Our newest case study from our members was submitted by Dr Solmaz Nazari, Policy and Research Advisor for Volunteering New Zealand. This case study focuses on one of the eight International Standards for Community Development — inclusion and diversity. This standard centers around designing and delivering practices, policies, structures and programs that recognize and respect diversity and promote inclusion.
Read on about the background of this case study’s project:
Recent migrants face challenges in settling in their new environments and contributing to their communities. Volunteering, as a community development activity, can play a significant role in building recent migrants’ connections with their communities. Community development practitioners can act as facilitators to assist this process. Recognising this potential, Volunteering New Zealand (VNZ) initiated a project to engage with the managers of volunteering organisations to support them and their staff as community development practitioners. As facilitators, these practitioners could work with recent migrants to connect with their communities, thereby assisting both migrants and communities to realise the mutual benefits of community development through volunteering.
You can read the full case study below:
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