The Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) project celebrated International Volunteer Day 2022 with the launch of a series of policy briefings and interactive games available for free download in Arabic, English, French and Swahili.
These resources share learning and recommendations developed from RYVU research activities in Uganda involving over 3,800 participants, including young and adult refugees, employers, government officials, and staff from humanitarian and development agencies and community-based organisations.
There are synergies between the experiences of refugees and volunteers in Uganda and the UK and these resources could be useful in activities here.
Two RYVU policy briefings share data, insights and recommendations on how to enhance the impacts of volunteering on refugee skills and employability, and how to promote fairer practices for recruiting, training and recognising refugee volunteer activity in ways that prevent volunteering from increasing the inequalities.
Three free downloadable RYVU interactive games provide fun, visual and creative tools to explore volunteers’ experiences and understandings of volunteering, sharing ideas and insight for improving the policies and practices that shape refugee engagement in volunteering: RYVU Volunteering Journey; RYVU Volunteering Diamond; and RYVU Photo Pairing Game.
An international collaborative research project aiming to:
- Develop new understandings of volunteering that reflect the experiences of refugees in Uganda
- Build knowledge on the relationships between volunteering and the livelihoods of displaced young people
- Investigate how these impact on their skills, employability and the inequalities they experience.
Find out more about RYVU here and get in touch with the RYVU team to share your feedback from using the games or resources, if you want to talk about the research or if you would like to collaborate with the research team to support your work with volunteers.
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