About World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA):
- It was established in 1999 as an international independent agencyto lead a collaborative worldwide movement for doping-free sport.
- Its governance and fundingare based on an equal partnership between the sport movement and governments of the world.
- Its primary role is to develop, harmonize, and coordinate anti-doping rules and policies across all sports and countries.
- Its key activities include scientific research, education, the development of anti-doping capacities, and monitoring the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), the document harmonizing anti-doping policies in all sports and all countries.
- Formation:
- After the events that shook the world of cycling in the summer of 1998, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to convene a World Conference on Doping.
- The First World Conference on Doping in Sport held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on February 2-4, 1999, produced the Lausanne Declaration on Doping in Sport.
- It provided for the creation of an independent international anti-doping agency to be operational for the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000.
- Pursuant to the terms of the Lausanne Declaration, the WADA was established on November 10, 1999, in Lausanne to promote and coordinate the fight against doping in sport internationally.
- WADA is a Swiss private law, not-for-profit foundation.
- Its seat is in Lausanne, Switzerland, and its headquarters are in Montreal, Canada.
- Governance Structure:
- A 42-member Foundation Board (Board), the agency’s highest policy-making body, is jointly composed of representatives of the Olympic Movement(the IOC, National Olympic Committees, International Sports Federations, and athletes) and representatives of governments from all five continents.
- A 16-member Executive Committee (ExCo), to which the Board delegates the management and running of the agency, including the performance of all its activities and the administration of its assets.
