Description
Volunteering - An Investment for Sustainable Development - is implemented by the Romanian Red Cross – Sector 6 Branch in partnership with CSR Nest Association. The project aims to develop a new integrated volunteering management system through trainings and experience exchange practice in order to increase the NGOs' capacity of intervention among vulnerable groups. The target group / beneficiaries are citizens from Sector 6 in Bucharest, members and volunteers of Red Cross – Sector 6 and from the other 46 Branches of the organization and volunteers from other NGO’s. The project results are: procedures and instruments for the volunteer’s management, training and informational resources (tool-kit, film, training), trained volunteers and the advertising of volunteering in the community.
Summary of project results
In carrying out its programs and interventions, the National Red Cross Romania relies mostly on volunteer activities, which performs occasional or regular activities within the association. The volunteers are the backbone of the organization, both when we talk about the central organization or the branches in the country. The project "Volunteering – an investment for sustainable development" envisaged the elaboration and the practice of a new integrated volunteering management system through trainings and experience exchange between volunteers and members of Red Cross - District 6 Branch (a branch of the Red Cross activating in a district of Bucharest), in order to increase organization’s capacity of intervention among vulnerable groups. The target groups were the citizens from this specific district in Bucharest, members and volunteers of the Project Promoter and from the other 46 branches of the organization, and volunteers from other NGOs. The project achieved all its proposed objectives and obtained the following results: elaboration of a set of procedures and instruments for volunteers' management, developing training courses and informational resources (tool-kit, film, and training), trained volunteers, increased number of Red Cross members and the advertising of volunteering benefits to the local community. As a result of implementing the recruiting plan, 521 new members joined this Red Cross branch during the project period.
Summary of bilateral results