1.10 – 02.00 Policy aimed at women and girls
Exercise 4a5: An inclusive policy in 4 steps
– Create a policy plan for your sports organisation
– Experience that policy making is not necessarily very complicated and can be done in a short time
– Ensuring that participants go home with a concrete plan that they can immediately put into practice
What do you need?
– a flipchart, whiteboard or the like
– markers
– post-its and / or strips of colored paper
What should you do?
– use an energizer to warm-up (choose an energizer that is described in this ELE on the page energizers (link))
Step 1: Define ‘inclusion of migrant women and girls in and through sport’ (5 min.)
– Ask participants to write down one or two words that come to their mind when they think about inclusion of migrant women and girls in and through sports (1 min)
– Have the participants stick the post-its on a whiteboard, wall or flip chart and put words of similar meaning together (1 min)
– Discuss shortly the result and pay attention to the deviating words. Determine which words should definitely be included in a definition (3 min)
Step 2: Make a statement (10 min)
– Make small groups of about 5 people
– The groups try to put the words/values mentioned in Step 1 to a sentence describing their organisations aims best. (5 min)
– Example: ‘Organisation X welcomes, encourages and supports the inclusion of migrant and ethnic minority women and girls through sports ….. ‘
– Present and discuss the results in a plenary session. If necessary, combine the best ingredients from the different statements (5 min)
– Is this sentence sufficient or do we want to refine, expand or make this statement more appropriate?
Step 3: Define end result / ideal situation (10 min)
– Back into the small groups, make participants define an ideal scenario in the future (e.g. in 5 years) (7 min)
– For example: ‘In 5 years time Organisation X will …..
– be diverse on all levels
– have 50% women in the leading positions and athletes;
– have achieved a situation in which migrant communities feel welcome and join all activities;
– have a female president …
– participants write aims in post-its and stick them on whiteboard, wall or flip chart and put aims of similar meaning together.
– Discuss the results shortly (3 min)
Step 4: Define policy principles (20 min)
– All participants have colored strips of paper and use a specific color for each question.
– Ask the following questions and have participants write the answer on the matching colored strip of paper (10 min)
– It’s a pressure cooker; participants have a maximum of one minute to write down their ideas
– After answering all questions, participants post their answers to the questions on flipcharts
– Go through all the answers in plenary (10 min)
– Questions:
1. The policy is based on the following principles:
(for example: Country X is a multicultural country with a diversity of cultures)
2. Organisation X shows its commitment to inclusion of migrant women and girls by:
– Board (for example: to appoint a board in which various groups of members identify themselves)
– Volunteers (for example: responding to the motivation and competences of everyone, regardless of gender and origin)
– Recruitment
– Trainers / trainings
– Referees / jury (for example: not tolerate discriminatory comments or jokes during competitions)
– Accommodation and Canteen
– Club magazine / communications
– Youth
– Others (for example something about clothing regulations)
In principle, the policy of the organisation was put on paper after this exercise. The next step would be to translate the policy principles into concrete activities and behaviour.
Trainers advice
– Have a pressure cooker and stick to the time, regardless of whether everyone has finished the assignment
– If necessary, limit feedback by summarising the results yourself and not allowing too much discussion
– Write the results of each step on the flip sheet and hand it over to the participants (if they come from one organisation)
– If necessary, keep the results separate for each organisation