UNV Strategic Framework 2014-2017

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C. WORKING WITH OTHER KEY PARTNERS FOR VOLUNTEERISM partnerships effectively, a reinvigorated strategic approach will be implemented to support the objectives of this Strategic Framework during 2014-17. Specifically, UNV will: (i) reaffirm the excellent relations with traditional partners which has allowed it to innovate and grow; (ii) additionally focus on particular partnerships with the emerging global south, working with these countries to seek to add value; and (iii) seek to develop new partnerships with foundations and the private sector, acknowledging that this will require a longer-term view, as UNV breaks new ground, to ensure it is done successfully.

PARTNERSHIPS FOR RESULTS

73. This Framework envisions a broader role for UNV to enhance capacities and widen opportunities for integrating volunteerism at the country, regional and global levels. This will be done with a multitude of stakeholders and partners, some new and some existing; including UN Member States, UN entities, institutional and intergovernmental actors, the corporate private sector, foundations, academia, civil society, youth organizations and other partners. UNV already engages successfully with many partners in support of its mandate, both in programmatic engagements at the country level as well as in regional and global programming, knowledge building and advocacy for the importance of volunteering for peace and development. In order to further leverage

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National UN Volunteer Karima Djazairi (left), Food Monitor with UNHCR in Tindouf, Algeria, is interviewing a Sahrawi refugee (in one of several Sahrawi refugee camps in the vicinity of Tindouf) regarding the use of UN-distributed food commodities by her family. (Jan Snoeks/UNV, 2013)


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