This report marks 33 years since the founding of the Youth Charter, and sets out, in full, the case for a coordinated global model of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) - one capable of turning long-standing international commitment into measurable delivery at scale.
 
Why this report exists. Since 1993, the United Nations General Assembly has passed over 40 Sport for Development and Peace resolutions, including the bi-annual Olympic Truce resolution, and since 2003, the United Nations has formally recognised sport’s role in delivering the 2015 Millennium Development Goals, and in 2016, this was extended to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. From this, a global SDP movement has grown steadily - spanning the UN, the International Olympic Committee, national governments and thousands of local organisations. What this movement has lacked is a common operating model: a shared way of designing, delivering and measuring SDP programmes so that impact can be compared, aggregated and scaled across countries and institutions rather than remaining locked inside individual projects. This report sets out the Youth Charter’s proposed answer to that gap.
 
What the report covers. The report is organised in four parts:
Part A - Background traces the Youth Charter’s history from its 1993 founding through 33 years of programme delivery, and its parallel relationship with the United Nations, the IOC’s Olympism 365 agenda, and major Games legacies including the FIFA World Cup 2026, Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games and the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. It also sets out the UN’s Youth 2030 Strategy and the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as the frameworks against which this work is measured, and introduces the Youth Charter’s own Community Campus Model, Legacy Cultural Framework, and Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Participation (EDIP) approach.
Part B - Global Youth and Community Audit forms the evidential core of the report. It presents a detailed, evidence-based audit across seven Legacy Development Goals - Education; Health; Citizenship; Environment; Further & Higher Education, Employment & Entrepreneurship; Collaboration & Partnership; and Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Participation - each mapped directly to a corresponding UN Sustainable Development Goal, with targets, indicators, outcomes summaries, and real-world case studies drawn from three decades of delivery.
Part C - Conclusion & Recommendations draws these findings together into a single argument and a concrete set of recommendations and a Global Call to Action, summarised below.
Part D - Bibliography documents the Youth Charter’s Sport for Development and Peace library, case study archive, and full reference list underpinning the report’s evidence base.
 
Who this report is for. It is written primarily for the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, international sport federations, professional sport, national governments and civil society partners – the institutions with the reach and resource to adopt a shared model at global scale. It is also intended for practitioners, researchers and community organisations already doing this work at local level, as a framework they can plug into rather than reinvent.
 
The central argument. Sport for Development and Peace has the institutional recognition it needs. What it now needs is the operating discipline of any serious global programme: a shared model, shared measurement, and shared, sufficient investment. The remainder of this report makes that case in detail.