Vanuatu has include Sports into the National Education Curriculum

“Vanuatu has taken the initiative to include sports and physical education into the national education curriculum,” said Honorable Jean Pierre Nirua, Vanuatu Minister of Education & Training and Acting Minister of Finance.

"Vanuatu has taken the initiative to include sports and physical education into the national education curriculum," said Hon. Jean Pierre Nirua, #Vanuatu Minister of Education & Training and Acting Minister of Finance #5thPacificSportsMinistersMeeting @UNICEFPacific pic.twitter.com/n37L9nor7Z

— Rebecca Olul (@OlulRebecca) December 3, 2017

Ministers of Sports from around the Pacific are meeting in Port Vila, Vanuatu Sunday (Dec 3) to discuss how sport can be used as a tool to achieve national development outcomes.

The meeting is the 5th Pacific Islands Sports Ministers of its kind.

Sport has been recognized as a cost- effective tool to promote development and peace.

The opening weekend of the @Van2017PMG has seen a gathering of key stakeholders and decision makers around Pacific Sports Policy planning at a meeting held in Port Vila. #RVSP #ONOC #UNESCO pic.twitter.com/fPdSNxmGSI

— PacificSportsCompass (@Pacific_Compass) December 3, 2017

The gathering will review the outcomes of the 4th Pacific Sports Ministers Meeting Outcomes in Port Moresby in 2015.

The half-day meet will also be presented with the outcomes of the recent Kazan Action Plan adopted by the 6th International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS VI) and how it can be implemented in the region.

Sunday’s meeting will also be hearing about the fight against Doping in Sport.

A Pacific Sports & Physical Activity Policy Roundtable will be held on Saturday afternoon before the Sports Ministers meeting.

The Vanuatu Government in partnership with the Pacific Games Council (PGC) and Oceania National Olympic Committee (ONOC) are hosting the Roundtable.