Jakarta, Indonesia: The 'Discussion on Volunteerism for Disaster Management' workshop organized by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) alongside the UNDP Safer Communities through Disaster Risk Reduction (SC-DRR) project and UNV aimed at collecting ideas for the development of a framework on volunteerism as a measure of a strategic approach to provide a more effective response to disasters. Read

Jakarta, Indonesia: To help enhance communications about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a UN-Government project in Indonesia has turned to the expertise online volunteers can offer. Read

Jakarta and Teluk Mayalibit, Indonesia: Almost half of the total number of UNV volunteers in Indonesia are women, working on a variety of projects: here we introduce two of them. Read

Jakarta, Indonesia: UNV will play a major part in a new initiative in Indonesia, working alongside the Government and nine UN partners in the fight against poverty. The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Indonesia, El-Mostafa Benlamlih, said: "This programme shows how we can maximize our impact by combining our strengths." Read

Bonn, Germany: Volunteerism is one of the longest traditions in environmental activism, and community initiatives are invariably volunteer-based. Volunteers are to be found in conservation efforts around the world. Read