The Global Refugee Forum (GRF) is the world’s largest international gathering in support of refugees and the communities that host them. The GRF Progress Review marks the midpoint of the GRF cycle and aims to monitor the implementation of the commitments made at the previous forum.
The Multi-stakeholder Sport Pledge outlines the role sport can play in improving the lives of refugees, including through sports programming, policy change, skills development and communications and advocacy efforts.
As a signatory, FIH has committed to:
- Under the flag of the Hockey Foundation and with support from the FIH Academyprovide relevant resources and skills development/training opportunities to ensure that the global hockey community is supported to promote the inclusion of displaced persons in hockey activities and in hockey communities hosting refugees
- Under the banner of the Hockey Foundation and with the support of the FIH Academy, implement initiatives to identify and grow coaching expertise within communities affected by displacement, and support refugee coaches in delivering mainstream sustainable hockey activities
- Through its communications, promote the powerful role of sport as part of the whole-of-society response to the challenges of the global displacement crisis
- Provide brief updates on its activities in support of the pledge to the Sport for Refugees Coalition/Global Refugee Forum team
Thomas Bach, IOC Honorary President and President of the Olympic Refuge Foundation, said: “We are pleased that the International Hockey Federation is joining the Sport for Refugees Coalition. International federations play a critical role in advancing their sport in the protection of displaced persons. Through this initiative, FIH will ensure that the global hockey community is equipped to advance the inclusion of displaced persons worldwide. We welcome FIH to our coalition and hope that their example will inspire other actors within the Olympic Movement to join us.”
FIH President Tayyab Ikram said this: “FIH is committed to building a better world through sport and supporting the development, increasing participation and improving accessibility of hockey worldwide. Today I am very proud to lead an organization that has added another milestone to this bold commitment by becoming a signatory of the Joint Sport Pledge for Inclusion and Protection. I would like to commend the exceptional work of the Olympic Refuge Foundation, and especially its Chairman, Honorary IOC President Thomas Bach.”
FIH joins more than 170 organizations, including more than 40 National Olympic Committees and International Federations, as well as governments, refugee-led organizations, UN agencies, civil society organizations, private sector representatives and beyond, in supporting the pledge.
FIH also recently joined as a signatory to the declaration of the Coalition Sports for Refugees This is a group of organizations and other entities that focus on supporting displaced people through sport. The statement calls for the integration of sport into refugee response efforts. The Sport for Refugees Coalition is jointly convened by the Olympic Refuge Foundation, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the Scort Foundation.
As a new member of the Sport for Refugees Coalition, FIH endorses the joint statement calling on governments, donors, sports organizations and humanitarian actors to more fully embed sport in the refugee response, ahead of the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review (GRF PR).
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