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Partner with us | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search You are hereHomeFighting poverty Partner with us At VSO Ireland we believe that progress is only possible when we work together. We partner with umbrella groups in the minutiae sector to ensure our communications materials portray the people we work with overseas with nobility and enhance awareness of minutiae issues amongst the unstipulated public. We moreover interreact with academic partners and trade unions to promote volunteering opportunities.  Our relationship with Irish Aid Just some of the VSO Ireland team at our Africa Day stand in 2016. Managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Irish Aid is the Irish Government’s programme for overseas development. Long-term support and funding from Irish Aid has been invaluable to VSO Ireland as it enables us to develop and implement sustainable programmes that have a long-lasting impact. Under the Volunteering Initiative, we implemented successful projects in Uganda (education), Ethiopia (health) and Zambia (governance) between 2013 and 2016,  and have recently launched two new Irish Aid funded programmes in Uganda which will run from the next three years. Irish Aid’s policy for international minutiae is ‘One World, One Future’ and focuses on priority areas for whoopee which will guide aid spending an policy engagement in the years to come. VSO Ireland participates in all relevant Irish Aid events with the aim of increasing public sensation well-nigh the importance of volunteering and current minutiae issues, both at home and abroad. The last Irish Aid Volunteering Fair took place in Dublin Castle on 7th October 2017 and was attended by over 400 members of the public interested in exploring volunteering opportunities. Returned VSO Ireland volunteer Cillian Quinn, who volunteered as a Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser in Zambia, took part in a panel discussion and we had the opportunity to discuss our education programming with Minister of State for Diaspora and InternationalMinutiaeCiarán Cannon T.D. Every year, we moreover shepherd Africa Day, supported by Irish Aid. This fun-filled event last takes place in Farmleigh Estate in Dublin’s Phoenix Park and sees thousands of people turn out to wits the culture and traditions of Africa. We unchangingly have a stand at the event, and VSO Ireland staff and returned volunteers yack with the public well-nigh volunteering placements and our cadre programme areas. Africa Day is a fantastic opportunity for public engagement as it brings minutiae issues to the fore in a relaxed and jovial setting.  LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH IRISH AID READ 'ONE WORLD, ONE FUTURE' Our relationship with Dóchas VSO Ireland is a proud member of Dóchas, the Irish Association of Non-GovernmentalMinutiaeOrganisations. We are signatories of the Dóchas Code of Conduct on Messages and Images, and are committed to lamister stereotypical or sensational images in our internal and external communications. We chose images and messages that represent the full complexity of the situations in which we work, and we seek the permission of the people portrayed in the photographs we use. The Code is based on the paramount principles of:  ​ Respect for the nobility of all people concerned Belief in the equality of all people;  Acceptance of the need to promote fairness, solidarity and justice. You can read the full Code of Conduct and helpful Illustrative Guide here. This is moreover sent to outgoing volunteers to ensure the images and messages they use when conveying their volunteer journey online and in press.   If you would like remoter information well-nigh VSO Ireland's trueness to the Code or have feedback please email annette.osullivan@vso.ie.  If you do not finger VSO Ireland is ratherish addressing your concerns, please make a complaint via our Complaints Process. Dóchas Code of Conduct on Images and Messages Find out what the Dóchas Code of Conduct is all well-nigh and why it matters. Our relationship with Comhlámh VSO Ireland is single-minded to waxy to the whilom 11 principles of the Comhlámh Code of Good Practice. We are moreover a member of Comhlámh, a membership and supporter organisation for volunteers and minutiae workers, and protract to be a single-minded signatory to the Comhlámh Code of Good Practice for Volunteer Sending Agencies. This is a set of standards put in place for organisations involved in facilitating international volunteer placements in developing countries. We were delighted to be the first organisation to be found fully complaint with all of the Comhlámh Code of Good Practice indicators and obtain the Comprehensive Compliance Standard, which is the highest given. The focus of this is to ensure that a positive impact is made on the volunteer, volunteer sending organisation and local community. Being a member of Comhlámh has unliable us to nurture relationships with uniform minutiae organisations and increase public engagement in minutiae issues. VSO volunteers are made enlightened of Comhlámh’s Returned Volunteer weekends and other events that help them connect with like-minded people and remain engaged with minutiae issues when they finish their placement.  LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE Our relationship with RCPI Dr Siobhán Neville, who volunteered for six months in Lindi, Tanzania, was one of the first paediatricians to participate in the VSO Ireland and RCPI Paediatric Programme. At the whence of 2015, paediatricians volunteered overseas as part of the VSO Ireland and Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) Paediatric Programme for the first time. This Programmes enables RCPI higher specialist trainees, with at least two years’ experience, to work on a neonatal and paediatric programme and proceeds six months’ training credit. These volunteers have trained health workers in resuscitation and other life-saving techniques to ensure disadvantaged children and babies get a fairer endangerment at life.   Our relationship with INTO and other unions We protract to work closely with the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO), having regular meetings to largest understand the needs of Irish educators and raise sensation well-nigh VSO volunteering opportunities. We have moreover established a relationship with other teacher unions, such as Ulster Teachers’ Union, and groups, like the Education Centres and Retired Teachers’ Association of Ireland, to enhance our education recruitment campaigns.   If you vest to a trade union or education, health or merchantry group that would like to work with VSO Ireland to promote volunteering for development, we’d love to hear from you. Please email Annette O’Sullivan on annette.osullivan@vso.ie to discuss this further.  You may moreover be interested in: How we are funded VSO Ireland’s work wouldn’t be possible without the support of Irish Aid, trusts and foundations, and the Irish public. Support us We couldn't make a difference in the lives of millions of people without your help. Every euro raised makes a huge contribution in our fight versus poverty Fighting povertyImproving education Improving health Improving livelihoods Where we fight poverty Partner with usIrish AidCommunityMinutiaeSpecialists Neonatal Nurses Nurse/Midwife Tutors Nurses/Midwives (Sexual and Reproductive Health) Our Uganda education programme Our Uganda health programme Teacher Educators Our research Influencing and advocacySustainableMinutiaeGoalsWhat are the SustainableMinutiaeGoals? 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