Title of the Project: VullnetarizmiPikëAL - (VolunteeringDotAL)
Project goal: Creating a multi-dimensional enabling environment where volunteering is encouraged, supported and recognized as a key mechanism for promoting active citizenship, solidarity and social cohesion in Albania. The project improves the existing legal and social infrastructure with bottom-up systemic interventions and proposes a functional system with innovative approaches and direct impact on volunteering that is inclusive, qualitative and with standards, for all stakeholders.
Objectives:
- Identify existing structures, needs and challenges on volunteering at the national level by exploring the potential of cross-sectorial collaborations that support new qualitative and quantitative research and provide functional alternatives in the volunteering sector.
- Advocate and lobby at the institutional level through a comprehensive and inclusive work process between civil society and local government, to improve the existing legal framework of volunteering, suggesting flexible models and approaches.
- Establish sustainable interactive structures between stakeholders interested in collaboration, partnerships and the development of comprehensive models of volunteering at the national level through the use of innovative digital resources.
Activities:
Activity Package 1 - Field study and policy improvement
- Volunteering qualitative and quantitative study at national level
- National Volunteer Conference 1.0
- Drafting a Policy Brief
Activity Package 2 - Advocacy and lobbying
- Analysis - Development of the legal and social framework of volunteering in Europe
- Meetings and roundtables with decision makers
- Volunteering in the media focus
Activity Package 3- Capacity building and innovation
- Establishment of the National Digital Platform
- Capacity building for volunteer providers
- Piloting the operation of the platform