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2006 CAVB Board of
Administration Meeting- Cairo, Egypt:
Fruitful decisions for better
African Volleyball in the best ever Democratic Board
 Cairo, Egypt, September 15-: The Confederation of African
Volleyball (CAVB) Board of Administration meeting in Cairo took
many fruitful decisions for the better future of continental
volleyball. The meeting headed by CAVB President Dr. Amr Elwani
discussed important subjects in management, technical and
financial aspects.
The meeting decided to apply the zonal qualification system for
the National African competitions to secure the participation of
all the continental
geographical areas in the competitions and ensure the presence
of a big number of participants in the big competitions
qualifying to the FIVB
championship. The new proposal will decrease the costs of
transportation for the zonal qualification of the nearby
countries. These proposals will
be implemented at the senior level before being applied to the
age categories.
The board determined 11 - 23 July 2007, for the volleyball
competition in 2007 All Africa Games to be held in Algeria. The
number of
participating teams in the finals increased to 12 instead of 10
in the 2003 competition in Abuja, Nigeria. The qualifiers will
be the champions of
the seven zones as well as the previous and next organizers and
the final three teams in the podium in the last competition in
Abuja 2003.
The organizers of the 2007 African competitions will be
determined by the end of this year according to the new criteria
proposed by the
executive member Camilo Antao. Seventeen candidates are
available for the seven African competitions in 2007 which a
historic record
reflecting the great interest of organization in all the African
zones.
Uganda proposed to host the 2009 CAVB congress, while the 2007
congress will be between Algeria during All Africa Games or
Mauritius.
From the technical point of view, CAVB decided to support the
establishment of more development courses using the usual
support of the FIVB
in many programmes specially the new Volleyball Cooperation
programme (VCP) which replaced the last Sports Aid Programme
(SAP) and
encouraging the NFs to organize more coaches and referee
courses.
CAVB decided to contact big companies to have more sponsors and
increase marketing of the African competitions to help the
development
programmes in the continent. The board decided to copy what was
applied in the big volleyball countries in Africa like Tunisia
and Egypt which
succeeded to start the sponsorship in their local competitions.
In Beach Volleyball category CAVB Board decided to start the
implementation of the last proposal of starting with continental
competitions on
the club level in 2007 to increase the participating teams
before shifting to the national level. Beach volleyball took a
big part of discussions after
the big success of South Africa in hosting one of the SWATCH-
FIVB world tours which is considered the highest level of the
sport in the world
and also the good organization of the FIVB Satellite Beach
Volleyball Championship in Morocco in the last few years.
From the media point of view the board approved the proposal of
the first vice president Dr. Bechir Louazir to ask each National
Federation to
sent a professional journalist with its team in the big African
Nations Championships to increase the press coverage of
volleyball material in all
African media
"We are all happy to be united like that in our board before the
FIVB Congress in Japan where we want to be one hand towards the
future of our
sport," Said CAVB President Dr. Amr Elwani. "I think this is our
best Board regarding the outcome of fruitful decisions and the
democratic
discussions" He added.
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