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Establish campaigns on involving marginalized and vulnerable
groups such as women, and people with special needs in
voluntary work.
INDIVIDUAL ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT
Objectives
Activities
Develop a
communications
strategy to enhance
volunteerism
Advocate for citizenship education and activities to be included
in school curricula.
Launch a volunteer programme specifically for women and girls
in their communities.
Set up a website by volunteers to publicize financial reports of
civil society organizations. Create a database for volunteers.
Establish an independent and neutral commission to determine
and honor the best volunteer initiatives by publicizing them.
Build capacity of youth
in key skills relevant to
their sector
Provide training for youth on administration and management of
small projects.
Organize training courses on skills such as time management,
team building, conflict resolution, project management,
development and leadership for youth.
Organize educational visits to possible locations for voluntary
activities, such as orphanages, care homes, etc.
Organize training sessions on fundraising and proposal writing
Organize competitions for the best community action carried out
by organizations to combat stigma and discrimination.
Ensure financial
for youth and organizations.
Organise workshops with elected officials (e.g. parliamentarians)
Involve religious leaders in addressing stigma and discrimination
during sermons, and which organizations can be involved.
independence of youth
volunteers
for legislation to ensure financial sustainability of youth.
Establish a network of youth volunteers.
Provide dedicated
funding to cover
Creating fundraising events such as poetry competitions, music
albums and paintings and photography.
Enter partnerships with private and public sector actors to
discuss providing volunteer opportunities.
volunteer costs in
budgets
Founding and developing youth initiatives in remote areas by
calling on urban initiatives to branch out to rural areas
ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Objectives
Establish a Code of
Conduct
Enhancing transparency
within the sector
Activities
Developing a code of ethics and/or volunteering contract to
codify volunteers’ and organizations’ rights and responsibilities.
Encourage selection of volunteers through competency rather
than for nepotistic reasons.
Regulating and building
capacity within civil
society
Unifying regulations that govern voluntary work across all
sectors.
Strengthening monitoring and evaluation, assessment and
observation of civil society organizations.
Organise training courses in financial management, accounting,
public relations, quality control, monitoring, evaluation and
human resource management.
Participant presents his volunteer initiative during Youth
Volunteer Summer Camp in Jordan (by WupY-PS/UNV,
2013)
UNV Findings Report
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