ICS Report

Question 1

% of pps who said the program developed them personally?

Answer 1

100% of ICVs (in-country volunteers) and 91% of UKVs (UK volunteers) said they thought participation in the ICS programme had been useful.

Question 2

When and who did the report?

Answer 2

At the end of the first year of ICS (March 2013) independant body funded by funding national agency DFID

Question 3

title?

Answer 3

Evaluation of DFID’s International Citizen Service (ICS) pilot stage - mid term review

Question 4

Emerging impacts on volunteers? P.9 & 10

Answer 4

d clear evidence (from volunteers, host organisations and agency staff) of profound and positive emerging impacts upon volunteers as a result of their participation in
the ICS programme.

Question 5

capabilities that a volunteer would need for active civic engagemen?

Answer 5

1. civic orientation (a desire to tackle social issues),
2. civic knowledge (an understanding of
   problems that exist and ways to overcome them) and 3. 3. civic skills (the ability to enact change
   e.g. letter writing, public speaking or project management)

Question 6

Definition of civic engagement?

Answer 6

Civic engagement refers to any individual or collective activity aimed at addressing particular
social issues

Question 7

Did it strengthen civic orientation?

Answer 7

strengthening civic orientation: many volunteers expressed an increased commitment
to continued involvement in international development and UK civic engagement postplacement.

Question 8

impacts found around the volunteers’ civic knowledge,?

Answer 8

Gained awareness and understanding of international development issues. All volunteers felt their
experience and understanding of the realities (and difficulties) of life in poor countries had
increased considerably. Many volunteers’ preconceptions about life in poor countries were
positively challenged through their experience.

Question 9

Did they gain any Civic skills/soft skills?

Answer 9

On civic skills, all models showed the potential for the ICS programme to increase soft skills such as confidence, ‘grit’ (perseverance and passion for long term goals), patience, flexibility and communication skills.

Question 10

Was there an increase in Well-being or a Change in perceptions?

Answer 10

1.the experience of living and volunteering in a poor country context precipitated a
reassessment of material consumption and its role in happiness.
2.The experience was also
seen to help put problems within the volunteers’ own lives into clearer perspective when
compared to some of the problems faced in host communities.