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| | | | The Erbil conference, which follows the first conference on regional sports and international participation in Cardiff in December 2008 announced that:- A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Huw Jones, Chief Executive of the Sports Council, Wales and the Ministry of Sport and Youth. The Memorandum expressed a shared aim to promote sporting activities for all – with particular emphasis on women, the disabled and other traditionally excluded groups – and promised new and exciting opportunities for athletes, coaches, officials and experts.
- An agreement with Madame Faiza Hashemi Rafsanjani, President of Iran’s Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport was also signed detailing cooperation between the Iranian organization and the Kurdistan Regional Government. The agreement signaled a common commitment to providing opportunities for women in sport
- The Ministry for Sports and Youth will begin a strategic work and design programme to finalise the best model for a Confederation of Sports in the Kurdistan Region. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will be advised closely on this programme by the Sports Council Wales. It will aim to follow in the footsteps of well-established international models in federal countries to deliver independent sports in the Kurdistan Region, in a way that is integrated with Iraq at the national level, that builds on the strength of new and existing international partnerships, and will help the KRG to develop their aim to compete at the highest levels of international sport as a region.
- Students from the Kurdistan Region have been invited to join a new and specialised Masters Degree in Sports and Leadership at the University of Wales, Institute Cardiff – and to pick up practical experience working closely with the Sports Council Wales while they are there;
- The Welsh Football Trust have invited to Wales a party of coaches and senior administrators in football to see firsthand how they develop talent at a young age in local communities and carry it through to performing at the highest levels;
- The English Youth Sport Trust wish to work as partners on a programme to develop leadership and volunteering in schools, which could involve direct partnering between schools in England and here in Kurdistan; and
- Lesley Burn from The English Federation of Disability Sports has agreed to embark on an exchange exercise with disability sports groups in the Kurdistan Region to share vital information and resources.
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