About IDS

Commonwealth Games Canada believes in the power of sport as a catalyst for positive change and development. Sport is a language that everyone understands, regardless of race or religion. Commonwealth Games Canada’s (CGC) International Development through Sport (IDS) program uses this universal language to address social issues and improve the well being of people.

Since 1993, CGC’s International Development through Sport (IDS) unit has been supporting programs and partners in southern Africa and the Caribbean to deliver “development through sport” programming and use the convening and transformative power of sport as the vehicle to address pressing social and community development needs.