IVCO 2022 Think Piece Series – It’s a Wrap!

With just four days to go until the opening of IVCO 2022 , today we are rounding out our Think Piece Series with the four exceptional pieces by leaders in our sector.

• by Wendwossen Kebede, Cuso International Country Representative for Ethiopia unpacks the ideas and principles that have informed recent progress in building infrastructure for national voluntary service in Ethiopia.
• by Oluwafunmilayo Taiwo, a BeyGOOD x Global Citizen Fellow, explores the connections between volunteering and the traditional communalism of many African cultures, including the ọmọlúwàbí, or public morality,  philosophy of the Yoruba people.
• by Ratherford Mwaruta of the Zimbabwe Workcamps Association asserts that international volunteering echoes the relationships and power dynamics of coloniser and colonised, and calls for this trend to be deconstructed by breaking the power structures that persist in international voluntary service.
• by Rebecca Pursell-Gotz and Alok Rath of VSO draws on research on blended approaches by VSO and Northumbria University and argues that the impact of international volunteers is greatest when programmes recognise the value of local models through blended models.

IVCO 2022 THINK PIECE COLLECTION

Following IVCO 2022, we will publish single-volume collections of the 13 think pieces we presented to you in the lead-up to the conference, in English, French and Spanish.

There is still (just a little) time to if you haven’t already.

We look forward to seeing many of you there!