This report summarises fndings from the global acton research project ‘Valuing Volunteering’. The research explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reducton and sustainable positve change, and the factors which prevent it from doing so. It looks at both the intended and unintended impacts of volunteering interventons.The literature review conducted for the research1 demonstrated that whilst there has been a wealth of research exploring how volunteering afects volunteers themselves, there has been very litleresearch exploring how volunteering actually brings about change for communites on the ground. Valuing Volunteering seeks to address this gap. The research was conducted over two years in 2012–14 in four countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal and the Philippines. Led by volunteer researchers and drawing on partcipatory acton research methodologies, the research engaged more than 3,700 people including local volunteer groups, community leaders, young people, teachers, health practtoners, community leaders, government ofcials and staf and volunteers from local, natonal and internatonal NGOs.Although the project was commissioned by VSO, its aim is to inform learning and practce across the development sector; four of the 12 case studies that inform this research relate specifcally to VSO projects and between them they cover a diverse range of volunteer interventons: from self-help and community volunteering through
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