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Promoting the role of marginalised communities in development
I attended an excellent event yesterday in London where VSO and United Nations Volunteers (UNV) formally launched their new partnership to promote innovation in volunteerism, strengthen volunteer action and to improve practices. Crucially, the partnership will promote the role and voice of volunteers from mariginalised communities in development.
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Fighting corruption and incompetence with an SMS
I’ve just returned from visiting the VSO India office, which has made a strong impact in recent years. Long-term funding from the European Commission and the UK Department for International Development has enabled VSO to make good progress in building the capacity of partner groups of people… Read more »
Still a long way to go to reduce unjust debt of poorer countries
The IMF and World Bank have released their annual status report on the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The HIPC process aimed to reduce the debt of many of the world’s poorest countries, (most of which are countries where VSO works) and was put in place partly as a result of… Read more »
Bangladesh making slow progress on shortage of health workers
Successful advocacy often happens when the same issue can be raised at different levels of decision making. Recently, I was in Bangladesh and spent time with VSO partner the Health Rights Movement Bangladesh (HRMB). I was able to see an example of this joined up work at different levels.
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Health workers issue heard loud and clear at UN
In New York, the issue of health workers was heard loud and clear at the UN General Assembly last month, through the actions of a wide ranging coalition of NGOs including VSO. The aim was to bring attention to the global shortage of health workers and to encourage world leaders to be… Read more »
VSO Bangladesh embarks on innovative new strategy
I spent last week in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. I was working with the VSO team who have devised an exciting five year country strategy plan for 2011 to 2015. The committed team of staff, volunteers and partners are working on an ambitious programme of ‘social transformation’ in… Read more »
