Presented By MrTham Chien PingResearched by Ms Sharon Low

International Volunteerism Association (IVA)

2nd International Conference on Character Development through Service and Experiential

Learning 17 – 18 April 2009

Launched on 5 July 2008

An association of locally based groups in IV work

Membership is open to any programme that regularly sends groups or individuals to work abroad as volunteers, for any length of time.

Offers a forum for IV representatives to share information and resources, develop new skills, and collaborate on initiatives.

Promotes awareness and access to IV programmes. IVA can serve as a guide to anyone considering volunteering abroad or developing IV opportunities. This includes but is not limited to prospective volunteers, newly created volunteer sending organizations, corporations, and colleges and universities.

To set a baseline for monitoring international volunteerism trends in Singapore

To obtain information useful for IVA to promote and develop IV

PHASE 1 Survey: Online questionnaire (3 months: Aug – Nov)

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/59511/iv-in-sgp Sampling technique: “Snow balling” (word-of-mouth) Limitation: “Volunteer bias”, “Recall bias”

PHASE 2 Literature review: YEP end of project reports Study period: 8 years (2000 – 2007) Limitation: “Misclassification bias”, “Reporting bias”

Volunteers

Projects

  Education

Tech transfer

Special Needs

Social Enterpris

e

Healthcare

Environment

Heritage & culture

Tsunami Project

Vietnam 14 6 2 4 1 5 0 0Thailand 30 0 3 13 3 13 1 1Sri Lanka 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Philippines

4 1 0 1 0 1 0 0

Myanmar 3 0 0 5 2 0 0 0Malaysia 7 1 0 2 1 8 5 0Laos 14 3 0 1 1 0 0 0Indonesia 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 0India 18 8 13 0 4 5 1 0China 31 2 0 3 3 17 0 0Cambodia 27 7 12 5 3 7 1 0Education is the most common type of project for IV with exception of

Myanmar (social enterprise) and Malaysia (environment)

Educatio

n Tech

transferSpecial Needs

Social Enterpris

eHealthcar

e Environ ment

Heritage & culture

Tsunami Project

< 10 days 4 1 0 0 0 3 0 0

10 - 15 days 47 8 10 11 10 11 2 1

16 - 20 days 81 14 20 17 8 31 6 1> 20 days 22 5 0 7 3 11 0 0

Median 18 18 18 18 16 18 18.5 14.5Mean 19.4 17.3 17.4 17.9 16.1 19.6 17.8 14.5

Partnership

IV programming for age group 13 – 16, and 36 – 45

Strengthen post-trip follow ups

Ways to make IV easy – resource sharing & inter-agencies collaboration, sources of reliable overseas contacts

To build long term strategic, IV partnership

Capability building through training can be applied to these long term partnerships and enable its effects to be monitored and evaluated over time. 

Key Informants Interviews (KII)Identify key stakeholders of IV promotion and initiatives in Singapore & briefly analyse their role, impact and scope of

practice

Case studiesTo identify emerging thematic priorities on volunteer development, partnership engagement and project management

Clement Low and Audrey Tan for helping with data management

Chan Yew Wing, Goh Ann Tat and Robyn Tan for ideas, feedback and suggestions

Sharon Low for preparing presentation

AND ALL OF YOU HERE !

Q & A