ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the complexity of Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG 10) with Sport for Development and Peace organizations. The hopeful nature of SDG 10, coupled with sport's limited capacity to shape structural change, results in a tension between rhetoric and what SDP organizations, in particular, can accomplish in reducing inequalities. The majority of available information on evaluating SDG 10 uses quantitative approaches. In this chapter, the authors recognize that some aspects of social change can occur in and through sport and should be evaluated, but they argue that attempting to measure these changes through descriptive numbers alone is insufficient and may be misinterpreted. To evaluate sport within the context of SDG 10, considerations about power relations and social inclusion need to be at the fore—and economics as only one indicator among many. The authors recommend that the goals and intentions of policy be evaluated in addition to processes and backgrounds and judgments. These approaches would allow for contextual differences to be captured and analyzed for comparison.
