United Nations Volunteers: Painting by numbers

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Painting by numbers

18 June 2005

Total No. of assignments in 2004	7,772
Total No. of individual UNVs	7,300

International UNV assignments	4,618	59 %
National UNV assignments	3,154	41 %

Countries of assignments	139
Countries of origin	163
from developing countries	122	75 %
from industrialized countries	41	25 %
Male	4,748	65 %
Female	2,552	35 %

Assignments by region
Africa	3,150	40%
Arab States	430	6 %
Asia and the Pacific	2,180	28 %
Europe, CIS and Baltic countries	654	8 %
The Americas and the Caribbean	1,358	18%

UNV Activities
Achieving the MDGs and reducing human poverty		33 %
Fostering democratic governance		22 %
Crisis prevention and recovery		45 %

Number of UNV assignments with main partners
UNDP/GOVT	4,439
United Nations	2,095
UNHCR	691
WFP	272
UNFPA	95
UNICEF	52
Others	128

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