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National UNV Programme

National United Nations Volunteers

National United Nations volunteers are young people geared towards playing a more important role in democratic governance and being agents of peaceful change in the community. This recent recruitment of national UNV volunteers is working in partnership with the Enhanced Public Trust, Security and Inclusion (EPTSI) project and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme.

They will be working towards achieving the objectives of the EPTSI project since the project is tasked with determining a creative way to bridge the gap between economic stability for Youth and to have them act as agents for peaceful change.

This present group of national UNV volunteers is the largest recruitment of volunteers in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. Apart from this, the volunteers have the unique characteristic of being the youngest national UNV volunteers in the history of the UNV programmme.
The EPTSI national UNV programme aims to empower one hundred young people between the ages of 18 – 25 to serve as community youth facilitators.

The volunteers will undergo a rigorous development programme which will help in increasing the potential of their success in working in the community. The development programme will include training in democratic governance, community mobilization, conflict transformation and facilitation. This will enable them to reach out to other youths in the community.

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Extract

"The Guyana Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Report 2011 is a key monitoring instrument to access various socio-economic policies. The overall aim of the Report is to track and analyse the country's progress towards the achievement of the MDGs, but on a wider level, it serves as a report on national efforts to reduce poverty. The findings of the Report are expected to influence Government processes, decision-making and resource mobilization and allocation efforts. Furthermore, the key findings as a means to both enlighten and heighten development discussions among all national stakeholders, including Guyana development partners."

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Overview

“The advantage of economic growth is not that wealth increases happiness, but that it increases the range of human choice.”1 These words were written in 1955 by Arthur Lewis, a Caribbean scholar and Nobel laureate in economics who made an important contribution to the development debate and development policy in the Caribbean and elsewhere. It is a profoundly people-centred approach to economic growth that prefigured the later debates on human development.

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