Crime Prevention

Countries

The Youth Crime Prevention through Sport initiative is active in multiple countries across the world. Together with partners at national and local levels, the initiative promotes the use of sport to strengthen life skills, build youth resilience and enhance empowerment and participation, provides safe public spaces through refurbishment work, supports civil society actors, and organizes policy and awareness-raising events on the effective use of sport for crime and violence prevention.

Headquarters

The Youth Crime Prevention through Sport team at UNODC’s Headquarters in Vienna is responsible for the conceptualization and coordination of activities under the initiative, including developing technical guidance materials and tools, and supporting the design and implementation of programme activities in beneficiary countries around the world.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Policy development and events

Awareness-raising activities

Preventing violent extremism through sport

Brazil

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in sport settings in cooperation with several partners, including the Secretariat of Sports and Leisure, the Municipal Secretariat of Sports in Rio de Janeiro, the Public Safety and Sports Secretariats of the Federal District, and the Social Department of the Brazilian Football Confederation. The initiative also provides grants as a way of supporting NGOs who engage youth through the use of sport in their communities.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Awareness-raising activities

Policy development and events

Supporting NGO work

UNODC small grants scheme for Brazilian sports-focused, youth development CSOs now open

Colombia

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in schools and juvenile facilities in cooperation with the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare and the Mayor’s Office of Cali.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Exploring innovative ways to strengthen youth resilience to crime and gang violence in Colombia

Dominican Republic

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in schools and juvenile facilities in cooperation with the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare and the Mayor’s Office of Cali.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

UNODC and Dominican Republic set to work together to build youth resilience to violence and crime through sports

Peru

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in community settings in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior (through the Barrio Seguro Strategy), the Municipality of Victoria, and the Peru National Sport Institute. Awareness-raising and policy events are also part of the work in the country.

Awareness-raising activities

[Video] Rule of Law Champion Vania Masías

Lebanon

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in juvenile detention facilities and in community settings in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Public Health. Refurbishment of sport facilities was also conducted, providing youth with access to safe public spaces.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Using sport to reach young people in vulnerable settings, UNODC rolls out new life skills training in Lebanon

Awareness-raising activities

"We truly believe we can make a change," Marco Teixeira tells MTV

State of Palestine

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in schools and community settings in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Higher Council of Youth and Sports, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). National awareness-raising campaigns and policy events on the use of sport for youth crime prevention are a key area of work.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Kyrgyzstan

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Access to sport and safe public spaces

Increase access to sport for youth from marginalised communities in Central Asia

Awareness-raising activities

Supporting NGO work

UNODC small grants scheme for sports-focused, youth development CSOs in Kyrgyzstan now open

Policy Development and events

UNODC and Kyrgyzstan team up to promote sports for youth crime prevention

Tajikistan

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in school settings in cooperation with the State Committee of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Mayor’s Office of Dushanbe, the Ministry of Interior, and the General Prosecutor’s Office. National awareness-raising campaigns and policy events on the use of sport for youth crime prevention are a key area of work. Refurbishment of sport facilities was also conducted, providing youth with access to safe public spaces.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Access to sport and safe public spaces

Increase access to sport for youth from marginalised communities in Central Asia

Awareness-raising activities

Uzbekistan

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in school settings in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Education, the General Prosecutor’s Office, and the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports. National awareness-raising campaigns and policy events on the use of sport for youth crime prevention are a key area of work.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Awareness-raising activities

South Africa

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in school and community settings in cooperation with the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport and the Gauteng Department for Social Development. The initiative also provides grants as a way to support NGOs in implementing sport-based interventions to build youth and community resilience to violence and crime.

Line Up Live Up and supporting NGO work

Policy development and events

Uganda

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in school and community settings in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Sport, UNESCO, and the NGO Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL).

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

Helping Uganda's Youth to "Line Up, Live Up" and Build Resilience Through Sports

Spain

UNODC implements Line Up Live Up in school settings in cooperation with the Mayor’s Office of Santurtzi.

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

In Spain, Santurtzi municipality is the first in Europe to launch UNODC's Line Up, Live Up

Mexico

The Youth Crime Prevention through Sport initiative organized a series of online workshops in Mexico on preventing youth crime during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is planning implementation of the Line Up Live Up programme.

Honduras

Honduras attended the Line Up Live Up Global Event in 2019. Honduran Olympic medallist, Ana Joselina Fortín, became a Rule of Law Champion, showcasing the value of sport in her in life. Watch video

Kenya

The Youth Crime Prevention through Sport initiative organized policy and awareness-raising events on the use of sport to reduce youth crime and violence.

Awareness-raising activities

In Nairobi, youth are talking about corruption, crime prevention and good governance

Balkan region

The Youth Crime Prevention through Sport initiative provided a Line Up Live Up training of trainers for coaches in Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, in partnership with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Line Up Live Up: sport-based life skills training

UNODC and OSCE, jointly teaching sports and life-skills in South East Europe

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Office on Drugs and Crime

Crime Prevention

Countries

Headquarters

Brazil

Colombia

Dominican Republic

Peru

Lebanon

State of Palestine

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

South Africa

Uganda

Spain

Mexico

Honduras

Kenya

Balkan region

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