A. Legal identity and level of operation
A. Beneficiaries and volunteers: the civil society as a key actor
B. Less involvement from companies in pro bono
III. A focus on development and people's primary needs
IV. A lack of incentives to facilitate the sharing of skills?
VI. Interest for a network of intermediaries
We had only 5 respondents in Africa at the time of the analysis[1]. As a result, we were unable to create sub-categories within this large continent. The results may therefore not be representative of the diversity of skills-based volunteering actors, but they do give an idea of what can be offered. We will therefore show the results as a percentage, but they need to be put into perspective with what they actually represent, so we will still show sometimes the actual numbers of respondents that it represents.
All the respondent organisations are NPOs and most of them operate at a local or national level. There are two organisations that replied that they can act at both regional (i.e., continental) and global (i.e., international) levels. While we know from our interviews that some organisations operate with countries close to them in Africa, we observe that there may have been a misunderstanding at the international level. None of them mentioned countries outside Africa in the questionnaire or in our interviews. It is possible and even certain that there are exchanges with actors outside Africa, but we cannot affirm that the intermediaries are able to operate at an international level in another continent.