Outcome ARG_D_3.2

Girls have access to and benefit from quality sports and life skills training

35 host community organizations which participated in the One Wins Lead to Another (OWLA) programme are continuing to offer sports activities with a gender perspective at the end of it. The programme provided spaces for support and belonging and broadened their access to physical and sports activities, while also contributing to their physical and mental health. Through OWLA, grassroots organizations included non-mixed sporting or recreational activities for the first time. And in general, this was the first time that they included gender and empowerment along with sport. OWLA succeeded in establishing activities that take the gender-equality and women’s-empowerment agendas forward in the territories, through these organizations. It helped local organizations to conceive of sporting activities as an opportunity to empower teenage girls and women. The dissemination of messages of gender equality through sports, highlighting the role of women and girls both as leaders of sports as well as broadcasters and journalists, has proven to be key to improve institutions’ involvement in gender and sports, as well as promoting girls’ participation in sports Messaging on sports proved to have impressive impact on social media. For example, one of the most important and popular sports clubs in Argentina, River Plate , signed the Women Empowerment Principles to continue advancing gender mainstreaming and implementing comprehensive gender equality policies.

Girls have access to and benefit from quality sports and life skills training

Through the innovative program &ldquo;One Win Leads to Another&rdquo; (OWLA) significant progress was made towards the achievement of this outcome. On the one hand, more than 1200 girls living in vulnerable conditions increased their knowledge and abilities to access their rights, plan their future and prevent gender-based violence. The girls become aware and raise their voices about issues that affect them and could think about themselves and what they want to do in the future . The focus of OWLA in girls is based on the theory of change that positions them as agents of change in the drive to achieve gender equality. Sport increases girls&rsquo; belief in their own ability, which translates into everyday life and encourages them to take initiative and attempt things they never imagine were possible. Girls&rsquo; participation in sport is associated with a multiplier effect on a wide range of development outcomes from health to education, leadership and more; and OWLA results proved this rationale. O n the other hand, community networks for adolescent girls were expanded , with about 50 community-based organizations strengthened their capacities to implement sport and life skill activities with gender perspective in safe spaces. This achievement was possible through a structure of four partners: an international organization -Women Win- who provided technical assistance to adapt OWLA to the Argentinean context; and three local partners -SES Foundation, FEIM and the Ministry of Human Development and Habitat of the City of Buenos Aires-, who reached out the grassroots organizations, supported and strengthened in their abilities to implement the OWLA curriculum. Finally, major coverage by national and regional media was given to knowledge products (such as a <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;box-sizing:border-box;color:black;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inh