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TRAVELERS’ SAVINGS FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT
Voluntourism Beyond Aid
BOLIVIADevelopment
Finance
Capacity
LUC LAPOINTE BAMAKO 2011
A mechanism that generates sustainable finance for development by leveraging the human and financial activities of travelers.
Development
Finance
Capacity
Creative tools for communities to assess their needs and attract opportunity for capacity building and investment.
Development
Finance
Capacity
Direct information to travelers about projects. Ongoing and up-to-date information on social, economic, and environmental impacts of projects.
Development
Finance
Capacity
“Database for development”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world”
Development
Finance
Capacity
“Ann Frank”
Global Development Awards - 2010
Voluntourism.org / Connexion Internationale
Ashoka / Changemakers Winner 2011
FOMIN / IADB
TRADE
DEVELOPMENT
TOURISM
REMITTANCES
F D I O D A
FINANCING MECHANISM FOR DEVELOPMENT
The Language Aid Effectiveness – How can you measure outside of other actions
(private, civic, and others) ISO like standard that is inclusive and holistic.
Accord de Paris?
Needs Based Development. You can ask? Who will come? What to ask for? How sustainable is it?
Current Situation Financial Crisis (lost of 200 million travelers) 3 out of resident of the UK will delay their travel plan USA $166 Billion deficit – Vacations Foregone Rest of the world?
Who cares – Why care? Voluntourism / Corporate and Civic volunteering has increased
exponentially over the past 5 years. Several countries, private operators, hotels, Air Carriers, and individuals have now partaken in this sector
10 millions voluntourist/volunteers Generates billions of dollars annually 1 in 5 travelers have expressed interest to participate Doctors, engineers, nurses, managers, teachers Health, Education, Water, Business,
Environmental, Nutrition, much more!
The perfect storm? Collecting the energy
Do it Yourself Foreign Aid?
New Ideas?
August 2010 – 100 Years Anniversary of Mother Teresa
Pioneer in Voluntourism For every $1 spent – only .20 cents will remain in Africa
Who is already involved? Travelocity Expedia Ritz Carlton
Marriot Hotel GSK IBM American Airlines
Sony Pepsi Star Alliance
BBC CEV CIVICUS
Consumers Social Responsibility
What are the tools?1. The first tool focuses on stenghtening the network
Project focused on development, job creation, engament / disengagement – (2 million NGO in the US alone)
2. The second tool looks increasing participation via
Smart Phone Application – Mapping of activities.
3. The third component is the leveraging of Human and Financial activity.
4. The fourth element is a tool for community to map
their assets and gauge their capacity for
development
How will it be done?
Less than 1% of the population inputs and collects data If Facebook was a country – it would be the most
populated country in the world
IVT Maps (example)
Multidimensionales Índice de Pobreza -- Proporción de personas que están necesitadas de saneamientoOxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative(OPHI) July, 2010.
Bolivia, Peru, & Paraguayare areas of interest
Adventure Travel – South America
250km
Use custom query/filter to target projects that are situated in or nearareas with sanitation issues and ….
… are located in the Highlands areaof Peru while also being within 250kmof the capital city Lima
Land-cover for Peru
Rainforest
Highlands
DesertCoasts
IVT Maps (example)
IVT Maps (example)
Percentage of the population without toilet.
Fondo de Cooperaicion para el Desarrollo Social (FONCODES)Censo del 2007 INEI
The areas in darker green
draw attention
Data collection and impact assessment
Monitoring & Evaluation of all Voluntourism
activitiesWhat part of the world are voluntourist
from?
Numbers of voluntourist by
selected regions!
• A place where voluntourists can tweet and show their face
• Built upon the very popular Wiki Media
• Trips can be logged in the field using a SmartPhone and then highlighted in more detail using the Wiki interface
• Organizations can update the Voluntourism spatial database
• Will give a presence to corporate Voluntourism activities
Important Dates
London Olympics 2012 Mayan Calendar 2012 FIFA World Cup – Brazil
2015 - MDGs
Summer Olympics 2016
