Synthesis

• The chapter highlights ongoing challenges related to estimating the scale and scope of global volunteerism, while highlighting the progress made in data collection and measurement tools which aim to better capture the full diversity of volunteering efforts.
• While data remain scarce, the estimates show that volunteering is a resource for the Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with millions of people contributing across various sectors.
• It also highlights how development strategies can better harness volunteering measurements for development and how volunteering data can support national planning, analysis and reporting on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.