International service

We partner with the Brookings Institution to research avenues for meaningful participation in international volunteering and service. 

In partnership with the University of Ottawa, we surveyed more than 300 volunteer partner organizations operating in more than 80 countries in the Global South.

We test intercultural competence and the impact of international youth service programs on Swiss and British volunteers and their Ecuadorian hosts. 

We designed a randomized clinical trial measuring the impacts of volunteer-based health trainings on behavior in central Uganda.

This collaboration with the University of Ottawa and an international team of researchers has collected and analyzed data from partner organizations in 10 countries to examine the roles international development volunteers play in advancing gender equality and empowering women.

Our project examines challenges and emerging perspectives in international volunteerism in Asia through an online survey and in-country interviews.

Led by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship at Haverford College, we surveyed students from multiple institutions of higher education who participated in global service learning.  

Our project determines which features of voluntary service have the greatest impact on volunteers, host organizations, and community outcomes in Peru and Costa Rica. 

Our partnership with Volunteer Organization and Service Enquiry Southern Africa examines the impact of international service in South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania. 

In collaboration with researchers at the University of Ottawa and the University of Technology Sydney, we investigate volunteering as a pathway to more effective foreign aid development policy, exploring how international volunteers engage in alternative public diplomacy roles.

We aim to advance knowledge and practice of international service in the context of higher education through summits and collaborations. 

CSD is leading a global research agenda to study volunteerism as a strategy for meeting global sustainable development goals.

We evaluated a pilot project in transnational youth service and its impacts involving Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. youth.

We investigate social innovations in the voluntary sector at the intersection of nonprofits and social enterprises