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.
Working draft documents associated with this project are available here for you to download and circulate. Your feedback on these drafts is welcome as they will assist us in the preparation of final project documents.
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.
Draft Regional & Municipal Profiles of Volunteering & Civic Participation (June 2007)
These documents provide a summary of the range of voluntary activity undertaken in the EMR and within each municipality.
They are based on interviews with nearly 250 individuals from NGOs, community organisations, Volunteer Resource Centres, and local and state government bodies in which voluntary and civic activity is undertaken or of interest. These bodies were identified through a community development sampling framework based on:
Geographic areas from neighbourhood-based bodies to supra-regional bodies
Functional areas from animal welfare to arts, culture, heritage, community services, conservation and environment, emergency services, human rights and social justice, sport and recreation and others
Social groups based on gender, indigenous, ethno-specific associations, age-specific, (dis)ability etc.
Workshop I Summary (June 2007) pdf This document is a summary of the first workshop in June attended by more than 70 participants to discuss responses to the regional and municipal profiles and to gather feedback about possible strategies that have emerged so far.