The OTF AGM will be next year in Auckland on Sunday 25th March 2018.
On the preceding day, Saturday 24th March 2018, the OTF are arranging a Governance Workshop that is being specifically designed for the OTF through the Oceania Sports Education Programme (OSEP).
Delegates will be expected to arrive on Friday 23rd March 2018 and leave Monday 26th March 2018. A full programme for the weekend will be cascaded in due course.
To enable all Federations to prepare for this you will be required to complete the OSEP Readiness Assessment Tool (RAT). However, regardless of the pending workshop next year this should still be done by all Federations. The sooner that each Federation commences this, the better. Detailed below is the link to their website which provides all the information that each of you will need to commence your review. The website is: http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=8258&pID=2
The eight pillars of development used to access the current level of development of a National Federation are:
- Governance – including rules and regulations, policies and strategic planning
- Management – including organisational structure, role development.
- Sport Activity – including competition or preparing for competition, development programs, training.
- Communication – including methods used, responsiveness and technology available
- Finance – including record keeping, marketing and planning
- Physical Resources – including equipment (sport and administrative), facilities access and availability.
- Human Resources – includes type and diversity as well as planning and management practices
- Values – cultural, attitudinal and behavioural values that are most essential at any given point of development.
An Assessment Tool Using the information gained it has been possible to classify key elements across these stages of development and link them across the pillars as well as within the pillars to give an overall picture of the current level of development of the National Federation and a profile of this development to see if it is occurring in a balanced way. The real value of the RAT however comes from the provision of an assessment by key sports administrators as to what elements need to be in place to enable an organisation to benefit from taking part in a specific project or program. These assessments are being tested and built on an ongoing basis to provide benchmarks for National Federations to aim for.
A Planning Tool By referencing the organisation’s own current assessment against these benchmarks covering 8 pillars 76 sub elements and 450 criteria, a GAP analysis can now be performed that determines the state of readiness of the organisation to proceed and identifies recommended elements that need to be put in place to help the organisation become ready to undertake the desired project.
A Monitoring and Evaluation Tool The final positive outcome from using the RAT is the capacity to reassess the organisation after undertaking an intervention and use the tool to gather evidence of the effectiveness or otherwise of its involvement in the that activity. This will enable a proper impact assessment to be done by the organisation to determine the effective of development strategies that it has chosen to take.
The RAT is available for National Federations to access and also to assess themselves against common programs and activities available in the Pacific Region as an online Tool under www.oceaniasport.com. Consultancy support in assisting the National Federations to put in place the elements they need in order to successfully undertake the activities they aspire to, will be available through the ONOC and its member NOCs and the Olympic Sports Federations of Oceania (OSFO) and their member Regional Federations.