The document discusses responsible volunteering and identifies several challenges. It addresses priorities for volunteer safety and informed consent. It also examines issues around accurately marketing volunteer programs, ensuring the needs of local communities are the priority, recognizing volunteer expectations, creating a lasting legacy, and ensuring financial transparency. The document provides resources for learning more about responsible volunteering practices and codes of conduct.

2. responsible volunteering
it’s
SIMPLE!

3. responsible volunteering
SIMPLE priorities
Safety
Informed Consent
Marketing
Purpose
Legacy
Economics

4. responsible volunteering
Safety
protection of the community
•preparation
•volunteer Code of Conduct
protection of the volunteers
•preparation
• programme Code of Practice
__________
Due Diligence
Challenge: – realistic but robust processes

5. responsible volunteering
Informed Consent
•community
and
•volunteer
Challenge:-bums on seats-v-need for consent

6. ??? responsible volunteering ???
Taken from the web on Friday 1st November
“Although it's difficult to give you an exact figure,
“our record time for arranging somewhere between 30% and 100% of your
a project contribution
is a mere 24 hours! ” will be applied directly to supporting your overseas
project
through financial support. ”
This from a leading “responsible” travel company
“Volunteering with children in Uganda
Grab one of the last remaining places on 2012 intake dates:
October 30th, November 13th and 27th and December 11th”
“Projects that are easiest
“The children who have made it to these homes and to set up on short notice
centers crave the love and affection that volunteers have are care and {sports and conservation}”
the time and energy to give.”

7. responsible volunteering
Marketing
smoke and mirrors
Challenge: -how to tell it as it is-but not
create barriers to booking

8. responsible volunteering
Purpose
needs of the community are paramount
BUT
must recognise volunteer expectations
Challenge:– these don’t always match!

9. responsible volunteering
Legacy
is the project appropriate
and of
value to proposed beneficiaries ?
Challenge:- the easiest projects to
sell don’t always leave a legacy

10. responsible volunteering
Economics
who gets-what-where
is it fair?
replacing local employment
Challenges:
• transparency v confidentiality
•the easiest projects to manage often
replace local employment

11. Taking Responsibility

12. Taking Responsibility
Want to learn more?
• Key questions to be asked and answered - http://travel-peopleandplaces.co.uk/About.aspx?category=20h
• Better Volunteering - http://www.responsibletourismpartnership.org/BetterVolunteering.html
• Better Volunteering Code of Practice -http://www.responsibletourismpartnership.org/ResponsibleVolunteering1.html
• Better Chid Protection -http://www.responsibletourismpartnership.org/ChildProtection.html
• Examples of good and bad practice -http://blog.travel-peopleandplaces.co.uk/?cat=5&submit=Go
• people and places responsible tourism policy -http://travel-peopleandplaces.co.uk/userfiles/RT%20policy%202012.pdf
• people and places child protection policy -http://travel-peopleandplaces.co.uk/userfiles/pandp%20Child%20Protection%20Policy%20generic.pdf
• people and places on facebook -http://www.facebook.com/pages/Responsible-volunteering-people-and-places/109179132471692?
• people and places on twitter @pandpvolunteer
• Better volunteering on facebook -http://www.facebook.com/pages/Better-Volunteering/426800777357861
• Better child protection on facebook -http://www.facebook.com/pages/Better-Child-Protection/109301995889469
More Resources
• South African Code of Practice - http://www.fairtourismsa.org.za/pdffiles/VoluntourismCodeofGoodPractice.pdf
• TIES code of practice - http://www.ecotourism.org/voluntourism-guidelines
• Volunteering Standards Group -http://www.fairtourismsa.org.za/pdffiles/VoluntourismCodeofGoodPractice.pdf
• Year Out Group Code of Practice - http://www.yearoutgroup.org/why-year-out-group/code-of-practice/
• Volunteer wikispace - http://planeta.wikispaces.com/volunteer
• ChildSafe Network - http://www.childsafe-international.org/
• Child Protection in Tourism - http://www.thecode.org/
• Discuss Irresponsible Practices - http://www.irresponsibletourism.info/forum/default.asp?C=6