Are you a dynamic person who believes in international volunteering as a tool for selfdevelopment and social transformation? Do you like to solve organisational challenges? Do you have organisational development experience in an international context? If this is of interest to you, we invite you to apply for the CCIVS Development Officer Role. About CCIVS […]
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Cliff Allum: “It must be our task to ensure international volunteering remain relevant in building a better world for everyone”
Dr Cliff Allum, member of the International Forum for Volunteering in Development Research Group of the University of Birmingham Keynote Speech for the CCIVS Online Dialogues, 14 December 2020 What future for International Volunteering? Thank you for inviting me to make a shot keynote introductory presentation on a subject that is very close to my […]
Empowering Youth for Heritage – 10 years of the World Heritage Volunteers initiative
The World Heritage Volunteers Initiative is a rich and diverse endeavour involving the remarkable work of organizations, young volunteers, and communities mobilized around heritage conservation. The initiative started in 2008 with 12 action camps and 153 volunteers. By the end of 2017, 341 action camps had been implemented at 138 sites in 60 countries, involving […]
Make a change
“Make a change”. This was my answer to the question of what the international voluntary service means to me. That day I was interviewed by CCIVS secretariat team. Now after 8 months spent at the CCIVS office it came to my mind when I tried to write some reflection of my experience. Actually, I found […]
Frame(v)work Kick-off Meeting
The kick-off meeting for the Frame[v]work project took place from 20th to 25th of November in Creative Space (Holloko, Hungary). Egyesek Youth Association hosted representatives from different networks and regions. Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations, Service Civil International, Network for Voluntary Development in Asia, IBO and Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service participated in […]
Our Rights, Our Voices, Our Future
The first twenty years of the 21st century have almost passed and, in spite of the impressive technological development of the last decades, we still witness human rights violations and threats to peace all over the world. Wealth and power are in the hands of a greedy minority of the world population, while the planet […]
When participation also depends on gender equality
In 2014, Action Aid published a report showing that 87 percent of interviewed women and girls had faced sexual harassment in public places. In 2018, Vietnamese police recorded 1,547 child abuse cases, but media appoint that real numbers are suspected to be much higher. UNICEF Representative in Vietnam, Rana Flowers, said that this numbers are […]
Is it an idealistic state?
Living and promoting activism in a region often related to conflicts due to its turbulent recent past, as well as witnessing consequences of war decades after it happened, help us understand why peace should by no means be perceived as utopia, but a crucial human right for well-being and prosperous future of the new generations. […]
On the escalation of the repression against social movements in Ecuador
The entities that make up the Alliance of Organizations for Development Effectiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean -AOED- strongly repudiate the acts of violence, repression and intimidation carried out by the Lenin Moreno government in our sister Republic of Ecuador on the social movements that are exercising their right to protest against the adjustment […]
What means peace for you?
“Subir al Sur” is a program of “SES Foundation” that promotes peace education through voluntary service without cultural or social distinctions. It aims to raise awareness of global citizenship, making people sensitive about the co-responsibility in the care of the world and more capable to promote diversity. SES Foundation, based in Argentina, has been actively […]