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From the Pacific Islands to Sub-Saharan Africa, development organizations have positioned sport as an ideal tool for building important life skills that can be transferred from the playing field to day-to-day realities. This chapter will critically examine this claim by first exploring how the sport for development (SFD) community has conceptualized life skills development, especially for girls, in comparison with how other communities of practice (e.g., girls’ education) have constructed the term. The chapter will then examine how the SFD community has made inroads into the triple challenge of measuring skills developed as a result of the sport-based intervention, addressing the transferability of those skills to non-program contexts, and measuring outcomes achieved as a result of acquiring those skills. The chapter will draw connections between the SFD and girls’ education communities in ways that will help advance progress in both fields, while illuminating areas for further investigation