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Volunteerism for Development - Presentation by UNV Africa Section Senior Programme Specialist
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International Volunteer Day, 5th December
The International Volunteer Day (IVD) provides an opportunity for volunteer-involving organizations and individual volunteers to work together on projects and campaigns promoting their contributions to economic and social development at local, national and international levels. By merging UN support with a grassroots mandate, IVD is a unique opportunity for government agencies, non-profit oorganizations, community groups, the private sector and volunteer-involving organizations to work together to attain common goals.
IVD was established by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 40/212 on 17 December 1985. Since then, governments, the UN system and civil society organizations have successfully joined volunteers around the world to celebrate the Day on 5 December.
For more details on the goals of and how to get involved in IVD, click here.
The Online Volunteering Service
In recent years, UNV has launched several initiatives to respond to demand and opportunities for engaging a wider group of citizens to volunteer for development both locally and internationally. While UNV continues to assign some 5,500 UN Volunteers every year to support communities and organizations in programme countries, it also hosts and manages the Online Volunteering (OV) service.
While online volunteers are active in many diverse activities, some examples of their work include providing online tutorials in various academic and technical areas, offering professional expertise and advice, researching topics and gathering related data, building databases, editing and preparing press releases and proposals, creating web pages, designing brochures and newsletters, managing other online volunteers, and translating documents. To date, this initiative has involved some 600 organizations... Click to read more
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