Workshop 2:

Children and
vulnerable adults protection

The experience of AFVP:

Context and
preventive practices.

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 The experience of AFVP:
Context and
preventive practices.

1. A specific national legislative frame

2. Adapted Modalities
3. A functional organization
4. A ratio to be respected:
number of volunteers / number of employees
5. An asserted and exposed Ethics

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z 1. A specific national legislative frame :

1. 1.1.- A recent law on the VIS ( 2005 ): an updated and adapted law

2. 1.2.- Sending organization, approved by the French government, and thus competent.

3. 1.3.- A status clearly defined

4. 1.4. - Laws and rules which guarantee a good level of security and which prevent the
emergence of problematic situations

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1. A specific national legislative frame :

1. 1.4. Laws and rules which guarantee a good level of security and which prevent the
emergence of problematic situations
1. Every contract of VIS has to have a minimal duration of one year
2. Lasted total of voluntary contract limited to six years for every person;
3. Payment of an allowance. This one must be enough important so that the mission is
made in suitable living conditions;
4. Available housing for the volunteer;
5. Obligation - for the sending organisation - to pay the social welfare (disease, accident,
repatriation, etc.) for the volunteer and his legal successors (spouse and children of the
volunteer);
6. State pension for the volunteer.

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preventive practices.

2. Adapted Modalities :
1. 2.1.- About the volunteers:
z Before the departure : Selection (in 2 times); Training ; Information about the mission
z On the ground : Follow-up and monitoring
z After the return in Europe : Debriefing

1. 2.2.- About the host organisation (local NGO)

2. Evaluation and monitoring.
3. 2.3.- About the host country
4. Evaluation of the interest of each country for volunteers missions.
5. Where a potential risk remains latent (Haiti, Chad, etc.) the affectation of a representative
country (a staff member) is systematic before any opening of mission

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3. A functional organization :
1. 2.1.- At the headquarters:
2. Administrative and financial unit
3. Recruitment and selection of the volunteers
4. Training (training before the departure and debriefing on the way back)
5. Partnership and missions (evaluation, contract with partners, etc.)

1. 2.2.- In the host counties:

2. Regional manager: Southern Africa and Indian Ocean; Mediterranean Basin; Western
Africa ( 2 regions); Central Africa; Asia, Latin America and Caribbean’s countries.
3. For each region : A country managers and a person in charge of the accompaniment /
monitoring of the volunteers.

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preventive practices.

4. A ratio to be respected: number of volunteers / number of employees :

1. 2.1. At the headquarters:
2. 33 persons to the headquarters in Paris (employees under French law)
3. 2.2. In the host counties:
4. 45 persons on the ground among which 9 employees under French law and 36 employees
under foreigner law (20 executives and 16 assistants).
5. 2.3. Ratio:
Total number of employees of AFVP : 78 persons
Total number of volunteers : 400 in June 2008
Total number of volunteers expected : 500 in 2009
Maximal ratio for AFVP: 500 Volunteers / 80 employees

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preventive practices.

5. An asserted and exposed Ethics :

AFVP is member of the collective " Ethique sur l’Etiquette” (“Ethics on The label ")
which militates for promoting the respect for human rights to the work in the world.

The membership of the AFVP in " Ethique sur l’Etiquette " allows :
· A participation in the object of the collective : information and sensitization
· A clear display of the values carried by AFVP on the subject;
· The training of the Volunteers of Progress on the subjects carried by the collective.
At present the collective " Ethique sur l’Etiquette ", in link with several other international
movements ( " Clean Clothes Campaign " and " International textile garment and
leather workers federation “) lead a campaign, in the prospect of the Olympic Games.

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