At the heart of the Brighton Plus Helsinki Declaration are 10 Principles, designed to address the major issues and barriers facing women and girls in sport and physical activity, and guide organisations through making real and lasting systemic change.
These Principles can be used to inform GDI (Gender, Diversity and Inclusion) strategy development, to guide and inform programme development, and to focus attention and resources to key areas. Signatories may align with some or all of the Principles, depending on the scope of their organisational objectives.
Principle 1. Equity and Equality in Society and Sport
a. Every effort should be made by state and government to ensure that institutions and organisations responsible for sport and physical activity comply with the equality provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Declaration of Berlin (UNESCO MINEPS V) and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
b. Equal opportunity to participate and be involved in sport and physical activity, whether for the purpose of leisure and recreation, health promotion or high performance, is the right of every woman, whatever her race, colour, language, religion, creed, sexual orientation or identity, age, marital status, ability/disability, political belief or affiliation, national or social origin.
c. Resources, power and responsibility should be allocated fairly and without discrimination on the basis of sex or gender, but such allocation should redress any inequitable balance in the benefits available to women and men.
Principle 2. Facilities
Women’s and girls’ participation in sport and physical activity is influenced by the extent, variety and accessibility of facilities, especially spaces which are safe and secure. The planning, design and management of these should appropriately and equitably meet the particular needs of women and girls in the community, with special attention given to the need for child care provision, safe transport and safety during participation and performance.
Principle 3. School and Youth Sport
a. Research demonstrates that girls and boys approach sport from markedly different perspectives; and that quality physical education (QPE) is particularly important for girls to learn the skills, knowledge and understanding they require for lifelong participation. Those responsible for sport, education, recreation and physical education of young people should ensure that an equitable range of opportunities and learning experience, which accommodate the values, attitudes and aspirations of girls, is incorporated in programmes to develop physical literacy and basic motor skills of young people.
b. In particular, the provision of QPE should be guided by the UNESCO Guidelines on Quality Physical Education and the ICSSPE International Position Statement on Physical Education.
Principle 4. Developing Participation
a. There is growing evidence of the health benefits of active participation in sport and physical activity and strategies should embrace the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) for adult and young people’s activity levels.
b. Women’s participation in sport and physical activity is influenced by the range of activities available. Those responsible for delivering sporting opportunities and programmes should provide and promote activities which meet women’s needs and aspirations during their whole lifespan from childhood to elderly women.
Principle 5. High Performance Sport
a. Governments and sports organisations should provide equal opportunities for women to reach their sports performance potential by ensuring that all activities and programmes relating to performance improvements take account of the specific needs of female athletes, and that these are built into sustainable infrastructures for developing sports performance.
b. Those supporting elite and/or professional athletes should ensure that competition opportunities, rewards, incentives, recognition, sponsorship, promotion, and other forms of support are provided fairly and equitably for both women and men.
Principle 6. Leadership in Sport
Women remain under-represented in the leadership and decision making of all sport and sport related organisations. Those responsible for these areas should develop policies and programmes and design structures which increase the number of women coaches, advisers, decision makers, officials, administrators, and sports personnel at all levels, with special attention given to recruitment, mentoring, empowerment, reward, and retention of women leaders.
Principle 7. Education, Training and Development
Those responsible for the education, training, and development of female and male coaches and other personnel, as well as managers and leaders in the delivering sport and physical activity should ensure that education processes and experiences address issues relating to gender equity and the needs of female athletes, including a safe and secure environment, equitably reflect women’s role in sport and physical activity and take account of women’s leadership experiences, values and attitudes.
Principle 8. Sport Information and Research
Those responsible for research and providing information on sport should develop policies and programmes to increase knowledge and understanding about women and sport and ensure that research norms and standards are based on research on women and men. Research on women and sport be initiated and data and statistics broken down by sex be systematically collected by governments and sport organisations, and efforts be taken to include gender-balanced data gathering on sport and physical activity as an assignment for institutions compiling statistics on social developments at international and regional levels.
Principle 9. Resources
Those responsible for the allocation of resources should ensure that support is available for sportswomen, women`s programmes and special measures to advance this Declaration of Principles.
Principle 10. Domestic and International Cooperation
Government and non-government organisations should incorporate the promotion of issues of gender equity and the sharing of examples of good practice in women and sport and physical activity policies and programmes in their associations with other organisations, within both domestic and international arenas.
The IWG, together with relevant partners, regularly collect and share information on the adopted policies and achievements, and a progress report of the developments (based on the Brighton Plus Helsinki 2014 Declaration on Women and Sport) be presented at the IWG World Conferences on Women and Sport.
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