EMR Volunteering & Civic Participation Project

February to December 2007

 

The Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR) Management Forum commissioned Borderlands Cooperative to develop a Strategic Plan for strengthening volunteering and civic participation in the EMR.

 

EMR final report (pdf format)

 

Working draft documents associated with this project are available here for you to download and circulate.

 

Project documents

 

Workshop II Summary (Sept 2007) - This document is a summary of the notes taken in September at a workshop at the Karralyka Centre attended by 50 participants to discuss the sustainable implementation of strategies to strengthen volunteering and civic participation.

 

Building a Conceptual & Strategic Framework - draft (September 2007) 

This document was prepared for discussion at the second regional workshop held in

September. In a series of tables, the first part of the document indicates the kind of

strategies that could be developed at different levels of responsibility - and that will

need to be sustained - in order to enact the principles that project participants have

broadly endorsed. The second part is a further discussion of the historical and 

contemporary usage and significance of concepts of central relevance to this project,

 including: volunteering, civic participation, citizenship, community (development, 

building and strengthening etc.) and governance.

 

 

Building a Conceptual & Strategic Framework – draft (June 2007) pdf

This document outlines a framework for thinking about volunteering and civic participation, their relationship with government at all levels and community strengthening. Appendices include the original planning document for the project and copies of the Foundational Principles and Sustainability Framework endorsed by the Project Team in the early stages of the project.

 

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