UNV's COVID-19 pandemic response

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is placing strains on health systems and essential public services across the world. UNV offers its partners guidance and volunteer solutions for the pandemic response: on site UN Volunteers and Online Volunteers. 

UNV is a common service to the United Nations that mobilizes over 8,500 UN Volunteers a year worldwide. Our Global Talent Pool has over 200,000 registered highly skilled professionals, representing over 100 professional profiles. We have national pools of professionals keen to volunteer in their home country. Through our Online Volunteering service, we have 600,000 registered volunteers ready to take on remote assignments. 

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Volunteers supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response

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Dr. Nway Eint Chei (left), a national UN Volunteer-Immunization Officer with UNICEF Myanmar conducts human-centered design field assessment with local communities in Myanmar.
Partners
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Supporting healthcare waste management in Myanmar
Asia and the Pacific
09 April 2024
UN Volunteer Machiko Kitagawa served with UNICEF in Nepal.
Blogs
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Driving transformation with young people through dynamic partnerships
Asia and the Pacific
22 December 2023
Three people wearing vests of World Health Organization and UNICEF observing shipping pallets being off-loaded from an airplane at night.
Partners
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UN Volunteers bring motivation, commitment and diversity to the UN system
Arab States
05 July 2023
Rosyana Lievanty (second from right), national UN Volunteer Health Officer with UNICEF, checks documents at a public health center in Kupang District, Indonesia.
Partners
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Accelerating immunization in remote areas through effective cold chain management
Asia and the Pacific
13 June 2023
Mr Toily Kurbanov (left), Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme talks, to AP1 TV’s NAME SURNAME during the interview. He is joined by Dichhen Tamang (centre), a national UN Youth Volunteer Public Health Officer with UNDP.
News
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Interview: Volunteers build back in communities in Nepal
Asia and the Pacific
10 May 2023
UNV Country Coordinator Moses Mubiru (left) at the signing of a secondment agreement for UN Volunteers to support the Ebola response. Next to him are UNDP Resident Representative Ms Elsie Attafua, WHO Representative Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam and UNDP Deputy Representative Ms Sheila Ngatia (from left to right).
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Uganda and UN partnership succeeds in containing Ebola virus outbreak
East and Southern Africa
18 April 2023
Cynthia Wandabwa Wafula, UN Volunteer Lab Technologist, working in Nairobi, Kenya.

YOUTH VOLUNTEERISM

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on young people has been systematic, deep and disproportionate. Read more about how UNDP and UNV are engaging young people in COVID-19 response and recovery, to ensure their voices are heard and their needs addressed.

SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE'S ENGAGEMENT IN COVID-19 RESPONSE AND RECOVERY