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By young people for young people – volunteering advocacy in Guyana
I’ve recently returned from my VSO placement as volunteerism advocacy adviser in Guyana. I was working to raise the profile of volunteering for national development. I had the opportunity to work with voluntary community across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
When the volunteer community were developing their initial advocacy objectives… Read more »
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More holistic measures for people living with HIV and AIDS
Today marks the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day. It is therefore timely that VSO’s Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa (RAISA) held its annual conference last week on ‘Social Protection and HIV and AIDS’.
Over 50 conference delegates (a mixture of RAISA partners, volunteers and staff members) heard from a range of… Read more »
How can we improve aid effectiveness?
Active citizenship and gender equality are key factors to improving aid effectiveness.
VSO will take this message to the Busan Aid Effectiveness Forum in Korea next week. We’ll be joining thousands of other delegates from around the world, including many of our local and international partners.
The Paris Declaration (2005) established… Read more »
Thought-provoking debates at volunteer action conference: part two
The second half of the Southern Africa Volunteer Action for Development Conference in Johannesburg focussed on links between volunteerism and regional development. This was from the perspective of regional bodies such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, higher education institutes and the corporate sector.
Speakers talked about the… Read more »
Thought-provoking debates at volunteer action conference
VSO partners and staff from across southern and east Africa were in Johannesburg last week, to attend the first regional conference dedicated to volunteering for development. The Southern Africa Conference on Volunteer Action for Development took place on 17-19 October.
The first day started with great excitement, as colleagues, partners, donors, government representatives gathered… Read more »
Focus on youth in Asia and Africa
Last week was an historic week for VSO. Our partner organisations from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India Tajikistan, the Philippines and Nepal all contributed to lively discussions with staff from countries across the region (including China and Indonesia)… Read more »
