Plan Sectorial de Desarrollo Integral para Vivir Bien Sector Deportes 2021-2025

Objectives

The Sectoral Plan for Integral Development for Living Well, Sports Sector 2021–2025 is Bolivia’s medium-term framework for developing physical culture and sport as components of the “Vivir Bien” model, wellbeing, social integration and healthy human development. It seeks to guarantee non-discriminatory access to physical activity, recreation and sport through a “sport for all” approach, aligned with the Patriotic Agenda 2025, the Economic and Social Development Plan 2021–2025, and the Integral State Planning System.[1][2][3][4]

• Promote recreational, formative, competitive and high-performance sport, alongside physical culture and regular physical activity, to strengthen physical, mental and social wellbeing.[5][6]
• Consolidate the Plurinational Sports System and coordinate public and private non-profit entities to develop sport at national, departmental and municipal levels.[4][6][7]
• Expand inclusive participation among children, adolescents, young people, families, communities, older people, Indigenous Native Peasant Nations and Peoples, Afro-Bolivian communities, vulnerable groups, and people with disabilities.[8][9][10][11]
• Develop sporting skills, structured training, talent identification, athlete preparation and national representation in international competitions.[12][13][14]
• Strengthen sports education and training for physical-education teachers, coaches, judges, referees, leaders, administrators and athletes.[15][16]
• Improve the construction, equipment, maintenance, administration and appropriate use of sports infrastructure and high-performance centres.[17][18][19]

The plan’s principal sectoral results are to promote competitive and formative sport throughout the country and to strengthen sports infrastructure and equipment.[19]By 2025, targets include increasing Plurinational Student Sports Games from nine to 13, international participating athletes from 13 in 2019 to 250, physical and recreational activity participation from 40% to 60%, trained people from 1,000 to 15,000, constructed and equipped facilities from five to seven, and strengthened sports complexes and high-performance centres from zero to five.[20]

Implementation

Implementation combines national stewardship with territorial delivery through the Plurinational Sports System, sectoral planning, annual physical programming, result and action indicators, and coordination between central government, autonomous territorial entities, sports organisations, education institutions, civil society and private actors. The Ministry of Health and Sports, through the Vice-Ministry of Sports and the General Directorate of Planning, is the principal sector authority responsible for policy design, planning and implementation.[21][19][20][22]

• Coordinate national policy with departmental sports services, municipal sports directorates or units, and Indigenous Native Peasant Autonomous Government bodies, within their respective powers and territorial planning processes.[21][23][24]
• Engage the Ministry of Education, universities, the armed forces, police, Bolivian Olympic Committee, Bolivian Paralympic Committee, sports federations and associations, clubs, non-governmental organisations, cooperation agencies, social organisations, Indigenous peoples’ organisations and media.[25][26][5]
• Deliver student sport through local, departmental and national phases of the Plurinational Student Sports Games, including opportunities for rural and urban students and progression to international school competitions.[7][27][28]
• Organise mass-participation activities, including nationally institutionalised 10-kilometre road races, and recreational, family, workplace, military, police, prison and Indigenous traditional-sport programmes.[29][30][31][32]
• Provide technical support, training camps, scholarships, travel, insurance, clothing and other support for high-performance athletes and promising talent through federations, the Olympic Committee and the Vice-Ministry of Sports.[33][18][19]
• Register nationally scoped sports entities in the National Single Register, enabling formal recognition, official competition participation, competition organisation and access to public financing.[6][12]
• Apply anti-doping controls during and after official competitions in accordance with applicable standards and protocols.[33][31]

Monitoring is structured around planning matrices containing strategic actions, result and action indicators, formulas, baselines and 2025 targets; annual physical programming records intended outputs across 2021–2025, with SNID/Communication listed as an information source.[19][20]The extract does not specify a separate evaluation methodology, reporting timetable, surveillance system or comprehensive accountability procedure.[20]Earlier sectoral assessment identified weaknesses including the absence of evaluation against 2016–2020 planned indicators, inconsistent implementation mechanisms, insufficient local budgets for sports-training schools, limited institutional capacity and the absence of a national census of sports facilities.[23][7][34][35]

A five-year budget of 283,032,626.41 Bolivianos is programmed for 2021–2025, rising from 3,682,028.97 Bolivianos in 2021 to 123,562,649.36 Bolivianos in 2025.[24][22]Public financing may also support registered national sports entities, while donations, loans, earmarked resources, other resources and external cooperation are identified as potential funding channels.[12][36][17]The available material does not specify funding gaps, borrowing assumptions, external-financing assumptions or a resource-mobilisation strategy for the quinquennial budget.[24]

Monitoring & Evaluation

The plan establishes a results-based monitoring approach for the 2021–2025 sports sector, using strategic actions, result and action indicators, baseline information, formulas and annual physical programming linked to the Economic and Social Development Plan.[19][20]The Vice-Ministry of Sports and its General Planning Directorate prepare indicators, physical programming and the financial plan, with input and validation from the Ministry of Development Planning and its Vice-Ministry of Planning and Coordination.[20][24][22]

• Monitor progress against two principal sectoral results: result 6.5.1, promoting competitive and formative sport throughout the country, and result 6.5.2, strengthening sports infrastructure and equipment.[19]
• Track 2025 targets to increase Plurinational Student Sports Games from 9 to 13; athletes participating internationally from 13 in 2019 to 250; participation in physical and recreational activity from 40% to 60%; trained or capacitated people from 1,000 to 15,000; constructed and equipped facilities from 5 to 7; and strengthened or equipped sports complexes and high-performance centres from 0 to 5.[20]
• Programme physical delivery annually between 2021 and 2025, with six result or action areas weighted at 25%, 25%, 20%, 10%, 10% and 10%.[20]
• Use SNID/Communication as the named information source for annual indicators.[20]
• Link sectoral priorities with national, departmental, regional, municipal, urban, rural and district territorial dimensions through a concordance matrix.[24]

Earlier sector experience identifies major evaluation weaknesses. The 2016–2020 sports-sector plan was not assessed against planned indicators and results because information on indicators, strategies, programmes, targets and expected results was unavailable; institutional change from a Ministry of Sports to a Vice-Ministry also affected quinquennial evaluation.[23]No comparison of planned and achieved results was undertaken for the preceding five-year period in another assessment.[17]

Available operational reporting relies substantially on participation and event outputs. More than one million students reportedly participate annually in the Plurinational Student Sports Games.[27]Primary-level third-phase participation totalled 5,243 during 2015–2020, while secondary-level third-phase participation totalled 15,503; 2020 events were not held because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[27][29]National 10K races recorded 706,666 participants between 2015 and 2020.[30]Other reported outputs include 180 participants with disabilities from 120 special-education centres, and three gold and four silver medals at the 2015–2017 South American School Games.[37][13]

Registration, supervision and standards provide limited accountability mechanisms. Nationally scoped sports entities must be registered in the National Single Registry to receive recognition, participate in official competitions, organise competitions and access public financing.[6][12]Anti-doping controls are to follow applicable standards and protocols during and after official competitions.[33][31]The source also identifies a need for supervision and control standards for entities delivering public and social sports services, alongside weaknesses including the absence of a national census of sports facilities.[34][35]

Although the planning matrices provide indicators, baselines and targets, the supplied material does not specify indicator formulas or values in full, reporting schedules, independent evaluation methods, surveillance arrangements, sanctions or a comprehensive formal accountability framework.[19][20]

Costing & Financing

A five-year budget of 283,032,626.41 Bolivianos is programmed for 2021–2025 to support sectoral strategic actions, expected results and indicators.[24][22]The budget rises from 3,682,028.97 Bolivianos in 2021 to 123,562,649.36 Bolivianos in 2025.[24][22]

• Allocate 3,682,028.97 Bolivianos in 2021, 22,572,649.36 in 2022, 42,092,649.36 in 2023, 91,122,649.36 in 2024 and 123,562,649.36 in 2025.[24][22]
• Include six unlabelled quinquennial budget lines of 91,528,069.11, 4,680,000, 6,769,000, 5,930,000, 138,600,000 and 35,525,557.30 Bolivianos.[24]
• Provide 237,910 Bolivianos in reported total prizes for 10K road races and invest 2,033,000 Bolivianos in the 2015 Under-18 Copa Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia.[38]
• Record more than 8.5 million Bolivianos in prize investment for 10-kilometre road races from 2013 onwards.[39]

The financing framework permits national sports policies, plans, programmes, projects, awards, incentives and scholarships to draw on the Treasury of the Nation, subject to financial availability, as well as donations, loans, earmarked resources and other sources.[17]Registered national sports entities may access public financing for preparation and participation, while international organisations and cooperation agencies may provide external finance and technical assistance.[12][36]Infrastructure for the South American Games and training centres was financed through the Special Projects Unit, alongside coordinated central-government, municipal and private involvement.[13]

The material identifies continuing resource constraints: public budgets are described as insufficient at all levels, allocations reportedly declined over the preceding five years, territorial entities have no legally established minimum sports budget, and many municipalities lack dedicated funding to establish sports-training schools.[23][34][35]Athletes may consequently rely substantially on family support, while private-sector contributions to high-performance sport are limited.[34][35]Concerns are also recorded that the current legal framework lacks a sufficiently clear financing structure for physical activity and sport.[17]

The source calls for a structured medium-term financing system, regulated allocation of resources across levels of the State, and stronger public-private resource mobilisation.[34][40]It does not specify a quantified financing gap, borrowing assumptions, expenditure ceilings, detailed funding-source shares, macroeconomic assumptions or a dedicated resource-mobilisation strategy.[24][22]