“Line Up Live Up’ (LULU) - UNODC's evidence-informed and sports-based life skills training curriculum - was designed as a unique tool that transfers the accumulated expertise of the United Nations and other partners in implementing life skills training for crime and drug use prevention to sport settings.
Through the Line Up Live Up programme, sports coaches, teachers, and others working with youth in sports settings are able to target valuable life skills, such as resisting social pressures to engage in delinquency, coping with anxiety and communicating effectively with peers, through a set of interactive and fun exercises.
The Line Up live Up curriculum consists of a set of interactive sessions that have been carefully designed to develop important life skills and increase knowledge on the risks associated with crime and drug use and challenge harmful normative believes and stereotypes linked to violence and crime, including gender-based violence. The programme can be run in sports centres, schools (as curricular or extra-curricular sport activities) and other community settings.
Besides a trainer’s manual for coaches, teachers, youth workers and other professionals working directly with youth, boys, and girls, Line Up Live Up also includes a set of instruction cards and a logbook for the young participants that supports self-reflection and learning. Other materials developed by UNODC to support the Line Up Live Up implementation and guide process and impact assessments, includes among others a “training the trainers” program and manual, and a set of monitoring and evaluation tools.
The training programme has been implemented in numerous countries across the world, ranging from Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean. To ensure impact and sustainability, the program activities are being tailored and contextualized to local realities and to the different contexts.
The Line Up Live Up was developed as part of the UNODC Doha Declaration Global Programme. Today Line Up Live Up is implemented as part of the organization’s wider crime prevention and criminal justice activities and projects.
