The Volunteering Policy in Abu Dhabi in alignment with federal law number (13) for the year 2018 regarding voluntary work and its bylaw promotes a culture of Volunteering to enhance social cohesion and benefit the community as a whole, through increasing volunteering engagement and participation, in addition to enhancing skills-based and service-based Volunteering.
The policy encourages professional and consistent standards for Volunteering, where the Volunteers, Volunteering Teams and Volunteering Involving Organizations (VIOs) are adequately supported, protected and recognized for their achievements through technology, which leads to increase the accessibility and quality of government social services. In addition to encouraging and providing an opportunity to volunteers to register as individuals or teams without having to be affiliated with an entity or institution.