Sport-for-Development Project: One Netball Pacific
Project Member(s): Schulenkorf, N.
Funding or Partner Organisation: La Trobe University
Start year: 2014
Summary: The One Netball Pacific program is a 3-year sport for development program delivered by Netball Australia into the Pacific Islands (specifically Tonga, Samoa and Vanuatu, with two additional programs being delivered in 2014 only in Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands). This program is funded by the Australian Sports Commission with the support of AusAid to use the sport of netball to 1) reduce the impact of non-communicable diseases within these communities and 2) to develop female leadership capacity within these communities.
Publications:
Richards, J, Sherry, E, Tamala, F, Schuster, S, Schulenkorf, N & Keane, L 2022, 'Netball Shoots for Physical and Mental Wellbeing in Samoa: A Natural Experiment', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 2663-2663.
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Schulenkorf, N, Sherry, E, Siefken, K, Tauhalaliku, U & Richards, J 2022, 'Health interventions as vehicles for increased sport participation for women and girls: Socio-managerial insights from a Netball-for-Development Program in Tonga', Journal of Sport for Development, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 25-39.
Keane, L, Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Negin, J, Ding, D, Bauman, A, Jegasothy, E & Richards, J 2020, 'Personal, Social, and Environmental Mediators Associated With Increased Recreational Physical Activity in Women and Girls in the Kingdom of Tonga', Journal of Physical Activity and Health, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1100-1108.
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Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Seal, E, Nicholson, M & Hoye, R 2017, 'Sport-for-Development in the South Pacific Region: Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Perspectives', Sociology of Sport Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 303-316.
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Phillips, P & Schulenkorf, N 2016, 'Coaches, officials and change agents in sport development' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development, Routledge, pp. 107-118.
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Schulenkorf, N, Sugden, J & Sugden, J 2016, 'Sport for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development: An International Approach, Routledge, pp. 147-158.
Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P 2016, 'Evaluating sport development' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development, Routledge, pp. 161-176.
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Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P 2016, 'What is Sport Development?' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development: An International Approach, Routledge, pp. 1-12.
Richards, J, Sherry, E, Philpott, O, Keane, L, Schulenkorf, N & Bauman, A 2016, 'Evaluation Protocol: Netball to promote physical and mental health in Samoa and Tonga', Journal of sport for development, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1-11.
Sherry, E 2016, 'Managing Sport Development An International Approach', Routledge.
Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P 2016, 'Managing Sport Development An International Approach', Routledge.
Keywords: Sport-for-Development, Sport Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Pacific Islands, Netball
FOR Codes: Sport and Leisure Management, Organised Sports, Pacific Peoples Development and Welfare, Sport, exercise and recreation, Pacific Peoples community services