Bonn, Germany: In 1993, more than 4,000 UNVs have supported electoral registration, supervision, monitoring and logistics. In 1999 alone, UNVs assisted with the elections in Nigeria, Indonesia, South Africa, Nepal, Central African Republic and soon, Mozambique. Read

BONN: UNV-assisted project for the deaf in Uganda receives award, Cambodia NUNV leader attends Norwegian training course and UNAIDS contribute to UNV projects. Read

Bonn, Germany: UNV has started deploying 200 international volunteers in Kosovo to assist with civil administration procedures following a request from the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers programme is charting new territory for community development in Brooklodge, Carrick Hill, Lady's View, New Battle and an area once known as Sherwood Forest. This isn't Robin Hood's England -- this is Jamaica. This is Hagley Gap. Read

Bonn, Germany: Pierre Galo Coffi, an international UNV specialist in rural development, has tapped the energy of youth football teams to plant trees in a heavily deforested area of Madagascar. The 42-year-old from Benin and his colleagues have invested three years in a regional development plan that seeks to get residents involved in reforestation campaigns. Local authorities have expressed their support and interest. The approach is working. Read

BONN: Recent trends indicate that fully-funded UN Volunteers (UNVs) work increasingly in the areas of technical and project support, human rights and community development. Under UNV's full funding mechanism, donors contribute to support the total costs of individual UNV post assignments. Read

Bonn, Germany: Lucila Ramón Lorenzo, a UNV nutritionist from the Dominican Republic with a Master's degree in social work, has been working since 1997 as an assistant officer with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Choluteca, Honduras. Read

BONN: In traditional Kyrgyz culture, community mobilization and voluntarism is not new. The traditional "Ashar" (a traditional volunteer initiative whereby the community comes together to solve problems of common concern) still thrives in most rural communities. Read

Bonn, Germany: Providing health, education, and other social services to remote communities scattered across Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan, demands innovative approaches. To meet these complex challenges, the Bhutan Government has launched an Integrated Conservation and Development Programme (ICDP) that seeks to improve the living standard of local people, while also addressing the conservation needs of the national park. Read

BONN: A Statistician takes up first UNV assignment on the Island of St. Helena. Nyunt Nyunt Win, a native of Myanmar, arrived by ship on St. Helena in late April. She will work for one year as a UNV statistics advisor at the Government Statistics Office in the Development and Economic Planning Department (DEPD). Read

Bonn, Germany: Tim Brown, a British education adviser for UNHCR Uganda since 1992, briefed UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata on 9 July in Geneva in connection with an earlier mission the UN Volunteer undertook to Ghana. Read