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Volunteer Programs

Volunteer Programs—Illustrative Capabilities of the ME&A Team

We believe that bringing volunteers into IWCRM projects supported by USAID will significantly strengthen them in terms of their sustainability. We will identify areas where volunteers can be placed in both short and long-term projects and identify specific project areas where we think project activities will benefit most.

The Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs (CNFA), a Washington, DC-based not-for-profit organization, specializes in organizing and implementing programs for mobilizing American volunteers to work on international, agricultural, and economic development projects, will manage the team's Volunteer Program, mobilizing resources (a) to assist EGAT, other USAID staff, and USAID Country Missions in developing volunteer service mechanisms and activities in water and coastal resources management, and/or (b) to implement such mechanisms and activities. CNFA has mobilized more than 1,100 American farmers, natural resource experts, business people, financial experts, and others to volunteer their expertise in international development activities over the past decade under the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer and other programs. 

USAID recognized CNFA as a leader in volunteer mobilization by including it in the task force that EGAT set up in late 2002 to design the new Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA), and CNFA participated actively in that effort.  Since the creation of the VEGA alliance itself in late 2003, CNFA has played an active role in helping the Alliance define how it will organize itself to assist USAID and its Missions to make better and more extensive use of volunteers in development activities, and defining best practices in volunteer mobilization activities. CNFA is also a supporter of and participant in President Bush's Volunteers for Prosperity initiative.