International Olympic Committee
Thomas Bach
President
Post-2015 Interactive Dialogue on:
Building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions to achieve sustainable
development
New York, 27 September 2015
The International Olympic Committee is fully aligned with the United Nations Agenda 2030. In fact already last December we have adopted our Olympic Agenda 2020 which address among many other reforms exactly goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This Olympic Agenda 2020 is based on three pillars: the pillar of sustainability, the pillar of credibility and the pillar of youth.
If you want to enjoy credibility as an organization, then you have to be accountable, you need to be effective and you need to be inclusive. Therefore we have established a system of good governance which makes us accountable. This system of good governance comprises: term and age limits, comprises auditing to higher standards than requested by law, the full transparency of our financial flows, comprises open and transparent rules for decision making ,and addresses clear zero tolerance policy with regard to any kind of corruption
All these measures are making us effective so that we can distribute 90 percent of all our revenues to the development of sport worldwide. Since we need only 10 percent for our administrative costs we are distributing every day of the year 3.25 million dollars to athletes sports organizations, for educational, and health purposes all around the world. Being inclusive is in the Olympic DNA because in Olympic Sport all people are equal. There is no discrimination for whatever reason and to make this even more clear, we have amended the document which governs the Olympic Games, the Olympic Charter, in a way that fully reflects in its wording the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We have not only passed these reforms, in the first nine months since implementation we have implemented all the reforms that concern good governance and transparency. With all these reforms the IOC is confident that sport can play its part in the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, so we can really put sport at the service of humanity and in this respect we are offering our cooperation and partnership with all the parties and all the stakeholders concerned.
President
Post-2015 Interactive Dialogue on:
Building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions to achieve sustainable
development
New York, 27 September 2015
The International Olympic Committee is fully aligned with the United Nations Agenda 2030. In fact already last December we have adopted our Olympic Agenda 2020 which address among many other reforms exactly goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This Olympic Agenda 2020 is based on three pillars: the pillar of sustainability, the pillar of credibility and the pillar of youth.
If you want to enjoy credibility as an organization, then you have to be accountable, you need to be effective and you need to be inclusive. Therefore we have established a system of good governance which makes us accountable. This system of good governance comprises: term and age limits, comprises auditing to higher standards than requested by law, the full transparency of our financial flows, comprises open and transparent rules for decision making ,and addresses clear zero tolerance policy with regard to any kind of corruption
All these measures are making us effective so that we can distribute 90 percent of all our revenues to the development of sport worldwide. Since we need only 10 percent for our administrative costs we are distributing every day of the year 3.25 million dollars to athletes sports organizations, for educational, and health purposes all around the world. Being inclusive is in the Olympic DNA because in Olympic Sport all people are equal. There is no discrimination for whatever reason and to make this even more clear, we have amended the document which governs the Olympic Games, the Olympic Charter, in a way that fully reflects in its wording the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We have not only passed these reforms, in the first nine months since implementation we have implemented all the reforms that concern good governance and transparency. With all these reforms the IOC is confident that sport can play its part in the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, so we can really put sport at the service of humanity and in this respect we are offering our cooperation and partnership with all the parties and all the stakeholders concerned.