The key elements of the mandate of the Special Adviser are the following:

• Raise awareness about the role of sport as an efficient tool to attain development and peace objectives.

• Lead and coordinate the efforts of the United Nations system in this field.

• Promote the regular use of sport to address education, health and development issues and to increase understanding, peace and tolerance within and between communities, countries and cultures.

• Encourage collaboration and partnerships around Sport for Development and Peace between different actors.

• Support systematic, coordinated and coherent approaches to using sport as a tool to address development challenges.

• Foster the inclusion of sport on development agendas and the inclusion of a social development perspective on sports agendas worldwide.

• Ensure due attention is accorded to cultural and traditional dimensions, and respect is upheld for the principles of human rights (especially youth and child rights);human diversity; gender equality; social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

• Urge the continued assessment of progress achieved and difficulties encountered in the use of sport as a development tool through research, monitoring and evaluation.