Key aspects of state-society relations the in the sphere of volunteering: european and ukrainian experiences

Abstract

The article examines the experience of state-society relations in the sphere of volunteering in Ukraine and in the UK, Germany, Poland, and France. The author has determined key aspects of the analysis of European and Ukrainian experiences of state-society relations the in the sphere of volunteering. These are the level of development of national legislation on volunteering; organization of the system of executive bodies at the national level, which deal with volunteering issues; functioning of volunteering public advisory formations at authorities, their legal status, compositions and content of activity; the actual existence and the sense of the government volunteering. On this base, the author has carried out a comparative analysis of the conditions of the state-society relations in the field of volunteering in Europe and Ukraine at the current stage through the prism of their key aspects. The paper focuses on the certain benefits of European experience of state-society relations in the sphere of volunteering as possible goals of domestic development.

Keywords

• волонтерська діяльність
• взаємовідносини держави та суспільства
• державна політика
• законодавство
• вітчизняний досвід
• європейський досвід
• громадське дорадче формування
• центральний орган виконавчої влади