Communities Responding to Disaster: Planning for Spontaneous Volunteers (2018)

AIDR’s Communities Responding to Disaster: Planning for Spontaneous Volunteers Handbook draws on and complements current and ongoing activity in spontaneous volunteer management and builds on the capability and knowledge of organisations and individuals across the disaster resilience sector in Australia and internationally.

Specifically, the new handbook builds directly upon the national Spontaneous Volunteer Strategy endorsed by the Australia-New Zealand Emergency Management Committee on 2 October 2015. The handbook supports the strategy by providing general guidance to organisations on ways to incorporate its principles into their plans and activities. 

The handbook also facilitates linkages between the Spontaneous Volunteer Strategy and the Spontaneous Volunteer Management Resource Kit, developed in 2010 by the Australian Red Cross for the former Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).

 

PDF’s of all handbooks are freely available to download on the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub: https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/collections/handbook-collection/

The Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection:

• provides an authoritative, trusted and freely available source of knowledge about disaster resilience principles in Australia.
• aligns national disaster resilience strategy and policy with practice, by guiding and supporting jurisdictions, agencies and other organisations and individuals in their implementation and adoption.
• highlights and promotes the adoption of good practice in building disaster resilience in Australia.
• builds interoperability between jurisdictions, agencies, the private sector, local businesses and community groups by promoting use of a common language and coordinated, nationally agreed principles.