2.3 National strategy on youth volunteering
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Existence of a National Strategy
Currently, there is no separate National Youth Volunteering Strategy.
The current youth policy planning documents Children, Youth, and Family Development Guidelines for 2022-2027 and the Youth Policy Implementation Plan for 2023-2024 include several tasks aimed at the develope of youth volunteering.
Scope and contents
The Youth Policy Implementation Plan for 2023-2024 sets the following tasks related to the development of voluntary work: to popularize the benefits of volunteering especially voluntary work carried out in public benefit organisations, to promote motivation of young people to participate in volunteering, to develop information system on volunteering opportunities, to organise informative seminars on volunteering and other opportunities in Europe within the EU programmes.
Responsible authority
The competent institution responsible for volunteering is the Ministry of Welfare while the State Employment Agency, which is subordinated to the Ministry, is the main administrative body whose responsibility is data collection and facilitation of voluntary work in Latvia.
In accordance with the Law of Voluntary Work, the Ministry of Welfare has set a regulatory framework of the organisation and implementation of voluntary activities. Information on voluntary activities is available on the portal: www.brivpratigais.lv.
Revisions/ Updates
The Law of Voluntary Work adopted on 18 June 2015 was amended in 2017.
Article 3. Organisers of volunteering activities were amended as follows:
The following have the right to organise voluntary work: 1) associations and foundations, including trade unions and their associations;
2) state and local government institutions; 3) political parties and their associations; 4) social enterprises.
Social enterprises were added to those that have the right to organise volunteering activities.
The law entered into force on April 1, 2018.