UN Volunteering for Sustainable Development

In the Decade of Action to Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Volunteers are needed for peace and development worldwide. From implementing projects to championing change and inspiring others, UN Volunteers fulfil a critical role. 

In order respond to the request from Member States to promote broader ownership of sustainable development through volunteerism, the UN System Staff College and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme developed the UNV Primer, an online learning offering that unpacks UN Volunteers for Resident Coordinators (RCs), their offices (RCOs), and the UN system as a whole.

UNSSC and UNV developed this learning offering to ensure that volunteerism is better understood and applied by Resident Coordinator Offices as well as UN staff across the system.

Available on the Blue Line, a UNSSC online platform for self-directed learning, the UNV Primer aims at supporting RCs and RCOs to encourage the mobilization of UN Volunteers through different UN entities, in order to strengthen efforts at national level toward peace and sustainable development.

The event will examine the key features of the UNV Primer:

• Case studies about UN Volunteers implementing the SDGs;
• Guidance for engaging them quickly; 
• Examples of how to integrate their contributions into country programming.

Join us for the “UN Volunteering for Sustainable Development” event on Monday, 23 May 2022 from 13:00 – 14:00 CEST.

We invite you to view the introductory video

The event features:

• Jafar Javan, Director, United Nations System Saff College (UNSSC) 
• Rosemary Kalapurakal, Deputy Director, United Nations Development Coordination Office (UNDCO)
• Kyoko Yokosuka, Deputy Executive Coordinator, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme  
• Richard Howard, Resident Coordinator (ad interim) in Nepal/ Country Director International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Barbara Manzi, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) in Burkina Faso
• Lola Castro, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Food Programme (WFP)

The conversation will be moderated by Simona Costanzo Sow, Learning Portfolio Manager at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC).