United Nations Volunteers Volunteerism for Development in the context of CBA

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United Nations VolunteersVolunteerism for
Development in the context of CBA
Adeline Aubry CBA Volunteerism Community
Adaptation Specialist United Nations Development
Programme June 2009
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• Dialogue
• Suggestions
• Support
• Added-value
• Success

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UNV support to CBA

• Is funded by the Japanese Trust Fund (1,000,000
  USD) and the UNV Special Voluntary Fund (552,909
  USD).
• Is providing highly motivated and skilled human
  resource in the 7 countries of partnership.
• Is fully integrated into the UNDP-GEF CBA project
  (mainstreaming vs. parallel).
• Is strengthening existing project in terms of
• communities mobilization, voluntary contribution
  and ownership
• partners capacity building
• Outcome 1, output1.2/1.3 and Outcome 2, output 2.2

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UNV-supported activitiesto strengthen CBA
implementation

• Enhance communities mobilization, voluntary
  contribution and ownership.
• Support participation and inclusion of the most
  vulnerable people in CBA project.
• Facilitate capacity building of NGOs, CBOs, VIOs
  partners.
• Promote, give visibility and measure voluntary
  contribution to adaptation.

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1. Enhance communities mobilization, voluntary
contribution ownership

• Volunteerism has the potential
• to move disadvantaged populations
• away from being passive victims of climate
  impacts
• towards becoming engaged actors
• in adapting their lives and livelihoods.

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Enhance communities mobilization, voluntary
contribution ownership

• UNV volunteers can be an added-value by
• Taking time to go in the field to build a
  cultural understanding/respect with the
  communities.
• Listening to community instead of informing and
  deciding for people.
• Explaining with patience, accessible and
  culturally adapted words the reasons of our
  partnership and simplify the technical
  information.
• Building bridge between all stakeholders clarify
  respective expectations ensure quality and
  relevance of information/trainings, etc.
• Motivate, mobilize, encourage and inspire.
• Communities will mobilize themselves
• when there is trust and confidence
• when they understand and see benefits emerging
  from the process

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Enhance communities mobilization, voluntary
contribution ownership

• UNV can support you to assess the main factors
  that can facilitate or prevent people from
  engaging themselves in voluntary activities for
  the good of their community.

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2. Supportparticipation inclusion of
vulnerable people

• What is externally perceived as a community might
  in fact be an entity with many sub-groups with
  varied opinions and facing various issues.
• A community might be inclusive and protective of
  its members but it might also be socially
  controlling, making it difficult for sub-groups
  to express their opinions and claim their rights.
  
• Without broad participation, only a few will
  decide for all, and those few might control
  information and resources this can lead to abuse
  of power.

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support participation inclusion of vulnerable
people

• To promote inclusive participation, following
  tasks can be accomplished by UNV volunteers with
  my support
• Preparatory work to understand the composition of
  the community and identify marginalized groups.
• Identify community leaders and convince them to
  lead the inclusive action.
• Implement awareness raising sessions on human
  rights and inclusive approach outline the
  benefits of inclusiveness for the whole
  community.
• Ensure that the whole community is represented in
  all project activities..
• Meaningful participation will often require
  special efforts to ensure that those
  traditionally marginalized groups are given
  support and specific opportunities to contribute
  trainings have to be tailored in accordance to
  needs linked to the marginalization.
• Document and disseminate success stories.

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3. Facilitate capacity building of our partner
NGOs, CBOs, VIOs

• Barriers to adaptative capacities of communities
  can be of technical or institutional nature
  (e.g. community organization).
• UNV suggests to facilitate the capacity building
  of CBA partners in
• community mobilization and volunteer management
• organizational development
• UNVs expertise is complementary to UNDPs
  expertise in adaptation and climate change.
• CBA projects are short in time for
  implementation, therefore capacity building is
  challenging, but also even more crucial for
  sustainability.

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Facilitate capacity building of our partner

• UNVs suggestion for a capacity building
  strategy
• Training Needs Analysis (TNA) of partners.
• Training plan generic Training-of-Trainers
• National-level training events, local-level
  workshops, short awareness-raising sessions,
  provision of material support, exchanging
  information and good trainers.
• Continuous on-the-job training and needs-based
  tailored refresher trainings.

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4. Promote, give visibility and measure voluntary
contribution to adaptation

• Understand added-value and contribution of
  volunteerism in terms of adaptation to climate
  change
• Capture lessons learned and best practices on
  voluntary aspects in CBA (e.g. how to engage
  communities in adaptation practices).
• Development of a methodology to measure
  communities voluntary contributions to
  adaptation.

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What do we want to measure?
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Windows of opportunity to assess the contribution
of volunteerism to CBA
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thank you
Adeline Aubry CBA Volunteerism Community
Adaptation Specialist United Nations Development
Programme June 2009