Outcomes of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Davao City

The study is aimed at determining the outcomes of the renowned poverty alleviation program of the Philippines, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), particularly from the perspective of Davao City implementers. Respondents of the study are personnel of the lead implementing agencies of the program– the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Education (DepEd), and the City Health Office. A total of 270 implementers, broken down as medical practitioners and health workers (130), school administrators and teachers (70), and community facilitators (70), were selected by purposive sampling method and were interviewed using a structured questionnaire that contained forty-five items. These items are descriptions of outcomes which were developed through a series of key informant interviews and rated by the respondents in a Likert scale instrument based on their extent or level of agreement. To analyze the dimensions of outcomes from the responses, data reduction analysis was used. Findings of the study revealed that the framework of outcomes of the 4Ps include improved children’s attendance in school, improved children’s performance in school, improved maternal and child health, acquisition of personal properties, improved parents’ capability to provide for the school needs of children, and improved family budget allocation for nutritious food

Training of Vancouver 2010 volunteers: a legacy opportunity?

The successful delivery of a mega-sport event depends upon a volunteer workforce. It is often asserted that the training of event volunteers contributes to the creation of a social legacy via the transfer of learning to other volunteer contexts; thereby creating an enhanced volunteer pool after the event that will support the tourism and events industries in the host communities. This article reflects upon the reality of that assertion and argues that in order to achieve legacy both training and development strategies are required. As such an analysis of data collected at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games around training and legacy is discussed. A Legacy Training and Development Model is offered and subsequently, applied to the case study. The article concludes by suggesting that training at Vancouver 2010 was a missed opportunity in achieving legac

The Olympic Games and raising sports participation: a systematic review of evidence and an interrogation of policy for a demonstration effect

Research questions: Can a demonstration effect, whereby people are inspired by elite sport, sports people and events to actively participate themselves, be harnessed from an Olympic Games to influence sport participation? Did London 2012 sport participation legacy policy draw on evidence about a demonstration effect, and was a legacy delivered? Research methods: A worldwide systematic review of English language evidence returned 1,778 sources iteratively reduced by the author panel, on advice from an international review panel, to 21 included sources that were quality appraised and synthesised narratively. The evidence was used to examine the influence of a demonstration effect on sport participation engagement and to interrogate sport participation legacy policy for London 2012. Results and findings: There is no evidence for an inherent demonstration effect, but a potential demonstration effect, properly leveraged, may deliver increases in sport participation frequency and re-engage lapsed participants. Despite setting out to use London 2012 to raise sport participation, successive UK governments’ policy failures to harness the potential influence of a demonstration effect on demand resulted in failure to deliver increased participation. Implications: If the primary justification for hosting an Olympic Games is the potential impact on sport participation, the Games are a bad investment. However, the Games can have specific impacts on sport participation frequency and re-engagement, and if these are desirable for host societies, are properly leveraged by hosts, and are one among a number of reasons for hosting the Games, then the Games may be a justifiable investment in sport participation terms

Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Study for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: Baseline Report

This report is submitted by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in partial fulfillment of VANOC’s role in implementing the Olympic Games Impact Program (OGI) for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (2010 Winter Games). The IOC’s OGI Program includes a series of 126 indicators that measure the status of many environmental, socio-cultural and economic dimensions of the host city, region and nation. The purpose of the Program is to measure the impact of the Olympic and Paralympic Games through a consistent and comparable reporting system across all future Games, presented in a series of four reports developed by each Olympic Games Organizing Committee. This report represents the first of four OGI reports for the 2010 Winter Games and provides a baseline against which indicator data in future reports will be compared and analyzed.Non UBCKinesiology, School ofEducation, Faculty ofReviewedOtherFacult