Paper Presentation V:
Problems and Challenges in Women’s Football
Saturday, April 10, 14.15–16.15

Adam Musa
Uganda Youth Sports Association (Uysa)

The essence of this paper is to amplify strategies of gender balance and sports participation among the women in the rural areas through sports and recreational-oriented civic education and examines this link closely in the remote ravaged areas of developing countries and developed countries for the start with a view to “exporting” the model elsewhere. It will recognize how women are really disadvantaged regarding the participation in developmental activities that can be greatly enriched by the lessons and experiences of women participation in sports programme administratively and “physically”. For instance, through sports entrepreneurship women naturally learn how to cultivate a balance between a culture of competition/self sustainance on the one hand and a culture of respect and tolerance for their opposition on the other hand. Sports entrepreneurship also helps the women to practice the rules of fair play.

The methodology/strategy is well considered and schedules of activities in respect to the prevailing circumstance, paper will identify women groups in this area that are likely to engage in social entrepreneurship activism through sports; the context in, and frequency with, which this activism would occur; and the tolerance levels these women groups would exhibit towards divergent groups and ideas.

OBJECTIVES

1. To establish the potential of patriotism as a means of strengthening sports and social role amidst women, by re-affirming their social demands and contribution to the development of the society.
2. To find out the importance of dialogue amidst various sports stakeholders.
3. To find out ways of reinforcing grass-root sports, women networks and structures at a regional, national and international level.
4. To promote global sports in the struggle for common demands and the search for social justice using a new women multimedia network.

EXPECTED OUTPUT

1. A well coordinated, efficient, and pro-societal leadership in the sports sector across the countries enhanced by research, mapping and creation of a plan with key recommendations.
2. A well strategized campaign with increased profile and image of the women sports strategy within key agencies and the wider community, the sub-region, the region, nationally and internationally