United Nations Volunteers - East and Southern Africa

United Nations Volunteers (UNV) is the UN organization dedicated to fostering peace and development through volunteerism across the globe. In East and Southern Africa, UNV plays a critical role in addressing regional development challenges by leveraging the transformative power of volunteerism.

Volunteerism is a potent tool for engaging people in the quest to overcome development obstacles, significantly altering the speed and quality of development initiatives. It not only benefits society as a whole but also enriches the individual volunteer by building trust, solidarity, and reciprocity among community members, and by creating meaningful opportunities for active participation.

UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for the recognition of volunteers, collaborating with partners to integrate volunteerism into development programs, and mobilizing a growing and diverse cadre of volunteers, including experienced UN Volunteers. UNV embraces the universality and inclusivity of volunteerism, celebrating its diversity and the core values that underpin it: free will, commitment, engagement, and solidarity.

Operating from Bonn, Germany, UNV is active in around 130 countries each year. With Field Units in 60 countries, including several in East and Southern Africa, UNV's presence is bolstered through the offices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to which it reports.

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