2. Voluntary Activities
2.6 Quality assurance
Last update: 5 April 2025
There is no information available on quality assurance for youth volunteering in Hungary. The monitoring of the projects is based on the reports of the organisations.
At the same time, the National Volunteer Strategy 2012-2020 (Nemzeti Önkéntes Stratégia 2012-2020) has had set specific target indicators that require systemic quality assurance at the global level. These are as follows:
- Hungary needs to develop a culture of volunteering that communicates the importance of social responsibility, community involvement, and the acquisition of competencies for people of all ages and provides opportunities to participate in them.
- Organisations hosting volunteers in their country need to know how to recruit and retain volunteers in the long term so that volunteers do not just become ad hoc members of the organisation but develop a sense of attachment to it.
- The range of activities that volunteers can carry out should be extended, with more and more opportunities for volunteering in public and municipal institutions (e.g. social, health, education, etc.).
- Hungary needs to develop a legal environment that provides comprehensive and medium-term regulation for volunteers and volunteer host organisations in line with European standards.
- An efficient infrastructure supporting volunteer hosting organisations should be established in Hungary.
- Cooperation between civil society and other sectors should be developed.
- Volunteering should be increasingly recognised and valued as contributing to social cohesion and community participation.