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UNV-UNDP support to Regional Integration and Social Cohesion in South East Europe
Friday, May 28, 2004 - Within the framework of the RIVER SEE Programme (Regional Integration through Volunteers Exchanges for Reunion of SEE) UNV BiH, Albania and Kosovo, in collaboration with VSO, OneWorld, SEEYN, OKC, Albanian Red Cross and Albania Youth Council, is setting up a Volunteer Exchanges Support Structure in the Balkans. From May 24th to 28th in Sarajevo, Implementing Partner Organizations identified in Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, participated in the specialized training.
The participants have been trained in: volunteer management, strategic planning and preparation, recruitment and placement, orientation as well as monitoring and evaluation techniques with use of a multilingual web enabled database that supports the programme being filled with hundreds of potential volunteers and organizations willing to host them.
This programme, through promotion of volunteer engagements and mid-long term voluntary exchanges in SEE, tends to build up a regional integration and social cohesion, strengthen Civil Society Organizations networks, enhance self-confidence, individual capacity and cross-border co-operation, promote intercultural learning, social inclusion and a Partnership for Development.
Furthermore, by supporting cross-border cooperation, networking and exchanges through volunteerism, the initiative aims at significantly contribution to confidence building and lasting peace in the region.
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