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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



UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)