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Tackling our assumptions about volunteering
I felt fortunate at the end of last month to join a group of VSO volunteers who were at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to learn about systemic action research, and how they will be able to apply this methodology to VSO’s Valuing Volunteering project.
You may remember Violeta Vajda… Read more »
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The power of children’s voices in advocacy
Steve Lewis was recently visiting the VSO programme in India. For this week’s blog we have invited one or our partners, Vedika Jiandani, from the national volunteering programme in India to write for us.
I work for Sweccha, which is a youth-run and youth-focused organisation that provides a platform for people to ‘be the… Read more »
Youth raising their voices with Members of Parliament
Climate change affects all members of society in Bangladesh and VSO works with youth clubs in Bangladesh to find ways to combat the effects climate change.
In January we organised an open sharing event which involved four youth club members from Khagrachari presenting case studies to Members of Parliament from All… Read more »
Rural women’s vision for development
In my last blog on the 56th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW), I wrote about how rural women are often marginalised from decision making and are consequently the silent voices of rural development.
VSO partner, the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), is… Read more »
Where women have a voice and representation, change will follow
The first thing that strikes me about the 56th session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) is how strange it seems to be discussing the empowerment of rural women in the big urban metropolis that is New York, a city synonymous with wealth and power, skyscrapers and Starbucks.
The second… Read more »
Give rural women more opportunities and more rights
It almost goes without saying that rural women have a vital role to play in the development of their communities and efforts to tackle poverty. They make up the majority of small holder farmers worldwide and are responsible for 80% of global food production. Rural women also undertake the majority of unpaid labour intensive household… Read more »
