Abstract
In 2018, the United Nations Volunteers organization recognized that the governmental support for volunteering is a superior public management practice, offering the much-needed fuel for the integration of volunteering in politics, law-making, and social planning at the government level. The present article analyzes the current situation of governmental support for volunteering at federal, regional, and local levels of public administration in the Russian Federation as a precondition for making coproduction of public services possible. The analysis is based on the scrutiny of documents, a questionnaire survey of Russian volunteers, and an expert poll of public servants and nonprofit organizations (NPO) leaders. The analysis of the state policy of support for volunteering is carried out with respect to the following parameters: the awareness and evaluation of national measures of the governmental support for volunteering, as well as the evaluation of informational, financial, consulting, and organizational measures to support volunteer organizations by regional and municipal civil servants. In a country such as the Russian Federation, where volunteering is a relatively young social phenomenon, public administration needs not only to provide support, but also to administer transformation processes toward sustainable development, relying on the partnership and resources volunteers bring for effectively managing public life.
Highlights
The welfare state ideology is gradually changing in the developed countries’ political agenda
To substantiate our findings we used examples drawn from the Year of Volunteering events, the Association of Volunteer Centers activities, the creation of the state information portal for volunteers and nonprofit organizations (NPO), the implementation of the governmental support for volunteering standard in the activities of government civil servants in the regions, as well as the evaluation of informational, financial, consulting, organizational measures to support volunteer organizations by regional and municipal civil servants
The United Nations Volunteers program made it possible for international community recommendations regarding the governmental support for volunteers and their organizations in different countries to be developed
Summary
The welfare state ideology is gradually changing in the developed countries’ political agenda. Under these conditions, it is becoming increasingly difficult for government services to fully meet the needs of all citizens in need of state assistance, due to the increase in the number of migrants, unemployment, and population aging [1]. Certain changes in the relationship between the state and the population are taking place in the post-Soviet countries. Significant changes needed to be carried out in redefining the relations between the state and nonprofit sectors, between civil servants and citizens in the post-Soviet countries [3] 101–119), at the same time as the developed countries felt the need to encourage more civil society involvement in the public affairs Significant changes needed to be carried out in redefining the relations between the state and nonprofit sectors, between civil servants and citizens in the post-Soviet countries [3] (pp. 101–119), at the same time as the developed countries felt the need to encourage more civil society involvement in the public affairs
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