Editing Voluntary Service Overseas (section)

==Today==
Highlights of VSO today include:
* VSO supports the delivery of integrated, large-scale education, health and livelihoods programmes in a range of countries. Its programmes reached over 3.5 million people directly in 2022/23<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2023-08-29 |title=VSO Impact Report 2022/23 |url=http://www.vsointernational.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/VSO_Impact_Report_2023_final.pdf |website=VSO}}</ref>
* VSO now works in post-crisis situations and has recently responded to disasters in Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines and Sierra Leone. Most recently it has supported the establishment of a home-based early childhood care and education (ECCE) in emergencies to support refugee Rohingya communities in Bangladesh<ref>home-based early childhood
care and education (ECCE) in emergencies</ref> 
* It supports communities and governments to inform and influence policy dialogues. It recently supported the development of the Africa Union Gender Strategy and the Kenya Special Education Needs Policy.
* In Nepal, VSO has been awarded nearly £10 million for inclusive education work through the UK's Girls' Education Challenge, the world's largest education challenge fund, which targets support for adolescent girls. In its first phase the project Sisters for Sisters' Education introduced to Nepal the first ever peer-based mentoring programme for marginalised girls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vsointernational.org/fighting-poverty/where-we-fight-poverty/nepal/sisters-for-sisters-nepal|title=Equality in education for girls|date=2018-03-20|website=VSO|language=en|access-date=2019-04-23}}</ref>
* Citizen Led Monitoring is now a key element of VSOs work. In 2017/18 over 20,000 people in Nepal and Uganda were mobilized for awareness raising and accountability on the delivery of the sustainable development goals<ref name=":1" />
* VSO is supporting the creation of national youth platforms in seven of its countries of operation<ref name=":1" />
* It is playing a leading part in the development of a global standard for responsible and impactful volunteering as part of the Forum for International Volunteering in Development.

===Partnerships===
VSO works with local partners in the communities they work with, placing volunteers with these partners to help increase their impact and effectiveness. VSO also has corporate partnerships and sponsors.