We would like to invite you to an interactive workshop to explore how we can better recognise, support and value volunteer contributions across different regions and communities.
What? Hybrid workshop ‘Volunteerism and its measurements: Promoting a policy dialogue on the 2026 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report (SWVR)’
When? 7 July 2026, 4pm-5.30pm (Ireland time)
Where? In-person at the Global Lounge in the Gerald Manley Hopkins Centre, University College Dublin (UCD) Campus, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland or online (registration links below and attached)
The 2026 SWVR ‘Volunteerism and its Measurements’ highlights a critical challenge: current systems for tracking volunteering often fail to reflect the full scope and diversity of volunteer contributions worldwide. When volunteer contributions are overlooked, opportunities are missed to support volunteers effectively through policy and funding decisions.
The workshop will explore:
- How can NGOs, governments and researchers balance the need for comparable statistics with capturing local diversity and context-specific volunteering practices?
- What forms of volunteering are currently invisible in official data at national and regional levels and how can we better capture them?
- How can better volunteer measurement support policy development, funding decisions and recognition of volunteering?
This hybrid workshop will be held in English only and is free to attend in-person (UCD, Dublin) or online (Zoom). It is part of the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development (IVY 2026) global engagement events, co-organised by United Nations Volunteers (UNV), Northumbria University’s Centre for Global Development, Comhlámh, and UCD Volunteers Overseas (UCDVO).
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