SPORTS POLICY
Government is committed to the development of Sports in the country. This commitment is demonstrated, first by pursuing a well defined policy direction and second by pursuing a strategic, multi-disciplinary and integrated plan of action that will re-position sports as the embodiment of the spirit of a new Ghana.
Accordingly, the Ministry has formulated a two-pronged policy direction that is fashioned out to ensure the use of Sports as a tool for education, health, poverty alleviation, wealth creation, international relations, national integration, development and peace. These are Sports for Excellence and Sports for Development and Peace.
Sports for Excellence
Under the programmes of Sports for Excellence carried out by about twenty-six Associations, the Ministry also supports persons with various degrees of disabilities. Consequently, the National Sports Council has established the National Paralympic Association to manage sports for the physically and mentally challenged persons to participate in local games and the World Paralympic Games.
Sports for Development and Peace
Sports for Development and Peace create avenues for all citizens to engage in one form of physical activity or the other. Such physical activities ensure that the root causes of the issues that challenge human development are addressed.
Sports As A Tool For Poverty Reduction
The use of sports in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger is through the creation of opportunities for employment in the industry and the organisation of large sports events.
The high demand for sporting goods is an avenue for local industries to invest in this sector by utilising existing skills and facilities to manufacture sporting equipment to meet the demand of the market and even for export. This contributes to employment, economic growth and industrialisation.
It is for this reason that the Ministry has challenged the National Sports Council to organise an exhibition or trade fair for locally manufactured sports equipment with the aim of encouraging and patronising them.