1、Emergency Management Volunteering:More Than Just Words Natural Hazards Research Australia 2023Roger Jones and Celeste Young Natural Hazards Australia Forum 2025Adelaide,19 June 2025.1.Develop a National Emergency Volunteer Sustainability Blueprint and Action Plan as a living document that provides t
2、angible pathways for actions that progress the sustainable volunteering agenda.2.Reframe and rethink emergency management volunteering through exploring challenges and opportunities 3.Support EMO volunteering organisations to broaden their horizons in ways that influence the sector to invest in inno
3、vative and sustainable solutions which support the sustainability of EM volunteering.Overall project objectivesRoger Jones(VU)Celeste Young(VU)Kara Dadswell(VU)Daniel Ooi(VU)Steve Cameron(Bloc Consulting)Siobhan McCuskey(VU)The teamAFAC Volunteer Management Technical GroupSandra Lunardi,AFACAdam Moo
4、re,AFACAndrew Coghlan,Australian Red CrossBlythe McLennan,NHRAWhy national action has been elusiveLack of strategic structure and cohesion with other strategic directions to enable national action/s.Solutions are systemic-paralysis due to overchoice.Long standing issues but solutions tended to focus
5、 on symptoms rather than the root cause.A need for collaboration across the EM volunteering sector.Invisibility of volunteering patchy data and reporting.Resource constraintsThe BlueprintTHE SUSTAINABLE VOLUNTEERING BLUEPRINT COMPONENTS How we developed the BlueprintA literature review An analysis o
6、f current strategic documentsThree workshops(Tasks of implementation-based research,Young.C 2016)The EM volunteering context Compression pointsCompression points increasing demand for EM services and competition for volunteers decreases in formal volunteering