This resource is designed to provide practical tools to support sport for development practitioners to deliver an effective, basic level of child protection within their project. It is aimed at people working in sport for development who have not yet established an approach to child protection, probably in a small or medium sized organisation, who are working directly with young people on the ground, and who share in the aim of promoting children’s safety and welfare.

The tool is made up of two parts designed to work together:

• The code of practice provides a list of practical actions that will help an organisation to meaningfully initiate and develop a child protection approach. The actions can be established over time, and the depth to which each one is delivered can be developed gradually. What’s important is that a plan is designed to move towards a comprehensive, locally-driven approach encompassing all the actions in the code.
  

• The pledge is an action that can be applied immediately within an organisation to establish the dialogue between staff and young people about child protection issues that will be necessary to implement the code of practice. The pledge outlines a simple set of rules to promote safe and positive behaviours in sport. They are relevant to any adult who works with children in a sporting capacity.

Start using the tool in your organisation and download the code of practice and the child protection pledge in your language.

ENGLISH     SPANISH     GERMAN     FRENCH     ARABIC     KURDISH

If you can't find your language, email schilling@streetfootballworld.org, and with your support we will try to get the tool translated in as many languages as possible!

This code of practice and the pledge have been developed in collaboration with: