UNV Strategic Framework: 2014 - 2017
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The UNV Strategic Framework 2014-2017 outlines UNV's vision of utilizing volunteerism to achieve peace, development, and poverty eradication globally, emphasizing the role of volunteers in community resilience, youth engagement, and institutional development. The framework identifies five priority areas for volunteer impact and aims to integrate volunteerism into UN entities' programming while enhancing operational efficiency and resource mobilization. UNV seeks to improve the effectiveness of its support for volunteers and strengthen partnerships to maximize the role of volunteerism in civic engagement and national development processes.
UNV Strategic Framework: 2014 - 2017
- 1. 1 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV s Strategic Framework 2014-2017
- 2. 2 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV’s vision is a world where volunteerism is recognized, within societies, as a way for all people and countries to achieve peace and development through the simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion.
- 3. 3 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV is the only UN entity with capacity to mobilize large numbers of people, with appropriately assessed skills and expertise, as volunteers for field-based United Nations programmes and projects, enhanced by South-South and triangular cooperation.
- 4. 4 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 Development Impact Societies become more cohesive and stable with enhanced collective well-being UNV is a more effective and efficient organization, with improved systems and business practices and processes, well-managed resources, and engaged personnel UN entities are more effective in delivering their results by integrating high quality and well-supported UN Volunteers and volunteerism in their programmes Countries more effectively integrate volunteerism within national frameworks enabling better engagement of people in development processes Institutional Effectiveness UNV Results - By the end of 2017 - Securing access to basic social services Community resilience for environment and disaster risk reduction Peace building Youth National capacity development through volunteer schemes Outcome 1 Outcome 2
- 5. 5 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV Strategic Inputs - By the end of 2017 -
- 6. 6 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV links action more closely to current trends and developments.
- 7. 7 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 Volunteerism enables participation beyond political dialogue and translates into a stronger role for people’s engagement in their societies. Young volunteers are both a major resource for development and key agents for social and economic transformation and technological innovation. The volunteer sector can build on new opportunities like greater access to global markets, wider information and knowledge networks and new technologies and social media to generate and share knowledge, including reaching marginalized groups and remote communities.
- 8. 8 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV delivers results, according to country needs, through volunteers and through global, regional and country programmes and projects.
- 9. 9 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV has five priority areas where the volunteering impact is the greatest. They are: Securing access to basic social services Community resilience for environment and disaster risk reduction Peace building Youth National capacity development through volunteer schemes
- 11. 11 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 Community resilience for environment and disaster risk reduction
- 15. 15 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV helps UN entities deliver more impact in peace and development.
- 16. 16 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV tailors responsive and innovative solutions with international, national and online volunteers to meet development challenges of partners in countries across the world. UNV integrates volunteerism within UN entities’ programming through the implementation of UNV-UN partner joint programmes/projects in four priority areas: youth; peace building; basic social services; and community resilience for environment and disaster risk reduction. UNV effectively supports UN Volunteers, including through training and learning, to improve their individual experience.
- 17. 17 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV helps countries ensure that people are engaged in development processes.
- 18. 18 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV builds evidence and knowledge on volunteerism to better inform the new development agenda. UNV forges partnerships to open opportunities at national, regional and global levels for volunteerism as a form of civic engagement. UNV will continue to strengthen the national and regional volunteer schemes of Member States, highlighting the complementary roles of public institutions and people, to contribute to peace and development results.
- 19. 19 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV commits to continuously improving its institutional efficiency and effectiveness.
- 20. 20 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV nurtures professional and empowered personnel. UNV enhances UN Volunteer management processes, policies and systems. UNV ensures the attraction, development, deployment and retention of a talented, diversified and productive workforce.
- 21. 21 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV improves results based management at all levels. UNV diversifies and expands resource mobilization partnership base. UNV improves awareness of the value of UN Volunteers and volunteerism among targeted partners and stakeholders. Improved operational support, including information technology systems, will further enhance UNV’s overall performance.
- 22. 22 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV invests in partnerships to enhance delivery on peace and development.
- 23. 23 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 UNV actively engages in partnerships to help the design of innovative and effective volunteer solutions.
- 24. 24 UNVSTRATEGICFRAMEWORK2014-2017 Volunteerism helps transform the pace and nature of development and is a powerful means for people to have a lasting impact on the future.