Olympic Solidarity trains 21 Ugandans

Aug 26, 2011

Twenty one Ugandan sports administrators have completed a three-day Olympic Solidarity Advanced degree Sports Management course held at Makerere University.

By Michael Nsubuga

Twenty one Ugandan sports administrators have completed a three-day Olympic Solidarity Advanced degree Sports Management course held at Makerere University.
The first of five, three-day, one-year course follows a level one course held earlier in which outstanding participants were picked to attend the subsequent one.

According to Catherine Adipo one of the facilitators of the course there will be follow up courses in November, March, June and the last one in August.

The first phase of the one-year course had the students go through organization of an Olympic sport, managing strategically, managing Human resource and finance and marketing plus organization of major sporting events.

Adipo and Dr. Kadodoba Byaruhanga tackled the administration and management bit while the financial and marketing areas were handled by other experts in those fields.
“From each level one course, we follow up participants in their respective sports fields and pick on those we find implementing what they learnt and recommend them for future courses. The best from this group will become national course directors,” Adipo a lecturer at Kyambogo University said.

Participants from basketball, Swimming, football, Tennis, Handball, volleyball, district sports officers, Universities and UPDF attended the course.

In one of their sessions the participants sighted inadequate funding, lack of sports equipment and facilities, using volunteers rather than permanent staff and lack of a clear policy on sport as some of the common challenges in sports management among others.
They were also of the view that mother bodies like the UOC should be open to them especially as regards to information on available opportunities from international donors like the IOC.

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