NATIONAL SPORTS FEDERATION



The NSF's from Sierra Leone's Statues

In wording according to the NSF vote 2024

(Freetown 2024)









Updated after NSF meeting in January 2024.


Appendices (available separately):


- Sport's anti-doping regulations (established by the extraordinary NSF meeting in January 2024).


- Sports regulations on unauthorized betting and manipulation of sports operations (established by the NSF General Meeting 2024).



STATUTES FOR THE NATIONAL SPORTS FEDERATION
(Freetown 2024)


Chapter 1 The sports movement's business idea, vision and value base



1 § The sports movement's business idea, vision and value base

Sports must be conducted in accordance with the business idea decided by the NSF general meeting, the vision and core values.



Sport's business idea

We do sports in associations to have fun, feel good and develop throughout life.

Definitions and findings:
Sport refers to organized physical activity where training and the opportunity to compete contribute to well-being. The physical performance has more than negligible importance. The sports movement places particular emphasis on the following four areas.

Physical activity:
The physical aspect is of more than negligible importance for the activity itself, the performance and the result.

Exercise:
Sports consists of training and play that provide opportunities for physical, mental, social or cultural development.

Contest:
The sport has defined competition rules that are determined and owned by the sport organisation.

Prosperous:
Sport is based on having fun, feeling good and developing throughout life. Health, well-being and well-being are normative.

Sports consists of:
Training and play, competition and exhibition.

Sports gives:
Physical, psychological, social and cultural development.

We organize our sports:
In independent associations and federations which together form a free and voluntary people's movement united in the Sierra Leone National Sports Federation.

We divide our sports:
By age and level of ambition. By children's sports we generally mean sports even twelve years of age. By youth sports we mean sports for teenagers and young adults 13-25 year. By adult sports, we mean sports for those over 25 years of age.

In children's sports, we play and give the children the opportunity to try different sports. To give the children opportunity for all-round sports development is standard-setting for the business. Competition is one part of the game and must always take place on the children's terms.

In youth sports and adult sports, we distinguish between broad sports and elite-oriented sports. Health, well-being and well-being are standard-setting in sports. In the elite oriented in sport, performance improvement and good competition results are indicative and i Broad sports also often serve performance and competition results as a carrot.

We are a united sports movement:
Which works for the same vision and value base, it permeates all unions and associations, both broad and elite. We preserve the tradition of the Sierra Leone sports movement there elite and broad activities take place in close collaboration, which provides inspiration, development and viability. Within the sports movement, all federations and associations, both elite and breadth, each other's roles and operating conditions.

Sports follows:
The UN Declaration on Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child rights (the Convention on the Rights of the Child) and the UN International Convention on rights for persons with disabilities.



Sport's business idea

Definitions and findings:
Sport refers to organized physical activity where training and the opportunity to compete contribute to well-being. The physical performance has more than negligible importance. The sports movement places particular emphasis on the following four areas.



The vision of sport

Sierra Leonean sports - the best in the world
Sierra Leonean sports want to be the best in the world for everyone at all levels. We want to constantly develop and is improved both in form and content. It is based on a self-governing and collective sports movement with strong federations and associations as well as an educational activity i world class.



The values ​​of sport

Joy and community
Joy and community are strong driving forces for playing sports. We want to operate and develop all activities so that we can have fun, feel good and develop throughout our lives.

Democracy and participation
Association democracy means that all members' votes have equal value. Participation means that everyone who participates can be involved in deciding and taking responsibility for their activities. Democracy and participation are practiced equally and regardless of background.

Everyone's right to participate
Everyone's right to participate means that everyone who wants to can participate based on their own conditions. Anyone who wants to, regardless of nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, gender or sexual orientation as well as physical and mental conditions, may be included in association-run sports activities.

Fair play
Fair play and honesty are a prerequisite for competitors on equal terms. This means that follow agreements and live according to good ethics and morals. This includes, among other things to actively work against doping, match-fixing, unhealthy finances and other cheating as well as against bullying, harassment and violence both on and off the sports arena.


Chapter 2 Basic regulations for Sierra Leone's National Sports Federation (NSF)



1 § Task

Sierra Leone's National Sports Federation (NSF) is the unifying organization of the Sierra Leoneans sports movement with the NSF's general meeting as its highest decision-making body.

The NSF has the task of managing the sports movement's common affairs, as well nationally as well as internationally.



2 § Scope - organizational structure

NSF, which is a non-profit association, consists of Special Sports Federations (SSF) and their affiliates non-profit associations that carry out sporting activities.

Through membership in SSF, the association is also connected to NSF.

NSF has for its regional operations NSF-SDF district (District). SSF may organize its regional activities through the Special Sports District Association (SDF).








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