The General Assembly requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development programme to develop further and expand activites of the United Nations Volunteers in the field of domestic development services; to ensure that the United Nations Volunteers programme actively promotes the formation of regional advisory groups for domestic development services and subsequently co-operates to the fullest possible extent with such group; to ensure that the United Nations Volunteers programme prepares and publishes relevant material on volunteer and domestic development services activities.
UNGA Resolution 31/166 on: UNV Domestic Development Services (DDS) - see page 73
UNGA Resolution 3125/XXVIII on: United Nations Volunteers programme - see pages 46-47
The GA endorses the measures beign taken by UNV to assume the responsibility for its own recruitment, working directly with sponsoring agencies and organizations interested in participating in the programme...
UNGA Resolution 2810(XXVI) on: United Nations Volunteers programme
The General Assembly reaffirms its conviction that the active participation of the younger generation in all aspects of social and economic life constitutes an important additional source of trained manpower in the over-all development efforts, thus ensuring the increased effectivness of collective effrots necessary for a better society.
UNGA Resolution 2460 (XXIII): Feasibility of creating an international corps of volunteers for development
The GA requests the ECOSOC to study the feasibility of creating an international corps of volunteers for development...
Olivier Adam: "Korea stands at the forefront of international peace"
Korea is a model at the industrial, human and educational levels. They are at the forefront of international peace...
Climate conference depends on volunteer help
More than 600 volunteers are supporting the COP 23 World Climate Conference. Their tasks are wide-spread
Volunteers assist bomb explosion victims in Mogadishu, Somalia
The Aamin Ambulance service, made up of 35 nurses, paramedics and drivers, along with a fleet of ten vehicles, rush to the bomb explosion scene to offer first aid to victims and ferry the injured to hospitals in Mogadishu in Somalia.
For the past ten years the volunteers have remained true to their calling as rescuers, offering emergency medical aid to those in need. Dr. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan, the founder of the 24-hour free ambulance service in Mogadishu, says he was motivated to start the voluntary service by the deplorable state of health services in the city.
The role of youth in building sustainable and resilient urban and rural communities
The Forum
The ECOSOC Youth Forum (30-31 January 2018) will provide a platform for youth to engage in a dialogue with Member States, discuss policy frameworks and promote innovative, institutionalised approaches and initiatives for advancing the youth development agenda at national, regional and global levels with a view to promoting solutions to the global challenge of strengthening resilience and sustainable development.
The role of youth in building sustainable and resilient urban and rural communities
The Forum
The ECOSOC Youth Forum (30-31 January 2018) will provide a platform for youth to engage in a dialogue with Member States, discuss policy frameworks and promote innovative, institutionalised approaches and initiatives for advancing the youth development agenda at national, regional and global levels with a view to promoting solutions to the global challenge of strengthening resilience and sustainable development.
UN Volunteer documents WHO’s emergency response in Bangladesh, one story at a time
Catalin Bercaru (Romania) joined the World Health Organization (WHO) Bangladesh as an international UN Volunteer in media and communications in May last year. Since September 2017, he has been documenting WHO’s emergency response in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar area. With the exodus of well over 600,000 people from Myanmar, Catalin has been reporting on the work of WHO teams delivering critical health services to vulnerable populations and supporting partners in the field.
As an international UN Volunteer specialized in communication, Catalin was one of the first people to be sent to Cox’s Bazar to document the response of WHO Bangladesh. “Prior to the escalation of this crisis, there were already established partnerships between WHO, the government and other health partners. With the massive influx of people from Myanmar, strategies had to be adapted to this critical situation,” explains Catalin.