PRIORITISATION OF SPORT

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PRIORITISATION OF SPORT
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• BACKGROUND
• Before 2003 SRSA was funding more than 80
  sporting bodies
• The Ministerial Task Team (MTT) report advanced
  the following reasons as motivation for their
  recommendations
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• We need to become more focused
• The government budget for sport is far too
  limited to support all federations
• Slicing the funding cake too small means that
  every recipient receives such a small amount of
  money that it does not make any impact on the
  sport

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• We compete at international level against teams
  that are well supported by their governments and
  sponsors eg Australia

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• THE PROCESS
• Held a workshop to develop a tool with set
  criteria to evaluate federations
• MTT recommendations focused on high performance
  sport
• SRSA required a more comprehensive tool that
  would prioritise and identify federations with
  the
• best chance to win medals for the country
  (more medals) and
• best placed to involve large numbers of people
  (more people) in their sport.

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• The following factors were used to evaluate
  federations for more medals
•  Performance of the NF at Olympic, Commonwealth,
  World Championship, World Games and Continental
  level over the past few years
• Number of medals available for the sport (ind vs
  team)
• The impact that winning a medal would have on the
  nation
• The transformation of the sport at elite level  

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• The following factors were used to evaluate
  federations for more people
• Accessibility of the sport (cost of facilities,
  equipment, fees, etc)
• Number of clubs
• Number of registered members
• Transformation at all levels
• The extent to which the federation contribute to
  Government priorities

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A weighting system was introduced in order to
distinguish between the importance of the
different factors, eg the Olympic Games may carry
a weighting of 10 vs the Commonwealth Games that
may have a weighting of 4 only.  
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During the first evaluation, statistics provided
by the national federations were used to
determine the scoring. Federations were asked to
score themselves and a panel put together by SRSA
considered the results and made adjustments where
it was deemed necessary.   For the 2005/06
financial year, the BMI results of research
commissioned by SRSA was used. A heavier
weighting was also placed on transformation.
These changes caused a few adjustments in the
placing of some federations.  
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The following views were also tabled by the
Sports ForumOnly 10 to 15 federations should
be funded substantially Prioritization should
be fixed for 3 years and funding also allocated
in advance for this period (MTEF cycle)The
success of the prioritization will only be
realized if there is alignment with the
provinces, schools, tertiary institutions and
academies
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The future funding of national federations by
government was put under review as a result
of The strong motivation that emerged at a
national strategic planning workshop of SRSA that
government should focus on -community mass
participation and school sport programmesThe
substantial allocations made to national
federations by the national lottery
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MORE PEOPLE MORE MEDALS 1.Football
(93) 18.Squash (33) 1.Athletics (72) 2.Rugby
(72) 19.Weightlifting (33) 2.Swimming
(67) 3.Golf (65) 20.Gymnastics (33) 3.Boxing
(59) 4.Basketball (60) 21.Table Tennis
(32) 4.Dance Sp. (47) 5.Netball (58) 22.Hockey
(32) 5.Bowls (46) 6.Athletics (57) 6.Rowing
(45) 7.Boxing (54) 7.Karate (40) 8.Cricket
(54)  9.Karate (47) 10.Dance Sport
(46) 11.Handball (43) 12.Baseball (41) 13.Bowls
(40) 14.Softball (36) 15.Tennis
(35) 16.Volleyball (35) 17.Chess (33)
 
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CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING FEDERATIONS AS DONE BY
SASCOC AND SUPPLEMENTED BY THE SPORTS FORUM/SRSA
CRITERIAEnvisaged number of prioritised NFs
were divided into two categories - minimum of
nine (9) and a maximum of nineteen (19) in the
next four year cycle.  Federations needed to be
able to satisfy at least seventy percent of all
identified factors, if not all, in order to then
be listed as qualified for the respective
category.
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CATEGORY A  1.Must have achieved at the highest
level in the past 5 years ie medals at the World
Champs, World Cups, Commonwealth Games, Olympic
Games, World Games or have been ranked in the top
5 in the World.2.Highly rated in the world
sport occupies very high profile in terms of
popularity in the World.3.High profile in the
country with a historical legacy sport has a
huge impact in the country and has the passionate
support of the population.4.Satisfies
demographics appeal and government priorities
such as women, life skills and transformation
sport has tremendous women participation, teaches
life skills and creates career opportunities
while making strides in addressing transformation
objectives of the federation.
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LISTED ALPHABETICALLYSPORT 1 (HP) 2 (WR) 3
(transf) 4ATHLETICS X X X XBOXING O X X X
CRICKET X X X XFOOTBALL O X X XNETBALL
X O X XROWING X X O XRUGBY X X X XSW
IMMING X X X XGOLF X X O X Excluded
from SASCOC preparation camps for multi-coded
events - primarily SRSA assistance Qualify for
access to national and provincial academy
training and squad camp programmes Present
exclusion linked to admin disqualification
Primarily SASCOC assistance
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CATEGORY B1.Must show potential to achieve at
high level events sport shows a growth pattern
in the last two (2) years indicating the
possibility to achieve at Continental,
Commonwealth and World level.2.Has mass appeal
and potential to grow amongst the masses sport
is played amongst the masses or has the potential
for mass part. - easily accessible, talent is
identified and developed for higher achievement.
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CATEGORY B3.Satisfies govt priorities like
women participation and transformation issues and
educ. and capacity building processes sport has
developed women participation and already
succeeded in addressing transformation to reflect
the demographics of the country.4.Has a high
profile at international level with good profile
within the country sport is fairly highly ranked
at international level and has mass participation
in the country - a good profile and potential for
rapid growth.
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LISTED ALPHABETICALLYSPORT 1 (HP) 2 (MP)
3 (GOV) 4BASEBALL X X X
XBASKETBALL X X X XBOWLS
X 0 0 XDANCESPORTX
X X XGYMNASTICS X X
X XHANDBALL 0 X X
XHOCKEY X X X XKARATE
X X X XTABLE TENNIS X X X
XVOLLEYBALL X X X X
Present exclusion linked to administrative
disqualification Considered for support
services linked to multi-sports events only
primarily SASCOC assistance Sport has mass
appeal but still requires further structural
development
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