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United Nations Volunteers Volunteerism for Development in the context of CBA. Adeline Aubry CBA Volunteerism & Community Adaptation Specialist United Nations Development Programme June 2009. Dialogue Suggestions Support Added-value Success. UNV support to 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
Dialogue • Suggestions • Support • Added-value • Success
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 • UNV’s expertise is complementary to UNDP’s 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.
Facilitate capacity building of our partner • UNV’s 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.
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.
Windows of opportunity to assess the contribution of volunteerism to CBA
thank you Adeline Aubry CBA Volunteerism & Community Adaptation Specialist United Nations Development Programme June 2009