UNV partnering with Switzerland
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme partners with Switzerland on the Full Funding programme to deploy Swiss nationals as UN Volunteers. Switzerland also contributes to UNV's Special Voluntary Fund (SVF), a flexible resource to implement its Strategic Framework.
UNV’s two partner entities are the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, specifically, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD) and the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO). SDC was one of the first partners to join the UN Youth Volunteers programme in 2001, followed by DPA/PHRD in 2004 and SECO in 2020.
UNV partnering with the Republic of Korea
The partnership between the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme and the Republic of Korea dates back to 1986. The Republic of Korea is UNV’s largest Full Funding programme partner. The partnership is managed through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
Korea was one of the 124 co-sponsors of the UN General Assembly resolution on Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/C.3/73/L.13) in 2018. Korea also actively supports the promotion of volunteerism and participated in the 2019 Asian Regional Consultation on the Plan of Action for Integrating Volunteerism into the Agenda 2030 as a guest speaker in the session 'Volunteering for and by Senior citizens'.