A/HRC/30/50 events may create employment opportunities, thereby increasing the revenue base of a country. Tax revenues thus generated can be used for infrastructure projects such as construction of roads, bridges, hospitals or water pumps. Sport can also be a mechanism through which youth talent can be exploited to generate income for the individual and the community. Additionally, by engaging young people, it may contribute to keeping them from idleness and vagrancy. Development programmes that use sport can facilitate the transfer of skills acquired in the field, in particular life skills and employability skills. Moreover, promoting policies to train teachers and coaches, to ensure good sporting facilities and to make them freely accessible, are fundamental factors for development. It is therefore important that, in the context of the post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals to be announced later this year by the General Assembly, sport be recognized as a catalyst to development and be used as a tool to reach the objectives set in the global development agenda. 51. One of the most important factors in promoting the development of a country is to bring about social change. Sporting events and the practice of various disciplines carry educational messages, which contribute to raising awareness on social issues, such as HIV/AIDS or racial and gender discrimination, by attracting people who are more difficult to target through institutional means and thus making it possible to reach a wider and more diverse audience. 52. The ability of sport to promote self-belief alongside collective optimism makes it an ideal social development tool. Sport is based on respect for rules and an equal respect for and acceptance of those who make and apply them. The Olympic focus on the harmonious development of humankind is echoed at every level, from children’s street games to the highest levels of performance sport. 53. Projects aimed at improving life skills and teaching values that foster constructive behaviours and respect for human rights are of crucial importance. One example is the International Olympic Committee “Sport for Hope” programme, which consists in setting up Olympic youth development centres in developing countries, in particular Haiti and Zambia. It aims to provide young people and communities with positive sporting and lifestyle opportunities, offers modern and professional training facilities to athletes of the entire region and seeks to spread the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect. Such development projects, delivered jointly with appropriate specialized partners, adapted sporting activities and sport at large, can be effective tools for the socioeconomic development of communities. J. Best practices, national experiences and models to follow 54. Sport is increasingly being recognized as a vehicle for inclusion and cohesion. Its benefits, in terms of equality and social integration and of building self-esteem and resilience, and its power to unite more than divide, are gaining ever more political and apolitical credibility. Its contributions to the physical and mental well-being of individuals, communities and the nation are manifold and not to be ignored or undervalued, as has happened in the past. 55. The UNESCO Quality Physical Education guidelines, developed with the support of several other United Nations agencies and the International Olympic Committee, promote physical education as the only curriculum subject that combines physical competence with values-based learning. Drawing on good practices and benchmarks in crucial areas, such as inclusive provision and teacher training, the roll-out of the guidelines assists Governments from all regions in revising their physical education policy. 13