Participation for Social Change workshop presentation B5 at the 20th IAVE WORLD VOLUNTEER CONFERENCE
Panama, April 3 2008
Raquel Coello Cremades
Regional Technical Coordinator
UNV/UNIFEM Project Engendering Budgets, Engaging Women: Valuing women’s volunteer contribution to development in Latin America
Outline
Participation as a way of volunteering: The expert committee on volunteering organized by the United Nations on November 1999, defined participation as one of the 4 ways of volunteering (together with self-help, philanthropy and the organization of campaigns)
COMMON UNDERSTANDING
Women’s great contribution to development not sufficiently recognized.
Women have less capacities to engage in participatory process
Strategies / Activities
Sensitization
Capacity building - qualify the participation
Networking
Policy advocacy and dialogue
Changes in the development model
Changes to deepen the democratic system
Changes in social relations and power dynamics
Changes in the volunteers their own
Self conscious of their capacity to produce changes
Governance
Strengthening democratic system
Institutional capacities to give a more adequate response to social demands
Gender equality
awareness of women’s rights and discrimination
equal participation in decision making spheres
Public Policies for gender equality and resources allocated
Conclusions and lessons learned
Thank You !!!
