Volunteer for Azerbaijan – Volunteer for Global Sustainable Development
Volunteer for Azerbaijan – Volunteer for Global Sustainable Development
Azerbaijan, UN Volunteers strengthen volunteerism for sustainable development
Toily Kurbanov, Deputy Executive Coordinator, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme will visit Baku on May 22. Kurbanov will meet the government of Azerbaijan to discuss global partnership priorities based on the Government’s vision for promoting volunteerism, and building on Azerbaijan’s longstanding culture of volunteer efforts...
Volunteers sewing seeds of resilience within their communities
By harnessing evidence of good practices, the upcoming State of the World's Volunteerism Report will be an important tool for organizations to use in their activities and discussions with policy makers that could lead to a greater recognition of volunteerism as a development asset.
Ahlem Özdemir is a talented seamstress living in the multicultural community of Moerwijk, a diverse neighbourhood near The Hague, Netherlands. For the past 10 years, she has spent two days a week teaching migrant women how to make and alter clothes. Last year, she won the 'Hero of The Hague' award in the Culture category for her work.
We launch a new platform: Volunteer Management Application Module (VMAM)
With effect of 2nd May 2017 UNV no longer uses eReta, MyProfile, DINA for registration of potential candidates for UN Volunteer assignments, for maintaining UN Volunteer profiles, or for volunteer assignment management. These systems are replaced with the upgraded Volunteer Management Application Module (VMAM) platform.
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Youth for the SDGs enables youth participation in sustainability in Latin America
Through “Youth for the SDGs” UNV is training and empowering young people in five countries in Latin America, enabling them to participate and engage in discussions and exchange experiences about the SDGs in their communities.
Volunteerism enables youth engagement, leadership and participation
Within Latin America and the Caribbean, young people between the ages of 15 and 24 account for 20 per cent of the population. This is the largest percentage of youth in this region, ever. The statistics are dire: 35 million of these young people never attended school, 39 per cent live in poverty and 25 per cent are unemployed.
Online Volunteers join forces with UN DESA to collaborate on UN E-Government Survey across 193 UN Member States
Online volunteers add diversity and widen geographical spread to assist in e-government assessments across UN Member States.
Ninety-six UN Online Volunteers mobilized through the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme from across the globe engaged for the second time to collaborate with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) to process research surveys carried out across UN Member States for the UN E-Government Survey.
Rupmani Chhetri, India's first differently-abled UN volunteer
Till date, around 1,800 Indians have worked as international volunteers, but what makes Rupmani's case unique is the fact that she is the first differently-abled Indian to be selected for this role.