In 2010, the IFRC conducted a survey to establish the economic and social value of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and published a report on the findings, entitled The Value of Volunteers in January 2011. The study was based on rigorous methodo...
To design and support policies that promote volunteering, governments need to measure and disseminate the economic value they bring to communities. Tools now exist to calculate this information. In March 2011, the International Labour Organization (I...