UN Expatriate National Volunteers are professionally skilled individuals, highly motivated to serve their native countries. To date, although the concept of “transfer of knowledge” implies to them, the UN Expatriate National Volunteer initiative conveys the values of global solidarity (in particular among diasporas) and local capacity development.
These experts cover a wide variety of highly specialized technical fields, which include accounting, agriculture, banking, civil engineering, computer science, economics, environmental protection, food processing, geology and mining, geothermal and reservoir engineering, industrial hygiene and safety, marine biology, manufacturing and marketing, medical and public health services, patents licensing, poultry breeding, telecommunications, urban planning, water resources development, etc.