IVCO 2022 Framing Paper: A New Dawn: Strategic Pathways for the Future of Volunteering in Development IVCO 2022 Framing Paper

A New Dawn: Strategic Pathways for the Future of Volunteering in Development is a framing paper for the IVCO 2022 Conference. In order to help frame and inform conversations at IVCO, this paper summarises the key points and considerations that emerged from Forum’s Collective Strategy Process. This process included 31 conversations with Forum members and 10 external stakeholders between May and August 2022.

A New Dawn takes as its starting point the challenges and opportunities that volunteer-involving organisations have experienced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other phenomena including an ever-strengthening global movement for climate justice, greater recognition of the need for localisation, changes in how people volunteer and what organisations and communities need, and much more.

It sets out a strategy for volunteering in development for the next three to five years, for Forum members and the wider sector, and offers possible pathways to help organisations prioritise and effectively navigate the post-COVID environment.

This paper was written by  Nick Ockenden, an independent research, evaluation and strategy consultant specialising in international volunteering who led Forum’s Collective Strategy Process (www.nickockenden.com).

The Framing Paper is also available in French and Spanish:

• Document d’Encadrement IVCO 2022 – Une Nouvelle Aube – Parcours stratégique pour le futur du volontariat dans le développement
• Presentación del Documento de IVCO 2022 – Un Nuevo Comienzo – Vías Estratégicas para el Futuro del Voluntariado en Desarrollo

Forum has also published a companion piece to this paper, a Report for Forum Members, which was also written by Nick Ockenden based on the Collective Strategy Process and which offers more detail for Forum’s member organisations and considerations for Forum itself. That paper can be accessed here.