The ‘International Youth Day’ is commemorated every 12th August to recognise youth participation in development and youth contributions to global advancements. Several themes have been selected by the United Nations to celebrate the date since it was adopted in 1999, ranging from addressing issues that directly affect youths, or issues in which youth are key actors, such as education, peacebuilding and political inclusion…

The RYVU Team is pleased to share the recording of the webinar Volunteering, skills development and employability: reversing the narrative? which took place yesterday, 29 July 2021. Over 40 people joined an insightful discussion during which participants and speakers shared their views on volunteering, skills and employability from the perspectives of academics, practitioners and volunteers…

This is the second video of the series ‘RYVU Snapshots’ which aims to disseminate findings and reflections emerging from the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda research. Each snapshot will feature project team members and also partners sharing insights related to RYVU’s work in around 2 minutes to open up conversations in volunteering and development spaces, particularly among youth.

As a follow up to the discussions during the UNESCO Chair on Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work, Gulu University Conference in April, the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) team is now hosting a webinar on the theme: Volunteering, skills development and employability: reversing the narrative?…

On 15 July, World Youth Skills Day, the RYVU team joined the launch of the Youth and Transitions Hub of the Open University’s Centre for the Study of Global Development. The Hub hosted the panel “Post-pandemic recovery: How can marginalised youth be supported in Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the labour market?“…

On this World Youth Skills Day 2021, we are happy to launch ‘RYVU Snapshots’, a series of short videos to disseminate findings and reflections emerging from the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda research. Each snapshot will bring key ideas drawing upon RYVU’s work to open up conversations in volunteering and development spaces, particularly among youth…

The annual conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) was organised online by the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in July 2021. The central theme of the conference was “Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice”…

The Centre for International Development at Northumbria University, with the support of the UK Development Studies Association (DSA), hosted in June 2021 the series of online workshops “Decolonial Chats” that was aimed at students, early-career researchers and development practitioners, interrogating how coloniality is…

We are delighted to be able to share our latest blog post written by Dr Owen Boyle, RYVU Project Officer, outlining his experiences of working on the RYVU survey…

The RYVU team was very pleased to join the UNESCO Chair on Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work, Gulu University Conference, on 25-28 April 2021. The conference format was hybrid, with live sessions happening in Gulu, Uganda, and also livestreams and online panel sessions…

Click here to download the full newsletter with the latest updates from April 2021.

We are excited to share this magazine article co-authored by Dr. Rachel Clarke together with RYVU team member Dr. Cuthbert Tukundane. It was published as the cover story of the latest March-April 2021 issue of ACM Interactions magazine…

We are delighted to present our second Working Paper on Refugees and Volunteering in Uganda by Robert Turyamureeba, Frank Ahimbisibwe, Bianca Fadel & Aisling O’Loghlen…

We are delighted to present our first Working Paper on Volunteering, Skills and Livelihoods in Uganda by Moses Okech, Matt Baillie Smith & Sarah Mills…

Click here to download the full newsletter with the latest updates from November 2020…

Following successful visits to BidiBidi and Rwamwanja to consult our youth advisory boards on how best to restart the work, Robert and Moses have been finalising preparations, including procuring additional transport…

Click here to see and download an updated version of the RYVU Postcard including information on the research permissions and Covid-19 precautions…

We are delighted to share that Professor Peter Kanyandago was invited as a key speaker to present at the Global Technical Meeting “Re-imagining Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda” (GTM 2020). The GTM2020 took place virtually on 13-16 July 2020 as a special event during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2020…

The annual conference of the UK Development Studies Association (DSA) took place online in July 2020 on the theme ‘New leadership for global challenges’…

Click here to read and download the blog post (full text also available below)…