Organization : Government of Croatia
Facility : How To Become A Volunteer Organiser?
Country : Croatia
Website : https://gov.hr/en/how-to-become-a-volunteer-organiser/776
How To Become a Volunteer Organiser in Croatia?
If you want to become a volunteer organiser, or you need help finding volunteers, you can request mediation from one of the regional volunteer centres. Associations, foundations, trusts, institutions and other non-profit legal persons, state authorities and authorities of local and regional self-government units can all become volunteer organisers. Institutions established by a natural person can organise volunteering only for non-profit activities.
The volunteer organiser establishes the need to involve volunteers, and determines the type of activities or services and the manner and procedures of providing these services, on the basis of the volunteering programme.
Mediation By Regional Centres
If you want to become a volunteer organiser, or you need help finding volunteers, you can request mediation from one of the regional volunteer centres in Osijek, Split, Rijeka and Zagreb. The list of centres and their contact details can be found on the website of the Croatian Volunteer Development Centre.
Design and Implementation of Programmes
Pursuant to the Code of Ethics for Volunteers, the volunteer organiser designs and implements volunteering programmes that have clear and observable criteria for volunteer involvement as well as and monitoring and evaluation of volunteer activities, and that create a pleasant and stimulating atmosphere in which volunteers are encouraged to engage in personal development through learning, participation in teamwork and exchange with colleagues.
The volunteer organiser provides a safe and enabling environment for volunteering, as well as financial, organisational and human resources necessary for the implementation of volunteer activities, taking into account the expertise and competences of volunteers to work with beneficiaries.
Volunteer Rights
As a volunteer, you have the following rights:
** right to a written certificate of volunteering
** right to enter into a volunteering contract in writing, if you so request
** right to get acquainted with the code of ethics and ethical standards relevant to a particular form of volunteering
** right to appropriate training in order to improve the quality of activities performed and services provided, especially if this is required by the nature of volunteering activities and services provided
** right to professional assistance and support during volunteering
** right to get acquainted with the conditions of volunteering, activities you will be performing, services you will be providing, and rights that you have under the law and other regulations as well as general acts of the volunteer organiser; and in case of entering into an oral contract, you are required to give a written statement thereof
** right to reimbursement of agreed expenses incurred in connection with volunteering
** right to appropriate and safe working conditions in accordance with the nature of the volunteering activities you are performing
** right to protective equipment in accordance with the nature of the volunteering activities you are performing and the services you are providing
** right to get acquainted with the dangers associated with the specific form of volunteering you are carrying out
** right to a daily rest of an agreed duration
** right to privacy and personal data protection
** right to participate in decision-making processes regarding the matters related to volunteering in accordance with the capabilities of the volunteer organiser and the form of volunteering
** as regards volunteering abroad or receiving volunteers from abroad, right to reimbursement of agreed expenses by the organiser, and right to a transparent visa procedure
** right to a detailed description of the volunteering tasks and activities
** right to gain new knowledge, skills and competences through volunteering
** right to recognition of skills, competences and experience gained through volunteering
** in cases of long-term volunteering, right to a certificate of competences gained through volunteering, if you so request.