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In-depth explorations of how our unique volunteering for development approach works to empower communities to create lasting change.
Latest insights
Volunteering together: Do we really know how it works?
VSO’s collaboration with the research team from Northumbria University sets out to interrogate how a blend of different types of volunteering approaches might create an impact.
Pandemic deepens period poverty
Nepal must tackle menstrual hygiene and taboos during the lockdown, or risk losing a generation of girls.
Going above and beyond to support women entrepreneurs
Whether in the UK or Uganda, there’s growing evidence that the pressures of lockdown and the associated economic downturn will lead to a regression in women’s rights and gender equality.
COVID-19, poverty and inequality
Why we need the volunteering for development approach as a capability response.
Technology is an enabler, not a panacea. Here’s how we should use it.
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a lasting legacy in terms of how we use technology to deliver development programs around the world.
What role for charities amid the growth of the ‘informal sector’?
It’s vital to move beyond artificial divisions between the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ sectors to a new spirit of active citizenship
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Volunteering for development
Our unique volunteering for development approach puts the most marginalised people first.
Our work
We fight inequality not by sending aid, but by working through volunteers and partners to create long-lasting change for some of the world’s most marginalized communities.
Partnerships
At VSO, we believe progress is only possible when we work together.