Application deadline: 01 April 2015

Postion: Volunteering and Sustainable Development Intern: Rio+20, the MDGs and post 2015 Agenda

Duration: 3 – 6 months (starting between July 2012 and July 2013) at UNV headquarters in Bonn, Germany

Project: After the successful marking of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers (IYV+10) at national and global level, a project was developed to leverage the results of IYV+10 at different levels. Firstly the role of volunteering was emphasized in the sustainable development agenda discussed at Rio+20; subsequently efforts are concentrated in order to integrate the concept of volunteering and community participation into the policy discussions about enabling factors contributing to MDG achievement and the new post-2015 development framework.

The project provides support for action at national level to seize the strategic opportunity to participate in and facilitate UN system wide national consultations on the post-2015 development agenda as part of UN Country Teams.

At the same time the project aims at demonstrating the existing impact of volunteerisms’ role to MDG achievement and beyond in order to advocate for its integration into the new development architecture at national, regional and global level.