Volunteer Participation in Working with the Urban Poor (UNDP - UNV, 64 p.)

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Introduction

Note on terminology and abbreviations

Summary

I. Urbanisation: recognition and response

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Urbanisation and poverty

Response to urbanisation

Recognition of ''Self-help'' initiatives

II. Insights derived from community-based programmes

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Urban informal sector

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Micro-enterprise promotion

Working conditions in the informal sector

The ILO experience

Low-income housing

Infrastructure and basic services

Health and HIV/AIDS prevention

Non-formal education and functional literacy

Women, gender and development

Children of the street

Implications for VSAs

III. Towards a community-based strategy for VSAs

Participation: how and for whose benefit?

A sense of ''community''

General characteristics of low-income urban communities

Factors determining support possibilities

General characteristics of CBOs

Support channels and intermediaries

IV. Programming concerns for VSAs and UNV

Guidelines for involvement

Success criteria for volunteer involvement

Taking the initiative

Flexibility

Meeting personnel and associated needs

Channels of operation

United Nations Agencies and their partners

Funding and other programme concerns

V. Principles and characteristics of volunteer use

Functions and volunteers

Qualities of VDWs

Teams

Skill requirements and experiences

Selection and placement process

Acculturation and language training process

Epilogue: follow-up, 1995

Annotated reference list

Annex: Excerpts from background papers

Urban development policy issues and the role of united nations volunteers

Working with the urban poor: lessons from the experience of metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria

Brief account of my experience as a DDS field worker and a UNV in Sri Lanka and Jamaica

Special consultation on volunteer participation in working with the urban poor