About us
The International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) is an independent, international association of non-governmental, not for profit organizations established in 1962. It provides a unique global forum for voluntary agencies from the North, South, East and West; a forum where they can meet to exchange views, share strategies, coordinate actions and forge effective partnership across cultures and societies with different levels and forms of development. ICVA supports the work of voluntary agencies in general and its member agencies in particular, in influencing national and international policies, advocating for the protection of refugees and displaced persons, supporting the provision of relief and rehabilitation assistance, fostering sustainable development, as well as representing independent humanitarian perspectives to people, governments and inter-governmental organizations.
Though ICVA does not normally undertake operational activities in the field, the situation of transition from war to peace and from humanitarian aid to reconstruction and development in Bosnia and Herzegovina compelled ICVA in the spring of 1996 to establish itself in the center of the vast number of NGOs operating in the region. Effective cooperation and coordination among NGOs was and is essential to the long-term success of the international assistance effort in the country.
ICVA has opened an office in Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia in September 1998, with the mission complementary and very much like to the one in Bosnia. The main task was to work with refugee oriented NGOs on all relevant issues, as well as to foster the cross-border co-operation.
International Council of Voluntary Agencies
Vuka Karadzica 7a, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Phone: (+ 381 11) 635 662, 180 567, 180 604
Faks: (+ 381 11) 180 644
E-mail: icva-bgd@eunet.yu
icvainfo@yubc.net, icvaprog@yubc.net
