The present Best Practices Guide, is a collection of existing best practices across the EU and beyond, aiming to tackle sexual harassment in sports. The purpose of this publication is to:

- provide best practices in preventing and responding to sexual harassment in sport

- assist sport clubs in establishing and implementing internal policies and procedures tackling sexual harassment and the identification of the various roles individuals (athletes, coaches and other sport professionals) can play in preventing and responding to sexual harassment

- assist policy makers to create policies preventing and combating sexual harassment in sport

- contribute to a knowledge base already available for linking action to eliminate sexual harassment in sport

- serve as an inspiration for the replication of the best practices identified and contribute to the work of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers on the field worldwide

- be able to reach the necessary outcomes, the partners will carry out a desk research, through which they will aim to identify best practices in terms of Design and development process / Categories of Activities implemented / Legal and regulatory compliance / Institutional involvement / Level of Governance involved / Procedures and processes / Target Groups / Results and promote their use. The practices included in the present publication were selected according to the following basic criteria:

- they are/were focused mainly or exclusively in sexual harassment in particular and/or gender-based violence in general

- they referred mainly or exclusively in sports sector

- they are/were in line with the relevant standards and recommendations of the international organizations (Council of Europe, European Union, International Olympic Committee etc.)

- they are/have been implemented in similar political/social/cultural contexts (in European in particular and in the Western World in general)

- basic information regarding the practice – country(-ies) and time period of implementation, organizations involved, target groups, objectives, activities, outputs, web addresses – are available

- additional information regarding the practices as well as the deliverables/outputs developed in their context are available online for further studying and evaluation.