Good Practices of Volunteering in AU member states

Good practices are shared to promote learning among volunteering stakeholders. This will allow organizations with poor performance to get closer or reach the level of those who perform well. The use of good practices will also save costs and time while increasing effectiveness and efficiency and avoiding reinventing the wheel. In the particular area of volunteering, some criteria used to measure good practices are 1. Improve access to • Basic social service through, among others, increasing the number of social service recipients, introducing breakthroughs in social service delivery modalities, ensuring social services to marginalized or less- served communities, etc.; • Social justice: the role of volunteers in avoiding exclusion, equity, rights for marginalized in the hard-to- reach areas of a country, etc.; 2. Ensure sustainability: 3. Promote coordination and coherence among volunteers involving organizations; 4. Develop the capacity of different stakeholders; and 5. Enhance the environment for the promotion of volunteerism. From the 29 AU Member Nations that responded to the online questionnaire, 21 good practices were submitted Of these, five (5) were dropped as they did not have enough information to qualify as good practices, six (6) were used as mini-case studies (presented in the preceding chapter), and the finally selected ten practices worthy of replicating are presented hereunder.