This professional profile shows the minimum requirements to serve as an international UN Volunteer in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and highlights potential assignments as well as volunteer entitlements.
Volunteerism in peacekeeping and peacebuilding contributes to interventions in post-conflict environments addressing short-term, early recovery emergency needs in addition to building local and national capacities and understanding between states and its citizens to rebuild mutual trust.
This professional profile shows the minimum requirements to serve as an international UN Volunteer in community resilience for climate change and disaster risk reduction, and highlights potential assignments as well as volunteer entitlements.
In the priority area of community resilience for climate change and disaster risk reduction, the critical involvement of volunteers has been in disaster risk management, particularly by strengthening the capacity of communities to respond to and prevent disasters.
This professional profile shows the minimum requirements to serve as an international UN Volunteer in the area of humanitarian assistance and emergency relief, and highlights potential assignments as well as volunteer entitlements.
Supporting the operations of various UN agencies in humanitarian assistance and emergency relief, UN Volunteers engage in a wide range of assignments with the ultimate aim to save and protect the lives of people such as refugees and internally displaced persons, to alleviate suffering and to maintain human dignity.
This professional profile shows the minimum requirements to serve as a national UN Volunteer, and highlights potential assignments as well as volunteer entitlements.
National UN Volunteers come from all walks of life. In the health sector UNV’s partners have requested volunteers knowledgeable and experienced as general medical practitioners, medical specialists and doctors specialized in public health; staff counselors and psychologists; midwives and nurses, dentists, pharmacists and laboratory technicians.
This publication synthesizes the process a potential volunteer should complete in order to register with UNV.
This publication synthesizes the process a potential volunteer should complete in order to register with UNV. It highlights a two-step process that covers understanding essential information for potential UN Volunteers and submitting basic information to create an account in the UNV candidate pool, then subsequently regularly tracking and updating, ‘My Profile’ – a website that allows potential candidates to access their account.
UN Volunteers are skilled and have the expertise to help alleviate the plight of people in desperate situations.
UN Volunteers are skilled and have the expertise to help alleviate the plight of people in desperate situations. Through their commitment, local knowledge and neutral status, they are able to build bridges between stakeholders in affected communities, by promoting mutual trust, enhancing ownership and building capacity.
Online Volunteering enables UN Volunteers, through the Internet, to help address peace and development challenges and strengthen the impact of organizations.
Online Volunteering enables UN Volunteers, through the Internet, to help address peace and development challenges and strengthen the impact of organizations. In addition, online volunteering offers the private sector a contemporary and modern tool to demonstrate corporate social responsibility, allowing employees to connect with a social cause from wherever they are and to contribute to tackling global challenges while pursuing a demanding career.
Switzerland was one of the first partners to join the UNV Internship programme, providing young Swiss nationals with the opportunity to volunteer with UN partners around the world. This publication highlights the long-standing partnership between UNV and Switzerland, the contribution of Swiss UN Volunteers, as well as some key data.
Switzerland is one of the key partners of the United Nations Volunteers programme, and one of its top donors. Since 2001, UNV and Switzerland have focusing through their partnership on the placement of
This publication highlights the long-standing partnership between UNV and the Republic of Korea, the contribution of Korean UN Volunteers, as well as some key data.
UNV partners at governmental and non-governmental level with the Republic of Korea to advance peace and development. UNV promotes university-level volunteering in partnership with leading universities in Europe, and the successful Online Volunteering service that opens up possibilities for young people to volunteer off-site through the internet. This publication highlights the long-standing partnership between UNV and the Republic of Korea, the contribution of Korean UN Volunteers, as well as some key data.
The UNV Strategic Framework 2014-2017 focuses on UNV programmatic effort in the key area of national capacity development through volunteer schemes. UN Volunteers facilitate efforts between governments, civil society, the private sector and partner United Nations entities.
The UNV Strategic Framework 2014-2017 focuses on UNV programmatic effort in the key area of national capacity development through volunteer schemes. UN Volunteers facilitate efforts between governments, civil society, the private sector and partner United Nations entities. Fostering strong partnerships, generating complementary skills, resources and expertise, UN Volunteers increase the development impact and add to sustainability.
