The document provides information about AIESEC's Global Community Development Programme (GCDP). It describes GCDP as an opportunity for young people to develop leadership skills through international volunteer experiences focused on direct social impact. Participants can gain cross-cultural experience, create positive social change, and develop personally. Host organizations benefit from volunteers providing support on community projects. The document discusses different models for implementing GCDP, including through local committees, NGO partnerships, or defined project work. It emphasizes making experiences driven and defining clear roles and responsibilities to improve implementation.

1. iGCDP Programme

2. Session Objectives
• I understand the programme definition of
GCDP.
• I know the Scenarios of implementing GCDP
Projects in AIESEC.
• I can create socially relevant experiences for
NGOs and EP.
• I understand how to run this programme in
my entity.

3. What do you
know?

4. Global Community Development Programme
A Global Community Development Programme (GCDP) experience is an opportunity for young people to
develop entrepreneurial and responsible leadership by creating direct positive impact through an
international volunteer experience.
How do we run this programme? What can a young person gain through this
We provide international volunteer experiences programme?
through which young people develop themselves With this programme, a young person gains access to
while empowering individuals, communities or AIESEC’s value-based platform, and he or she
organisations. We focus on areas and issues with the experiences:
need for direct social impact and sustainable A cross-cultural living and working experience
solutions. The opportunity to create positive societal impact
Personal development
What can an organization gain from this
programme? GCDP participants can have different types of volunteer
GCDP hosts and partners are organizations which experiences. They may work with organizations or in
aim to create or support direct positive impact in projects which focus on community development, as long
communities through their activities, initiatives, or as their experience contributes to their personal
projects. With these organizations, we co-create development and positive impact on society. weeks
Duration of a GCDP experience: 6-78
opportunities for young people to develop themselves
while providing direct positive impact.
How will this be measured on the system?
A GCDP experience is counted as soon as an EP is realized to a GCDP experience, which should be on their first
day at work. An individual is counted as a GCDP participant as soon as his or her GCDP form has been raised.

5. What has Changed from what
we know?

6. Is it the old DT programme?

7. How is currently being run and
how can we run it differently?

8. Scenarios for Running GCDP

9. •
LC mainly theProjects
LC Project is
Based TN taker
• High School/NGO is supporting not as TN
taker but project supporter
• AIESEC is developing and delivering Project
content
• Intern is working full time on project.
• Working hours not well defined
• Requires a lot of HR from LC.

10. LC Project + NGO
• Intern works part time on Project
• Project is run together with NGO.
• NGO is acting as TN taker
• Intern works part time for NGO.
• External learning events.
• Engages intern around a certain issue.
• Requires considerable amount of HR

11. LC Project: NGO Work
• NGO is supporting as TN taker
• Intern is working full time with NGO.
• JD and working hours is defined.
• Learnining event.
• LC needs HR in sales only not in
management.

12. • ACTIVITY :- • In pairs, discuss with
your partner on how
does GCDP happen in
your entity and what
are the major
challenges or benefits
of any of the models?

13. LC + NGO
LC Based NGO
Based
Projects Work
Projects
LC Project is run with external organization supporting as TN
taker, Sponsor, Providing Intellectual support(Learning
Partner), Providing endorsement
Each Project TN must have defined JD including minimum
working hours per week. To be defined in New XPP

14. So what can be different in
GCDP in 2015 era?

15. Value Proposition
 A cross-cultural living
Experiential
and working
Learning
experience
Cross -
 The opportunity to
Social Impact
Cultural
create positive societal
GCDP
Experience impact
 Personal development
International
Personal
Friend
Development
Network

16. Experience driven
• This means we want
people to do
something after going
through this
programme

17. What can we do with GCDP?
• Individually: draw a picture, a quote or your
own words,
• Share in pairs with someone.
• After the Session post on facebook or tweet
and see people’s comments 

18. Thank You