January 21, 2010
Participation for Social Change by Raquel Coello Cremades
IAVE IRC
Workshop presentation at the 20th IAVE World Volunteer Conference, Panama 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)
The UNV/UNIFEM Project
- 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 à qualify the participation
- Networking
- Policy advocacy and dialogue
Contribution of volunteering to social change
- 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 !!!
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