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United Nations VolunteersVolunteerism for Peace and Development
Adeline Aubry
CBA Volunteerism & Community Adaptation Specialist
United Nations Development ProgrammeJune 2009
UNV in profile
Established in 1971 by the UN General Assembly as a development partner for the UN system.
The focal point for the promotion and wider recognition of volunteerism within the UN.
Administered by UNDP.
Why Volunteerism for Development?
Societies need to build their own solutions. Volunteerism is a powerful means to engage ordinary people in tackling development challenges and to make communities an active development actor and not anymore passive recipient.
Volunteerism is part of the fabric of most societies. Volunteers who receive guidance and organized leadership can contribute to development in a sustainable and constructive manner.
The MDGs need the contribution and support of millions of people.
Volunteers as a Key Development Resource
“Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will require the contributions of millions of ordinary people through voluntary action.” Kofi Annan
What we believeVolunteerism for development
Delivers benefits → to society at large and to individual volunteers
Makes important contributions → economically and socially
Contributes to a more cohesive society→ by building trust and reciprocity
Is universal, diverse and inclusive→ by offering opportunities for excluded people to participate,
and advocating for equal opportunities for all through VIOs (Volunteer-Involving Organizations)
Integration of volunteerism into
development programming
Global Advocacy to make the contribution of volunteerism
recognised globally
Mobilization of
Volunteers
UNV Business Model
global advocacy examples
Support research to assess the impact of volunteerism Johns Hopkins University / UN Statistics Division / ILO–Now 26 countries are reporting the contribution of non-profit activities in
their national accounts–Average 5% contribution to the economy from volunteerism, philanthropy
Stimulate national policy and legislation supportive of volunteerism Since the International Year of Volunteers, over 70 countries have introduced
new laws or policies on volunteerism
Communicating through publications, campaigns and media outreach“Teach India”
Integration in development programming based on partnerships
European Union
IADB
IFRC
IPU
New Academy of Business
OneWorld
Cisco
Kraft
Project Urgent
Shell Project Better World
Suez
ESCAP FAO ICAO IFAD ILO IMO Millennium Campaign OCHA UNCDF UNHCHR UNHCR UNCHS UNCTAD UNDOC UNDP UNDPKO
UNESCO UNICEF UNOPS UNIDO UNFPA WFP WHO
AVI CIVICUS DED FORUM IAVE VSO
etc.
Corporate & Private Sector UN organisations
Cooperating agencies
Nothing we want to do in isolation!
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7,991 UNV assignments in 2008
Demand remains strong
Mobilization of volunteers
Who are UNV volunteers?
Men64%
Women36%
37 years average age
5-10 years average working experience
159 nationalities
100+ professional categories:
Project managers and administrators
Policy advisors
Engineers & technicians
Doctors and health professionals
Where UNV volunteers work?
In 2007:
7,753 UNV volunteers
79% from developing countries (south-south cooperation)
34% volunteered within their own countries (sustainability)
What do UNV volunteers do?
Achieving the MDGs and reducing human poverty
HIV/AIDS awareness, training, monitoring, evaluation
Disaster Prevention, Management and Recovery
Support for elections and democratic governance
Peace building and conflict resolution
Civil affairs and human rights
Communications and training
Community development and mobilization
Environmental monitoring, eco-tourism, energy
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Health: prevention is better than cure
Dr. Vincent Onah works in Zomba Central hospital, Malawi.
He and colleagues volunteer to teach parents preventative medicine.
Women then voluntarily spread their knowledge in their own villages.
Gender: raising the agenda
National UNV volunteer Aicha Dariti, one of six volunteers ensuring gender mainstreaming in Morocco’s development programmes.
Environment: reclaiming the desert
In Ethiopia, guided by the UNV volunteers' expertise, the local youth volunteers:
- construct trenches and micro-basins to conserve soil and water - plant tree seedlings and Jatropha, - run apiculture centres and nursery sites.
200 youth volunteers (43% female) at four pilot sites covering 438 hectares.
Kenya’s neighborhood volunteers
Fostering coexistence after ethnic violence in late 2007, volunteers:- mediate and talk to youth about peace and reconciliation- support District Commissioners to identify potential disturbances- ensure that humanitarian aid is evenly distributed
“We have a connection with the people at the community level
and intend to use our acquired skills to bring the entire settlement together.”
Gregory Ngugi
UNV volunteers fighting HIV/AIDS
In many parts of the world, it was volunteers who first raised HIV and AIDS as an issue critically needing to be addressed.
UNV volunteers are:
- empowering and involving people living with HIV to respond to stigma and discrimination
- promoting voluntary counseling and testing- providing home-based care- conducting media awareness campaigns- establishing micro-grant facilities
for income-generating activities- influencing national development policies
UNV Assistant to the UNDP Resident Coordinator
Dolores Nunez is serving as an assistant to the UNDP Res Rep in Ecuador
and in the same time she builds capacities of Volunteer-Involving Organizations and train the members of the national association of volunteerism on project writing.
UNV volunteers are professionals working on a peer basis
UNV volunteers listen and discuss teach and train encourage and facilitate but do not replace as primary responsibility rests with the government andthe community.
UNV volunteers act as a catalyst in helping to mobilize the local population to generate positive changes in their own communities.
focus on developing local capacities
Reduce dependencyEmpower Foster ownershipEnhance sustainability
Not give fish to people, but teach them how to catch the fish.
Role model and represent values
Non-threatening appraoch
UN face in the field Flexibility
CreativityPassion
Capacity building
National ownership
South-South collaboration
Inclusion and participation of marginalised people
Bridge between communities, authorities,
civil society and UN
Youth mobilisation
UNV‘s added-value
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“…let us recognize the power of volunteerism to promote peace and development around the world.
Let us also pay tribute to the many millions of citizens all over the world who, every day – in ways small and large – volunteer their time, ingenuity, solidarity and creativity to help build a better, more sustainable future.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
thank you Adeline Aubry
CBA Volunteerism & Community Adaptation Specialist
United Nations Development ProgrammeJune 2009
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