Online Volunteer Opportunity in Mapping Environmental Organizations from the UN

The United Nations , in cooperation with the Association for Community Awareness (ASCOA), is offering an online volunteer opportunity in Mapping Environmental Organizations. 

Background and Objectives:-

• ASCOA has a goal to enhance the quality of life of underserved communities and promote sustainable development in Africa and the world at large. 

• ASCOA’s efforts range from fostering environmental protection with special focus on plastic pollution and marine littering to increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS and combating related stigma, engaging in women empowerment, child support, peacebuilding, and taking care of the displaced population. 

• As an NGO, ASCOA works together with international and African partner organizations for community outreach and education to create sustainable local communities and fight against climate change and the discrimination within the society. 

• The project will help to promote the organization and enhance its capabilities in areas related to environment protection through ASCOA’s dedicated environmental unit called GWCN (Global Waste Cleaning Network).

Requirements:-

• The candidate has to have a success track record of developing strong relationship with member organizations and/or prospects/stakeholders, strong interpersonal skills and excellent written and verbal communication
• The candidate  must be good at English. 

Tasks:-

• The volunteer will need to search for potential organizations that can join ASCOA's environmental network and communicate with them in order to register them as members. 

• Such members could be NGOs, Educational Institutions or Private Companies working in the Environmental field or Clean (Renewable) Energy sector. 

• The volunteer will be given 8 countries depending on his/her preference. In each of these countries, he will need to work on bringing in 5 organizational members.

Conditions:-

• By registering, you accept that you do not make any financial claims to organizations or to UNV.
• You could check the
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• You will need to work 6-10 hours per week for 8 weeks.
• The UN needs 3 volunteers for this opportunity.

About UN Volunteers:-

The United Nations Volunteers programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for recognition of volunteers, working with partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing an increasing number and diversity of volunteers, including experienced UN Volunteers, throughout the world. UNV embraces volunteerism as universal and inclusive, and recognizes volunteerism in its diversity as well as the values that sustain it: free will, commitment, engagement and solidarity.

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