Since the signature of the framework agreement in 2004, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme has enjoyed a strong partnership with France, represented by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères – MEAE). The collaboration is implemented though the partnership with the delegation for international civil servants (Délégation aux Fonctionnaires Internationaux – DFI) and takes place though the Full Funding Programme. Since 2018, France has also been contributing to UN’s Special Voluntary Fund (SVF).
France directly supports UNV activities and in 2019 presented its National Situational Analysis on Volunteering, a source for generating evidence and data on volunteerism.