Department - 20 government primary schools.
2 - Egyptian Football Union.3 -Minia Referees Committee.
4 - Faculty of Physical Education - Minia
5 - Doctors of Minia Health Directorate.
6 - parents of girls
7 - Activists in the civil work and education.
in addition to Ashoka Arab World Foundation And Nike Company
In which sector do these partners work? (Check all that apply)
Citizen sector (non profits, NGOs) .
How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
Providing training programs to coach in schools by specialists from(College of Physical Education - Doctors) as well as the preparation, printing and distribution of a manual for the culture of sports game (its history - the law - Regulations - world championships), preparing and implementing of battery test to select girls. Also providing tools and materials for schools in addition to sports uniforms for girls, and conducting follow-up field visits for the game through a training program for girls (6 hours per week for 9 months).Holding Meetings with decision makers, school managers and coach and implementing competitions among the 20 teams and distributing awards and incentives to winners. preparing, implementing, analysis and reading the results of an opinion poll about girls sports for girls. Conducting a comprehensive medical examination of the girl child by specialist doctors.
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact
Girls starting in the exercise of women's soccer destroying restrictions, customs and traditions that were preventing them from playing.
What does impact/success look like? Please list any tangible measures of the impact of your innovation
Rehabilitation of 40 coach on the technical and planning skills for the girls to practice soccer in addition to the rules and laws of the game and the physical, planning and skills preparation or girls and playground injuries.- 828 girls proposed to join teams and selected 400 girls only through battery testing standards developed scientifically and medically.- 400 girls practiced soccer game for the first time in public schools in rural areas of Upper Egypt.- Break the barrier of customs and traditions imposed by society on girls in sports, especially women's soccer.- Boys Encouraged girls during competitions and the abandonment of male representation of the school and support girls to win.- Introducing the concepts gender equity in the educational system .- Investing the potential of some elements of civil society in promoting a culture of sports for girls - Receiving the shield of the Egyptian Football Union .
Is there a chance that your project could change policy (within an institution or government)?
After presentation of the results of an opinion poll about girls sports to the decision makers at the county level ,Minia Education Department adopted women's soccer competitions at the primary level of for the first time in the 2008-2009 school year and to notify the Ministry of Education to adopt a budgets for that.
- Studying the possibility of volunteer opportunities of students in the College of Physical Education as a practical means to encourage and support girls in primary schools and linking it to the scientific study estimates of these volunteers.
- The allocation of television programs on the local channel to present our innovation and focus on it in 3 programs in addition to the daily bulletins during the competitions.
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow the initiative or expand your intended impact?
Initiative began in 2006 \ 2007, with 200 girls to play volleyball, in 2008 we worked for the first time with 400 girls women's soccer in 20 government primary schools.
We are now planning to work with 1,000 girls in various games (soccer –volleyball ...etc ) so we'll apply for more than one funding agencies for the continuity and allocating deposit for each school to spend its revenue on sports activities for girls to continuing to engage in sports.
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Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
Grant offered by Ashoka Arab world Foundation and Nike Company together with voluntary efforts of Tanweer staff and some supporters for the idea (doctors 0 governors - university professors - ..etc)
Financing source
Annual budget
34350 $
Annual revenue generated
None
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers)
( 6 full-time, 40 part-time,3 volunteers)
What are the main barriers to financing your initiative, and how do you plan to address these barriers?
Sports activities do not find a priority of the funding agencies. Initiatives dealing with social and cultural change to address and traditions that increase the marginalization of women need a long money, The prior agenda of the funding agencies which does not include sports as a tool for social change.So we'll apply to funding agencies such as companies and banks by raising their social responsibility ,and the allocation for amount from grants for the deposits to expend its revenue on the innovation.Completing the program of volunteer from our foundation staff and the activists of civil work.
What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?
Partnership with the government requires a long time to convince them to the innovation and the importance of sport beside the theoretical study (educational curriculum), but that if they are convinced they will be supporters through systems and regulatory decisions .
- Partnership with volunteers is a cutting Partnership because of the larger interest of earning a living because of low income and high prices of living needs.
The Story
What stage is your project?
Completed project.
What was the motivation or defining moment that led to create this innovation? Tell us the story.
Out of introducing concepts of human rights and child rights and gender equality in government primary schools to use sport in the exercise of women's football is one of the entrances of equality between boys and girls, after the success of the innovation in the first phase in practicing volleyball,so the girls themselves demand to have the opportunity to play the first public game in Egypt.
Please tell us about the social innovator behind this initiative
I am the innvator behind this initiative.I work in the civil work 24 years ago , and I am Ashoka fellow since 10/2005 and I am member of Board of Directors in the Egyptian Union for Talented also in the Board of Directors in Minia City Youth Center and the secretary of the voluntary team for the"Initiative of Educating Girls" which is adopted by the National Council for Motherhood &Childhoot
(Optional) To be eligible for an additional prize, please select age range
27 or older
 | 175 weeks agoaykan gulten said: It is excellent news that Government has taken some decisions to support the program. I hope this will help you Make The Case ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 175 weeks agomagdy saad said: Present the project to the school for all employees, especially teachers of physical education for participation ,and there is a ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 175 weeks agomagdy saad said: Preliminary a decision had been taken from the Department of Minya educational where the project was carried out, to carry out the ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 175 weeks agomagdy saad said: I apologize for the delay in the response because of New Year and the Christmas holidays. The program can be permanently implemented ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 175 weeks agomagdy saad said: - A battery test includes measurements and some simple skills such as height and weight - the sense of the ball - running with ball - ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 176 weeks agoLombe Mwambwa said: Hi, Schools are a wonerfull place to engange young people. What is the envolvement of the teachers in the programme? Have you ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 176 weeks agoaykan gulten said: Hello Mr. Aziz, What I really like in your program is the fact that you work with Government bodies and private companies at the same ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 177 weeks agoHolly Ramer said: Hello Mr. Aziz, I like this idea of getting girls active in sport. I wonder at what point this program will become self sustaining. ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 182 weeks agoKate Bowman said: This sounds like a great project that is addressing the problem of stereotypes against girls in sports in a comprehensive way. You ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 183 weeks agomagdy saad submitted this idea. |
