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FIVB
DEVELOPMENT NEWS...
Development Centre of Dakar
> Search for new resources continues to
help mission
In order to help them fulfill their 2004
missions, the management of the Development
Centre of Dakar has recently
decided to launch a project which
includes finding new economic partners.
Since its beginnings in 1986, in accordance
with the wishes of the FIVB President
Dr Rubén Acosta, the Development
Centre of Dakar has served the whole of
the West African region, with only the
material and money from the FIVB and
the help of the Senegalese authorities and
excellent local volunteers, who served
the personnel and support needs nobly.
The President of the Senegalese Volleyball
Federation, FIVB instructor and
director of the centre Abdoulaye Baba Sy,
can be proud of the extremely good
results which justify the continuation of
such an institution in this part of Africa.
Nevertheless the managers do not want
to be consumed by the monotonous routine
nor by the wait and see attitude of
others. They want to grow the development
centre and it is this reason for which
they have decided to start this new search
for additional resources in addition to the
annual allocation from the FIVB.
The first contacts have been made with
the Youth and Sports Ministry Conference
(CONFEJES), the Solidarite
Olympic, Olympafrica and other organizations
like the national Olympic Committees
of countries which have already
used the facilities of the Centre or would
be likely to do so in the future. All of these
approaches, which have not included
commercial firms, should result in the
reinforcement in the operational capacity
of the Centre.
> Raising the awareness of athletes and
administrators
Taking into consideration the daily work,
courses, seminars, conferences, and
training sessions which, with the different
under age tournaments, have seen
people stuck with the same routine for six
to seven years now, one of the major priorities
is to upgrade the administrative
and information tools.
The Centre has a 70 m 2 room that is dedicated
to the administration, a gymnasium
with space to host four Volleyball
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courts and a meeting room for 50 people.
The students and their instructors can
equally benefit from the accommodation,
a restaurant and the discounted prices of
the Léopold Sédar Senghor Centre.
The Centre covers 24 countries and
works in four languages of which the
principle language is French, with English,
Portuguese and Arabic the others.
The reason for this is to raise the technical
level and the knowledge of the people
(players, referees, coaches, managers)
who are called to work in the world of
Volleyball, organize all sorts of information
sessions and also to intensify the
cooperation at international level and
above all Africa.
Development for National
Federations, a Key Task for AVC
Development within Volleyball’s National
Federations (NFs), particularly in
less-developed regions will be the main
priority for the Asia Volleyball Confederation
(AVC) in 2004, it was announced in
Febraury. The situation within many of
the AVC’s National Federations has been
described as less then encouraging and
has led to the organisations’s President,
Wei Jizhong, to comment: “We must vigorously
promote the development of our
NFs and help them to grow.”
There is a major unbalance within the
Asian region in terms of development
within the sport and this has led the AVC
to take firm action on the issue. “We must
intensively implement FIVB projects in
Asia,” Wei Jizhong noted.
The AVC has decided to help and encourage
less-advanced members to participate
in the FIVB Sports Aid Program
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Recycle used Volleyball equipment
Starting from this
edition, all “Development News” will be
included in the monthly Xpress rather than a
separate publication.
(SAP) which has made a real impact on
Asian Volleyball development. In discussing
the issue, the AVC Development
and Marketing Committee unanimously
agreed that the help must be given to
those who are in the greatest need of help
and will produce some achievements.
In the past, some AVC NFs received help
from the FIVB but, unfortunately, did not
produce the expected results. Therefore,
the AVC has recommended to the FIVB
that the help given to AVC be on a Zonal
balance, one NF in each of the AVC’s five
Zones: DPR Korea (Eastern Zone), Cambodia
(Southeastern Zone), Bangladesh
(Central Zone), Yemen (Western Zone)
and Vanuatu (Oceania Zone).
The AVC will propose the establishment
of a fourth FIVB Development Center in
Jakarta, Indonesia. The Asian organisation
has also requested a development
center in Bahrain in order to attract more
participation from nearby countries. Two
other Development Centers in Thailand
and India are to continue their aggressive
programs, in order to maintain development.
The AVC Western Zone will receive more
attention and Asian Technical Support
Programs are to be carried out there. The
AVC Coaches Committee will select three
or four countries in the zone to train
school teachers and will spend one week
in each country from October to November.
AVC island members in the Pacific will be
expected to devote most of their efforts in
developing Beach Volleyball, as the geographic
features of the region are much
more suitable for that particular discipline
of the sport.
> The FIVB Development Department encourages all National Federations with used
Volleyball equipment in good working order to offer it, though this forum, to National
Federations who are able to make good use of it. Send us details of any used equipment
(technical.development@fivb.org) that you have to offer and we will publish it
through this forum.
Don’t forget to include the name and address of who to contact to arrange shipping. We
would like to thank the federations that have already offered their equipment but
would also like to encourage more federations to do the same.