Advocating for women and girls

The Government's Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation strategy sets out the vision to enable women and girls to realise their potential in and through play, active recreation and sport by removing barriers in the three priority areas of leadership, participation and value and visibility.

This report celebrates the achievements over three years to address the under-representation of women and girls in sport and active recreation.

#itsmymove explores factors like judgement, lack of confidence and fear of failure that are barriers to increasing participation by young women. Become part of the #itsmymove movement and help young women to be active and healthy their way.

Supporting good governance through board diversity.

A research report which explores key themes around how Muslim women access active recreation and sport in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Designed for youth, educators and outdoor practitioners, ‘Going with the flow’ is a new multimedia resource from Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ) which aims to inspire positive changes to outdoor practice and culture for everybody.

Sport NZ launched #itsmymove in February 2022 - a campaign to help young women get and stay active their way. It has been developed to address declining physical activity levels in teenage girls.

Female voices in governance have been amplified across the sport and recreation sector, with the number of Sport NZ partner organisations achieving the board gender equity target rising from just over half in 2018 to 91% in 2021.