United Nations Volunteers: Painting by numbers 2002

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Painting by numbers 2002

13 May 2002

BONN: UN Volunteers statistics in 2002:

Total No. of assignments in 2002	5,554
Total No. of individual UNVs	5,234

International UNV assignments	3,698	67 %
National UNV assignments	1,856	33 %

Countries of assignments	139
Countries of origin	158
from developing countries		70 %
from industrialized countries		30 %
Male		63 %
Female		37 %

Assignments by region
Africa		38 %
Arab States		6 %
Asia and the Pacific		32 %
Europe, CIS and Baltic countries		13 %
The Americas and the Caribbean		11 %

UNV Activities
Governance		37 %
Humanitarian relief and peace building		32 %
Poverty reduction		20 %
Others ( including support to UN system, gender and environment		11 %

Number of UNV assignments with main partners
UNDP/GOVT	2,687
United Nations	1,634
UNHCR	519
UNOPS	234
WFP	194
UNICEF/UNFPA	135
NGOs and others	151