ABSTRACT
The focus of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. In the sport setting, the measurement of sport’s contribution to SDG 4 has been largely in partnership with national governments and the physical education sector via the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, and under the auspice of the Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport. An intergovernmental Open-Ended Working Group was established to measure the contribution of sport to the SDGs, which has identified areas of policy coherence and measurement to align the desired goals and indicators of SDG 4 with the sport setting. It is important to note in the context of SDG 4 that the role of sport in schools, and specifically physical education, is key to achieving and measuring the role that sport can play in contributing to inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Sport—be it through formal school sport, physical education, or via organized sport and SFD activities—can arguably play a role in improved education outcomes and SDG 4; however the evidence base of the efficacy of sport, and its level of contribution to SDG 4, remain a work in progress.
