Volume 46. Issue 5: What is the Unique Contribution of Volunteering to International Development
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Introduction: What is the Unique Contribution of Volunteering to International Development?
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)This editorial article introduces this IDS Bulletin on the value of volunteering. The issue is based on the global action research project Valuing Volunteering, undertaken in partnership between Voluntary Service Overseas ... -
The Changing Tides of Volunteering in Development: Discourse, Knowledge and Practice
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)This article explores the changing narratives of volunteering in development and the interplay of volunteering with global and local theories of how change happens. Firstly, we analyse the links between the evolution of ... -
Volunteering for Development within the New Ecosystem of International Development
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)This article explores the ways in which volunteering for development is changing in the context of the shifting wider ecology of international development. It draws on a two?year, action research project into the value of ... -
What's Different about How Volunteers Work? Relationship Building for Wellbeing and Change
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)This article looks at what happens when volunteering goes well. It provides a theoretical and empirical grounding for understanding how volunteers enable outcomes such as participation and cooperation in complex change ... -
Using Participatory Methodologies to Achieve Change in Valuing Volunteering
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)The global action research project Valuing Volunteering explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable positive change, and the factors that prevent it doing so. The research modelled ... -
The Impacts of Politics and Ethnicity on Volunteering
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)This article examines how national and local ethno?politics impact on volunteering by taking a cross?country comparative perspective: Kenya and Mozambique. In both countries societal fragmentation along ethno?political ... -
Learning from Communities: The Local Dynamics of Formal and Informal Volunteering in Korogocho, Kenya
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)Taking the Korogocho community as its starting point, this article explores the respective roles, dynamics and relationship between formal and informal volunteering. Following an overview of the research's participatory ... -
Appendix: Numbers of People who Participated in the Participatory Research
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How Participatory Practice can Help to Strengthen the Role of Volunteering in Sustainable Development: An Organisational Perspective
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/09/2015)The post?2015 development debates highlight that the experience of the poorest and most marginalised is one of exclusion due to power inequalities and discrimination. The Valuing Volunteering study demonstrated that ... -
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