SIGA and Benfica Foundation team up for sport integrity and social causes

The Activity Integrity World-wide Alliance (SIGA) and the Benfica Basis signed a large-scale, far-reaching and motion-oriented memorandum of comprehension this morning aimed at marketing better integrity, sustainability and social obligation in Sport and the wider industry.

AS United states of america is a very pleased media husband or wife of SIGA, which is the world’s biggest Sports integrity coalition.

The arrangement was formalised in Lisbon by SIGA’s World wide CEO, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, and Benfica Foundation’s Government President, Carlos Móia, location out both organisations’ core parts of cooperation and common objectives, as nicely as the shared priorities that each organisations will be performing on above the subsequent three decades.

In accordance with the memorandum of knowledge signed now, the parties are eager to mobilize tithed like-minded organisations, in an open up, inclusive and collaborative technique, to:

• Promote Sport’s positive values its social, educational, cultural and financial position
• Enrich integrity, transparency, accountability and sustainability in Activity, by way of the implementation of the highest benchmarks on superior governance, monetary integrity, sporting activities betting integrity and youth improvement and protection in and comprehensive Activity
• Advertise gender equity, range, social inclusion and accessibility in Activity, as effectively as avert and battle versus all sorts of discrimination, intolerance and abuse
• Market Sport’s sound and sustainable improvement, as very well as healthier lifestyles, youth empowerment and children’s safeguards in and by Activity
• Aid, contribute to and take part in the development of SIGA’s imagined management initiatives and reform agenda, including but not limited to the implementation of the SIGA Universal Benchmarks on Sport Integrity and the SIGA Independent Rating and Verification Process (SIRVS).

“SIGA delivers the impartial kitemark of trust”

SIGA and the Benfica Foundation will cooperate in organizing believed management activities becoming a member of efforts to foster woman leadership in Activity advertising social duty and community assignments, initiatives and attempts to endorse youth enhancement, children’s rights, as well as social integration and inclusion.

SIGA’s International CEO Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros welcomed the Benfica Basis to the Alliance’s team of fully commited supporters, and flagged the options this partnership will develop for equally functions to execute their missions:

“Today, Sport acknowledges its tasks past the subject of participate in. The Benfica Foundation and the memorandum of being familiar with we have just signed are primary examples of that.

In a earth confronted with so a lot of challenges and inequalities, Activity has received to use its power and affect for the advantage of all citizens. This is why prioritizing Sport Integrity and actively marketing human legal rights, sustainability and other pressing triggers ought to develop into entrance and centre of any club’s social accountability agenda. Values now, a lot more than at any time, are vital to any sports house or manufacturer, and SIGA offers the independent kitemark of trust to be certain Sport is ruled and operated with the optimum integrity and accountability.

We really encourage and invite all sports foundations, clubs, athletes, leagues and federations to stroll the discuss and join us in this mission. The have to have to cooperation is larger than at any time”.

Benfica Basis, Government President Carlos Móia, expressed his thoughts with a perception of duty in direction of Sport Integrity:

“SIGA’s action is in a natural way integrated into all Benfica Foundation tasks. When we speak about fair-engage in and gender equality, we can say that we fit into SIGA’s vision. We will collaborate on sustainability, teaching, transparency and other difficulties that have been at the heart of the Foundation’s motion considering the fact that its inception 13 yrs ago. The Benfica foundation will not only provide expertise to Portugal but will also enjoy its part in the Portuguese-speaking countries”.