The Volunteering Learning Programme (VLP) is a high-level training event aimed at people with volunteering responsibilities within the Red Cross and Red Crescent. This program was designed by the Spanish Red Cross, in coordination with the International Federation, and was held annually in a mixed methodology format that included an on site part.

The restrictions imposed by the pandemic have forced us to postpone the face-to-face event, and to search for other means, always with the purpose of opening spaces for training, reflection and dialogue for focal points of volunteering. This is the main reasoning behind our VLP:alumni initiative.

VLP:alumni invites you to remain part of the Volunteering Learning Programme community and keep connecting with colleagues, mentors, and friends who have volunteering responsibilities similar to yours. It will also help you to keep up with current issues and changes in volunteering through webinars, publications, exchange spaces led by leading National Societies, papers and collaborative events. We really appreciate the effort and contributions made by all the people who have participated in the face-to-face editions of the Programme, or who want to do so in the future when the context allows it and, although our daily connection may have changed, we want to keep a solid and lasting relationship with you.

For all these reasons, we want to promote online spaces that generate knowledge and add value to your role as a person with responsibilities in volunteering, through spaces for training, reflection and exchange, or by contributing to expand your network of contacts.

VLP:alumni pauses as we undertake the task of organising an a new onsite Volunteering Learning Programme in Spain in September 2022 It is scheduled to take place from 17 to 24 September. Invitations are on their way and we hope that the national presidencies will receive them soon. To stay updated, we suggest you visit our website where you can find updated information about it. We hope that you will register as soon as you get the green light from the senior management of the National Societies.

Tuesday 14 June 2022 at 13:00hrs (CET, Central European Time) (UTC +1)

Amal Emam (National Manager of Volunteering Development at the Egyptian Red Crescent Society and Youth & Volunteering Coordinator for IFRC MENA)

Volunteering and Diversity

Amal Emam, National Manager of Volunteering Development at the Egyptian Red Crescent Society and Youth & Volunteering Coordinator for IFRC MENA, brings forward an open discussion to reflect on what diversity in volunteering means and how to promote diversity and inclusion in volunteering to ensure the representativeness of the communities and groups we work within. The aim of this session is to promote the exchange of insights and practical experiences among participants and explore together the challenges and approaches we face as an organization in fostering a more enabling environment for diversity in volunteering.

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*This session is available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic

Tuesday 24 May 2022 at 13:00hrs (CET, Central European Time) (UTC +1)

Pau Mugarra (Organisational Consultant -TheUpperLoop)

Agile Methodologies - SCRUM

This session is focused on whetting attendees' appetite for agile methodologies. In addition, it will allow them to find application keys in their own territory and in their work with the Red Cross / Red Crescent, and the desire to continue exploring and deepening in it. A first step towards the use of agile methodologies in the organization on daily basis.

Agile Methodolodies.

*This session is available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic

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04 May 2022 

Ian Steed (Consultor)

Effective Learning: Effective Volunteering

What does effective learning look like in the modern volunteer organisation? What are the challenges we face? 

How can we use evolving technology and learning science to motivate, empower and strengthen Red Cross Red Crescent volunteering? 

In this session we share participant experiences, look at how we can use ideas from learning science, and examine a case study of scaled, digital peer learning from immunization. 

During the session, we will be sharing participant experiences verbally and in writing. 

This session is available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic

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19 April 2022

Carla López Adrover – Raúl Roncero Marín (Partners and consultants in Explora. Processes, People and Technology)

Volunteering Data Management: Study Cases

This session aims to expose the keys of the comparative analysis of 4 case studies in different National Societies on data management in volunteering, as well as the most relevant and transferable learning and conclusions, in order to provoke and share a dynamic reflection in the participants of the webinar. An application will be used that will facilitate the participation and structured feedback of the attendees who wish to interact 

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22 March 2022

Mali Hawkins – Lyndel Spence (Australian Red Cross) 

New forms of collaboration and the adaptability to the context in the area of volunteering: a challenge

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More and more we are seeing new and diverse forms of volunteering take place. Where we want to find volunteering as that through and non for-profit organisation, and in a long term in a face to face capacity, we are now seeing a much broadening scope: corporate volunteering, skilled volunteering, 
virtual volunteering, episodic volunteering, etc. are just some of the ways that people are now participating in taking action.

The Australian Red Cross has been working for some time on how to build and design for these new forms of volunteering, as to attract more people in more ways than ever before.

Let’s explore together what ways we can build and design these new forms of volunteering, so that we can create social impact and ultimately social change.

17 February 2022

Carine Fleury (Swiss Red Cross) – Gabriel Pictet (Interational Federation) – Nabih Jabr (Lebanese Red Cross)

Moti: a live demonstration and information on volunteering motivation

Swiss Red Cross and Lebanese Red Cross share with us Moti, a management tool to improve the motivation and commitment of volunteers with a live demonstration and knowledge, sharing the findings of experiences led by National Societies (the Swiss Red Cross and the Lebanese Red Cross, and Cyprus Red Cross, Portuguese Red Cross, Kyrgyzstan Red Crescent, Finnish Red Cross or Mexican Red Cross). The rationale behind these pilot experiences is based on the fact that the commitment and motivation of volunteering are a prerequisite for the success and sustainability of National Society programs and services, and they use the Self-Determination Theory to assess volunteer motivation levels.

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07 December 2021

Spanish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross, Mexican Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross and Italian Red Cross

Global Volunteering Alliance - who are we?

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This session showcased what the Volunteering Alliance is about, how National Societies Staff and Volunteers can engage, what the Volunteering Alliance has produced since its inception and provide a model of collaboration for National Societies Volunteering Development in a distributed network. The Volunteering Alliance has established itself as a true distributed network of volunteering practitioners helping themselves and others by working collaboratively on pressing volunteering development issues.

04 November 2021

Frank Mohrhauer

Director of NSPKD Department at IFRC (National Society, Policy and Knowledge Development).

Reimagining volunteering within Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

FFrank Mohrhauer opens a discussion with the participants, focused on the idea of reimagining volunteering in our National Societies. How “Reimagining volunteering” might be linked to new forms of collaboration? Which could be the role of our National Societies in these new forms of volunteering? How more flexible ways of facing volunteering may impact in our traditional ways to manage volunteers?

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