Rugby Africa's workshop
Rugby Africa's workshop - Each year, Rugby Africa’s teammakes an appointment in a different country for a very important meeting! A business travel which gives the opportunity to 10 colleagues, but also 10 friends, to meet and discuss about the African rugby. In Rugby Africa, we believe in work but even more in good atmosphere, in friendship and in the values of rugby. Thanks to this, meetings are always a nice momentand fruitful sharing !
In this month of December, the team mets in Casablanca (Morocco) for four workdays. Erick Situma, Charles Yapo, Mostafa Jelti and Berthin Rafalimanana, Regional Development Officerswere present ; in the company ofAdama Bakhoum and Denver Wannies, Regional Training Manager, then Coralie van den Berg, Operations Manager, David Baird-Smith, our Junior consultantand of Lola Barthés, in charge of the Communication and the Medias. All this under Jean-Luc Barthès’ management, theRugby Services Manager forAfrican rugby at World Rugby attentive eye.
Three names seem certainly new to you. Adama Bakhoum and Denver Wannies : we had already spoken to you about themmanytimes, Adama and Denver were until now major members of World Rugby, bothin charge of the Training in Africa. Today, their contracts are modified for our greatest happiness ! Indeed, they will, from now on, be Rugby Africa’s employees, Adama as full time, Denver as part-time. Then, there is Mostafa Jelti : our quite new Regional Development Officers for the Northern Region of the continent. Welcome to them !
Manyareas were covered for the own operation of rugby in Africa. First of all, how to improve our work together to be even more successful. You may notsuspect it, but all the team phones at least once a month for a clarification and sends one ton of emails per day. The work of some can helpthe others, it is always very useful to us to know what our colleagues are doing. We then discussed about various Rugby Africa programmes, Impact Beyond, Get Into Rugby, Women’s rugby. Projects which means a lot for us and which obtains a big successon the continent.Thousands of new enthusiasts players tryrugbyevery year make of Africathe best second region ofthe world, just after Europe (according to World Rugby’s ranking).
Each of the 10 participants also presented the work theymade over the year 2015, what worked well and what it will be necessary to improve. We thus spoke about Marketing, about Communication and the Competitions for the year 2016. We always do our best with a restricted budget, what is not still clear. It is necessary to try to satisfy all the countries of this big continent, the ultimate purpose not only being to improve the performance of the National teams but to develop rugby in capitals, in countrysides, in remotecities.
Four workdays, which allow us to restart the head full of great ideas and great projects that we look forward to presenting you. In 2016, we promise, we shall hold all our resolutions !
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Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com) is the governing body of rugby in Africa and one of the regional associations under World Rugby. It unites all African countries that play rugby union, rugby sevens, and women’s rugby. Rugby Africa organizes various competitions, including the qualifying tournaments for the Rugby World Cup and the Africa Sevens, a qualifying competition for the Olympic Games. With 39 member unions, Rugby Africa is dedicated to promoting and developing rugby across the continent. World Rugby highlighted Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia as three of the six emerging nations experiencing strong growth in rugby.
