World Sports Alliance

The World Sports Alliance (WSA) is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) created through a private initiative in support of the United Nations Millennium Project and its Development Goals (UN MDGs).(1)

WSA uses sports, physical education and leisure as a catalyst in the design and implementation of extracurricular youth training and educational programs as a means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The stated purpose of WSA’s programs is to develop a prosperous, educated, and self- reliant youth, progressively free of poverty, who are aware of the increasing challenges facing the planet, who have been prepared to meet these challenges as responsible citizens of Earth’s global village, and who will be better prepared to interface with their community, their nation, and the world.

Beyond their educational value, WSA’s youth programs produce the further benefit of creating jobs within the Alliance’s Member States. In addition to the immediate job opportunities created by the construction and or rehabilitation of the countries’ sports infrastructures; it trains and employs staff members for its youth centers and for the operation of the Public Private Partnerships created to fund the organization’s activities.

The WSA initiative represents a departure from traditional approaches in that it seeks to provide its Member State partners with the ability to implement and sustain their social and infrastructure programs without imposing additional economic burdens on the Member States’ economies.