NBDSF SWOT 2009 
 
STRENTGHS
  • The history of NBDSF: founded originally in 1912 (NDI), the oldest sports organisation of the people with disabilities, traditions, culture.
  • Regular joint seminars and meetings
  • Respect and equality of the member countries towards one another
  • Know-how and regeneration
  • Functional possibilities
 
WEAKNESSES
 
  • Status in society, attitudes and valuation, note: Paralympic activities, media
  • NBDSF is lacking a clear and stable administration
  • NBDSF own fundraising and financial possibilities + personnel resources
  • Financial possibilities of the NBDSF member countries themselves to increase co-operation
  • The status of NBDSF in EDSO should be clearer (licence fees, joint advocacy work)
  • Decrease in the activity of deaf people in the field of sports competitions
  • The functional activity and know-how of the sports clubs in the member countries
  • Strong regression in the individual sports
  • The organisation is not very well-known in the sports clubs
  • Information work on the NBDSF activities in the member countries
  • Decrease of participants in competitions and events
  • Activity for the NBDSF'meetings - all delegates not take part in the meeting as a full number.
 
OPPORTUNITIES
 
  • To organise joint seminars, workshops and meetings with different themes for deaf people and other hearing-impaired people with different ages - exchange of information
  • Youth activities; sports camps, sports competitions
  • Increasing activities at the club level
  • Information work, Internet, www-pages
  • NBDSF 100th anniversary in 2012, a year with a special theme
  • Raising the NBDSF image with quite a small input
  • Sports festivals in summer and winter sports every fourth year. The sports clubs of the member countries as a special target group
 
THREATS
 
  • The identity of deaf people, compare the socio-cultural and medical viewpoint on deafness
  • Decrease in the activity of deaf sports competition activities
  • Decrease in the valuation of deaf sports
  • Decrease in the self determination of the federations and clubs - integration in the paralympic activities (this can also be seen as a possibility)
  • Continuation and funding of the NBDSF activities
  • The know-how in deaf sports activities and lack of training in the tightening competition in society