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This Friday, August 17, the workshop session on the “Analysis of the National Situation of Volunteering in Mexico”, to which various public, private and civil society organizations that are linked to volunteering were invited. The welcome was given by Camila Aviña, Deputy General Director of Development; representing Luz Elena Baños Rivas, General Director of Liaison with Civil Society Organizations, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Leticia Montemayor Medina, Head of the National Institute of Social Development; Arturo Gómez Shuster, Representative of the UN Volunteer Program in Mexico and Susana Barnetche, Representative of IAVE Mexico (and founder and President of the Mexican Volunteer Alliance). The objective of this workshop was to consult different organizations on the current situation of volunteering in the country and generate data on the scale, scope and impact of volunteering on peace and development as part of the preparations for the Global Technical Meeting on volunteering, which will be held in 2020. To this end, the United Nations Volunteer Program invited Member States to carry out analysis of the situation at the national level with respect to the three elements of institutional arrangements: “a) the policies and legislation; b) operating systems and organizations at the national and subnational level; and c) status of impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation of volunteer initiatives”, recognizing the importance of complementing national initiatives focused on achieving the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and the central role that people play in said achievement. For this reason, the methodology on which the meeting was based is the same as that which will be carried out by all the countries that will participate in the report.
The topics that were analyzed collegially at this Finland Mobile Number List meeting are: Enabling environment, policies and legislation, leadership and resources, where the need to promote policies or other regulatory frameworks that favor voluntary action, the existence of incentives for volunteers through the recognition and promotion of volunteering and the existence of budget allocations, at any level of government, especially dedicated to the national agenda on volunteering and determining whether these promote volunteering at the national, state or municipal level (in the case of Mexico). Another aspect of the work was to analyze operating systems and organizations at the national and subnational level (inclusive opportunities), as well as volunteer action plans and their contribution to the achievement of sustainable development goals, as well as the added value that volunteers offer to its achievement and the contribution of volunteering to development at the individual, community and national level. Another issue addressed by the organizations was the existing mechanisms to measure the scale and scope of volunteering, impact assessments, monitoring and evaluation of volunteering initiatives. Participants discussed mechanisms to capture the scale and scope of volunteering at the national and subnational levels. Finally, the participants analyzed whether there is a registry, platform or other mechanisms that contains information on volunteers and what data these mechanisms generate, the origin of the volunteers in the case of international volunteering, as well as the opportunities it generates. Mexico to place volunteers in other countries and their host nations.
The existence of networks of organizations or volunteers that promote volunteering was also analyzed, both in the number and type of volunteer organizations. In all these thematic axes, the aim was to obtain hard data, information that allows outlining the state of the art of volunteering and knowing what the main challenges are. Once the work of that session is completed, the next steps will consist of preparing a preliminary document for a detailed review and being able to conclude a final version that will be delivered on September 18. This analysis of the situation at the national level will be the first step in a process aimed at creating a body of knowledge about volunteering. Saying Analysis will be reviewed in detail and delivered by Mexico in September 2018; The analyzes will then be followed by regional consultations, which would be held in 2019 and the Global Technical Meeting, which will be the most important milestone, would take place in 2020. "Citizenship in Construction" will keep its readers informed about the development of these works. *Arturo Gómez Shuster is a representative of the United Nations volunteer program in Mexico, an economist, a specialist in international business, with extensive experience in monitoring, evaluation and strategic alliances. Emilio Guerra Díaz is currently Director of the Mexican Network of the United Nations Global Compact and advisor in Confio, Construyendo Organizaciones Civiles Transparentes, AC and the Mexican Volunteer Alliance. He is the author of several publications on the creation, management and development of volunteers.
The topics that were analyzed collegially at this Finland Mobile Number List meeting are: Enabling environment, policies and legislation, leadership and resources, where the need to promote policies or other regulatory frameworks that favor voluntary action, the existence of incentives for volunteers through the recognition and promotion of volunteering and the existence of budget allocations, at any level of government, especially dedicated to the national agenda on volunteering and determining whether these promote volunteering at the national, state or municipal level (in the case of Mexico). Another aspect of the work was to analyze operating systems and organizations at the national and subnational level (inclusive opportunities), as well as volunteer action plans and their contribution to the achievement of sustainable development goals, as well as the added value that volunteers offer to its achievement and the contribution of volunteering to development at the individual, community and national level. Another issue addressed by the organizations was the existing mechanisms to measure the scale and scope of volunteering, impact assessments, monitoring and evaluation of volunteering initiatives. Participants discussed mechanisms to capture the scale and scope of volunteering at the national and subnational levels. Finally, the participants analyzed whether there is a registry, platform or other mechanisms that contains information on volunteers and what data these mechanisms generate, the origin of the volunteers in the case of international volunteering, as well as the opportunities it generates. Mexico to place volunteers in other countries and their host nations.
The existence of networks of organizations or volunteers that promote volunteering was also analyzed, both in the number and type of volunteer organizations. In all these thematic axes, the aim was to obtain hard data, information that allows outlining the state of the art of volunteering and knowing what the main challenges are. Once the work of that session is completed, the next steps will consist of preparing a preliminary document for a detailed review and being able to conclude a final version that will be delivered on September 18. This analysis of the situation at the national level will be the first step in a process aimed at creating a body of knowledge about volunteering. Saying Analysis will be reviewed in detail and delivered by Mexico in September 2018; The analyzes will then be followed by regional consultations, which would be held in 2019 and the Global Technical Meeting, which will be the most important milestone, would take place in 2020. "Citizenship in Construction" will keep its readers informed about the development of these works. *Arturo Gómez Shuster is a representative of the United Nations volunteer program in Mexico, an economist, a specialist in international business, with extensive experience in monitoring, evaluation and strategic alliances. Emilio Guerra Díaz is currently Director of the Mexican Network of the United Nations Global Compact and advisor in Confio, Construyendo Organizaciones Civiles Transparentes, AC and the Mexican Volunteer Alliance. He is the author of several publications on the creation, management and development of volunteers.