Sustainability is one of the fundamental values of orienteering.
Orienteering provides mental and physical challenge, builds life-skills and self-confidence and promotes a healthy lifestyle. We are respectful of the natural environment and promote environmental good practice. Orienteering events require limited infrastructure and a low threshold for participation. We are progressive in our response to changes in society.
Reference Documents
Guidelines and Checklists for the organisation of sustainable orienteering events
The Guidelines and Checklists for the organisation of sustainable orienteering events are not a handbook or a set of rules to be followed verbatim, but rather a list of points that should be considered by organisers and adapted to the local context. Some may be relevant, in which case the Guidelines may represent a useful reference, some may not and may then be skipped; they are meant to be an agile and practical tool.
A point to be considered is that the size of orienteering events varies a lot: from local events with less than a hundred participants to events with a huge number of runners. It is up to the organisers to decide which of the Guidelines and Checklists are relevant in each case. The organisation of an event implies different roles and therefore different responsibilities, but whereas some aspects are clearly pertinent to specific roles (e.g. the placement of controls is the responsibility of the course setter) in many cases people fill multiple roles or, on the other hand, especially with big events, a sector of activity is split into different areas with different persons in charge.
We therefore suggest using the Checklist as a support to the subdivision of tasks in the organisation and the Guidelines as a reference for the persons responsible for each task. The Guidelines and Checklists will be periodically revised based on new data and on proposals that will come from the users. Your comments and suggestions are therefore most welcome (mail to: [email protected]).
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