Australian Sport Outreach Program - Caribbean Region
The Aussie Connection
Our relationship with the Australian Sports Commission over the past few years has added significant value to both TTASPE and countries throughout the Caribbean Region. We continue to benefit from the Aussie support that has now spread its wings to over one dozen islands in the Caribbean with project support for Sport Administration, Physical Education Curriculum, Sport for Persons with Disabilities, Healthy Lifestyle Programs and Mass Participation Sport Programs for Children and Youth.
Towards 2011
Following on the success of Australia's overseas community sport development programs operating in the Pacific, southern Africa and the Caribbean since 1998, the Australian Prime Minister, the Honorable John Howard MP, announced a new sport development program at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Malta in November 2005.
Australian High Commisioner H.E. Mr. John Michell presents an ASOP cricket scholarship to Ravi Rampaul
To be known as the Australian Sports Outreach Program (ASOP), a total of AUD 10 million was allocated for the period July 2006 to June 2011, aimed predominantly at Commonwealth member countries. The program will supersede discrete Australian Government sports development programs in the Pacific, Africa and Caribbean.
Of the new AUD 10 million allocation, each year, $1 million is earmarked for the Pacific and $1 million to Commonwealth countries in other regions.
TTASPE's role
TTASPE has been entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating the new Australian Sports Outreach Program in the Caribbean and will work closely with CARICOM and other regional stakeholders toward a renewed and refocused work plan that demonstrates the important role sport plays in addressing issues of health, HIV/AIDS, youth leadership and community development.
For more information about the ASOP in the Caribbean, contact Mark Mungal at mmungal@ttaspe.org or Mark McElligot at Mark.McElligott@ausport.gov.au