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The report submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 75/18, reviews the progress made over the last two years, to apply sport to advance the SDGs. The report highlights adaptations undertaken during the COVID19 pandemic, noting the potential to apply innovations to scale up impact. The report analyses the potential for sport to play a catalytic role in countries’ efforts to “build back better”, arguing that sport is well suited to help address pandemic-related increases in inequalities, mental health challenges, out-of-school and work youth, social unrest, violence, and physical inactivity. In the context of broader recovery efforts, the report outlines how sport can be maximized as a low-cost, high-impact tool to rebuild solidarity within and between countries, deliver concrete benefits to people in the short term, while generating wider societal level change in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Summary of Highlights and Key Messages
Sport: Catalyst for a Better, Stronger Recovery 2022 Report of the Secretary-General