Volunteering New Zealand, 2019
This strategy outlines the guiding principles and strategic initiatives for achieving the vision for recent migrant volunteering. VNZ will continue to lead the sector to champion meaningful opportunities to engage in inclusive, ethical, and impactful volunteering for recent migrants. At the heart of the strategy’s vision is the concept of whanaungatanga – kinship, connection, relationships, and reciprocity.
Volunteers and Sponsors: A Catalyst for Refugee Integration?
Migration Policy Institute, 2019.
The report offers a few ways in which policymakers can help fill gaps, including by creating policy frameworks that allow agencies to engage volunteers or sponsors where they would add the most value; and provide dedicated resources to establish and maintain effective community engagement.
Cultural Connections – Migrants and Volunteering in New Zealand
Chuah, Eric. Cultural Connections, 2018.
In this document, Cultural Connections, a multicultural research and consulting firm, undertook a quantitative survey with migrant communities through their networks to help VNZ understand how new migrants engage with volunteering. With a better understanding of the issue and opportunities it is possible to develop a programme of work that is more likely to have positive results.
