Voluntary Action Network India

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (2000 2003)

Global action should be based on multilateral voluntary action and moral pressure, on cooperation rather than confrontation.

YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action) is an NGO based in India.

Opportunities for citizens to be engaged through voluntary action at the local level and have their action recorded and recognized are steadily expanding.

66. Reproductive rights and voluntary family planning were the centrepiece of the Cairo Programme of Action.

5.42 The Mine Action Service is funded from the support account for peacekeeping operations and the Voluntary Trust Fund for assistance in Mine Action.

The present report has provided many examples of how voluntary action is being facilitated at all levels.

Print and broadcast media coverage of voluntary action has grown steadily in a number of countries since 2001.

Noting the increasing voluntary use of collective action clauses in sovereign bond contracts by both developing and developed countries,

The HIV AIDS pandemic appears to have catalysed voluntary action from communities in support of victims and their families.

In Colombia, the government department concerned with coordinating the country's solidarity economy has been tasked with facilitating voluntary action.

Bolivia is an example of a developing country whose economic and social planning reflects the contribution of voluntary action.

Some websites, for example at the World Food Programme, carry articles on voluntary action in their areas of specialization.

More efforts are needed to disseminate information about the rich diversity of voluntary action, stressing the value of all forms of voluntary participation, including mutual aid and campaigning alongside service oriented volunteer work.

This has given rise to a variety of efforts to promote and facilitate voluntary action among specific segments of the population.

At the level of targeted populations, several United Nations organizations are mobilizing voluntary action through the projects and programmes they support.

However, Governments, supported by the United Nations system, should recognize the needs and potential of all segments of the population to participate through voluntary action and should actively facilitate such action.

Welcoming the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action,

Welcoming the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action,

It would be necessary to secure a greater flow of resources, including into the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action.

It had submitted a voluntary report under article 7 of the Ottawa Convention, and was engaged in a comprehensive mine action programme.

4. Decides further that voluntary submission of national information, for example national action plans or national reports by Governments, should be encouraged

For other Parties, voluntary approaches are used to heighten awareness and to encourage public pledges to take action to mitigate GHG emissions.

It is in this context that the Department assumed coordinating responsibilities for mine action, including the management of the Voluntary Trust Fund.

The International Year of Volunteers played a very important part in raising awareness in many countries as regards the role and contribution of voluntary action in almost every sphere of human development and led, in many cases, to the introduction or strengthening of proactive approaches at the national level to supporting voluntary action.

Welcoming also the efforts by Member States to submit, on a voluntary basis, national reports on their implementation of the Programme of Action,

(d) Voluntary guidelines based on the Rio Forest Principles3 to support the implementation of the IPF IFF proposals for action on the ground

a Including 21 posts funded from the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action and 5 posts funded from the support account.

21. Also decides that the voluntary submission of national information, for example national action plans or national reports by Governments, should be encouraged

Some countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Uruguay, are seeing an increasing amount of radio and television time dedicated to discussions of voluntary action.

5. Appeals to Governments, regional organizations and other donors to continue their support to mine action through further contributions, including contributions through the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action, to allow for the timely delivery of mine action assistance in emergency situations

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Further sustained effort is needed to increase awareness and recognition among policymakers and planners in developing countries of the nature of voluntary action within specific local contexts and of the contribution such action makes to societies.

CECOEDECON has no specific relations with international organizations, but it works actively with the Voluntary Action Network India (VANI), which has ECOSOC special consultative status.

17. Considers that voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination are indispensable for the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Third Decade

(c) Reliable, predictable and timely contributions for mine action activities, including through national mine action efforts and humanitarian mine action programmes of non governmental organizations, including those relating to victim assistance and mine risk education, especially at the local level, as well as through the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action and relevant regional trust funds for assistance in mine action

(c) Reliable, predictable and timely contributions for mine action activities, including through national mine action efforts and humanitarian mine action programmes of non governmental organizations, including those relating to victim assistance and mine risk education, especially at the local level, as well as through the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action and relevant regional trust funds for assistance in mine action

(c) Reliable, predictable and timely contributions for mine action activities, including through national mine action efforts and humanitarian mine action programmes of non governmental organizations, including those relating to victim assistance and mine risk education, especially at the local level, as well as through the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action and relevant regional trust funds for assistance in mine action