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Mission and objectives
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that supports human development globally by promoting volunteerism and by mobilizing volunteers. It is administered by UNDP and operates amidst growing recognition that volunteerism makes important contributions, economically and socially, to more cohesive societies by building trust and reciprocity among citizens.UNV Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) provides oversight and strategic guidance to the UNV Field Units in their respective geographical assignments and is mainly accountable for the placement of UN Volunteers mobilized for UN Agencies, Funds, and Programmes focused on peace, development and humanitarian needs. Furthermore, ROAS represents and strategically positions UNV in the region, bringing UNV’s services and solutions closer to its partners from governments, UN entities, civil society, and the private sector. The Regional Office also leads to scoping and delivering UNV’s advisory service offer on volunteer infrastructure.
Context
The State of the World' Volunteerism Report is a UN flagship report that is published every 3-4 years. It provides new evidence on the contributions of the world’s volunteers to peace and development, and demonstrates how volunteers can be a transformative force in implementing the 2030 Agenda. The translated documents will be used in a webinar that is supposed to prepare and discuss the work on the next State of the World's Volunteerism report (2025). The webinar is going to collect feedback from relevant stakeholders on the draft conceptual framework of the report. To advance the measurement of volunteerism, three interconnected challenges need to be overcome: • limited data sets on volunteering • difficulties in comparing data sets due to the use of different tools and methodologies • absence of an overarching measurement framework. The next edition of UNV’s the State of the World’s Volunteerism Report (SWVR) 2025 on measurement will seek to make progress in overcoming these challenges through the development of an overarching measuring framework.
Task description
We are seeking two Online Volunteers to support us by translating [presentation, agenda and webinar questions] on volunteering and the measurement of volunteering from English to Arabic. To this end the Online Volunteers are asked: - To translate the presentation, which is 17 slides long into Arabic - Ensure the translation is concise, in line with our communications guidelines, and fits the audience - To translate the document with guiding questions, which is one page/117 words long into Arabic - Ensure the translation is concise, in line with our communications guidelines, and fits the audience - To translate the agenda, which is two pages/369 words long into Arabic - Ensure the translation is concise, in line with our communications guidelines, and fits the audience The selected Online Volunteers will be provided with the documents in the original language and will receive guidance on the target audience and our communications guidelines as well as other guidance as needed. The Online Volunteers will have the opportunity learn about the ways in which the translated product contributes to the development of the State of the World's Volunteerism Report.