The International Year of Volunteers (IYV) provides a framework within which organizations, communities, and nations can reflect on their traditions of volunteering, can learn more about the current nature and scope of volunteering, and can engage the interest and support of leaders from all sectors of society. But, most importantly, it is a time when those concerned about the future of volunteering can join together to create and implement plans that will strengthen volunteering as a vital force for social change and as a way people can contribute to the solution of human, social and environmental problems and build healthy, sustainable communities.

The declaration of IYV by the United Nations reflects the growing recognition that volunteering is the fundamental building block of civil society. Volunteering is an increasingly credible way to build and sustain the institutions of civil society, to help solve serious problems, to create healthier communities, and to empower people to lead more productive and fulfilling lives. It is particularly important in this time of globalization and rapid change in which the gaps between rich and poor are growing and our collective destinies are endangered by forces that seem beyond the control of most people.

IAVE – The International Association for Volunteer Effort has accepted leadership for addressing what can be done by various sectors of society to strengthen volunteering. Beginning with its 15^th World Volunteer Conference in Edmonton, Canada in 1998, IAVE has invited suggestions from volunteer and other sector leaders throughout the world to assist in the creation of a new Universal Declaration on Volunteering and a Global Agenda for Action. Input was received from participants in IAVE regional conferences and meetings, from local and national volunteer centres, and from a diverse group of NGOs and individual volunteer leaders.

In January 2001, under the leadership of Nederlandse Organisaties Vrijwilligerswerk, the Dutch National Volunteer Center, the 16^th World Volunteer Conference was convened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with over 1,500 participants from some 110 countries. The conference brought together representatives of government, business, education, youth and volunteer organizations. In a wide variety of plenary and workshop sessions, they focused on the five main objectives set for the International Year of Volunteers:

• Increased recognition of the importance of volunteer effort;
• Increased facilitation of volunteer effort;
• Increased and expanded networking among volunteer organizations and between volunteer organizations and other stakeholders;
• Promotion of volunteering to improve the image of volunteer effort; and,
• Expanded participation of volunteers.

With the assistance of a team of volunteer reporters and the active cooperation of workshop leaders and the participants themselves, a great number of ideas were generated about how each major sector can contribute to the realization of each objective. It was particularly important that the conference organizers created special opportunities for the participation of leaders from government, business, and research. The pre-conference Youth Forum was the first time that a significant number of young volunteers from throughout the world were brought together to provide their ideas to increase and strengthen youth volunteering. Other volunteer groups have been integrated into their appropriate sector; for example, employees who volunteer are included in the corporate information.

Taken together, the participants of the conference represent a true cross-section of volunteering worldwide. Their experience, perspective and ideas have contributed to the development of the three products contained in this publication:

The Universal Declaration on Volunteering that calls volunteers and the leaders of all sectors to unite as partners to promote and support effective volunteering, accessible to all, as a symbol of solidarity among all peoples and nations.

The Global Agenda for Action that outlines a wide range of ideas for how each major sector can help to realize the five objectives of the International Year of Volunteers, providing a "checklist of possibilities" that will grow longer and deeper with the experience of the year.

The Youth Forum Statement developed by participants in that meeting, that urges specific actions by IAVE, the volunteer community, and youth themselves to empower young people to give effective leadership for their own volunteer activities.

These are intended to be living documents that grow and change with the actual experience of leaders worldwide. Through the power of the Internet and the commitment of all of us to provide input about our work, our successes, and our challenges, the Global Agenda for Action can become an ever-growing compendium of ideas about how all sectors can fulfil their responsibility to strengthen volunteering. IAVE invites continued reaction and input to both the Agenda and the Universal Declaration through its Secretariat:

Email: IAVE@iave.org
Fax: 202-729-8102
Mail: 1400 I Street NW
Washington DC 20005

and urges all to review this input on its web site – www.iave.org.

We are deeply grateful to all of those who helped to create these documents. Theo Van Loon and the board and staff of NOV opened the World Conference to this process, providing both a setting and an approach that encouraged and facilitated input from participants. Suzanne Bakker designed and led the process of data collection, compilation and analysis at the conference; created the first draft of the Agenda; and co-authored the final version. Kathleen Dennis, Executive Director of IAVE, led the collection of input to the Universal Declaration and co-authored the final version of the Agenda. Members of the board of directors of IAVE gave leadership in their regions to collecting input to the Declaration and provided extensive input to the Agenda. The board reviewed, modified, and adopted each document on behalf of the worldwide IAVE network and volunteers everywhere.

The cooperative effort that led to the creation of the Universal Declaration and the Global Agenda reflect our aspiration that, together, we can make the International Year of Volunteers the year that will change the world.

Kenn Allen, Ed.D

World President

IAVE

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Volunteering is a fundamental and essential element of society. It is in the best interest of each of the major sectors to ensure that volunteering grows stronger, more inclusive and more effective. Together, they can:

• Create a public environment that understands and values the importance of volunteering;
• Find innovative ways to encourage and assist people to volunteer;
• Develop the knowledge, skills and organizational structures necessary to support volunteering;
• Ensure the financial and human resources necessary to effectively mobilize and manage volunteers.

Volunteer Organizations benefit because volunteers are a powerful source of time, talent and energy that can directly help organizations achieve their missions and priorities. Volunteers complement the work of paid staff, extending their capacity, and bring new perspectives and energies. Organizations help strengthen volunteering by creating "volunteer-friendly environments" that help volunteers build their knowledge and skills, enable paid staff and volunteers to work as partners, and manage volunteers with respect, learning from them in order to strengthen the organization.

Government benefits from strong volunteering because involved people are more engaged citizens who participate in the affairs of the community, who advocate for more effective government action, and who assist government in carrying out its work. In support of volunteering, government can: encourage people to volunteer; ensure that laws and government policies do not create barriers to volunteering; do an excellent job in managing those volunteers who work within government agencies and programs; provide support for the infrastructure needed to sustain volunteering, particularly local and national volunteer centres; and, provide funding for the development of innovative approaches to engaging volunteers in response to specific needs or national/local priorities.

Business benefits when it engages its workers as volunteers because volunteering is a way to develop their skills, knowledge, and leadership capacity. When businesses encourage their workers to volunteer, they present themselves as a more attractive workplace to current and prospective workers. They also enhance their public image and help to create communities that are better places for them to pursue their business. Volunteering is a strategic resource to help them achieve their business goals. Business can provide leadership, talent, energy, funding and other resources for volunteering.

Education benefits because volunteering is an effective way for students to develop their knowledge and skills. When organized appropriately, communities can become places of learning, supporting classroom experiences and allowing students to actually experience that which they are studying. Service-learning – which includes opportunities for student reflection on their service – can happen at all levels of education, providing age-appropriate opportunities for students to be involved in their communities. The education community also is an important source of research on volunteering.

Media benefits because volunteering creates interesting stories of the ways in which people are helping one another and making their communities better places in which to live and work. Coverage of stories about the work of volunteers demonstrates the commitment of media to serve the entire community. Media is a powerful tool to promote volunteering, helping create a public environment that encourages people to volunteer and providing information that gives people access to volunteer opportunities.

Other sectors also can assist in strengthening volunteering. Religious bodies, for example, can affirm the role of volunteering in responding to the spiritual call to service to those in need that is a common element of major religions. Private philanthropy can provide financial resources to support volunteering and stimulate innovations in mobilization and management of volunteers.

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There are five primary objectives that have been articulated for IYV.

Recognition of the value and impact of volunteering and of the work of being done by volunteers. How do we convince other sectors of the importance of volunteering, thus enlisting their support? How do we document the impact that volunteers have and the nature and value of the contribution they make? How do we reflect volunteering in national accounts? How do we hold up for public recognition and celebration the work of individual volunteers? How do we identify and learn about particularly creative, innovative, and effective volunteer efforts?

Promotion of volunteering, encouraging people to become volunteers and providing the information and access they need to become volunteers. How do we convince people who are busy and pressured to commit the time to be volunteers? How do we provide opportunities for people to volunteer for short terms without losing the commitment of people to volunteer jobs that require long-term involvement? How do we make best use of new technology to connect people who want to volunteer with the opportunities to do so? How do we balance the use of the media for promotional campaigns with the proven impact of one on one recruitment of new volunteers?

Facilitation of volunteering through effective practices of mobilization and management and through the development and maintenance of the organizational structures needed to promote and support volunteering. How do we develop new knowledge about "best practices" in the management of volunteers? How do we build the skills of those responsible for managing volunteers? How do we create "volunteer friendly environments" within organizations that engage volunteers, including the commitment of adequate resources for the management of volunteers? How do we build visible and effective national and local leadership organizations for volunteering?

Networking that strengthens volunteering by combining resources in mutually beneficial ways to increase impact. How do we create effective partnerships among NGOs to expand and strengthen volunteering? How do we build partnerships between volunteer organizations and other sectors of society? How do we build community and national networks through which volunteer leaders can learn from and support one another? How do we build global networks that transfer knowledge, skills and experience to develop volunteering worldwide?

Participation that ensures that all people – regardless of their cultural and ethnic origin, religion, age, gender, and physical, social or economic condition – have the right and the opportunity to participate as volunteers. How do we reduce barriers to volunteering? How do we take into account cultural and values differences in the recruitment and management of volunteers? How do we ensure that volunteers have the opportunity to participate in the planning and management of their work?

There are no final answers to questions such as these. The Global Agenda for Action poses a variety of suggestions of what can be done, based on the experience and knowledge of those who have helped to construct it. The challenge to the global volunteer community is to continuously expand and update this agenda, adding best practices that move toward those answers.

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Volunteer organizations can:

• Provide all individual volunteers with some form of recognition, be it informal or formal.
• Offer volunteers training opportunities.
• Certify volunteer work.
• Include the value of volunteering in their mission statement and policy documents.
• Employ a human resource policy for the recruitment, training and role of volunteers.
• Develop personal records of achievement and disseminate this concept as a tool to create awareness of learning.
• Assist in portfolio building and solution development to improve the quality of volunteer work.
• Recognize the talents and abilities of all target groups.

Volunteer organizations can:

• Provide opportunities for marginalized groups, such as the elderly, youth, persons with disabilities and women to develop leadership skills.
• Develop well-managed volunteer programs.
• Approach businesses with options for potential involvement or support.
• Strive to develop knowledge for other sectors and other volunteer organizations.
• Provide necessary training to develop the skills of volunteers.
• Provide financial and logistical support to volunteers.
• Ensure that the role, responsibilities and tasks of volunteers are clearly described and defined.
• Develop internal volunteer policies that motivate and inspire.
• Pay attention to team building of volunteers and paid staff.
• Develop risk management policies.
• Examine policies to remove barriers to participation by all people (e.g., day and time of activities.)
• Create opportunities for marginalized people to be engaged (e.g., participation on the board.)

Volunteer organizations can:

• Be open to networking with other sectors.
• Allow volunteers to exchange views and build up social contacts with other volunteers from other organizations.
• Strive for a balanced mix of board members from across the community (e.g., the elderly, youth, women and business.)
• Initiate contacts with other sectors and work to establish long-term relationships.
• Organize themselves into regional, national and international associations to join forces and become more successful in achieving their aims.

Volunteer organizations can:

• Invest in activities to promote volunteers to the media, government and businesses.
• Identify ways to diversify their volunteer base.
• Be role models, and create inspiring images of volunteers.
• Inform editorial teams of newspaper and electronic media of the organization, volunteer activities, outstanding programs and volunteers.
• Include volunteers on cross-sector committees.
• Create and implement new roles for the elderly, youth, people with disabilities, and women, taking into account existing barriers for volunteering.
• Make good use of new technologies.
• Create websites informing the community of ongoing acrtivities .
• Develop coalitions around public relations and approach the media together.
• Use influential leaders as spokespersons.
• Train volunteers in public speaking, public relations and the media.
• Create an interactive database of best practices.
• Develop concrete, detailed materials to attract target groups.

Volunteer organizations can:

• Empower and help build creative solutions to community issues.
• Manage and motivate volunteers for success.
• Adopt a participatory planning policy and involve all stakeholders as much as possible in its work.
• Include women’s organizations into playing an important role in the improvement of the position of women in society and worldwide.
• Provide leadership opportunities to young people, women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
• Ensure that volunteers are involved in planning and are treated equally as paid staff.
• Develop family friendly volunteer opportunities and work to engage families as volunteers.

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Governments can:

• Design a comprehensive legal framework to support the value of volunteering.
• Support the United Nations International Year of Volunteers 2001.
• Include the economic value of volunteer effort in the calculations of their GDP.
• Dedicate a unit within their administrations to coordinate policies on volunteering.
• Establish a budget line dedicated to supporting volunteering.
• Fund research on volunteering.
• Establish award systems for outstanding volunteers, volunteer projects and organizations.
• Create a system to register volunteer organizations so they can be officially recognized and legitimized.

Governments can:

• Create policies on volunteering.
• Take the initiative to provide legal protection for the establishment of organizations and legal provision for individuals who wish to volunteer.
• Adjust regulations to allow volunteers to be legally paid for their expenses and to facilitate organizations to insure their volunteers properly.
• Review legislation to enhance the positive impact on volunteering.
• Fund infrastructure for volunteering.
• Allow for a portion of selected revenues (e.g., national lotteries) to be spent on volunteer organizations or projects.
• Create regional resource and support centres for NGOs.
• Facilitate cooperation between the business and volunteer sector.
• Create focal points and a liaison structure within ministries or other national bodies.
• Create coordinating committees on a regional level, to act as an intermediary between the national and the local authorities to exchange effective practices.
• Increase funding to support the use of computers and internet technologies by volunteer organizations.
• Support youth organizations and youth clubs.

Governments can:

• Help to connect different sectors while recognizing the independence of volunteer organizations.
• Work in partnership with a range of stakeholders to foster volunteering.
• Encourage public institutions such as schools to engage volunteers.
• Recognize the importance of volunteer efforts to achieve their goals around international development and cooperation.
• Eliminate barriers in obtaining visas for international cooperation and the exchange of volunteers and their experience.
• Participate in relevant volunteer conferences and events to further dialogue between the governmental sector and volunteer organizations.
• Develop a good communication structure and effective channels of communication and consultation with volunteer organizations.
• Collect, analyze, use, and disseminate materials and data collected on government policies regarding volunteering.
• Call on the United Nations to facilitate networks and bring resources to developing countries.

Governments can:

• Have annual celebrations of the International Volunteer Day on December 5 and other national and local volunteer opportunities.
• Include promotion of volunteering in school curricula.
• Help reduce barriers to volunteering through education.
• Organize training opportunities for government employees and politicians.
• Explore ways of involving the mass media and new technologies in an information campaign to raise awareness, promote a positive image and improve access.
• Encourage media companies to introduce the concept of "pro bono" public service announcements on behalf of volunteer organizations and activities.
• Make people aware of social issues and problems in the course of their general and adult education and the contribution volunteering can make to their solutions.
• Collect data on the incidence and extent of volunteering and voluntary activity.
• Establish award systems for outstanding volunteers, volunteer projects or volunteer organizations.
• Accredit volunteering.
• Offer tax incentives to companies to promote volunteering.

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Businesses can:

• Clearly establish with their managers and their workers their institutional commitment to volunteering.
• Conduct surveys to collect information on what volunteer activities their employees are involved and interested in.
• Reflect in their overall business plans the strategic value of volunteering in achieving their business goals.
• Publicize internally the support of their senior executives for volunteering, both by their workers and in the community as a whole.
• Demonstrate their support for volunteering by supporting the work of local and national volunteer centres as the leadership organizations for volunteering.
• Publicly report on their overall community involvement and social responsibility programs and specifically on the volunteer activities of their workers.
• Can include consideration of volunteering in the evaluation of their managers, particularly the extent to which those managers encourage and support volunteering by those they manage.
• Set up schemes for recognition of the volunteer activities of their workers, calling particular attention to creative, innovative and effective work that they do.
• Tell the stories of their workers volunteering in their advertising and their public reports.

Businesses can:

• Adopt policies and practices that encourage and enable their workers to volunteer.
• create and manage projects through which their workers can volunteer – both single day and recurring projects.
• Establish formal employee volunteer programs that offer a wide range of opportunities for workers to volunteer.
• Empower their workers to plan and manage their own volunteer programs through "employee volunteer committees" that include employee volunteers from throughout the company.
• Offer their workers the opportunity to have "flexible schedules" so that they can volunteer during normal working hours.
• Allow workers to do "online volunteering" from their desks during normal working hours.

Businesses can:

• Work with one another to create cooperative projects that engage their workers as volunteers.
• Establish "corporate volunteer councils" in their communities to facilitate the exchange of information and best practices among companies and to encourage cooperative planning of shared activities.
• Develop partnerships with NGOs or agencies of government around specific issues and program priorities – offering a range of support for collaborative activities, including not only volunteering but capacity-building and funding support.
• Encourage their vendors to participate in volunteer activities sponsored by the company.
• Encourage their customers, particularly when they are other businesses, to participate in volunteer activities sponsored by the company.
• Assist other businesses, particularly smaller ones to offer opportunities for their workers to volunteer, perhaps through programs sponsored by the larger business.
• Cooperate closely with national volunteer centres in developing joint networks and addressing networking opportunities.
• Develop advisory groups of NGOs and grassroots organizations to help identify community needs that can be addressed by worker volunteers.

Businesses can:

• Make available to their workers information about volunteer opportunities in the community that they may wish to pursue in their personal time.
• Invite NGOs to make presentations to workers or to provide displays or other information that can be made available to their workers about opportunities to volunteer.
• Feature in their internal newsletters stories about the work of volunteers.
• "Network" with local volunteer centres or other NGOs to provide access to data bases of volunteer opportunities.
• Take advantage of International Volunteer Day on December 5 annually or of national or local "volunteer weeks" or other celebrations to promote volunteering.
• Make known the personal volunteer involvement of their senior executives.

Businesses can:

• Establish teams of workers reflective of various segments of their total work group and empower them to plan and implement volunteer activities for those groups.
• Demand that NGOs and government agencies eliminate any barriers they may have to volunteers or to particular groups of people who wish to volunteer.
• Make available a wide range of volunteer activities that are reflective of the diversity of interests and priorities of their workers.
• Establish teams of workers that are empowered to give direction to company-sponsored volunteer activities.
• Identify volunteer opportunities that are particularly responsive to workers special needs.
• Create volunteer opportunities that can involve the families of workers, including providing age-appropriate activities for their children.

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Educational institutions can:

• Assist in the flow of information.
• Contribute in areas of advocacy.
• Assist in the development of the volunteer sector through training and education.
• Be involved in action-oriented research.
• Ensure the impact of volunteer work is measured.
• Develop accreditation for volunteer work (skills, knowledge, experience, etc.)
• Develop curricula.
• Provide credit to students who volunteer.
• Provide space for cooperation between students and teachers to contribute to the creation of a new image of volunteer work.
• Develop models of strong volunteer programs.
• Meet regularly with volunteer organizations.
• Assist in the portfolio building process for volunteers.

Educational institutions can:

• Develop appropriate training.
• Develop informal and formal education programs.
• Develop action-oriented research.
• Contribute in networking and collaboration with other sectors.
• Develop and foster the flow of information.
• Create new volunteer opportunities.
• Develop exchange programs for different volunteer populations.
• Strengthen relations between volunteers and local communities.
• Create interaction with volunteer centres.

Educational institutions can:

• Spread and share their knowledge with others.
• Encourage networks between volunteers and academics.
• Support networks with research and evaluations.
• Contribute to networks with other stakeholders.
• Encourage the involvement of young people, women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
• Take part in activities on an international level.
• Create and expand partnerships, both formal and informal.

Educational institutions can:

• Focus on creative models.
• Promote the relationship between volunteering and democracy.
• Promote citizenship through volunteer social responsibility.
• Demonstrate models of volunteer programs.
• Create positive relations between the educational process and volunteers.
• Cooperate with volunteer organizations on the issue of accreditation of volunteer work.
• Assist in the development of a code of ethics.

Educational institutions can:

• Help voluntary organizations in bridging the gap between academics and grassroots organizations.
• Give attention to the development of positive attitudes of students towards society.
• Provide approaches and access to participation.
• Encourage their own employees to volunteer.
• Facilitate participation.

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Media can:

• Recognize volunteering as an important part of social life.
• Build relationships with all sectors of society around volunteering.
• Present the work of volunteers in a way that shows value and the impact it has on society.
• Help create an environment that encourages people to volunteer.
• Approach volunteer activities through their important values.
• Recognize the International Year of Volunteers 2001 as an opportunity to take a new look on volunteering.

Media can:

• Promote the role of volunteering in solving social issues
• Help society look at volunteer work in new and interesting ways.
• Inspire volunteer activities which contribute to community life and strengthen the impact of volunteer work.
• Include the small ideas in the big stories.
• Help the sector to create a public relations plan to address the definition of volunteer work and its use as attrative news.
• Educate sectors to develop coalitions in public relations.
• Write compelling personal human interest stories.
• Train volunteers to speak in public and to present their work publicly.
• Develop and expand relationships with other sectors.
• Help in the development of public and private partnerships.
• Highlight examples of volunteering on a regular basis.
• Help sectors develop interesting lively colorful action stories for other forms of media beyond print.
• Help sectors understand the various target audiences including youth and the elderly.
• Use the International Year of Volunteers 2001 as a lead story.

Media can:

• Communicate the values, importance and outcomes of volunteering.
• Adopt strategies on how to inform audiences about volunteer activities.
• Contribute to the public environment by featuring stories about people doing things voluntarily.
• Address the impact of volunteer work.
• Accept media kits and media opportunities.
• Communicate with volunteer organizations and be informed about their events and plans.
• Recognize spokespersons and public speakers of volunteer organizations.
• Be open to questions from volunteer organizations.
• Meet with volunteer organizations more regularly.
• Present the outcomes, results and impact from voluntary work.

Media can:

• Bring together people in the community while enforcing local activities.
• Bring together various sectors showing the benefits to all.
• Bring together NGOs with similar missions to encourage partnerships.
• Facilitate conversations between sectors.
• Benefit from the partnerships with voluntary organizations.
• Train others on the importance of NGOs as a "news-story."
• Provide introductions of influential and respected opinion leaders to NGOs.

This Youth Forum Statement is the Written result of the XVI th IAVE Pre-conference. The statements and actions listed within are the results of the hard work of some 150 participants through workshops and interactive training sessions. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive list of actions: it represents the management summary of the Youth Forum’s ideas. This document does not stand on its own: we build upon the results of previous gatherings (for example the meeting on Youth Voluntarism in Latin America in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, May 9th 2000).

RECOGNITION
Statement: respect for diversity in all its forms, including age, is fundamental for recognition

• Action for IAVE: develop a universal logo for volunteers by organising a world-wide design-competition
• Action for voluntary organizations: implement a youth recognition program within your organization
• Action for YOU: get involved with the Global Youth Service Day (April 21, 2001).

FACILITATION
Statement: volunteering is facilitated by access to resources such as recruitment, orientation, training, evaluation and mentoring of youth at all stages

• Action for IAVE: continue the momentum of the Youth Forum by providing the youth with facilities for as sustainable Youth Forum and a youth pre-conference at every IAVE conference
• Action for voluntary organizations: work with young people to ensure open access to facilities for all, such as leadership training as part of education within your organizations
• Action for YOU: ensure that the knowledge and experiences gained here at the conference are accessible for people in your own community

PROMOTION
Statement: the perception of volunteering must be improved by showing its positive impact on the community as well as the volunteers’ satisfaction and opportunities

• Action for IAVE: produce a commercial to promote youth volunteering during the International Year of Volunteers based on the ideas generated at this Youth Forum
• Action for voluntary organizations: advocate youth activities in your own community
• Action for YOU: encourage friends, family and colleagues to join you at your next volunteering activity, for example a national youth service day

NETWORKING
Statement: exchanging ideas and experiences with others, both youth and adults, enhances the effectiveness of the volunteering activities

• Action for IAVE: develop an information network to ensure continuing interaction among youth volunteers and to involve the volunteers absent from this conference
• Action for voluntary organizations: continuously connect existing networks into our IAVE global network
• Action for YOU: as a youth delegate, exchange contact information with a n adult delegate and vice versa, to share ideas and experiences at least twice a year for mutual benefit

The Youth Forum considers youth participation essential for implementation of the aforementioned statements
YOUTH PARTICIPATION: “don’t ask how old we are, as us who we are” Statement: youth participation is necessary to ensure successful volunteering now and in the future

• Action for IAVE: include at least one youth member from every region, selected by young people, on the IAVE Board
• Action for voluntary organizations: incorporate young people and their ideas into every aspect of the organization’s structure and activities and involve youth in decision making
• Action for YOU: make sure youth are well informed and their voice is heard at all levels of your voluntary organization

IAVE Youth Forum declares that RECOGNOTION, FACILITATION, NETWORKING, PROMOTION and especially YOUTH PARTICIPATION are key to strengthening the pathways between adults and youth to empower volunteering.
Declared at the IAVE Youth Forum during the XVIth IAVE World Conference IYV, 14-18 January 2001. Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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