Spire seeks applicants for Nepal project

This summer, Spire will be carrying out a pilot project in Nepal. Do you want to participate? Please send us your application!

The UNC team

To become a member of Spire you just send SPIRE and your e-mail address to 2434.

Union for Nature Conservation (UNC) is a new potential partner organization for Spire which shares much of our focus on environmental issues. This summer two Spire members will travel to Nepal to discuss the possibility for the two organizations to make partners, and how UNC and Spire can work together towards common goals. This is an exciting opportunity which is open for both old and new members of Spire.

The participants will in collaboration with Spires’s international committee and UNC, develope the work schedule for the stay during the spring. The participants are expected to spend about three hours per week to carry out necessary research, communicate with the main participants from UNC and prepare a presentation about Spire.

In Nepal, representatives from UNC and Spire will organize meetings where important issues are discussed (common political goals, possible strategies, etc). If the two organizations find collaboration interesting they will start the outline of a common project for 2015. In addition the participants will take part in a workshop involving several other Nepalese youth organizations. Here you will learn about youth work in Nepal, present Spire and how we work to influence politics in Norway, and not least get to know activists and engaged youths from Nepal.

Back in Norway, the two participants from Spire will present a written report sharing their experiences and recommendations for further collaboration with UNC. If they are positive towards collaborating they will also present the project outline. The board in Spire will make the final decision based on the information represented.

The two participants we are looking for are:

• members of Spire
• between the age of 18 and 30
• interested in learning more about international collaboration and cross cultural communication
• interested in learning more about Spires main political areas – environment, international trade and climate
• planning to be active in the organization for at least six months after the project
• able to communicate well in English, written and oral
• free to travel as volunteers to Nepal for approx. two weeks this summer (June/July)
• free to spend the time required for preparations beforehand and concluding work after the travel
• interested in contributing to shape the future of a new partnership between the two organizations
  

We can offer you experience within

• international collaboration and cross cultural communication
• project planning
• laying the ground work for a successful organizational partnership
• international youth work and especially youth work in Nepal
• development issues in Nepal (and Norway)
• Nepalese NGOs and how they work to influence politics in Nepal  
• a free and exiting trip to a great country (!)
• using English as the project/work language

If you are interested in participating, please send us you CV and an application explaining your motivation for taking part in the project and the reasons why you would make a good representative for Spire.

The deadline for sending in applications is 13th of April. Send your application to the leader of Spire’s international committee, Mari Aspen: mariasp.spire@gmail.com. Please write “application UNC-project” in the subject field of your e-mail.
Questions can also be sent to this address.
We are looking forward to hear from you and possibly working on this project with you!