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At its last meeting,
the Board of Directors reviewed the work plan for 2004
as set out in the document A World Fit for Living: World
Leisure Priorities for People 2004-2008, which was mailed
to members last December.
Based upon the four general priorities for the period,
specific activities and achievements targeted for 2004
include:
- Heightening the Awareness of Leisure Benefits
- 8th World Leisure Congress in Brisbane promotes
new directions of World Leisure
- Strengthened or new presence in UN Special Agencies,
especially UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, and WTO
- Stronger World Leisure media programs, especially
electronic
- Improving Policy and Legislation
- Significance of leisure already present in major
International conventions, identified and promoted
(particularly the UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, WTO)
- Data base of existing national leisure policies
and best practices established
- World Leisure Executive Development Program
Designed, with pilot implementation
- Strengthening Leadership
- WICE-Wageningen Program: New partnership with
Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
- Agreements established with other institutions
to offer vocational training and education programs
- Expanding International Cooperation
- New affiliation agreements between World Leisure
and other international non- Governmental leisure
organizations, both practitioner and scholarly
based
- Increased participation in meetings an programs
of international governmental organizations, especially
those of the UN
- World Leisure web site available in Chinese
- Web site content strengthened to reflect priorities
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