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Guidelines on Scouting for People with Disabilities is an extension of the resources WOSM has published in past to support this area, 'We Can' (1989) & 'Scouting with the Disabled' (2000). Whether it is regular Scouting activities or a large Scout event, like a Jamboree, people with disabilities can be easily included, with some targeted modifications and adaptations to the programme. The document includes guiding principles and practical hints and strategies to support Scouting for people with disabilities.
20 page downloadable document (643 kB)
World Scout Bureau, June 2008
Extending Scouting to working children, children living and working on the streets and children from ethnic minority communities has been successfully achieved by some NSOs. The Guidelines on Scouting for Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances (CEDC), enriched from these experiences in NSOs, provides practical advice and support on recruiting young people, developing resilience in these young people and the special focus needed on child protection.
16 Page downloadable document (573 kB)
World Scout Bureau, June 2008
The Scouts of the World Award is an initiative to help National Scout Organisations revitalise the programme of Senior Sections (15-26 age range) by giving young people more opportunities to face the challenges of the future as identified by the Millennium Declaration unanimously adopted by the 189 member countries of the United Nations in 2000.
This research document is part of the implementation of the policy "Girls and Boys, Women and Men in Scouting" adopted by the World Scout Conference in 1999. It is a pilot study for future educational follow-up of the strategic priority 'Girls and Boys, Women and Men' established in 2002 by the World Scout Conference.
The study presented in this report was conducted by Professor Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, from the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Oslo, in collaboration with Scout leaders from different countries who worked as research assistants.
The Green Island is a story telling how a National Youth Programme Committee uses the Renewed Approach to Programme (RAP) to update their youth programme. It needs to be read in conjunction with the RAP Toolbox (see below). It provides complementary information on the Renewed Approach to Programme and can be used as a case study to achieve a better understanding of RAP.
The Renewed Approach to Programme (RAP) is a new approach in developing youth programmes. It is the approach that the National Scout Organisations are advised to use in order to update or improve their youth programme. The RAP Toolbox describes the World Programme Policy and introduces the Renewed Approach to Programme in a very simple and comprehensive way.
The booklet addresses the question, "What is Scouting's contribution to peace?" The question is examined from a historical perspective, then the main facets of Scouting's contribution to peace education are analysed.
This publication is to help Scout leaders gain inspiration and ideas from the experiences of the very popular Global Development Villages conducted at recent World Scout Jamborees, and to help leaders organize similar events and activities at local and national levels.
The Youth Involvement Toolbox is the second book of the series "Toolbox Handouts". It provides practical guidelines to Unit Leaders, Programme Developers and Trainers on the ways to develop youth involvement in decision-making at the level of the Scout unit, at institutional level within Scouting and finally at the level of society.
The complete Toolbox is available as a pdf file.
As the world enters a new century and a new millennium, the environmental problems facing mankind have moved to centre stage.
Being a matter of education, it is a matter which concerns Scouting and is today at the forefront of non-formal educational youth movements all over the world.
This is what this reference document is all about. The second edition of the document “Scouting and the Environment” is an updated and enlarged version of the one published for the first time in 1992 by the Centre for Prospective Studies and Documentation of the World Scout Bureau.
