The social and economic sustainability of WA's rural volunteer workforce
The social and economic sustainability of WA's rural volunteer workforce
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西澳农村志愿者队伍的社会和经济可持续性
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2019
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F. Ong
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Kirsten Holmes;A. Davies;L. Lockstone;M. O'Halloran;F. Ong
在西澳大利亚州（WA），农业对农村社区的生存和成功至关重要。过去二十年，志愿者提供的社区服务有所增加，对志愿者队伍的需求也不断增加。然而，根据澳大利亚统计局在同一时期收集的数据，澳大利亚各地的志愿人员参与率有所下降，导致志愿人员劳动力短缺。我们的研究确定了西澳农村社区如何在前所未有的人口变化和农村志愿者队伍压力越来越大的情况下应对招募和留住志愿者的挑战。我们的调查结果证实了西澳农村志愿服务的重要性，该州农村社区的参与程度非常高。我们发现了一些特殊的问题，包括结构性人口老龄化，对关键个人承担多个志愿者角色的依赖;来自问责制和监管增加的压力;以及农村组织由大城市总部管理，几乎没有明显考虑到农村服务提供的差异。
Volunteering is critical to the survival and success of rural communities in Western Australia (WA). The past two decades have seen an increase in the community services delivered by volunteers and demand on the volunteer workforce has intensified. Yet, according to data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) over the same period there has been a decline in volunteer participation across Australia, resulting in a shortage of volunteer labour. Our study identified how rural communities in WA are addressing the challenges of recruiting and retaining volunteers at a time of unprecedented demographic change and increasing pressure on the rural volunteer workforce. Our findings confirmed the importance of rural volunteering in WA, with a very high level of participation across the state’s rural communities. We identified particular problems including structural population ageing, a reliance on key individuals to take on multiple volunteering roles; pressure from increased accountability and regulation; and rural organisations being governed from metropolitan headquarters with little apparent consideration for differences in rural service provision.