UNV offers UN Volunteers with a range of skills and experience, catered to the needs of UN partners or government ministries, to strengthen their COVID-19 response. UNV supports partners in Kuwait with fast-track recruitment of on-site local specialized talent, low pro forma costs, 32,000 candidates in the Arab States, as well as remote Online Volunteers.

Check out UNV's Offer for COVID-19 support in Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Maghreb Stat

Worldwide, over 65 million people have contracted the COVID-19 virus and 1.5 million have lost their lives. In the haste to contain this pandemic, resources for many community-based programs and supportive services have been reduced, halted or reallocated toward the emergency response. Lockdown measures and travel restrictions have also been mandated.

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), refugees, displaced persons and women are particularly vulnerable to economic shocks because they are disproportionally represented in the labor market as either informal laborers or underpaid and unpaid caregivers.