The Council of Europe and UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) are delighted to announce the launch of the new Anti-Doping Questionnaire Dynamic Dashboards. This will allow anti-doping bodies to track and compare data across countries and over the years, to more easily build a more comprehensive picture of changing trends and issues.

Leveraging data analytics, the new Dashboards will help everyone interested in anti-doping in sport to gain valuable insights and study the situation in countries across Europe and beyond.

The data comes from the annual Anti-Doping Questionnaire (ADQ), which is used by the Council of Europe to monitor anti-doping efforts across the States Parties. The ADQ gathers information on a wide range of topics, including anti-doping testing, monitoring, prevention, education, legal details, and budgets.

Until recently, the ADQ database has been underutilised as data was primarily available in PDF documents, which made comparative analysis challenging. This initiative has seen the ADQ data transferred to a new platform, transforming it into a more dynamic tool, providing deeper insights to help facilitate better-informed decision-making.

Tony Josiah, UKAD’s Director of Education, Insight and Global Engagement, said: “This has been an exciting project for UKAD to work on with the Council of Europe. Together we have created interactive dashboards that offer a comprehensive and visually engaging way to analyse and present the information gathered from the annual ADQ.

“To get to this stage has involved months of data extraction, transformation, and visualisation, ensuring that the final product is both informative and user-friendly. Leveraging data analytics to enhance our insight on the threats to clean sport is part of our Strategic Refresh 2024-26, and these dashboards are one of the ways in which we are furthering this commitment and supporting the wider anti-doping community.”

The ADQ Dynamic Dashboards aim to improve policy development and evaluation, compliance monitoring as well as research and analysis into anti-doping in sports.

By adding future datasets, the Dashboards can be used to conduct longitudinal studies, tracking changes and trends in anti-doping efforts over time. 

Jamie Brown, Head of the Council of Europe’s Anti-Doping Unit added: “The Council of Europe's Anti-Doping Questionnaire (ADQ) provides essential data on our member States' anti-doping measures, but the previous form was not easy to properly compare and analyse. These new Dashboards are a major step forward in promoting open access to key data, which will foster transparency and promote the sharing of good practices. This will help our key partners and stakeholders in Europe and beyond to enhance the effectiveness of their anti-doping programmes, as well as strengthen international cooperation.”

The new ADQ Dynamic Dashboards can be accessed here.

About T-DO

Since the adoption of the Anti-Doping Convention in 1989, the Council of Europe has been instrumental in establishing and improving national anti-doping systems while also facilitating international cooperation. The Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention (T-DO) plays a crucial role in overseeing the implementation of the Convention, collaborating with international stakeholders, including the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), International Olympic Committee (IOC), and various national anti-doping organisations. The tasks of the Monitoring group are defined in the Article 11 of the Convention:

• keep the provisions of the Convention under review and examine any necessary modifications;
• approve the list of pharmacological classes of doping agents and doping methods, and the criteria for accreditation of laboratories;
• hold consultations with relevant sports organisations;
• make recommendations to the Parties concerning measures to be taken for the purposes of the Convention;
• recommend appropriate measures to keep relevant international organisations and the public informed about the activities undertaken within the framework of the Convention;
• make recommendations to the Committee of Ministers concerning non-member States of the Council of Europe to be invited to accede to the Convention;
• make any proposal for improving the effectiveness of the Convention.

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About UKAD

UK Anti-Doping is here to ensure sport in the UK is free from doping and to promote and protect clean sport through education, testing and enforcement. We make certain that sports bodies are compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code through implementation and management of the UK National Anti-Doping Policy. 

UK Anti-Doping’s Assurance Framework is the primary mechanism through which National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) demonstrate to UKAD their compliance with the National Anti-Doping Policy. The Assurance Framework outlines a series of mandatory requirements, the fulfilment of which NGBs must evidence in order to give UKAD assurance that they are meeting their anti-doping responsibilities. 

UK Anti-Doping’s functions include an education and information programme, athlete testing across more than 40 Olympic, Paralympic and professional sports, intelligence management and exclusive results management authority for the determination of anti-doping rule violations.  

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