Working with communities to reduce the impact of environmental crises in Nigeria

Minjae Kang
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Youth-led commitments to address environmental issues in Africa are central to ensuring that global responsibility for the planet is championed by future generations. UN Youth Volunteers working with vulnerable communities at risk of climate change raise awareness on disaster prevention, leaving no one behind.

In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) deployed 41 national and international UN Volunteers, 5 of them UN Youth Volunteers, to serve in environmental initiatives in Africa. Youth volunteers are the backbone of environmental action, raising awareness on climate change, responsible consumption and production, and preservation of land, forests and water resources.

As tide turns, volunteers offer hope to Somalia

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Op-Ed by Geoff Prewitt, Chief, Development Programming Section, United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

UNV partners with UNFPA to provide humanitarian relief

UNV and UNFPA
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) works closely with UN Volunteers to ensure that reproductive health is integrated into emergency responses. Over the past ten years, there have been more than 500 UN Volunteer assignments with UNFPA across the world.

During conflicts, natural disasters and other emergencies, sexual and reproductive health needs are easily overlooked – yet these needs are often staggering. UN Volunteers work in conflict-affected areas hand in hand with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) staff to deploy hygiene supplies, obstetric and family planning supplies, trained personnel, and other support to vulnerable populations, and works to ensure the needs of women and young people are served through both an emergency and the reconstruction phase.

UN Volunteers can be role models of social change and reconciliation

Sadhani Rajapakse
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Sri Lanka is a nation with a rich volunteer culture embedded within the day-to-day activities of its citizens. For this reason, volunteering is a subconscious norm that is part of everyone’s lives, including mine. Still, working as a UN Youth Volunteer was a life-changing experience. It helped me discover that youth have the capacity and dedication needed to contribute to national initiatives through volunteerism.

I served as a national UN Volunteer in Sri Lanka. During this time, something I found most interesting was the opportunity to work with volunteers who are diverse in every possible way; be it gender, ethnicity, language or religion.

Revitalizing volunteerism through partnerships for the SDGs in Serbia

Conference "Volunteerism for the Sustainable Development Goals"
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On 6 July 2017, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in Serbia jointly with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hosted in Belgrade a conference entitled Volunteerism for the Sustainable Development Goals. UNV Serbia facilitated the NGO, CSO and VIO joint-meeting to share knowledge, connect networks, and draw on best practices.

Revitalizing volunteerism through partnerships for the SDGs in Serbia

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On 6 July 2017, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in Serbia jointly with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hosted in Belgrade a conference entitled Volunteerism for the Sustainable Development Goals. UNV Serbia facilitated the NGO, CSO and VIO joint-meeting to share knowledge, connect networks, and draw on best practices.

Why Youth Will Determine ASEAN's Success in the Digital Revolution

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In collaboration with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Foundation and SAP along with other partners have launched the Youth Volunteering Innovation Challenge (YVIC) in ASEAN. Under the theme “Impact ASEAN,” the initiative supports young volunteers throughout the ASEAN countries in their journey to catalyze youth-led innovation for social impact and sustainable development...

Exchanging experiences and knowledge of youth volunteering in ASEAN

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A conference facilitated by UNV promoted South-South cooperation and highlighted the role of volunteerism to common development challenges in countries across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and beyond. NBT World covers the event for Thailand.

In Jordan, volunteering provides opportunities to reach the most vulnerable

Nadeen Al Hadidi
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UN Volunteer Nadeen Al Hadidi serves with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Jordan. She assures that international support provided by UNICEF, other UN agencies and civil society organizations reaches the most vulnerable.

Nadeen participates today in the side event "Harnessing the Power of Volunteering to Achieve the 2030 Agenda" organized by the International Forum for Volunteering in Development (Forum) in New York, in the framework of the High-Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“Cheese exchange”: an initiative for women’s economic empowerment

Martina Schlapbach
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During a field monitoring mission as a UN Volunteer Associate Project Officer with UN Women in Tajikistan, I got to know the female leaders of two dairies which, independently from each other, approached me with their idea to produce a hard cheese as a more durable dairy product.

During a field monitoring mission as a UN Volunteer Associate Project Officer with UN Women in Tajikistan, I got to know the female leaders of two dairies which, independently from each other, approached me with their idea to produce a hard cheese as a more durable dairy product.

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