Facilitating international volunteer action

Maintaining a corps of international volunteers

Description

Facilitating international volunteer action involves creating frameworks and support systems that enable individuals and groups to contribute skills and resources across borders. This strategy addresses barriers such as legal restrictions, lack of information, and logistical challenges by coordinating partnerships, streamlining visa processes, and providing training. Its practical intent is to mobilize global volunteer capacity efficiently, fostering cross-cultural collaboration and delivering targeted assistance to communities facing humanitarian, environmental, or developmental challenges.

Implementation

The United Nations Volunteers programme encourages volunteer-sending organizations to assist in the work of the UN system, whether by participating in that programme, by providing, at the cost of sending organizations, volunteers for work in projects in accordance with terms of service and standards of qualifications, or by supporting the government or other local counterpart contribution to the work of the UN system.