Abstract
This paper reports findings of two systematic reviews of Sport for Development (SfD) evidence, with a particular focus on managerial and policy implications. We suggest that the outcomes of the systematic reviews yield significant insights regarding the current state of the SfD literature, particularly with respect to the diversity of interventions, the importance of scale and context, and the general paucity of rigorous, empirical analyses. In turn, we propose that several managerial and policy implications and recommendations can be gleaned from these assessments, including the importance of an ongoing and even renewed commitment to theory and context, and critical considerations of the structure of the SfD field itself. We also use the results of the reviews to make suggestions about the importance of future research in this area, as well as the kind of research that is needed, in both policy and programming terms.