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Our research and evaluations | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search You are hereHomeFighting poverty Our research and evaluations Research: Livelihoods programming and the Capability Approach This research collaboration worked with selected VSO programmes to explore well-nigh how the Capability Approach can help VSO unhook its People First Strategy in Livelihood programming. Find out increasingly well-nigh the research Research: Impact vastitude volunteering VSO’s Impact vastitude volunteering study explores how the wits of volunteering creates lasting changes in VSO volunteers themselves, impacting their future behaviour, career choices and influence on others. It draws on data from more than 2,700 volunteer alumni from wideness Africa, Asia and Europe to find that the majority of volunteers are increasingly socially zippy as a result of their experience. Find out increasingly well-nigh the research Research: Valuing volunteering Four volunteer researchers worked in four countries (the Philippines, Kenya, Nepal and Mozambique) used participatory whoopee methods to determine the unique value of volunteering in international development. Most previous studies focussed on the effect volunteering has on the volunteers themselves, there has been little documentation of the impact volunteering creates. VSO has unchangingly believed that people are the weightier teachers of change, and this research now provides vestige for volunteers’ unique contribution to reducing poverty. Find out increasingly well-nigh the research Research: Women in Power This report focuses on the lack of power that women have to influence visualization making compared to men. Our thinking on women’s equal role in public and political life Why we consider this equal role to be vital Assesses gaps in power, and outlines barriers to participation and influence The report concludes by setting out how these priorities will integrate into real work on the ground. Read the full report on Women in Power here [PDF]  Research: Volunteerism and the post-2015 voucher Written to emphasise the positive contributions volunteers make so the SustainableMinutiaeGoals (SDGs) acknowledge and support this vital resource. The emerging findings from the 'Valuing Volunteering' research helped to inform the vestige wiring for this paper. Read the full report [PDF] Evaluations Evaluations of our projects and programmes are hair-trigger to largest understand the contribution we make in delivering sustainable development. Find out increasingly well-nigh VSO evaluations, including our meta-evaluation and synthesis review VSO evaluation strategy 2017 How we'll embed a culture of learning and evaluation within the organisation by 2017. Valuing Teachers research VSO's research series revealed poor salaries, training, management and working conditions that are demoralising teachers and endangering education in developing countries. 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? VolunteeringWhy volunteer with VSO Volunteering for professionals & specialists Where we volunteer Events Support VSO IrelandMake a donation Fundraise for VSO Former volunteers & staff Keep in Touch VSO Facebook page VSO Twitter page VSO Youtube page VSO Linkedin page Stay Updated Sign up to our newsletter Blog Media centreWell-nighVSO Ireland Contact us "Sharing skills, waffly lives" VSO Ireland is registered in Ireland (number 351799) at 7 Whitefriars, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Registered soft-heartedness in Ireland (number CHY15048). Data protection and privacy Cookies Modern Slavery Statement