LAW NO 3314 LAW OF DECEMBER 16, 2005

EDUARDO RODRIGUEZ VELTZE CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

For the Honorable National Congress has sanctioned the following Law: THE HONORABLE CONGRESS NATIONAL, D E C R E T A: ARTICLE 1. this Law aims to promote, recognize and facilitate Voluntary Action as an expression of solidarity and service participation of citizens, social responsibility and the regulation of relations between volunteers. social and organizations where they develop their activities. ARTICLE 2. (Principles)Voluntary Action is governed by the principles of:

Solidarity. With the person and social groups, jointly seeking the active integration of all, to the processes of development.

Freedom. As a fundamental principle of choice of a personal choice, both of the voluntary persons and of the recipients of the action. That their realization is the result of a decision of their own and freely adopted.

Gratuity. In the provision of voluntary service in a disinterested manner and without economic consideration, or of any other kind, without prejudice to the incentives which may be legally established and which may be compensation for the expenses incurred by the performance of the activity.

Respect. Volunteering respects the rights, dignity and culture of the communities in which it acts; as well as cultural heritage, renewable/non-renewable natural resources and all cultural diversity.

Autonomy. The autonomy and independence of the Voluntary Action entities with respect to the public authorities. ARTICLE 3. (Concepts). Volunteer. All natural persons who carry out a voluntary service free, free and responsible on an individual basis or within the framework of an organisation which carries out a commitment to action in favour of the undertaking are considered to be a social volunteer. society and the person. Volunteering. It is considered to be voluntary to all activities carried out by persons, associations or legal entities, for the purposes of common good, associated with free choice and non-profit, outside the framework of a relationship of employment or function public. Volunteer organizations. Voluntary organisations shall mean those which are of a social initiative, which participate directly or indirectly in programmes and/or projects which pursue the objectives or objectives of the common good and the general interest, whether or not they have state support, grant or sponsorship. Activities of General Interest. It is understood by activities of general interest, care, social services, civic, educational, cultural, scientific, sports, health, risk for emergencies, disasters and/or contingencies; cooperation to projects of development, environmental protection, promotion of sustainable development, citizen advocacy, the development of associative life and the promotion of volunteering, or any other of similar nature. ARTICLE 4. this Law applies to:

Groups, Voluntary Organizations and Volunteers that carry out activities related to social management and local development, humanitarian, service, development in the territory national, whose implementation is autonomous and independent of political organizations? party.

Voluntary and non-profit voluntary associations and institutions of a public or private nature that aim to manage policies and voluntary actions in the country, especially in those territorial spaces cataloged as a high risk zone and extreme poverty due to its precarious condition of social development.

ARTICLE 5. (Rights of the Volunteers). Volunteers have the following rights:

Receive as much, as initial as permanent, information, training, specific training to the area of voluntary work, guidance, support and, where appropriate, material means necessary for the exercise of the functions that are assign.

Receive information about the organization's objectives and activities.

Be treated without discrimination, respecting your freedom, dignity, intimacy, and beliefs.

Actively participate in the organization in which you are insert, collaborating in the elaboration, design, execution and evaluation of the programmes, in accordance with its statutes or rules of application, by means of precaution for the movable and immovable property of the membership organization.

Receive by institutional channels the reimbursement of the expenses incurred in the performance of its activities, This should be answered as planned by the organization, in case the voluntary institution has specific funding for the assumed solidarity activity.

Perform your activity in a hygienic and safe environment in function of the nature and characteristics of those.

Receive the respect and recognition of the social value of their contribution, both from public and private organisations.

Change of programme or, where appropriate, the assigned beneficiary where there are causes to justify it, within the scope of the entity and ensuring the harmony of the entity.

Obtain the certificate of the activities carried out and the training acquired.

To the health insurance of the Public Health of the short term for the voluntary work, only presentation of the Current volunteer credential.

Public health care part health care, only cover the health-related accident and/or illness caused during the exercise of the voluntary action.

The activity provided as a volunteer, in coordination with the Public and Private Universities, must have a value in terms of appropriations which may be used for the purposes of the case. Such an assessment and substitution should be determined prior to agreement with the Universities that are attached to this national volunteer program.

Voluntary emergency actions, required of the volunteer at work hours, must be be considered working hours in the case of workers/employees and as hours of classes in the case of students. Prior certification of the National Volunteer Council, for the work done and the time used.

The prefectures and municipalities of the country will have to allocate a budget item from the income from the HDI to the effect to address emergencies, disasters, contingencies, droughts, floods with the provision of equipment, vituals, materials and supplies required by:

Emergency Personnel of the Prefecture and Municipalities.

Volunteer Personnel Risk and Development accredited by the National Council of Volunteering. ARTICLE 6. (Duties of the Volunteers). Volunteers have the following duties:

Develop your work with the utmost diligence in terms of the commitment accepted at the time of your incorporation into the entity or program and the instructions that you may receive in your development.

Respect the rights of the beneficiaries of the program, adapting their actions to the objectives of the program.

Save the due confidentiality of the information received in the course of the activities carried out, when the dissemination can injure rights personal and/or institutional.

Refrain from receiving any type of economic contracting the beneficiaries for their voluntary activities.

To participate in the training and training planned by the organization, related to the activities and functions to be faced, as well as those that are permanent in nature maintain the quality of the services they provide.

Participate in the programming and evaluation of the programs and activities related to their task.

Accept, respect, comply and adhere to the objectives and objectives of the entity with the to collaborate.

Properly use the organization's accreditation and flags.

Respect and care for the material resources that organizations make available to them. ARTICLE 7. (Responsibilities of Voluntary Organisations).

Meet the commitments you have made with the volunteers established in the incorporation agreement.

Ensure food, lodging, and child expenses related to voluntary work when tasks are done require and have been previously agreed with the voluntary organizations of membership and/or host institution that requested the volunteer service.

Establish Information and Communication Systems to allow for monitoring and appropriate guidance for the performance of the tasks entrusted to the Volunteers.

To empower volunteers with appropriate and up-to-date training/training for the right development responsible for their activities.

Provide your volunteers with appropriate information about the nature of your activities. voluntary activity to be undertaken.

Ensuring safety and hygiene conditions in accordance with the nature and subject of voluntary activity.

Provide the volunteer with an accreditation (Carnet) to enable and identify for the development of their activities.

Exasking volunteers for a certificate to show them services provided.

Bring a record of high and low volunteer staff and send such information to the National Volunteer Council (CONAVOL), for updating the respective Database.

Providing training up-to-date and appropriate theoretical/practice appropriate to the voluntary programme to be developed.

The Risk Volunteer organizations will have to count, according to their specialty, with Contingency Plans for each of the activities to be addressed. You must inform your volunteers about procedures to be used within the different stages of the disaster cycle.

ARTICLE 8. (From the Requirements of the Incorporation of Volunteers).

Any organization, must be in writing prior to the start of the volunteer's activities, an agreement between the organization and the volunteer, which will contain the following requirements:

Data identifying the volunteer and/or organization;

Name, marital status, identity document, and volunteer address;

The rights and duties that correspond to both parties;

Activities to be performed by the volunteer, time of dedication to the that is committed;

Starting and ending volunteering, causes, and forms of untying by both parties duly notified;

Signature of the volunteer and the organization responsible, giving their mutual conformity to the incorporation and the principles and objectives that guide the activity;

The agreement will be used in two copies of the same tenor and one effect, one of which will be given to the volunteer.

The incorporation of minors as volunteers can only be done with the express consent of their parents, proxies and/or legal representatives.

Conventions will be established through the National Council of Volunteering, with foreign voluntary entities, where Bolivian citizens (as) volunteers must represent, train and/or volunteer work abroad. In order to facilitate their migration procedures.

To facilitate migration procedures for the entry of young foreign volunteers into the country, agreements will be established with the corresponding institutions through the National Council of the Volunteering.

ARTICLE 9. (from the National Council of Volunteering-CONAVOL).

The National Volunteer Council (CONAVOL) is created, in order to:

Potentially, protect and disseminate volunteering.

Coordinate actions with social organizations, state institutions, private organizations and organizations international who do the attention job to:

b1. Emergencies, disasters, contingencies and others. b2. Programs that favor local, municipal and national development. Participate and coordinate with state and private institutions in the actions of planning, organization, execution, and provision of vituals, means, and resources for the optimal fulfillment of the volunteer's work functions.

To be responsible for the coordination of the different Voluntary Action Programs.

Ensuring responsibility, ethics and quality of volunteer service capabilities.

Promoting specialized academic participation through agreements with higher education institutions, in order to promote the conduct of research, publications and specialized training in the subject of voluntary activity.

To incorporate technologies in the management of activities through the UN Information and Technology Service. (UNITES).

Train online and/or in-person training for volunteers and volunteer organizations, promoting the exchange of experiences, information and training among different organizations.

Promoting reforms to the framework legal for the promotion of volunteer service activities in Bolivia.

Create a radio network? constant communication, management of communication and licensing of local and national operations.

Facilitating the receipt of donations for the various activities of volunteering, such as: materials, supplies, vituals, equipment, instruments, for what it establishes: The exemption from the payment of tariff charges and taxes on imports of donations for the work of the voluntary organizations, after certification by the National Council of the Volunteering, under the Law of Customs, which establishes the release of non-profit organizations

Conforming the National Volunteer Council (CONAVOL). The Directory that will be part of the National Council of Volunteering (CONAVOL) will have a term of office for three years and will be made up of national representatives of the following areas:

Volunteering at Risk.

Development.

Volunteering of Education.

Volunteering for Human Development/Social Development.

Business Volunteering.

Volunteering, Democracy and Strengthening of Values.

Volunteering International Organizations.

A representative of the Vice-Ministry of Youth, Childhood and Third Age.

A representative of the State according to the topic of emergency that is present in the country, in order to coordinate actions and provision of vituals and equipment to the volunteers if the case requires.

National representatives of one of the different areas will be elected by departmental representatives through a democratic, participatory and transparent procedure.

representatives of each of the different areas will be elected

the representatives of the organizations in the respective area.

The levels of organization, coordination, and direction will be made explicit in the respective Regulation. ARTICLE 10. (from The Register). National Single Register of Volunteering. From this Law is created the (RUN? V), National Unique Registration of Volunteering, in the areas of:

Voluntary Organizations and Individual Volunteers

National and International Organizations, which are facilitators, cooperators and/or donors to the development of work

fulfill this objective, a National Information and Communication System will be implemented that will depend on CONAVOL and will register, integral information of the voluntary service, incorporating potentialities and specialties of the organisations and persons engaged in voluntary action in the country. ARTICLE 11. (Incentives). Volunteering may have the following incentives: I. The value of academic credit is awarded to voluntary work in those educational institutions, universities and

public and/or private educational institutions, with which establish specific agreements with the National Council of Volunteering (CONAVOL).

II. The internship regime will be established in favor of students and/or graduates of universities in the country and abroad, in those areas of volunteering related to:

Programs and Development Projects, through which the Integration of Volunteering into the country's national, departmental and municipal development plans.

Programs to enable the recognition and strategic use of local self-help traditions and community support in the country.

ARTICLE 12. (From Recognition and Promotion to Voluntary Labor). It is established: December 5 of each year as National Volunteering Day, with the aim of:

Promote the philosophy, values and principles of voluntary service within educational institutions and motivate more participation of adolescents and young people in the different volunteer programs that are executed to date.

To inform and raise awareness towards a greater population contest regarding the importance of the solidarity contribution through the work of volunteering, in cases of emergencies, natural disasters, contingencies and in the promotion of development In its different areas.

ARTICLE 13. The Executive Branch shall regulate this Law for its development and execution, within sixty days after its publication. ARTICLE 14. legal provisions contrary to this Law are hereby repealed. SINGLE TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENT. Voluntary organisations for the entry into force of this Law shall comply with the provisions of this Law within one year of their publication. Refer to the Executive Branch for constitutional purposes. It is given in the Session Room of the Honorable National Congress, eight days in the month of December two thousand five years.

Fdo. Luis Morgan López Baspineiro President in Exercise H. Camara de Senators, Norah Soruco de Salvatierra, Gonzalo Chirveches Ledezma, Juan Luis Choque Armijo, Erick Reyes Villa B., Aurelio Ambrosio Muruchi. Therefore, it was enacted so that it has and will comply with the law of the Republic. Palace of Government of the city of La Paz, at the sixteen days of the month of December of two thousand five years. FDO. EDUARDO RODRIGUEZ VELTZE, Ivan Aviles Mantilla.