What AU-VLP Does
In this context, the AUC developed in close consultation with the main stakeholders an online volunteering linkage platform (VLP) to provide an overview of volunteering and exchange programs.
Knowledge: Hub
It serves as a knowledge hub providing comprehensive information on volunteering policies, programs, and best practices across Africa.
Information: Gateway
It serves as an information gateway on volunteerism, connecting stakeholders with relevant data and opportunities.
Connection: Network
Connects volunteers and their organizations, fostering collaboration and community building across the continent.
The Need for the Volunteer Linkage Platform
The African landscape of volunteers and exchanges includes wide range of programs, policies, and stakeholders working at different levels (national, regional, continental and international) with little or no coordination.
The Volunteer Linkage Platform (VLP) comes as an instrument that brings together all stakeholders and creates a space for information exchange and data generation that can be leveraged to improve volunteerism in Africa.
Provide an overview of volunteering and youth exchange policies, programmes and statistics searchable by region, country, thematic area and target group
Provide volunteer practitioners and volunteers the opportunity to learn from each other and exchange in the frame of communities of practice
Provide a space for the provision of tools and good practices
Provide volunteer organizations with possibilities to showcase their programs and volunteering efforts
Provide young people on the African continent with the possibility to learn more about the benefits of volunteering and to search for volunteering and exchange opportunities
Marketplace for Volunteer Initiatives
The VLP is conceived as a marketplace for volunteer initiatives and actors on the African continent, providing information and connecting stakeholders across the ecosystem.
Continental Integration
Embedded into the Continental Volunteer Linkage Platform, creating unified standards across Africa.
The Continental Volunteer Linkage Platform
The Volunteer Linkage Platform is embedded into the Continental Volunteer Linkage Platform, a platform aiming at:
Continental Volunteerism Standards
Developing policies on volunteerism through a Continental Volunteerism Standards and guiding principles – to set minimum standards and common understanding for regional, national and community volunteerism in Africa.
Online Volunteer Linkage Platform
Creating an online Volunteer linkage platform, a volunteerism mapping and knowledge management online platform as a single access point for volunteerism in Africa.
Technical Support & Tools
Facilitating technical support from a pool of tools on volunteerism including the Volunteer Management System (VMS) to regional, national and community-based volunteer initiatives in Africa.
Creating Lasting Change Across Africa
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Collaborating for Greater Impact
Government Agencies
Partnering with AU member state governments to align volunteer efforts with national development goals.
NGOs & Civil Society
Collaborating with grassroots organizations to ensure volunteer efforts reach communities that need them most.
Private Sector
Working with businesses to create corporate volunteering programs that benefit both companies and communities.