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Climate change from a different perspective
To mark World Environment Day and to raise awareness of environmental issues, we’ve asked VSO climate change research volunteer, Joan Bennett to blog about the work she is doing in Nepal.
Climate change is global. What we do in one country directly affects people elsewhere. As a British volunteer in Nepal, I’ve had… Read more »
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Equity, valuing teachers, governance and accountability should be central to post-2015 development agenda
Last month I joined a team of 13 VSO employees, partners and volunteers at the Asia Pacific Regional Thematic Consultation on Education in the Post 2015 Development Agenda in Bangkok. The conference was organised by the regional offices of UNESCO and UNICEF. Its purpose was to ensure that the voices… Read more »
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 »
Valuing Volunteering one step closer to becoming reality
If you’re looking for inspiration, look no further than the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). After an intense week of training spent in mid-January, I left more than inspired about the value of volunteering. I was joined by a few more VSO staff members and two outgoing VSO volunteers, all of… 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 »
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 »
