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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to publish its 2025-2029 Strategic Plan, which lays the foundation for WADA’s strategic activity over the next five years under the theme ‘Going further together’.
The Strategic Plan was agreed by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) and subsequently approved by the Agency’s Foundation Board when they met on 5 December 2024. This followed a 16-month consultation process, during which WADA Management was committed to soliciting feedback from key stakeholders within the anti-doping ecosystem. The goal was to develop a common understanding—amongst athletes, representatives of the Sport Movement and Governments of the world, and National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs)—of the progress WADA had made to date and to decide which priorities were to be targeted over the next five years.
WADA President Witold Bańka said: “WADA’s 2025-2029 Strategic Plan builds off the progress of the past few years and sets a clear direction for the Agency so it can continue to deliver on its primary role of developing, harmonizing and coordinating anti-doping rules and policies across all sports and countries. The Strategic Priorities laid out in the Plan are aligned with our renewed commitment to being athlete centered and collaborating with all our stakeholders across the globe as we work to strengthen the global anti-doping system for athletes. We remain deeply committed to partnering in all that we do and look forward to seeing the ways in which we as an anti-doping community can go further together.”
WADA will action the following five Strategic Priorities:
- Lead – ensuring harmonized standards that elevate the global anti-doping system
- Grow Impact – maximizing the impact of anti-doping programs
- Be athlete centered – putting athletes at the heart of everything it does
- Collaborate and Unite – engaging all stakeholders to protect clean sport
- Perform – striving for greater efficiency of the global anti-doping system and internal processes
WADA Director General Olivier Niggli said: “WADA takes its leadership role within the anti-doping ecosystem very seriously. Understanding the evolving global trends is crucial for identifying relevant priorities while remaining agile enough to adjust and respond as necessary. With this Strategic Plan, we are allocating our resources to areas where we can make the most impact, focusing on growth and improvement. The tremendous development of the anti-doping system over the past 25 years is proof that all stakeholders—sport, government, athletes, and others—can work constructively together. There is still much more to be done to secure a doping-free sporting environment for athletes worldwide. I am very confident that WADA’s dedicated team members will work arm in arm with the community to go further together.”
More concretely, WADA will focus on areas such as the following:
- Advancing science and innovation together with its network of partners and experts to stay ahead of the evolving landscape of performance-enhancing substances and methods;
- Working with Code Signatories; Public Authorities; experts and other stakeholders for a unified and coherent global anti-doping system;
- Working closely with the Agency’s Athlete Council in promoting the voices of athletes on anti-doping matters;
- Enhancing values-based education programs to empower athletes, coaches, and support personnel with the knowledge they need to stay clean;
- Strengthening collaboration with law enforcement and investigative capabilities of ADOs to increase support and cross-border cooperation;
- Supporting NADOs, particularly in developing countries, to ensure that the fight against doping in sport is truly global; and
- Better leveraging data and strategically developing the Agency’s digital assets, which will help deliver insights to improve the effectiveness of the global anti-doping system.
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