Nigeria hosts CIGEPS meeting

[Folami David]

The National Sports Commission is set to host from March 3rd – 7th, the Regional Group of experts Meeting on Intergovernmental Committee on Physical Education and Sports (CIGEPS) at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
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The Opening Ceremony of the meeting will be between 9:00 – 10:00 am on Tuesday 5th March, 2013, according to a statement from the NSC. CIGEPS, an arm of UNESCO was set up in 1978 with focus on engaging government representatives and the Sports movement to drive international efforts in the area of: Sport and Physical Education,&# 61656;provision of technical advice, commissioning research and identifying good practices to develop policy amongst others.
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The CIGEPS Commission II Experts will discuss researches carried out in:"Promoting Public Investment in Sport and Physical Education Programme-How Public Investment makes good policy in Physical education and Sport".
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The meeting will also deliberate on: access to Sports as a Fundamental Right for All, Preserving the Integrity of Sports, Africa Sports Policy final Report - 2011 and Sports Policy framework for Africa – 2008-2018.
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This is the first time that this high level expert conference in Sport at the UNESCO level is being held in Nigeria.
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The outcome from the Abuja discussion shall constitute one of the subject areas to be considered at the extra ordinary session of CIGEPS taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan.