MARKING THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF VOLUNTEERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY Ideas, Opportunities and Tools for stakeholders’ action

IN CELEBRATING IYV+10…

We celebrate volunteering as an expression of our common humanity and as a means of

building mutual respect, understanding, trust, solidarity and reciprocity.

We embrace volunteering as universal and inclusive, and recognize volunteering in its

diversity, as well as the purpose that sustains it: a firm belief in the values of

equality, solidarity, civic engagement as well as individual and collective freedoms.From the Vision

statement drafted at the consultative stakeholders meeting in October 2009

International Year of Volunteers 2001

UN General Assembly proclaimed 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers in recognition of the valuable contribution and further potential of volunteerism for economic and social development.

UNV designated as the focal point for the Year’s preparation, implementation and follow-up.

IYV Summary Accomplishments

o123 national committees oLarge numbers of stakeholders through internet at all levels (World Volunteer Web) oBy end of 2001, measures to enhance the infrastructure for volunteerism oRes 57/106 (26 Nov 2002) GA reaffirmed the important role of volunteerism to meet the MDGs oIn 2005 and again in 2008, the UN Secretary General has reported on follow-up to IYV

IYV+10

• UN General Assembly designated UNV as the focal

point for IYV+10

• Enhance and expand results of IYV

• Deepen and broaden importance of volunteerism

• Develop global and national strategies

• Showcase diversity and complementarity of

volunteerism

• Highlight the potential of volunteerism as powerful

component of development agendas

oTo share a common vision oTo raise volunteerism on the

development agenda oTo build more sustainable

partnerships oTo strengthen cohesion between

COTs and national actors oTo bring different volunteer

involving organisations and volunteer managing entities together on a neutral ground oTo define national volunteer

agendas

Why? IYV+10 is a chance

IYV AND IYV+10

FOUR OBJECTIVES

Enhance volunteerism in all its forms in terms of:

• Recognition: acknowledge value of volunteerism and relation to MDGs

• Facilitation: ensure volunteer opportunities for diverse people

• Networking: strengthen partnerships, exchange experiences

• Promotion: promote inclusive and representative volunteerism

IYV+10 GLOBAL AND NATIONAL STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT

• Globally more than 40 diverse stakeholders

• Global Plan of Action

• Need for National Plans of Action

• National multi-stakeholder committees for coordination

• Reference documents:

* Global Call for Action

* Vision Statement

Global Plan of Action and Countries

Need for National Plans of Action National multi-stakeholder committees

for coordination

National ownership !!!

GLOBAL EVENTS DURING IYV+10

IVD December 5 as entry point

Five major Regional IYV+10 meetings to strengthen partnership and create national and regional ownership

Summit on volunteerism and MDGs. Kenya, June 2011

Focus on volunteerism during UN Days

September 2011: 64th UN DPI-NGO Conference, Bonn

Around December 5th 2011 two GA plenary meetings

December 5th 2011: Launch of the State of the World Volunteerism Report (SWVR)

Exhibition at UN HQ on the theme “Volunteers of the World”, December 2011

UN DAYS AND IYV+10

Link specific activities to related UN Days. Send us your stories and pictures highlighting how volunteerism contributes to achieving objectives related to UN Days, such as World Refugee Day, World Day for Cultural Diversity, World Poverty Day, World Environment Day or World Health Day. Here are some ideas:

World Health Day – April 7th World Environment Day – June 5th World AIDS Day – December 1st

o A number of events by stakeholders all over the world. A calendar of events is available on worldvolunteerweb.org

o National actors all over the world will brand campaigns and actions in the frame of IYV+10.

o European Year of Volunteering 2011 EYV2011.

GLOBAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND LOCAL STAKEHOLDER EVENTS

VOLUNTEERING IN THE FUTURE

We envisage societies that value, recognize and encourage volunteering as integral to local, national and international plans

and priorities.

We foresee a future in which all individuals embrace a shared

commitment to voluntarily contribute, within their capacity,

to the pursuit of the common good and to the ideals of harmony and peace…

From the Vision statement drafted at the consultative stakeholders meeting in October 2009

We call upon all leaders in Governments, volunteer involving organizations, civil

society, private sector, non-governmental organizations, the United Nations system and from communities to recognize and

celebrate the achievements of volunteers by actively engaging in the marking of IYV+10.

Volunteer action - inspiring millions of others

From the Vision statement drafted at the consultative stakeholders meeting in October 2009

For more information and tools:

www.worldvolunteerweb.org