Wilfried Lemke is Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace.

The Role of Sport in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Children play football at the ACAKORO Football Academy in the Korogocho section of Nairobi, Kenya, September 2015. © UNOSDP

After 15 years of progress towards the unprecedented Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the world has turned its attention to the successor Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a period of transition to the newly adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.