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weltwärts Volunteers and their Civic Engagement in Germany

Abstract

The development volunteer service “weltwärts” enables young adults to carry out volunteer service in countries in the Global South. The evaluation focuses its analysis on what volunteers learn, how they are changed by participating in weltwärts and their level of civic engagement after they return to Germany. Another question which is investigated is whether diverse population groups take part in weltwärts and benefit from the assumed positive effects of the programme. The evaluation follows a programme theory-based approach and implements a mixed-methods design. The core of the methodology is a quasi-experimental design based on cross-sectional surveys of volunteers and of a representative demographic sample of the weltwärts target group.

Sector (OECD DAC Codes)
Other Multisector
Involved Organisations
German Institute for Deveopment Evaluation (DEval)
Umfragezentrum Bonn (uzbonn)
Various sending Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Country
Germany
Funding
Other
Region
Europe and Central Asia
Globalproject
No
Year (Time of endline survey or planned endline survey)
2016
Evaluation Method
Statistical Matching

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