Volunteer statistics (ILO)*
Source: ILOSTATS. The data is collected by ILO from national statistical offices. As national statistics on volunteer work are produced using a variety of approaches and tools, direct and cross-country comparisons are not recommended. For more information, visit https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/volunteer-work/
Total volunteering by gender
Direct volunteering by gender
Organization-based volunteering by gender
Measurement work
Data source
- 2007
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2008
- Time Use Survey
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2009
- Time Use Survey
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
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2013
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- 2014
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2015
- Social Survey
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
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- 2022
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- 2024
- 2025
Laws, Policies, Schemes on Volunteering
Does the country have a piece of legislation on volunteering?
No data
Does the country have a national policy, scheme, plan or strategy specific to volunteering?
No data
Does the country have a sectoral and cross-sectoral policy, scheme, plan or strategy that mentions volunteering?
No data
VNR Reporting
Voluntary National Review Italy National Sustainable Development Strategy
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Reporting positive contribution of volunteering to the SDGs
Paragraph 1, page 90
The definition of the main lines of humanitarian action, intervention areas and channels must be widely shared with sectors of civil society active in the field of volunteering and emergency interventions in coordination with their representative networks. Their engagement will also facilitate the exchange of information with a view to launch local public calls for the financing of emergency projects.
No mentionItaly 2022 Voluntary National Review
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Reporting positive contribution of volunteering to the SDGs
Paragraph 1, page 30
All Italian Metropolitan Cities are also committed to devising their respective Metropolitan Agendas for Sustainable Development, a voluntary tool for building strategic visions to work on urban and metropolitan contexts and achieve the objectives pursued by the Regional and Provincial Strategies for Sustainable Development.
Paragraph 2, page 65
Metropolitan City of Palermo: Within the Metropolitan Agenda definition process, the 82 Municipalities of the Metropolitan Area will be involved on several topics, such as: the environment, supported by relevant associations; the social domain, with the Third Sector and voluntary sector; the economy, with small enterprises, youth start-ups, schools and universities. High schools will also be involved through awareness-raising actions.
Paragraph 3, page 69
The Forum for Sustainable Development plays a key role in the NSDS implementation and in the three-year revision process (as per Article 3 of Legislative Decree No. 221/2015). The 2022 NSDS and the NAP PCSD enable the Forum for Sustainable Development as a stable and incremental platform of dialogue between institutions, civil society and non-state actors as well as with the National Council for Development Cooperation - to promote integration and coherence among the internal and external dimensions of the policies - and with the territorial fora to contribute to the definition and implementation of the strategic vision shared at different level of government.
The Forum is composed of wide-ranging and heterogeneous voices representing the different realities of the Country – i.e., networks and associations from the voluntary and environmental sectors, youth, academia, as well as organisations from the world of labour, social economy, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
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