The Emergency Management Sustainable Volunteering Blueprint: Strategic Framework

The Strategic Framework is part of The Emergency Management Sustainable Volunteering Blueprint (The Blueprint) initiated by the AFAC Volunteering Management Technical Group (VMTG) and funded by Natural Hazards Research Australia. Its aim is to provide the foundation for the strategic infrastructure to support implementation of actions across the EM sector to progress the sustainable volunteering agenda. This document is structured in four sections:

> Section 1: Introduction
This section introduces the Blueprint and the Strategic Framework.

> Section 2: The current context
This section describes the overarching context in which EM volunteering exists and the pathway forward.

> Section 3: The Strategic Framework
The Strategic Framework has four major components – The Principles, Strategic Directions, Implementation Infrastructure, and the Volunteering Ecosystem. Each component is described, with particular emphasis given to implementation, where the strategic directions are linked to on ground action.

> Section 4: Innovation case studies
These case studies show examples of different types of innovation associated with volunteering across the Australian and New Zealand emergency management sector.