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'How-to Guide' for Volunteer Conference Coordinators
02 March 2007
This ‘How-To Guide’ was prepared by a National United Nations Volunteers (NUNV) volunteer who was appointed as Coordinator of Conference Volunteers for the 29th IAVE World Volunteer Conference held in New Delhi from 9 to 14 November 2006.  Its intention is to provide guidance for future volunteer coordinators bearing in mind that suggestions made are case specific and may need to be modified in light of the requirements of a particular assignment/conference.  Visit site
Putting the Non-profit Sector and Volunteering on the Economic Map
11 January 2007
Lester M. Salamon (UN Chronicle, Jan 2007)
Professor Lester M. Salamon**, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, speaks with Robert Leigh*, Senior Policy Specialist and head of Research and Development Unit at UNV, about economics and social importance of the non-profit sector and volunteering. Read
First person
11 January 2007
Dennis Mairena (w/ blue cap) talks to community members in Chocó, Colombia (UNHCR Venezuela/Andrea Simancas)
Dennis Mairena, a UNV field officer in Colombia and UNV public information officer Sy Koumbo Singa Gali in the Democratic Republic of Congo talk about how UNV volunteers are in the "different dimension" and "go the extra mile". Read
Proactively embracing volunteerism
13 January 2007
A volunteer in Zambia, who provides health information on AIDS, assist
a local woman. UN PHOTO
Volunteerism contributes to sustainable capacities because it taps into and builds up the indigenous stock of knowledge, social entrepreneurship and solidarity that exists within a country, writes UNV Executive Coordinator Ad de Raad. Read
The gateway: Volunteerism and the United Nations system
11 January 2007
Election volunteers in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, explain the electoral process to voters before the start of the second round of the presidential and provincial elections. UN Photo/Martine Perret
Volunteerism acts as an effective gateway between the United Nations system and the global citizen, writes Donna Keher, UNV's chief of the Partnerships, Communications and Resources Mobilization Group. Read

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