Sports and decentralization: An outline of a typology of municipal sports policies in Benin
The process of decentralization implemented in most of African countries and precisely in Benin by the years 2003 with the election of the town councilors transferred to the new municipalities competences in sport’s field. These competences lead the municipalities in the implementation of the municipal sporting policies with the intention of ensuring the sporting development of their territory: physical-activities and sporting considered as activities that came under general interest and public service mission.