Why is volunteerism underestimated in development? Sarah Huxley provides her thoughts after attending the launch of the first United Nations Volunteers report on the state of volunteerism, and reflects on what is holding back the role of volunteerism in development....
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About: Sarah Huxley
Sarah has been actively engaged in child/youth-focused development work since 1999, including direct experience in program management, capacity building and policy research in Nepal, Uganda and the UK, with a diverse range of organisations, including small NGOs, international agencies and the UN. Sarah’s special areas of interest and expertise are participation,/governance, youth policy/strategy, child rights, education, protection and post conflict transitions. From 2008-2010 she was the Project Manager and lead writer for the ‘Youth Participation in Development’ guideYouth Guidance Project, which was initiated by the DFID- Civil Society Working Group on Youth (see: http://www.ygproject.org).
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