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AGENDA 21
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The Olympic Movement’s Agenda 21 programme is designed around three axes:
1. Improving socio economic conditions:Sustainable development implies satisfying the essential cultural and material needs of every individual to enable him or her to live with dignity and play a positive role in society. As a result, Agenda 21 pays particular attention to the lives of the most disadvantaged and to minorities. This includes helping to combat social exclusion, promoting a new approach to consumption, playing a more active role in health protection, promoting sports facilities which better meet social needs and better integrating development and environmental concepts into sports policies.
Promoting the socio-economic dimension of Agenda 21 matches the goal of Olympism, as set out in the Fundamental principles of the Olympic Charter, which is "everywhere to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to encouraging the establishment of a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity"
2. Conservation and management of resources for sustainable development: The Olympic Movement’s environmental protection policy should come within the wider framework of sustainable development. Thus the environmental work of the Olympic Movement is now focused on the conservation and management of resources and the natural environment necessary to improve socio-economic conditions. These should encourage education about the environment and specific action to help preserve it. This is the most visible aspect of the IOC’s environmental work, especially at the Olympic Games.
3. Strengthening the role of the main groups: To ensure the success of sustainable development, it is helpful if all of the groups which make up society are active and respected players in the process set in motion. To this end, the Olympic Movement can make a meaningful contribution to strengthening the roles of two groups, women and young people.
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