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Volunteering and influencing policy(makers)
A practical approach
Eva HambachVSVw vzw
6th of July 2010
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Introduction
• Importance of volunteering is clear– Research– Public opinion (partly)– Policymakers
• Volunteering brings added value– In general– In particular also towards decisionmaking
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Volunteering & policymaking
• Volunteers and their organisations do contribute– Directly– Indirectly
• Key-issue: volunteering belongs– To everyone– To no-one– > affects influencing policymakers
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Volunteering & policymaking
• Challenges:– Find the keyperson/keypersons to whom to
direct to– Formulate the issue in a clear way– Translate “problems” into “solutions”– Find consensus
• between organisations themselves• Find consensus between volunteers• Find consensus at all
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Volunteering & policymaking
• Develop a strategy – To convince policymakers/ political parties– On how to communicate what we want– By agreeing on essential vs. extra demands– How to react on set backs– Use your network or create a new one
• Ongoing follow up and communication• Don’t forget the policymakers
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Best practices
• Basis of the choice made– Different levels of ‘influencing’– Different types of organisation– Different policy levels– Involvement or not of volunteers
• Best practices:– Daedalus– Toad action– Volunteers’law– EYV2011 Alliance
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First best practice
• Group Daedalus– Citizens engaged in organisation
• Mostly higher educated persons (mostly only volunteers)
– Against night flights over Brussels– What did they reach.
• Flying ban at certain hours• Possible sanction if the ban is broken• To influence the debate on political level• To get a lot of media-attention
– Core-element: twist
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Second best practice
• Toad action – Started as a one person action– Gained support form
• Other volunteers• Environment movement• Community/ loacal authorities
– Core-element: co-operation
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Third best practice
• Protection of volunteers within volunteers law
• Action from sector of volunteering “against“ insurances-lobby
• Result: settlement developed by politicians
• Core-element: lobby and counterlobby
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Fourth best practise
• Declaration of the EYV2011• Action of CEV: Manifesto• Actions taken by EP• Creation of a large Alliance of Eungo’s• Influencing EC, until decision and
declaration• Core-element: building up case, strong
file, cooperation and lobby
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Conclusions
• To be successful in influencing, it requires:– Knowledge of content– Knowledge of procedures– Networking– Finding ‘friends’ – support– Discretion– Knowing whom to address to – Knowing possible ‘enemies’– Being persuasive