Voluntary Service Overseas

Active Citizenship Through Inclusive Volunteering & Empowerment (ACTIVE)

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Description

The long-term impact of the ACTIVE grant is to contribute to more inclusive, open, resilient and gender equitable societies. The focus of ACTIVE is to increase local accountability, inclusion and reduce poverty by identifying and empowering the most vulnerable and marginlised people (especially women and girls, the young and people with disabilities) to lead and shape their own development. It will support vulnerable and marginlised people to take-action on issues important to them. The programme will strengthen civil society and build a culture of volunteerism and civic engagement, whilst also building the capacity of governments and service providers to respond to the demands of marginalised citizens. By enabling people, and in turn, their organisations, and communities, to play a more active role in development, ACTIVE volunteering will continue to provide the means to achieve more sustainable change.

Objectives

Programme interventions will be implemented across 18 countries and focus on two mutually reinforcing pre-conditions for change: • Empower and build the agency and voice of the marginalised local people (especially women and girls, the young and people with disabilities) and civil society to come together, form networks, voice their concerns, engage others including policy makers and service providers, and influence in addressing the barriers they face. • Build the capacity of service providers, civil society, local authorities, national governments, and private sector to deliver better services, in a way that is inclusive and accountable, to the marginalised and vulnerable people. The Active programme will provide leadership and influence to ensure that governments, private sector and civil society organisations can use volunteering policies and practices to support marginalised people to own development processes in their countries and communities through advocacy, sensitization, and uptake of the Global Standard in volunteering for development. It is also expected that the programme will strengthen evidence and knowledge base on the impact of the VfD methodology in building local people and their collectives’ agency and participation as well as in promoting accountable service delivery. The programme therefore has four main inter-related outcomes: · Improved active citizenship by marginalized and vulnerable people and local volunteers · Improved access and delivery of quality better services in health, education and livelihoods for marginalized and vulnerable local people · Increased uptake and application of Global Standard for Volunteering · Improved evidence of and understanding on the effectiveness of the volunteering for development approach in citizens' empowerment and system's accountability.

Target Groups

Beneficiaries included vulnerable and marginlised people (especially women and girls, the young and people with disabilities), Civil society

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Bangladesh, Cambodia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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