The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. UNV contributes to peace and development by mobilizing volunteers, advocating for volunteerism globally and encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming.
UNV’s vision is a world where volunteerism is recognized, within societies, as a way for all people and countries to achieve peace and development through the simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion.
UNV’s Strategic Framework for the period 2014-2017 is the first of its kind, striving to harness the power of volunteers and volunteerism to support the achievement of agreed goals for peace and development.
The Framework guides UNV’s work over the coming four years and reflects a focus on working more systematically with UN entities and other partners to jointly deliver more impact for peace and development.
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UNV’s vision is a world where volunteerism is
recognized, within societies, as a way for all people and
countries to achieve peace and development through the
simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant
reduction of inequalities and exclusion.
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UNV is the only UN entity with capacity to mobilize
large numbers of people, with appropriately assessed
skills and expertise, as volunteers for field-based
United Nations programmes and projects, enhanced by
South-South and triangular cooperation.
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Development Impact
Societies become more cohesive and stable
with enhanced collective well-being
UNV is a more effective and efficient organization,
with improved systems and business practices and processes,
well-managed resources, and engaged personnel
UN entities are more effective in
delivering their results by integrating
high quality and well-supported
UN Volunteers and volunteerism
in their programmes
Countries more effectively
integrate volunteerism within
national frameworks enabling
better engagement of people in
development processes
Institutional
Effectiveness
UNV Results
- By the end of 2017 -
Securing access to
basic social
services
Community
resilience for
environment and
disaster risk reduction
Peace
building
Youth National capacity
development
through volunteer
schemes
Outcome 1 Outcome 2
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Volunteerism enables
participation beyond political
dialogue and translates into a
stronger role for people’s
engagement in their societies.
Young volunteers are both a
major resource for development
and key agents for social and
economic transformation and
technological innovation.
The volunteer sector can build
on new opportunities like greater
access to global markets, wider
information and knowledge
networks and new technologies
and social media to generate
and share knowledge, including
reaching marginalized groups
and remote communities.
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UNV has five priority areas where the volunteering impact is the
greatest.
They are:
Securing
access to
basic social
services
Community
resilience for
environment and
disaster risk
reduction
Peace
building
Youth National capacity
development
through
volunteer
schemes
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UNV tailors responsive and
innovative solutions with
international, national and online
volunteers to meet development
challenges of partners in
countries across the world.
UNV integrates volunteerism
within UN entities’ programming
through the implementation of
UNV-UN partner joint
programmes/projects in four
priority areas: youth; peace
building; basic social services;
and community resilience for
environment and disaster risk
reduction.
UNV effectively supports UN
Volunteers, including through
training and learning, to improve
their individual experience.
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UNV builds evidence and
knowledge on volunteerism
to better inform the new
development agenda.
UNV forges partnerships to
open opportunities at
national, regional and global
levels for volunteerism as a
form of
civic engagement.
UNV will continue to strengthen
the national and regional
volunteer schemes of Member
States, highlighting the
complementary roles of public
institutions and people,
to contribute to peace and
development results.
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UNV nurtures professional
and empowered personnel.
UNV enhances UN Volunteer
management
processes, policies and
systems.
UNV ensures the attraction,
development, deployment and
retention of a talented,
diversified and productive
workforce.
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UNV improves results based
management at all levels.
UNV diversifies and expands
resource mobilization
partnership base.
UNV improves awareness of
the value of UN Volunteers
and volunteerism among
targeted partners and
stakeholders.
Improved operational
support, including information
technology systems, will further
enhance UNV’s overall
performance.