Guidelines for gender-responsive sports organizations (2021)

The Guidelines aim to support sports organizations to transform their intentions to empower women and girls and advance gender equality in practice, based on a comprehensive set of measurable and concrete actions and indicators against each of the six global Principles:

1. Undertake efforts to promote women’s leadership and gender equality in governance models
2. Undertake efforts tot prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in and through sports
3. Undertake to close the gaps in investment in women’s sport and promote equal economic opportunities for women and girls
4. Undertake effort to promote women’s equal participation and bias-free representation in sports media, including communications to eliminate harmful gender stereotypes and promote positive role models
5. Undertake efforts to support equal opportunities for girls in sports, physical activity and physical education
6. Agree to monitor and publicly report on progress on an annual basis