TITLE: Volunteers in the Valencian Community committed and trained in Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals - Horizon 2030

Funder: Generalitat Valenciana
Grant amount: €31,764.52
Start date: 01/05/2021
End date: 29/04/2022

The present project aims to ensure that all those volunteers who have joined a third sector entity in the Valencian Community, committed to the defense and promotion of human rights, and who altruistically help in the various social activities carried out within it, embrace the global objectives of the 2030 Agenda.

The 2030 Agenda explicitly recognizes that volunteering can support sustainable development by fostering local ownership of the SDGs. Given that inequality is one of the most significant challenges hindering progress toward achieving the SDGs, volunteering has enormous potential to engage often-excluded groups, either as volunteers or beneficiaries. Volunteering also works to promote environmental sustainability and empower women, overcoming gender inequality by helping them acquire valuable leadership skills, knowledge, and confidence to challenge traditional gender norms.

Given the increasingly prominent role of volunteers in civil society organizations, at FxJ we wanted to maximize their potential as accelerators of progress toward the SDGs. We believe that volunteering is a powerful means of engaging everyone in working together to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, encouraging climate action and technical assistance that contribute, as much as possible, to achieving a world free from poverty, hunger, inequality, and war.

Undoubtedly, through volunteering, people become part of the implementation of the SDGs by providing basic services, transferring their knowledge, and employing efficient methods for raising awareness and monitoring their progress.

To carry out this work, volunteers must have adequate support and be fully integrated into the efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda. That is why FxJ has launched this training program on Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals, aiming to provide an effective tool that addresses the complexity of the SDGs and combats the lack of awareness among volunteers regarding the 2030 Agenda. In this way, we ensure that volunteers are sufficiently equipped to offer appropriate solutions to the enormous challenges they currently face, playing an even more significant role in achieving the SDGs.

The potential of volunteering as a means of embracing the 2030 Agenda will be increased not only through the service-learning methodology incorporated into the training course, but also through the creation of alliances with other third-sector entities. These alliances will enable the creation of new channels and opportunities for broader participation of volunteers and the building of a network of engaged and critical volunteers committed to achieving the 2030 Agenda. Communicating from the local level allows us to begin fulfilling one of the fundamental principles of the SDGs: social inclusion, under the motto "leave no one behind.".

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