World Sports Alliance - Achieving The Goal

Achieving The Goal

From its inception, WSA and its Member States recognized that the imperative of making the organization and activities self-funding and self-sustaining in order to achieve its goals.

As expressed in the Forward and in Chapter Five of its Unleashing Entrepreneurship, (http://www.undp.org/cpsd/report/index.html), the Commission on the Private Sector and Development’s report to the Secretary General of the United Nations of March 2004, identified specific courses of action for the Public, Private, and Public-Private Sectors for achieving growth, equitable development, and an enabling environment. (6) These recommendations by area include:

1. In the public sphere, promoting the reform of laws, regulations and other barriers to growth. 2. In the public-private sphere, facilitating cooperation and partnerships between public and private players to enhance access to such key factors as financing, skills and basic services. 3. In the private sphere, encouraging the development of business models that can be scaled up and copied and that are commercially sustainable.

Acting on and applying these recommendations, and working closely with the Heads of State, Prime Ministers, Ministers and the Civil Society in each of its Member States, WSA developed a business model for the creation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP).