International and regional volunteering

• International Voluntary Service in SADC: Host organisation perspectives from Mozambique and Tanzania
  
  In 2010 VOSESA received funding from Trust Africa to conduct a study on the effects of international voluntary service on host communities, host organisations and volunteers in southern Africa. The study comprised qualitative and quantitative components and focused on two major European international volunteering programmes in the SADC Region: The German weltwärts programme, which is the largest international volunteering programme operating in southern Africa, and the International Cultural Youth Exchange (ICYE), which also has a presence in the SADC region.

  The qualitative piece was conducted in October 2010 in Tanzania and Mozambique using a comparative case study design and focused on host organisations and host communities’ perceptions of the effects of international volunteers. An adapted version of the International Volunteering Impacts Survey (IVIS), developed by the Center for Social Development at the Washington University, St. Louis, MO was electronically administered to volunteers sent worldwide by International Cultural Youth Exchange (ICYE) and volunteers sent to African countries by the German weltwärts programme.

  For the executive summary, click here.

  For the full report, click here.
  
  For a copy of the volunteer survey only, click here.

• Mapping international volunteering in southern Africa
  
  Between June and August 2010, VOSESA developed and fielded a short online survey aimed at mapping the number and type of volunteers coming to the southern African region annually. The survey was sent out to a sample of approximately 201 international volunteer sending organisations. The sample was drawn from a report produced by  IVCO Forum in 2009 on international volunteer-sending organisations, as well as a list of ICYE programmes and a list of the Weltwärts programme implementing partners. Of the organisations surveyed, 61 responded from the following countries: Germany (27), United Kingdom (9), France, (5), Switzerland (4), Canada (3) Ireland (2), United States (2), Norway (2), South Africa (2), South Korea (1), Finland (1) Hungary (1), Ghana (1) and New Zealand (1). Initial data analysis was conducted on the survey in September 2010 and a short report was written up in November 2010 on the key findings. A final report will be shared in the course of 2011.

   

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