FROM THE EDITOR
Here it is! The last issue of 2009.
We are now only 12 months away from the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the International Year of Volunteers. Please take special note of the UNV Global Call to Action for Celebration of IYV+10.
Read, enjoy, and please accept our best wishes for a happy, healthy and fulfilling New Year!
— Kenn Allen
NEWS FROM IAVE
YEAR END MESSAGE FROM THE WORLD PRESIDENT
Dear Fellow Volunteers and Supporters,
As 2009 comes to a close, I would like to direct a few heart-felt words to you in this bustling season. IAVE has experienced a lot of innovation and development in our initiatives and can indeed gladly call it a year.
We have launched a new website which not only features all of IAVE’s worldwide activities in the global volunteer community, but also enables visitors to interact with each other by leaving comments on articles and signing up for IAVE’s and other global volunteer initiatives.
Taiwan experienced the power of volunteering during three international large-scale events – the 2009 World Games, the Taipei Deaflympics, and the 12th IAVE Asia-Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference in Kaohsiung, the last one of which welcomed almost 800 participants and just as many volunteers, without which none of these events would have taken place.
The UN International Volunteer Day themed “Volunteering for Our Planet”, only two days ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, highlighted this year’s volunteer action and reminded us once again of our universal commitment to the environment.
The dates for the 2011 IAVE World Volunteer Conference were announced (January 24-27, 2011) and the 2nd IAVE Global Youth Volunteer Summit in Colombia set for January 2011 as well. Also, we are glad for Ireland to host the 2012 IAVE World Volunteer Conference. The next regional volunteer conferences are being scheduled for 2010 in Bogota and in Lebanon with the new Arab World Volunteer Initiative coming on as well. As you may know, these conferences are part of the major preparations for the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of Volunteering, for cooperation on which the World President Office also exchanged positive talks with UNV and the UN Secretary-General’s office.
In view of the IYV+10, IAVE is planning ahead for a very memorable year to come. I am positive about the advancement that volunteering will make thanks to all of your invaluable efforts. IAVE will courageously continue to be dedicated to projects that promote volunteers as positive contributors to solving critical needs in their communities. For regular updates, I invite you to visit our new website at: www.iave.org.
My gratitude goes out to all of you for your continuing active support of IAVE’s mission to promote, strengthen and celebrate committed volunteers to engage in service during 2009, and I look forward to meeting new goals and achieving continued success in 2010.
As for the final word of this year, let me slightly alter a quote from former running athlete Joe Henderson:
The challenge in volunteering is not to aim at doing the things no one else has done, but to keep doing things everyone could do – bust most never will.
In this sense, with warmest regards for the upcoming holidays, I remain sincerely yours,
Kang-Hyun Lee, Ph.D.
World President of IAVE
19 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT THE 12TH ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE
[Thanks to the organizing committee of the 12th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference for this very quick report. Additional material from the conference and pictures may be found at www.iave.org.]
The 12th IAVE Asia Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference and Youth Forum, hosted by IAVE, IAVE Taiwan, Kaohsiung Social Welfare Bureau and Kaohsiung City Volunteer Association, was staged in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan November 26-29, 2009. With the main theme of the conference “Volunteerism as a Life Style for Social Solidarity”, IAVE Taiwan welcomed more than 600 participants from 19 countries to the conference venue, the Grand Hi-Lai Hotel in Kaohsiung.
IAVE Taiwan welcomed important speakers from the Asia Pacific Region and around the world, including the IAVE World President Dr. Kang-Hyun Lee, Sarah Hayes, Dr. Amelita Goh, Kylee Bates, and representatives from international corporations.
In the Youth Forum at the 12th IAVE Asia Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference, new strides towards globalization were discussed and youth volunteers learned new experiences and concepts around the world.
IAVE Taiwan also planned several special events, including the Opening Ceremony, Kaohsiung Gourmet Night, and field study visits.
In the Opening Ceremony, the Tjimur Dance Theatre performed one of the traditional Paiwan Tribe dances – The Legend of Glass Pearl KURAKURAW. Participants were fascinated by the elegant and unique performance.
Kaohsiung Gourmet Night on the evening of November 27 was an opportunity for all participants to experience local cuisine and night life. We introduced the delicacies, snack culture, and various activities at night in Kaohsiung. Every participant chose one of eleven different restaurants we arranged, walking and taking the MRT to get to the restaurant.
IAVE Taiwan organized a special fund raising campaign called “Dream Maker” for participants from soft currency countries in Asia Pacific region. We asked the National Representatives in the Asia Pacific region to recommend volunteers or youths to join in the conference and Youth Forum. We raised funds for each candidate to cover their air fare, accommodation and registration fee. We helped seven candidates from Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines, Fiji and Lebanon, raising more than US$7200 to support their participation.
2009 is the year Taiwan sparkled on the international stage. It is also the year of great harvest on volunteerism promotion in Taiwan. The IAVE regional conference gathered volunteers from 19 countries, making it the biggest volunteer event in Taiwan after the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung and the 21st Summer Deaflympics in Taipei.
Participants in the 12th IAVE Asia Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference and Youth Forum gathered together and vowed to achieve the goal “Volunteerism as a Lifestyle for Social Solidarity.” IAVE Taiwan is very proud and honor to say that we have made it!
GCVC CELEBRATES THREE YEARS OF GROWTH
On November 11, 2006, IAVE launched one of its most significant initiatives – the Global Corporate Volunteer Council. The Council was launched at the 19th IAVE World Volunteer Conference in New Delhi, India. Representatives from the six founding member companies (Disney, Citi, UPS, Vale, Samsung and Levi Strauss & Co.) joined with conference attendees to celebrate this important event, and participated in the first meeting of the G-CVC, held on site at the conference. Sarah Hayes, Director of GCVC, spoke at a conference plenary session about the significance of this event, and the growing importance of corporate volunteering programs as a strategic force towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Since its launch, GCVC has welcomed 17 more companies into its fold, held five more meetings in locations such as Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Paris, and launched a bold new research project on corporate volunteering globally. GCVC also is developing plans for the contribution to corporate volunteering to the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers (IYV+10).
Additionally, since the launch, GCVC members have created collaborative projects and worked together to gain more knowledge about significant areas of importance to global corporate programs, such as board placement, partnering with NGOs and skill based volunteering.
IAVE is pleased to commemorate the third birthday of GCVC and acknowledges and thanks the companies for their support and the enthusiastic knowledge, ideas and actions they have brought to IAVE and the world of global employee volunteering thus far. We salute you, and look forward to the next three years.
ELECTION UNDERWAY FOR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FROM AFRICA
As announced in the last issue, a special election for Regional Representative from Africa is now underway. There are five nominees:
Chinenye Atuma, Nigeria
Dr. Green Eleagu, Nigeria
Sampson Onyema Iwuchukwu, Nigeria
Johnson Ireri Kinyua, Kenya
Marcel Umesi, Nigeria
Ballots were distributed on December 10 and are due back on December 23. The results will be announced in the January E-IAVE.
IYV+10…THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES
ONLY 12 MONTHS TO GO! 2011 is the 10th Anniversary of the United Nation’s International Year of Volunteers in 2001. As it did in 2001, IAVE is preparing to give leadership to the nongovernmental volunteer community in celebrating this global recognition of volunteering.
UNV’S GLOBAL CALL FOR ACTION TO CELEBRATE IYV+10
[The following announcement was issued by United Nations Volunteers for release on December 5, International Volunteer Day. The first, primary, section is here; the balance is at the end of this issue.]
The year 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers (IYV) 2001. Opportunity exists for activities throughout 2011 that will showcase the diversity, breadth and depth of volunteering worldwide and offer the chance to raise the profile of volunteering and mobilize many more volunteers.
On International Volunteer Day, 05 December, 2009, a Global Call for Action is hereby extended to all stakeholders to engage in activities that mark the tenth anniversary of International Year of Volunteers.
1. The Global Call for Action
All stakeholders are invited to join the global effort to mark IYV+10.
In so doing all stakeholders are encouraged to reinvigorate the spirit of the International Year of Volunteers and its four pillars:
– Further promote recognition of the contributions of volunteers to society, and peace and development
– Promote better understanding of how volunteerism can change the nature and pace of development beyond the Millennium Development Goals
– Provide a platform for continued advocacy and policy development
– Facilitate linkages and cooperation with and among Volunteer Involving Organisations in the public, private and civil society sectors.
All stakeholders are encouraged to:
– Bring the voices of volunteers to the attention of policy decision-makers;
– Show-case volunteers in action including informal volunteering by people living in difficult circumstances, and self-support actions at the community level;
– Support the reactivation of National Committees for IYV+10;
– Encourage local and regional consultations and support improved tools for networking;
– Support the European Year of Volunteering 2011 (and similar in other regions);
– Bring the voices of volunteers to the international stage during the UN‟s General Assembly (GA) session in 2010 and 2011 – plus during the Commission on Social Development meeting in the UN Secretariat;
– Include the marking of IYV+10 in activities and/or events already planned to take place in 2011;
– Advocate for a General Assembly resolution with strong recognition of the value of volunteerism to society:
– with recommendation to governments for institutional support
– with call on governments and society to support and fund volunteer initiatives.
All stakeholders are encouraged to immediately engage in participatory dialogue and to formulate Plans of Action to mark IYV+10.
[The rest of the announcement will be found at the end of this issue.]
THE CALENDAR
Here is how our calendar is shaping up for the lead-in to and celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers:
June 2010 North American Regional Meeting at the National Conference on
Volunteering and Service in New York City
Meeting of the IAVE Board of Directors in New York City (to be confirmed)
July 2010 Arab Nations Regional Conference in Lebanon (to be confirmed)
September 2010 Latin America Regional Conference in Colombia
January 2011 21st World Volunteer Conference in Singapore in partnership with the
National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre
November 2011 Global Youth Volunteer Summit in Barranquilla, Colombia in partnership
with Partners of the Americas
13th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in South Korea
September 2012 22nd World Volunteer Conference in Ireland in partnership with
Volunteering Ireland
NEWS FROM IAVE MEMBERS
NEW NATIONAL VOLUNTEER CENTER LAUNCHED IN FIJI
The Fiji Council of Social Service is pleased to announce the launch of its new programme, National Volunteer Centre, to mark the International Volunteer Day. Sponsored by Vodafone ATH Fiji Foundation, the National Volunteer Centre was launched on Saturday December 12, 2009 at the Holiday Inn in Suva.
The National Volunteer Centre will provide unemployed people who share passion for volunteerism with opportunities to make a difference in their community. The centre will also enable volunteers to graduate by securing employment through acquiring employability skills, positive attitude, generating income and showcasing their arts and talents. Effective volunteering has made powerful impact in the society & can make the world a better place
The major objectives of NVC programme will be:
– To provide unemployed people who share passion of volunteerism with opportunity to make a difference.
– To enable volunteers and unemployed people to graduate to secure employment.
– To Provide Scholarships/ tertiary skills (demand driven) to people who are poor and to people in rural areas through the Dream Maker Campaign
– To work with corporate partners to promote and encourage corporate volunteerism and Corporate Social Responsibility in the corporate sectors.
– To promote self investment and social entrepreneurship.
– To provide peer mentoring, counselling, coaching and support for effective volunteering.
– To link with global volunteer partners to promote volunteerism, localise global volunteer concepts for effective local participation & to participate in global volunteer conventions.
For more information, please contact Neil Maharaj, Project Officer at the Fiji Council of Social Services; Email: projects@fcoss.org.fj.
GCVC Spotlight on Corporate Volunteering
KRAFT FOODS INAUGURATES MAKE A DELICIOUS DIFFERENCE WEEK
[Sarah Hayes, consultant director of IAVE’s Global Corporate Volunteer Council, prepared this profile of the Kraft Foods employee volunteer program.]
Kraft Foods, a new GCVC member, is well known for giving back to communities in the United States through their community nutrition program and annual days of service. Though they have done grant making and community service in other countries, this year they took it to a whole new level. During the week of October 5-10, 2009, more than 12,000 Kraft employees in 33 countries across the globe participated in the Make a Delicious Difference Week, Kraft’s first unified global week of community service.
As the second largest food company in the world, Kraft Foods is the name behind brands such as Nabisco, DiGiorno, Maxwell House Coffees, Oscar Meyer, Toblerone, Milka, Lacta and Jacobs. Kraft Foods has 100,000 employees in 150 countries and over 168 manufacturing facilities worldwide. With the nature of their business, it is easy to see why Kraft Foods’ grant making focuses in two main areas – hunger and healthy lifestyles. Their goal is to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, promote healthy lifestyle habits, and in the process build strong, self-sufficient families and communities.
During Make a Delicious Difference Week, employees around the world participated in more than 230 community service projects. Over 60 percent of the projects that week addressed healthy living and hunger. Leading the way was Kraft’s CEO, Irene Rosenfeld, who rolled up her sleeves and helped pack food boxes at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey. Employees were encouraged to join group projects with other Kraft colleagues as well as to volunteer at charities they are personally passionate about.
The event could not have gone off without the work of committed champions around the world – 150 “Ambassadors” who planned service activities at the local level. In advance of this special week communications toolkits were prepared and sent to these Ambassadors, who then spread the word in their various regions and countries. Collateral pieces were developed as part of a comprehensive communications campaign with posters, decals and banners made available to plants and offices for posting.
Participating countries were given the opportunity to choose any day during the week to schedule their service projects. Even Saturday was an option and open to friends and family. Projects were also arranged for Kraft Foods work sites, or opportunities to do something at home, for those employees with less flexibility in scheduling. One unexpected surprise was how many locations chose to have community service activities throughout the whole week. They far surpassed an initial goal of 10,000 employee participants for this first year and were gratified to tally over 12,000 participants whose efforts that week touched more than 500,000 lives.
Check out some of the volunteer activities that took place throughout the world during Kraft Foods Make a Delicious Difference Week:
Philippines: Kraft employees shifted their focus for the week to disaster relief efforts, in response to a typhoon that caused the area’s worst landslides and flooding in decades. An estimated 1.9 million people were affected. 230 Kraft volunteers from the Philippines and 192 from the plant in Thailand worked with organizations such as Save the Children and the International Red Cross to help those affected by this disaster.
Spain: More than 700 employees in Madrid and Barcelona worked with seven organizations, including food banks across 26 projects. Some of the employees also spent time with homeless people.
Ukraine: More than 650 employees volunteered over four days, partnering with local orphanages to donate books and toys, as well as spending time with the children who live there.
Australia: Australian Kraft Foods employees worked in shifts to create and repair toys, as well as sorting and packing food in their local food pantry.
Brazil: Over 2,200 employees participated in a variety of projects throughout the week.
France: Nearly 200 employees worked in a variety of activities, including cleaning, gardening and cultivating vegetables and distributing food to the elderly.
Northfield, Illinois (Kraft Foods Headquarters outside of Chicago): Numerous projects, including the Chicago Food Depository, creating healthy lifestyles murals and leading kids’ Olympic Games at public schools.
Another Way to Give
Through the Kraft Foods Foundation Matching Gifts Program, Kraft Foods employee contributions to non-profits are matched one-to-one. However, to honor the spirit of giving, during Make a Delicious Difference Week contributions for U.S. employees were matched 2-to-1 by the foundation. As a result of employee’s generosity, more than $2 million USD was awarded to non-profit organizations of special meaning to them.
Kraft Foods also got consumers engaged in giving back. A viral video was created about volunteering and posted it to YouTube. For each viewing on YouTube, a donation was made to the NGO Feeding America. Thanks to nearly 100,000 views, the equivalent of 200,000 meals was donated to Feeding America.
The response from employees and NGO partners has been overwhelmingly positive. Ninety-nine percent of employees surveyed have committed to participating next year and many teams that took part in October have scheduled quarterly visits back to their “adopted” NGO partner to keep on making a “delicious difference”.
IAVE is excited to count Kraft Foods amongst our prestigious G-CVC members. They provide an excellent example of a company that cares.
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT ANNOUNCED FOR VOLUNTEERING AUSTRALIA
[We have received the following email announcement from Cary Pedicini, CEO of Volunteering Australia. While the details are Australian-specific, the general situation of government support for national and local volunteer centers is familiar to many of us.]
Many of you would be aware that the Australian Government through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) has undertaken a review of Volunteering Australia (VA) services to Government. The Minister, The Hon. Jenny Macklin, and the Parliamentary Secretary for the Voluntary Sector, Senator Ursula Stephens, have now advised VA of the outcome of that review.
The Government has re-affirmed its financial support through the National Secretariat Program (NSP) for VA as the national volunteering representative body. In this role VA will continue to represent and support members and maintain national networks; contribute to the development of government policies that support the volunteering sector; and inform members and constituents about Australian Government policies related to the volunteering sector.
The Australian Government through FaHCSIA will continue to provide financial support for National Volunteer Week and The National Conference on Volunteering in 2010.
In addition, the Government will continue funding for GoVolunteer as future options for national volunteer registration are considered. VA will continue to look at how GoVolunteer can meet the changing needs of stakeholders, and opportunities to further develop the system and infrastructure will continue to be explored.
The Minister has advised that VA will receive funding for the National Volunteer Skills Centre (NVSC) until March 2010 to complete key training resources currently under development. VA recognizes the Federal Government’s intention to encourage good volunteer management practice in the sector and will continue to develop and maintain our suite of training tools, including our key publication The National Standards for Involving Volunteers in Not for Profit Organisations. VA will look to partner with other organisations, including our Foundation Members and State and Territory Government Offices of Volunteering, to continue promoting good practice in volunteering and volunteer management.
VA believes that the review process validated the importance and relevance of a national voice for the volunteering sector. With this renewed support from Government, VA will be working closely with its members and all stakeholders to enhance its capacity to consult with, represent and support the diverse volunteering sector.
The funding announced by Minister Macklin and Senator Stephens will assist VA achieve its fundamental objective to mobilize and support volunteers to help others, particularly those most in need in our community.
MEMBER UPDATE: THEO VAN LOON
Theo Van Loon, former executive director of the National Organization for Volunteering (NOV) in the Netherlands, member of the IAVE board and organizer of the 2001 World Volunteer Conference in Amsterdam that kicked off the International Year of Volunteers, is now a consultant in private practice, working on strategic planning and fund-raising with NPOs. In that role, he serves as Director at Fonds verstandelijk gehandicapten, a Dutch organization working on behalf of people who are handicapped.
Theo recently sent us this email about his work there:
“A couple of weeks ago we had a big party with well known musicians together with mentally handicapped musicians. This gala will be on national television on Wednesday 23 December. This is financed by my foundation. On Wednesday we will have 120 people receiving phone calls from people who want to donate money or become volunteers in my organization. See the trailer at YouTube! And become a volunteer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwO9vxRFt3A
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY
REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER MANAGER’S DAY – NOVEMBER 5, 2009
[This article is adapted from the opening section of the report on IVM Day prepared by Andy Fryar from Australia, chair of the IVMDay Committee. The entire report is available on IAVE’s web site, www.iave.org. For more information on IVM Day, held on November 5 each year, please check out their website: http://www.volunteermanagersday.org/.]
Even though International Volunteer Managers Day (IVMDay) has now been celebrated for a total of 11 years, it has been only the last three years that the new global committee formed and developed a new strategy to roll out the promotion of the day around the world – largely via the development of and involvement by members of our International Supporters Group (ISG).
Every indication is that this ‘ground up’ system for promoting the day has been effective and is working well. For instance, I recently worked with several Volunteer Centres across New Zealand, and learned that in every case these groups had planned IVMDay activities for their members. What made this even more remarkable was the fact that none of these groups (at the time) were members of the ISG.
While the remainder of this report highlights just some of the many activities that took place for IVMDay 2009, allow me to ruminate on just a few highlights.
Firstly, our ISG grew by around 25% during 2009. This included the addition of several national level groups such as Volunteering England and Volunteer Canada. The ISG now spans around 80 key groups in 16 countries. These are listed at the end of this report.
We were also thrilled to introduce a new ‘affiliate’ level category of ISG membership to allow individual volunteer programs to throw their support of IVMDay behind the initiative.
Individual Volunteer Managers have also been encouraged to keep abreast of IVMDay news by joining the days Facebook group, which while still relatively new, has quickly reached a membership of 300. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=90188010197
The other significant development this year was a greater recognition by many government departments of the days existence, with one key highlight being that legislators in the US State of New Jersey formally passed a resolution to have IVMDay officially acknowledged in that State each year on November 5. We are hopeful that this will be the catalyst for other governments around the world to follow suit.
Finally, I’d like to thank my fellow committee members and the entire International Supporters Group membership for their ongoing support of IVMDay.
UNV’S GLOBAL CALL FOR ACTION TO CELEBRATE IYV+10 – CONTINUED
[This is the balance of the UNV statement on IYV+10.]
2. Background
In November 1997, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2001 as the International Year Volunteers (IYV). The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme was designated as the international focal point. The idea for IYV emerged from deliberations among several major international NGOs in the early 1990s.
The formal proposal to proclaim 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers was made by the Japanese government, co-sponsored by 123 countries, and was approved by the UN General Assembly.
The premise underlying IYV 2001 was that voluntary service makes an essential contribution in addressing problems in areas of social, economic, cultural, humanitarian and peace-building. For this to happen, there was a need for greater recognition and facilitation of volunteer work, more vigorous promotion of voluntary service, and networks to facilitate a drawing upon – the “best practice” – of volunteers.
The designation of an International Year of Volunteers by the UN General Assembly (GA) provided a valuable framework and established a favorable environment enabling a more strategic use of volunteer contributions.
According to the General Assembly report:
“A major outcome of the Year has been a collective recognition by Governments of the role and contribution of voluntary action and of the need to adopt strategic approaches to enhancing the environment for such action to flourish. Global trends towards greater self-help, decentralization, participatory democracy and networking are all having an impact on citizen participation, and volunteerism is one defining characteristic. The challenge now is to consolidate successes attained, build on the momentum created by the Year and move the volunteer agenda forward.” Paragraph 86 – (A/57/352)
3. Marking the International Year of Volunteers + 10 (IYV+10)
The year 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers (IYV) 2001. Opportunity exists for activities throughout the year that will showcase the diversity, breadth and depth of volunteering worldwide and offer the chance to mobilize many more volunteers and raise the profile of volunteering.
The UN Secretary General was asked by the GA in 2001 to report back on the follow-up to IYV on a tri-annual basis. UNV prepared follow-up reports for the Secretary General in 2002, 2005 and 2008.
As a result of the 2008 report, the UN GA, in its resolution A/Res/63/153 adopted on 18 December 2008 called for the marking of IYV+10.
In the GA resolution, the UN invited governments, with the active support of media, civil society and the private sectors, as well as development partners and the relevant organizations and bodies of the UN system, to carry out activities focused on marking the tenth anniversary of IYV in 2011 at the regional and national levels.
The resolution also reaffirmed the United Nations Volunteers programme as the focal point for the marking of IYV+10.
The overall goal of marking IYV+10 is focused on promoting greater global recognition of the contribution of volunteerism to society and to achieving peace and development.
4. Stakeholder Consultations
Achievement of the expectations for marking IYV+10 will require both an early and comprehensive involvement of stakeholders and a sustainable mechanism for stakeholder involvement.
In December 2007 UNV convened a consultative workshop in Geneva, hosted by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), attended by a number of volunteer involving network organizations with regional and/or global outreach. The consultation helped to shape the content of a report that provided the foundations of UN G.A. resolution 63/153 adopted on 18 December 2008.
The Consultative Meeting on marking the International Year of Volunteers + 10 (IYV+10) was held on October 22 and 23, 2009 in Bonn, Germany. It was an opportunity for diverse organizations to discuss ways to mark the 10th Anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers. This was an opportunity to share activities and how these may link to broader aims. From the Bonn Consultative Meeting emerged a preliminary Action Plan to guide all parties toward a successful IYV+10.
5. Participants at the Bonn Consultative Meeting on marking the International Year of Volunteers + 10 (IYV+10)
Association „Learning and Helping Overseas (AKLHÜ)
Association of Voluntary Service Organisations (AVSO)
Bertelsmann Foundation
Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS)
European Volunteer Centre (CEV)
European Youth Forum (YFJ)
German Development Service (DED)
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Hungarian Volunteer Sending Foundation (HVSF)
ICVolunteers
Institute for Volunteer Research (IVR)
International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Forum on Development Service (FORUM)
International Labor Organization (ILO)
International Movement ATD Fourth World
Japanese Embassy Germany
Japanese National Network of Organizations Promoting Volunteerism (NNOPV)
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Peace Corps
The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Office on Sports for Development and Peace (UNOSDP)
United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme
Volunteering Ireland
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS)
World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
