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World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organization, was formed in 2007 at a high level UNECOSOC meeting in Rabat, Morocco, as a result of a global public-private initiative in partnership with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). World Sports Alliance's global mission is to promote sports as a means of diplomacy, socio-economic mobility, human development, education and training for the roughly 530 Million people that make up the citizens of its 33 member states. World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organization executes its global mission in furtherance and in full support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

July 2007, at the Palais des Nations, Geneva during Innovative Fair of the High-Level Ministerial Segment of the UN ECOSOC; Ambassador Mohamed Loulichki, representative of Morocco at the UNGO (at the right side of Ban Ki-Moon) and Mr. Alain Lemieux, President of WSAIGO (at the right side of the picture) are presented to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (in the center) the Official documents of the creation of WSA as an Intergovernmental Organization, including the Statement (E/2007/NGO/1) submitted on May 29, 2007 to ECOSOC by the Mohamed V Foundation, a NGO with consultative status.

WSAIGO Equals "Global Goals""

WSA-IGO was created following the adoption of the Rabat Declaration(2) in Morocco, in May 2007 by the Kingdom of Morocco, the Republic of Niger, and the Dominican Republic, and its subsequent presentation and registration with the Economic and Social Council UN-ECOSOC (E/2007/NGO/1)(3) in July 2007. By the end of 2008, WSA had grown to include 22 Member states and with the accession acceptance of three additional nations in January 2009, now comprises 33 countries with a combined population base of 574 million. WSA gathers as members those countries who share its vision and objectives and who wish to collaborate with one another to achieve the Alliance's goals. Pursuant to the Accession process, the Sports and Youth Ministers of each Member state become the lead representative of their respective governments within WSA.

WSA IGO Projects

Global Coaching Initiative - Sports programs can bring out noticeable positive reactions and behaviors in teens. But what are the deeper benefits from these programs? What are we losing when nations are forced to cut these programs? The most extensive research has come in a report called "Relationships Between Youth Sport Participation and Selected Health Risk Behaviors from 1999 to 2007" published in the Journal of School Health. This report analyzes many different factors, including race, age, and gender, and behaviors, including eating habits, sexual activity, and drug risks.

Solary Equity Group - The World Sports Alliance USA (WSAUSA) is an NGO in connection with the United Nations and exists as a sports diplomacy and amateur / youth sports organization, in furtherance of the UNSDGS and was formed in 2017 in partnership with the World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organization (WSAIGO). Collectively, our mission is to spread the use of solar energy worldwide in support of the UNSDGS while supporting global youth sports programs with every transaction.

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Our Team

Meet the executive team of the World Sports Alliance IGO. Our staff takes pride in its community by providing quality service and stewardship and partnerships to our member states.

Alain Lemieux

President

Ralph Faraggi

Executive Director

Asa St. Clair

Treasurer

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The World Sports Alliance, an Intergovernmental Organization (WSAIGO) is acting as the fiscal sponsor of World Sports Alliance (USA), a Nonprofit Corporation (WSAUSA) as they announce their entrance into the blockchain space with the launch of iGObit, the digital token made for global citizens (www.igobit.com).

With a target of USD $350 - $500 Million, this will not only be one of the largest crypto offerings to date, but also marks a first of its kind offering whereby an Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) has entered the space of digital tokens. An IGO is considered an international personality comprised of member states under specific government treaties and is given rights and privileges within its member states.

Seminar of October 5 Program: "Achieving SDG's through sport partnerships and institutional responses for greater coherence and effectiveness"

The General Secretariat - World Sports Alliance - Intergovernmental Organization - 7 October 2017 at 07:45. This press release reiterates the essence of the official release issued by the organizers of the seminar.

WSA in Lausanne - The General Secretariat - World Sports Alliance - Intergovernmental Organization - 7 October 2017

Lausanne 5 October 2017. PalaisBeaulieu. The World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organization(WSA-IGO) was invited to attend the "Achieving SDGs through Sport: partnerships and institutional responses for greater coherence and effectiveness" Seminarthat assembled, by invitation, more than 130 participants from the world sport governance and industry.

At the first African School Sport Forum, Dr. Gilles Klein, Secretary General of the World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental invites Senegal to organize a conference on the financing of sport in Africa

In Rabat - Morocco, Dr. Gilles Klein, Secretary General of the World Sports Alliance intergovernmental Organisation (WSAIGO), proposed to Senegal that it organize, in partnership with the International School Sport Federation, a conference on the financing of sports in Africa.

At the first African School Sport Forum, Dr. Gilles Klein, Secretary General of the World Sports Alliance IGO invites Benin to collaborate on the development of a Sport for Development and Peace Index"

In his introductory speech at the conference of the first African School Sports Forum, Dr. Gilles Klein, referred to Michael Moller, the UN Director-General in Geneva. According to this senior UN official, "to change the World, we need to change the way the World does business, where sustainability is measured in a transparent way."

In Rabat, the Secretary General of the World Sports Alliance Intergovernmental Organisation, Dr. Gilles Klein, meets the delegations of the Member States

In Rabat - Morocco, Dr. Gilles Klein, the Secretary General of the World Sports AllianceIntergovernmental Organisation (WSAIGO) and the Director of Cabinet of the General Secretariat of the WSAIGO, Mrs. Sylvie Delpech, organized informal working sessions with representatives of the Member States of the Intergovernmental Organization who attended the first African school Sport Forum.

Our Member States

WSA-IGO was created following the adoption of the Rabat Declaration in Morocco, in May 2007 by the Kingdom of Morocco, the Republic of Niger, and the Dominican Republic, and its subsequent presentation and registration with the Economic and Social Council UN-ECOSOC (E/2007/NGO/1)(3) in July 2007. By April 2009 WSA had grown to include 24 Member states, increasing to 34 in January 2016, with a combined population base of 574 million.