Research Papers
Aid | Capacity Development | Climate Change | Health | HIV and AIDS | International Development & Humanitarian Agencies | Law | MDGs | Models of International Volunteering | Public Engagement | Social Capital | Social Development | Youth | Other | Interviews | FORUM External Representation
| Aid | return to top | |
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| Old habits die hard: Aid and accountability in Sierra Leone (EURODAD with Campaign for Good Governance, 2008) | English | |
| Agriculture | return to top | |
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| Agriculture for Development (World Bank, 2007) | English | |
| Capacity Development | return to top | |
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| Measuring Volunteering and Civic Engagement (Skillshare, 2008) | English | |
| Volunteering and Capacity Development (UN Volunteers, 2002) | English | |
| Climate Change | return to top | |
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| UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world (UNDP, 2007) | English | |
| Health | return to top | |
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| The costs and benefits of health worker migration from East and Southern Africa (ESA): A literature review, August 2007, Rudi Robinson, The North-South Institute. | English | |
| HIV / AIDS | return to top | |
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| What’s culture got to do with HIV and AIDS?, Helen Gould, Healthlink Worldwide, February 2007 | English | |
| International Development & Humanitarian Agencies | return to top | |
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| Guide on the core values and characteristics of Irish Development NGOs Dochas, 2007 | English | |
| The Impact of International Volunteering on Host Organisations Comhlámh, 2007 | English | |
| Understanding and addressing staff turnover in humanitarian agencies,HPN network paper, July 2006 | English | |
| Review Concerning the Establishment of a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps study, March 2006 | English | |
| German Organisations in International Volunteering (statistics) AKLHUE, 2006 | English | |
| German Organisations in International Volunteering (statistics) AKLHUE, 2005 | English | |
| European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps study, terms of reference | English | |
| European Civil Peace Corps feasibility study, November 2005 | English | |
| European Civil Peace Corps, terms of reference | English | |
| VSO: Focus for Change VSO's Strategic Plan, 2002 | English | |
| Law | return to top | |
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| Hungarian Law on Volunteering, 2005 | English | |
| MDG's | return to top | |
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| Are the MDGs Priority in Development Strategies and Aid Programmes? Only a Few, Are! Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, United Nations Development Programme, October 2008 | English | |
| New Partnership for Africa's Development: Fifth consolidated report on progress in implementation and international support , Secretary-General, United Nations General Assembly, August 2007 |
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| International Volunteering | return to top | |
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| Impacts of International Volunteering Service, Center for Social Development, 2008 | English | |
| Survey Summary - International Volunteering and Development Service, Peter Devereux, 2007 | English | |
| Opportunities and Challenges for International Volunteering Co-operation, Betty Plewes and Rieky Stuart | English | |
| Volunteering for Impact - Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering Greg Hills and Adeeb Mahmud - The Brookings Institution, 2007 | English | |
| 7 examples of active North-South-North Partnership Unité, 2007 | Français | Deutsch | |
| Climb High, Sleep Low: The Unique Learning Environments of International Volunteer Placements, Fee and Gray, 2007 | English | |
| Public Engagement | return to top | |
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| The Overseas Experience: A Passport to Improved Volunteerism (a research report). CUSO and the Knowledge Development Centre, 2007 | English | |
| Survey on Returning Volunteers AKLHUE, 2006 |
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| Social Capital | return to top | |
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| Social Capital and Voluntary Action, ESRC report: ICT, October 2006 | English | |
| Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development? UN University research paper, March 2006 | English | |
| Social Development | return to top | |
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| Volunteerism and Social Development: The Hague Paper (UN Volunteers), 2000 | English | |
| Youth | return to top | |
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| Innovations in international youth volunteering, ICP for v, January 2008 | Report | Case Studies | |
| Research report: "The impact of long-term youth voluntary service in/from Europe", AVSO and proMENTE, June 2007 | English | |
| Innovations in Civic Participation Releases Report on the Status of National Youth Service Policy in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, ICP, April 2007 |
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| Youth and the Millennium Development Goals, Ad Hoc Working Group, April 2005 |
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| Other | return to top | |
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| Guide on "What Members of Parliament Can Do for Development" Dochas, 2007 | English | |
| Prospects for Africa - Europe's Policies, December 2006, VENRO Manifesto | English | Français | |
| Trade, Agriculture and Development, Concord discussion paper, August 2005 | English | |
| The Role of the Volunteer - VSO position paper, 2003 | English | |
| Interviews | return to top | |
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| "We should never forget that we are guests of Bolivia" Sergio Ferrari interviews Elke Kalkowski, co-responsible for the coordination of Swiss NGOs and journalist and theologian Hildegard Willer, provided to FORUM by Unité, October 2007 | English | Français | Deutsch | Español | |
| Stephen Lewis at the RESULTS Educational Fund annual conference - Remarks delivered by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World at the RESULTS Educational Fund annual conference, Washington, DC, June 2007 | English | |
| “To take into account the real needs for Africa” Sergio Ferrari interviews Franco Cavalli, provided by Unité, October 2006 | Français | Deutsch | Español | |
| World Social Forum 2006: A polycentric forum for a convergent social movement - Sergio Ferrari interviews Eric Toussaint in an article, provided to FORUM by Unité, 2006 | English | Entretian | Français | |
| FORUM External Representation | return to top | |
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| Jake Bharier's speech on behalf of FORUM at VOICE's seminar on professionalism and voluntarism, July 2006 | English |