CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme commissioned a study in 2007/8 to explore how both volunteering and social activism are important strategies for fostering people’s participation in social change and human development.  Read article

Geneva, Switzerland: Faith-based organizations and its volunteers play a major role in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa if HIV prevention targets are to be achieved by 2010, according to a new United Nations study.  Read article

Bonn, Germany: Corporate philanthropy and social investments are common practices in developing countries, but there are not many examples of long-term formal corporate volunteering programmes, says a new research report published jointly by the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme and the New Academy of Business (NAB).  Read article

This is the latest paper in the series of publications prepared in recent years by UNV on various aspects of volunteerism. It aims at connecting the ongoing debate on technical cooperation for capacity development with volunteerism as a key means to achieving desired results. Download a copy of the paper as PDF File.  Read article

This report on the global evaluation of the International Year of Volunteers (IYV) 2001 was prepared by the Institute for Volunteering Research UK, in association with the Development Resource Centre of South Africa. The evaluation aimed to assess the achievements and impacts of the Year.  Read article

This document is a practical guide on the study of volunteer behaviour to empower countries to produce their own empirical data to demonstrate the importance contribution of volunteerism to their economy.  This toolkit is to assist countries worldwide in undertaking measurement studies on national, regional and local volunteering.  Read article