Guidance
Notes
1 FOR PRELIMINARY REFLECTION
The following are topics
which might be considered in preliminary reflection about IYV 2001 in your
country. The concentration of the Year is clearly upon service by volunteers:
however, the combined contribution of volunteers in a specific sector or
for a specific cause may be seen as amounting to voluntary action. It will
be for each country to determine the volunteer service/voluntary action
parameters which it wishes to set for the Year.
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What are the traditional solidarity
mechanisms in your country?
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Terminology: do you have equivalents
for "volunteer" and "voluntary action" in your language?
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What is a "volunteer" for your
purposes? Do you wish or need to make any distinctions, according to concepts
and practices in your society, as to what will or will not be considered
to be "volunteer" in the course of IYV 2001?
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What briefly do you see as being
the fundamental motivation or philosophy of volunteers?
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What is voluntary action and
what characterises a voluntary agency? Do you see a point where voluntary
service stops and political action begins?
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Who engages in volunteer work
in your country? Do some segments of the population do more and others
less?
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What are the qualitative impacts
of volunteers on your society? Have they been measured?
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What is the quantitative contribution
of volunteers to your society? Has it been analysed?
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Is there a risk of exploiting
volunteers, in deploying them in a way that may substitute them for employment-creation
proper?
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Do the authorities in your country
recognise volunteer service as active citizenship, empowering communities
and contributing to good governance? Or is it perceived as rivalry?
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Are there examples of your national
or local government welcoming volunteers as partners in delivering services
to citizens?
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Does your country's administration
have arrangements for recognition and assistance of volunteers and voluntary
organisations? Which if any Ministry has responsibility for this?
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Do you have at national level
any umbrella or co-ordinating body(ies) for volunteer organisations which
should play a significant role in IYV 2001 in your country?
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Would it be useful to you to
have a code of conduct for volunteers who serve within their own country?
And/or to be able to avail of one for volunteers from abroad serving in
your country?
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Is it easy, or difficult, to
set up a volunteer-based activity in the country?
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Is the experience in your country
that, beyond a certain stage or size, there may also be a need for part
or fulltime staff - perhaps remunerated - to strengthen the administration
and accounting of volunteer organisations?
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Are there opportunities for training
in volunteer management, for volunteers or paid staff asked to take on
management roles?
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What opportunities exist for
your volunteers and their organisations to network their experience and
best practice?
2 FOR COMMUNITY-BASED GROUPS
AND NGOs
The following are topics
and questions which you might find it useful to discuss in the course of
planning for IYV 2001 in your local village or city group.
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Are there ways in which men and
women in your village or suburb traditionally come together to help each
other, to work together for the common good e.g. harambee, minga or barangay?
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Has your community had to cope
with a major crisis in the last few years? Maybe drought or flooding? A
lost harvest? A forest fire? An impassable road? Riot or commotion? Civil
war? An epidemic? How did you cope with this? Did it lead to some people
voluntarily giving of their time or resources to help others?
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Have you set up, say, a development
association, a credit union, a co-operative, a community centre, in which
some people voluntarily put their skills and knowledge at the disposal
of all? Has it been a success?
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What is the best single thing
your community has ever achieved by working together?
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Is there one woman or man in
your community who for you personifies this volunteer spirit?
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What are the biggest obstacles
to success that your volunteer efforts have run into? Lack of money? Lack
of transport? The elders didn't approve? Lack of self-confidence? Shortage
of ideas? Shortage of skills? Suspicion by others of the volunteers' motivation?
Lack of official support?
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Do you feel that your volunteer
activities are fully appreciated for the contribution they make to development?
By the chiefs and elders?
By the local administration? By religious authorities? By your political
representatives?
By civil servants? By government?
Who would you most like to see value them more than they do now?
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What would be the things which
would help you most to tap the volunteer goodwill which is in your community?
A better meeting place? Encouragement from officialdom? Training in such
things as needs assessment, administration, book-keeping? Cement or some
other supplies? . ?
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Have you heard of a success in
another village or community group which you'd like to imitate, an approach
you'd like to try? Do you need help to get the full details about it? Could
you visit it on the spot? Would you like radio, TV & newspapers to
carry more about such successes?
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Is it fairly easy, or difficult,
for volunteer groups to set up and be recognised by the authorities in
your country?
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Is your group affiliated to an
organisation at national level? Can you effectively make your views known
to officialdom through it?
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Are there arrangements by which
local and national government formally recognises and assists volunteer
organisations? Which if any Ministry has responsibility for your government's
dealings with such organisations?
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The UN General Assembly hopes
that each country will set up a national committee to encourage volunteerism
in the course of IYV 2001 and beyond. What would your group most like your
government to do to ensure that volunteer service be better recognised
and better helped, and that volunteers' contributions are more widely known?
Will you put some suggestions to the committee? Are there new ways in which
your group could assist government in return?
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Will your group itself also organise
some activities for IYV 2001?
3 SOME GUIDANCE FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL
All volunteer service
is based on an act of will of an individual: she or he can decide to seek
to be of help to others, or not to be. Every great movement in human history
has begun with such an act of will on the part of one or more individuals.
While there is progress in every society, many other individuals and groups
suffer poverty, disability, oppression, a deteriorating environment or
whatever. IYV 2001 will not be the success which is intended unless more
individuals in their thousands rally to give of their time, resources and
compassion as volunteers, whatever the cause. It is hoped that the Year
will inspire them to make that act of will, that crucial decision.
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However difficult your own life,
can you see that you are right now immeasurably more fortunate than some
whom you see in your neighbourhood, hear of on radio or TV, or read about
in the newspapers?
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Think how you might best contribute.
What have you got to offer? Whatever your strengths (or weaknesses), there
is something you can do for others. Maybe be you are good at languages,
at book-keeping ­ so you could help teach or train others
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Maybe you've been through the
experience of illness, addiction, bereavement, imprisonment ­ with
which you could help counsel others
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Maybe you are good at sport ­
and can introduce young people to it
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Maybe you have a gift for leading
people, for conceiving projects and working out their different stages
­ and can help a volunteer organisation in this way
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Maybe you are retired from business
or industry - and can help a company which has problems
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Maybe you are well-off financially
­ and could contribute to a deserving charity
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Maybe you are best at one-on-one
relationships ­ and can help that neighbour that you know of: the
old age pensioner, AIDS victim, drop-out, hospital patient, unemployed
youth, disabled person or whomever
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Decide how much time per week
you can give to volunteer work and look for an activity which will achieve
something useful and give you satisfaction in that time
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Look around in your neighbourhood
or nation for the group that is already active, and join them: don't feel
that you necessarily have to set up something new
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Or keep your eyes and ears open
to what other individuals and groups have succeeded with elsewhere, and
think of doing the same thing in your community
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Perhaps there is an old tradition
of solidarity within your society which has been lost to sight in recent
times and which could be revived to suit today's circumstances?
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Maybe you have a bright publicity,
fund-raising or commercial idea which you could offer to the National Committee
for IYV 2001?
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Could you encourage your colleagues
at work, your friends at school or college, the other women in the village,
your fellow worshippers, to come together to mount an activity designed
to benefit everyone?
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As a qualified and experienced
mid-career person or retiree, perhaps able to speak other languages, could
you consider offering a year or two of your life to humanitarian aid, development
co-operation, or the promotion of human rights and democracy in some other
part of the world?
4 FOR UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES
Each United Nations agency
is invited to consider amongst the possibilities outlined below those which
it might find feasible, and to suggest others which it feels could help
make a success of the planning and preparation, implementation and follow-up
of the Year.
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to review the involvement of
volunteers in its upstream or downstream activities
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to consider what special activity
the agency might undertake in 2001 (with appropriate preparations in 1999
and 2000) to mark the Year in ways designed to enhance the involvement
of volunteers in its activities
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to review the user-friendliness
of its priorities and procedures to civil society in general and to research
what specific assistance it is rendering, or would be able and willing
to render to build capacity in voluntary bodies and volunteer organisations
in developing and economic transition countries
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to consider whether the actual
or potential contribution of volunteer service to the work of your agency
might merit discussion by its governing body at its 2001 session
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to encourage your country-level
representatives to participate actively in UN and national preparations
for, and activities during the Year
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to devote an issue of its main
magazine, or a section thereof, to IYV and volunteer issues in the lead
up to, and in the course of 2001
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to supply to the UN Department
of Public Information at global level and to UN Information Centres at
regional or national level written information, photographs and videos
about the contributions made by volunteers both national and international
to your agency's programmes
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to feature in its Internet website
some examples of best practice from its experience of involving volunteers
in its activities, and to create a link with the IYV 2001 website
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to help determine the "road-map"
to IYV 2001, in terms of drawing the Year to the attention of relevant
conferences and other activities; and to bookmark appropriate entries on
the IYV 2001 website calendar
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to review the possibilities for
its staff members, spouses and retired staff members to undertake voluntary
activity, whether in the area of the agency's own competence or beyond
5 TOWARDS SETTING UP A
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
The following suggestions
may be helpful:
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that extensive prior consultation
take place among volunteer organisations, national NGOs and community groups:
(i) as to what they would wish to see come out of the Year in your country
in relation to the four main aims of IYV 2001; and (ii) as to representation
on the National Committee; and that government consult with such groups
in establishing the Committee
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that there also be consultations
between relevant Ministers and Ministries
- on the aims of IYV 2001
- on what approaches government
might itself wish to initiate
- on the membership and remit
of the National Committee, and
- on the support which the
Head of State and the government might give to marking IYV
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that the National Committee be
given a clear remit
- to assist the process of
continuing consultation
- to prepare & facilitate
an energetic programme of IYV activities locally & nationally, including
raising funds or seeking sponsorship if necessary and appropriate; and
- in due course to recommend
to government measures to achieve the aims of IYV 2001 in the country
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that it be clear to whom the
Committee should report at specified intervals on its work in preparing
for the Year, in prompting or itself organising activities during 2001,
and in tendering final recommendations to government
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that the membership of the Committee
be a blend of representatives of relevant Ministries, universities with
related research or training roles, business and industry, foundations,
leading NGOs and community groups, together with some individuals in their
personal capacity
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that the individuals be chosen
from, for example, serving and former volunteers (domestic or international),
and retired persons who have distinguished themselves in the Public Service,
the Foreign Service, the service of the United Nations, etc
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that an eminent and independent
public figure with the necessary stature to secure government's consideration
of the National Committee's recommendations be invited to chair the Committee's
deliberations
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that, to help organise some of
the key local and national events of the Year ­ indeed perhaps
to provide some prospective members of the National Committee ­
it may be possible to look to existing co-ordinating bodies of volunteer
organisations and voluntary agencies, and/or to those groups of serving
and former national and international volunteers in your country which
have traditionally co-operated to mark International Volunteer Day on December
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that the Committee link its efforts
to the international effort, through the IYV 2001 website
6 FOR PRIVATE SECTOR BODIES
Recent years have seen
growth ­ in industrial countries in particular ­ in "corporate
volunteering". Business and industrial undertakings have recognised that
enabling staff to participate in voluntary action in the locality, or in
some cases overseas, encourages business, enhances job satisfaction and
makes for good public relations. Corporate volunteering locally, nationally
and internationally is likely to be a topic of considerable interest in
the course of IYV 2001. There follow some questions which may assist community-based
groups, governments and private sector companies themselves to reflect
on what more could be achieved by volunteers from the sector and on how
this might be facilitated.
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Do you feel in general terms
that, without detriment to their production or provision of services, or
to marketing of their products, business and industry can and should make
a social contribution to society above and beyond the employment they offer?
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Are there examples of corporate
volunteering in your locality? Can you access individual firms which have
experimented with it, to learn how they feel about the experience?
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Are there needs in your locality
with which firms and their employees could particularly help?
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How might firms in your country
best be convinced that there could be advantage for them in encouraging
their staffs to undertake some volunteer service?
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Do you know of a business or
industry which has been helped with some of its production or marketing
problems by volunteers from elsewhere in the country, or from abroad?
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Have you heard of the work of
the "Senior Executive Services", or of the UNISTAR and TOKTEN short-term
volunteer consultancy programmes of the United Nations Volunteers, which
help business and industry? Would you like information about them?
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To what extent could retired
persons in your country be encouraged and enabled to make their knowledge
and skills available on a volunteer basis to commercial and manufacturing
concerns at home or abroad?
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Would you welcome having greater
access to research and publications on this topic?
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Would you feel it useful to have
a seminar in your area to study e.g. the benefits which can accrue from
a workplace volunteer programme for the company, employees and the community;
how to have such volunteer programmes coincide with corporate objectives;
or approaches to encouraging service among employees?
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Might your federations of employers
and of trades unions at national level be interested in studying the potentials
of corporate volunteering?
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Do you realise that the Internet
can be used to promote "virtual volunteering", that there are assignments
which volunteers can usefully carry out online, and that this approach
is particularly well suited to the needs of persons who are housebound
or have disabilities?
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If your firm were to consider
becoming involved in corporate or virtual volunteering, would there be
ways in which some assistance from government would help? Would you be
willing to propose such help to government via the National Committee for
IYV 2001?
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Would you in any case undertake
to devote a proportion of the time of your managers and shopfloor staff
to some voluntary activity in the course of 2001? Have you your own ideas
as to what that activity might be, or would you welcome suggestions from
others?
7 ENHANCED RECOGNITION
OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE
The first aim of IYV 2001
is that volunteers' service locally, nationally and internationally be
more recognised as an important part of civil society. Some questions:
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Have the contributions of volunteers
first and foremost, volunteers from your own society to welfare and development
in your country been inventoried?: e.g. contributions to
- emergency relief or civil
defence, or to health and social welfare provisions
- facilitating local development
in your villages and towns
- conflict prevention and
resolution, and peace-building, or to
- promotion of respect for
human rights and of democracy
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A country study might be made,
at government, private or joint instigation, to describe and quantify such
contributions. Have you a university faculty, research institute or Ministry
which could undertake such a study?
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Such a "report to the nation"
on volunteer service could go further, to indicate measures which government
and society might take to enhance and optimise those contributions in the
future
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Major studies of this kind have
been carried out in recent years - particularly in industrialised countries
- by governments, national statistical bodies or universities. Can you
access them? Would you welcome help to do so?
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Has your country issued a national
Human Development Report, perhaps with the assistance of the UN Development
Programme? Could the contribution of volunteer service and voluntary action
to your country's development be an appropriate element of a future national
HDR? (It has been suggested that the UNDP-authored global Human Development
Report for 2000 or 2001 might be partly based on such country studies).
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If it is not already the case,
would it be relevant to designate a specific Ministry with responsibility
for recognition and facilitation of volunteer service and voluntary action,
and to provide it with a budget to this end?
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In what broad ways might volunteer
service best be recognised - or further recognised - in your country in
the course of IYV 2001 and beyond? Are there negative stereotypes to be
addressed?
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To honour active volunteers,
annual awards might be instituted for the best examples of individual,
small group, local community and national NGO service and action. This
could extend to awards for excellence in the leadership and administration
of such work (e.g. transparency of reports and accounts), or in training
or promotional work
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Recognition requires visibility.
To identify volunteer activity and make it visible, regular press columns
and radio and TV programmes might be sought out which would be willing
to profile volunteers, volunteer service and voluntary action topics regularly
or in depth
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It could be appropriate to draw
the volunteer sector into consultation in the establishment of the nation's
policies and priorities for such areas as health, education, culture, environment
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Ways might be sought in which
volunteers and activists who have made an impact at local level could be
enabled to express their continued commitment by taking on higher or wider
responsibilities: e.g. involving them in training newcomers, or placing
them in positions which give effect to policies of "national execution".
8 ENHANCED FACILITATION
OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE
The second and a key aim
of IYV 2001 is that, for the greater good of society, volunteer service
be more facilitated. Here the possibilities will vary from country to country.
Measures to be taken should desirably respond to the felt needs of volunteers
and their organisations; a further possible criterion is that they be feasible
for government to assist within its policies and budgets. The suggestions
are but a small selection:
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Political parties could feature
in their manifestos, and governments in their plans for their period in
office, a commitment to facilitating the growth and effective functioning
of volunteer service and action. Parliament might be requested to debate
the matter from time to time in full session or via an appropriate parliamentary
committee
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Coalitions might be forged between
the public and private sector and foundations in the country, to secure
funding designed to put volunteer service on a sounder footing
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Public servants might be accorded
special leave of absence with or without pay to undertake periods of volunteer
service within their country or internationally
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Official encouragement could
be given to business and industry to facilitate "corporate volunteering",
whereby employees are enabled to render service, thus acquiring useful
skills and enabling the company to meet its social responsibilities and
be seen to do so
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The experience of some countries
could be studied, whereby they exempt from certain taxes duly constituted
and registered volunteer service organisations which undertake to provide
a regular public report of their activities and of their income and expenditure
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Similarly, other countries' experience
might be studied, where a measure of tax deductibility is extended to taxpaying
individuals and companies which specifically fund volunteer service
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Radio and TV broadcasting companies
could be encouraged to introduce the concept of pro bono Public Service
Announcements on behalf of volunteer-based organisations and activities
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It may be noted that some countries
have seen fit to introduce volunteer service schemes of various kinds as
accepted alternatives to custodial sentences for crime or to military conscription
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The State might put its training
institutions at the disposal of volunteer services at concessional rates.
Workshops might be provided in volunteer management and to enhance the
training of volunteers
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Modules about working with volunteers
might be taught as part of the curriculum for such professions as social
work, health and education
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Organisations having a paid staff
and seeking to involve large numbers of volunteers on an ongoing basis
might seek funding to enable them to create the post of co-ordinator of
volunteers
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The State might ensure that a
percentage of the cement, roofing, timber etc at the disposal of municipal
or local authorities be set aside and made available concessionally to
duly registered community-based volunteer groups
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The State might seek to ensure
that volunteers from duly constituted and recognised bodies are afforded
insurance cover and social welfare protection on a par with conventional
workers
9 ENHANCED NETWORKING OF
VOLUNTEER SERVICE
The third declared aim
of IYV 2001 is to increase greatly the extent to which the myriad successful
achievements of volunteers are networked to other volunteers and groups
also working for welfare and development. Systematic sharing of experience
can avoid the need for other local groups, other communities, other nations
even, to "reinvent the wheel". Some ways in which this can be done effectively
and which could be a significant component of the Year are set out below:
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A university or research institute
might be invited to design a national programme for systematic oral, written,
illustrated, debated, exhibited and electronically communicated networking
of successful small-scale economic and social initiatives undertaken voluntarily
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Every local community, every
village, every successful development initiative, might be invited to appoint
a "raconteur" - a volunteer from among the community who can speak or write
of "How we did it". These raconteurs could be enabled to come together
at district, provincial or national level to exchange their experiences,
techniques, designs etc with the assistance of facilitators versed in employment-creation,
income-generation, conflict resolution, etc as appropriate
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Orally, radio programmes and
street theatre (since both have enormous potential for dissemination of
information) might be promoted on the "How we did it" theme. A regular
TV programme could permit illustration of the results and products, the
processes and the techniques in action
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In print, a regular newspaper
column, a published newsletter, an academic journal, pamphlets and flyers
can be devoted to the same theme
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Schools, colleges, universities
and community centres might be invited to become resource centres for holding
and disseminating such information. Ministries and universities might encourage,
enable and to the extent feasible fund national Email networks, "chat rooms",
"bulletin boards" etc
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Bilateral and multilateral aid
agencies, foundations and private sector companies could fund national
and regional workshops, action projects, "markets" and the like in which
volunteers and their groups can exchange designs, techniques and experience
and display their wares. Such experience could be made known to and be
published by one or more of the major worldwide INGOs disseminating such
information
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Each National Committee might
set up a website for the duration of IYV 2001 and there maintain a log
of all national IYV activities. It could identify and publish a list of
volunteer-relevant websites in the country. And the website might be linked
to sites outside the country which carry information useful to volunteer
leadership anywhere
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Every encouragement could be
given by UN Agencies, governments, universities etc to volunteer bodies
to establish ongoing Internet websites, to publish their experiences in
this way, and to link themselves with international and global websites
specialising in this kind of material
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Individual volunteers and their
organisations are strongly encouraged to share their thoughts on the interactive
IYV 2001 website - http://www.iyv2001.org
10 ENHANCED PROMOTION
OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Enhanced promotion of
volunteer service is the fourth of the four aims of IYV 2001. The promotion
should be geared to creating a climate of public and official opinion more
understanding of and more sympathetic to voluntary action in general and
volunteer service in particular. Amongst the desirable outcomes are that
more needs of society will be seen as susceptible of assistance from volunteers;
that more schoolchildren and youth, career men and women and retirees will
feel encouraged to offer service as volunteers; and that measures will
be taken and resources made available to match those offers to the needs
and opportunities.
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Desirably, the promotional effort:
-should be based on what
volunteers are doing and achieving individually and in groups, here and
now
- would stress the competence
and professionalism as well as the humanitarianism of the volunteers
involved
- would aim in part at attracting
new requests for assignment of volunteers to address specific needs
- would attract offers of
service from new volunteers and activists
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The attention of the general
public may be drawn to the benefits to the vulnerable in particular and
to society in general which flow from the specific activity
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What about putting together a
photo history of volunteering in your country?
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What about one big all-volunteers-together
event for IYV 2001, photographed from the air?
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It will be particularly effective
if prominent figures are seen to be rendering volunteer service in IYV
2001, above and beyond their official roles or outside the fields in which
they are famous. For example the Head of State, Ministers and other politicians,
cultural figures such as actors, singers, film stars, pop musicians, athletes
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National and local authorities,
local communities and neighbourhoods, and voluntary organisations might
use IYV 2001 to stimulate creativity and vision in developing more innovative
and worthwhile assignments for volunteers, and to seek ways of strengthening
publicity for the need for volunteers to carry out those assignments
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With the value of such activity
thus demonstrated, part of the promotional effort might also be aimed at
attracting new financial or other resources from government, foundations,
the private sector and external sources, designed to expand the scope and
contribution of volunteer service
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One lasting educational programme
might be planned to remain after 2001: say, an annual volunteer leadership
conference, a book on the basics of volunteer leadership, opportunities
for teenagers to learn in school about volunteering, an interactive website,
a university course
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The case might be considered
for setting up a national volunteer centre with the task of promoting volunteer
service beyond IYV 2001 and of maintaining an impetus for recognising,
facilitating and networking it
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There might be a commitment to
marking International Volunteer Day on 5 December each year.
ABOUT THE IYV 2001 GUIDANCE
NOTES
It was suggested that
UNV, as the focal point for the preparations for IYV 2001, issue a set
of broad Guidance Notes to help all partners preparing for and participating
in the Year, whether they be Governments, UN agencies, international and
national NGOs or community-based organisations, foundations or private
sector companies. Each Guidance Note have the following in common:
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that they are not intended to
be prescriptive: all partners have complete freedom to make use of the
note or to work up their own guidance notes, as they wish
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that they are by no means exhaustive:
UNV as focal point for IYV 2001 will warmly welcome additions to them
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that, desirably, every national
volunteer-based organisation, national voluntary agency and each Government
will seek to ensure maximum impact of IYV 2001 by setting in train a process
of extensive consultation in 1999 and 2000 among the memberships of community-based
and non-governmental bodies, designed to discover what they would like
to see realised in 2001 and beyond, in terms of the four aims of IYV -
enhanced recognition, facilitation, networking and promotion of volunteer
service
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similarly, that, in partnership
with the volunteer sector, every Government would establish a national
committee or commission for IYV 2001, requesting it
(1) to assist that process
of consultation
(2) to prepare and facilitate
an energetic programme of activities locally and nationally during 2001
and
(3) to make recommendations
to the Government designed to enable realisation of the aims of IYV 2001
in the country
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that IYV 2001 is for and about
all kinds of volunteers everywhere: it is not limited to any one category
of volunteer, whether formal or informal; ongoing or occasional; agency-based
(i.e. working side by side with employees) or all-volunteer; "domestic"
or international; unremunerated or modestly remunerated; based in an industrialised,
transition or developing country; and whether in direct service, advocacy
or administrative and governance (i.e. Board) positions
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that the concept of "volunteer"
and the terminology - differ from country to country and that, while
some reflection at national level may be desirable at the outset to define
or redefine it, this should not be allowed to distract participants from
mounting an energetic programme of constructive activities which bring
together people and organisations possibly holding somewhat differing conceptions.
Many types of activity voluntarily undertaken may qualify, even if the
people doing them call themselves by different names
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that every country, organisation
and group will not only have its own agenda, in terms of what it can contribute
to and would wish to secure from IYV 2001, but is actively encouraged to
do so - provided only that this be accompanied by a desire to co-operate
(rather than compete) locally, nationally and globally with others who
are like-minded and also wish to see the aims of the Year realised.
that IYV 2001 should above
all make volunteering visible, advancing positive and dispelling negative
images of volunteers and what they do to see the aims of the Year realised.
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