UN Volunteers – Moving forward

UNVUN Volunteers supports peace and development through the promotion of volunteerism and the mobilization of volunteers worldwide. It hires professionals to work as UN Volunteers alongside UN staff for over 30 other other UN organisations, such as DPKOUN Department of Peacekeeping or UNDPUnited Nations Development Programme , in over 100 professional areas.
Besides being a plus for your CV, [as UNV] you gain field experience, get to know other cultures and learn to live in unfamiliar circumstances.
In the framework of cinfo's collaboration with the Swiss Government and UNVUN Volunteers aimed at attracting more Swiss professionals for UNV assignments, cinfo conducted a survey in 2014 that evaluates the effect of a first UNV assignment on career perspectives and further employment in international cooperation (IC).
The results are overwhelming: 2 years after their first mission as a UNV, 87% of Swiss UN Volunteers work in IC, with more than 30% in the UN. For this reason, Switzerland continues to fund UN Youth Volunteer assignments and outreach activities for UNV specialists through cinfo.
Read the full report or a summary here.
cinfo offers additional information and services exclusively for Swiss nationals.
UNVs speak about volunteerism at the Partnerships Forum in Bonn on 13 October 2016:
Geraldine Becchi is working as a Partnership Development Specialist at UNV.