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CCIVSCoordinating Committee for International
Voluntary Service
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Founded in 1948 under the aegis of UNESCOFormal
relations of association with UNESCO
Initial idea Physically reconstructing the World
after the World Wars while concretely
learning to live together
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Voluntary service...

• is an exchange between an individual, or a
  group of individuals and a local community. The
  volunteer or group of volunteers offers time,
  energy and effort to a project of benefit to a
  community, and via this project the community
  offers to the volunteer or group of volunteers an
  opportunity for experimentation, learning and
  personal and collective development (Cotravaux,
  France)

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International voluntary service projects

• 350 members branches
• of international organisations
• and national organisations
• About 100,000 (young)
• participants every year
• in more than 100 countries
• International and local volunteers
• living and working together with
• the local population,
• to learn from each other

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CCIVS projects by members
Durations?
Short term workcamps (2 4 weeks) Medium and
long term placements (3 to 12 months)
Methods?
Non-formal education Active citizenship and
participation Intercultural dialogue Reciprocity
and exchange Complementarity with agencies
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Types of projects
Agricultural work Awareness-raising
campaigns Construction and improvement of
community centres and public buildings Environment
reforestation, site cleaning, protection of
natural reserves, etc. Protection of the cultural
heritage Support to local communities and work
with children Any type of project that can
benefit the population, depending on local
realities
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CCIVS role

• Coordination of members activities
• Regional seminars and networking
• Capacity building, seminars and training of
  member organisations (conflict prevention, ICT
  and voluntary service, cultural diversity, etc.)
• Campaigns (ESD, culture of peace, Freshwater,
  etc.)
• Pilot and joint projects
• Link to international and intergovernmental
  partners
• Publications and resources materials

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CCIVS presentation menu(click on the link to go
to the corresponding page)

• Regions
• Africa
• Asia
• Europe
• Americas

• Themes
• HIV/AIDS awareness raising
• Conflict resolution
• Cultural diversity
• Education for sustainable development
• Culture of Peace
• CCIVS and UNESCO

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CCIVS in AFRICA
Algeria Botswana Burundi Cameroon Congo DRC Egypt
Ghana Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mauritius Morocco
Mozambique Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone South
Africa Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
CCIVS gathers 38 national member organisations
and 7 branches of international organisations.
They are present in 23 countries, in all
regions of Africa.
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Networks
In Northern Africa the Union of Maghreb Voluntary
Associations (UMAV) ensures the co-ordination
between the voluntary service organizations in
the Maghreb countries. In Western Africa a
co-ordination called UWAVWA was established
in 1970 in Accra, Ghana. Since 2005 a
number of Western African organisations have
been re- defining the co-ordination
mechanism in the region. In Southern
Africa the Southern African Workcamps
Co-ordination (SAWC) was created in 1994 and
comprises 8 organisations. In Eastern Africa
the Eastern African Workcamps Association (EAWA)
was established in 1995 and has now 17 member
organisations.
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Fund for African Voluntary Service

• Capacity building for African national volunteer
  associations
• Specific development projects involving
  volunteers proposed by the associations

• Pan-African meetings / training events organised
  by the regional platforms
• Support for the running and activities of the
  four African regional platforms

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CCIVS in ASIA
Bangladesh Cambodia China India Indonesia Israel J
apan Lebanon Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Palestine Phi
lippines Russia Singapore South Korea Sri
Lanka Taiwan Thailand Turkey Vietnam
CCIVS gathers 16 national member organisations
and 26 branches of international organisations.
They are present in 21 countries, in all regions
of Asia, including the Middle East.
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N.V.D.A.

• The Network for Voluntary Development in Asia is
  an international networking NGO which promotes
  international voluntary service, especially
  workcamps, in Asia/Pacific.
• Its aims and goals are to Improve local and
  global situations in nature, environment,
  culture, poverty and human rights,
  Support local NGOs, self-reliance and
  development of local communities, Promote
  friendship, understanding and solidarity among
  world youth and local people.
• And its main activities are
• Regular events (Training Networking Workcamps,
  etc.)
• Sending volunteers to workcamps all over the
  world
• Common actions in Asia for various social issues
• Starting workcamps in new countries
• Improving NGOs and their projects

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CCIVS in EUROPE
Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia C
zech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greec
e Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania M
oldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania
Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switz
erland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom
CCIVS gathers 7 secretariats and 101 branches of
international organisations and 36 national
member organisations.
They are present in 34 countries, in all regions
of Europe.
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The A.E.Y.V.E.
Initiated by the Coordinating Committee for
International Voluntary Service CCIVS and
supported by the Asia Europe Foundation ASEF,
Asia Europe Young Volunteers Exchange AEYVE was
launched in 2001. AEYVE is an exchange programme
between young volunteers from Asia and Europe.
Through AEYVE, volunteers and organizations in
Asia and Europe are able to promote
intercultural learning, mutual understanding,
and cooperation while partaking in voluntary
services in Asia and Europe. The aims of AEYVE
are to foster mutual understanding, cooperation
and exchanges between voluntary service
organizations in Asia and Europe. Particular
emphasis is given to networking between
organizations in order to transfer knowledge
between regions and achieve common standard in
quality.
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Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Cos
ta Rica Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama
Peru Salvador United States Uruguay
CCIVS in AMERICA
CCIVS gathers 7 national member organisations
and 32 branches of international organisations.
They are present in 17 countries, in North,
Central and South America.
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Euro-LA seminar
A seminar was held in Peru in May 2005 with the
idea to allow European-based and Latin American
organisations to strengthen their partnerships
and to develop new ones. The seminar focussed on
the identification of a strategy for Euro-Latin
American co-operation starting by allowing the
organisations to get to know each others
activities and then focus on common needs and
answers. Documents of reference concerning the
information given as well as the quality
standards applied in the various organisations
were distributed and are available.
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HIV/AIDS awareness raising
In October 2005 a seminar and workcamp were
organised in co-operation with UNESCO to adapt
the French manual on awareness raising on HIV
AIDS using forum theatre to anglophone
Africa.
CCIVS is currently working on a new version of a
kit for awareness raising on HIV AIDS in
anglophone Africa using forum theatre.
CCIVS is also developing a pilot project
on an itinerant series of capacity building
seminars in various African countries aiming at
training a maximum number of youth leaders on
efficient and culturally adapted ways to raise
awareness on HIV AIDS.
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Conflict resolution
Conflict resolution is in fact a
permanent feature of any voluntary
service project since we consider that
the notion of conflict forms part of
every-day life and the ways to solve it at
micro level are also relevant for macro
level.
Several CCIVS member organisations are active in
the field of conflict prevention, reconciliation
and conflict resolution. Some focus on the role
of civil society organisations in conflict area
while others are obliged to function in a
situation of conflict.
CCIVS is currently working on a new edition of
its publication Voluntary Service in Conflict
areas, which will soon be available on line.
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Cultural Diversity

• An approach based on UNESCOs Universal
  Declaration on Cultural Diversity.

• April 2005 seminar Cultural diversity and
  voluntary service international solidarity or
  diversity consumption? in the Czech
  Republic.

• Creation of the CD-ROM no size can fit all for
  coordinators of international youth groups.

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Education for Sustainable Development

• Freshwater guide (2003)
• a practical tool to organise activities on the
  issue of fresh water in international voluntary
  service projects
• Globalisation kit
• an introduction to the theme of globalisation,
  games and activities on the topic, to be used in
  international voluntary service projects

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Culture of peace

• 10th July "CCIVS Culture of Peace Day". Messages
  of Peace were created in different local projects
  and sent to the two flagship events of CCIVS.

• events in Hiroshima, Japan and Bethlehem,
  Palestine, promoting world peace through an
  international workcamp and a seminar on tools for
  peace
• 40m² Peace Quilt made up of the 100 "Peace
  Pieces" was exposed at UNESCO Headquarters in
  November 2000

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CCIVS and UNESCO Why work together?

• CCIVS works with all sectors
• CCIVS is present in all regions
• CCIVS approach is complementary and provides a
  link to the local level

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CCIVShttp//www.unesco.org/ccivs