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. Find here all the information about this international Award.

Welcome to the resource centre. Here you can find the general information and documentation for the Scouts of the World Award and other material.

The Scouts of the World Award issues regular news about its activities worldwide. This information can be reproduced or quoted if the World Organization of the Scout Movement (World Scouting) is attributed as the source.

If you have stories to share about the Scouts of the World Award in your country, please send us an email to contact@scoutsoftheworld.net

Welcome to the SW Best practices area. Here you can find the information about best practices worlwide about the Scouts of the World Award.

Read the latest news about Scouting and the environment and discover the great impact that Scouting activities have on the future of our planet

Today we see Scouts around the world engaging with their local communities in caring for the environment in a range of ways. From Australian Scouts identifying ways to reduce water consumption in their Scout halls or around the home; Mexican Scouts making the world's largest Scout fleur-de-leis from cans in an effort to educate the community on the values of recycling; Scouts from Canada partnering with Southern African Scouts in learning to reduce their impact on carbon emissions and understanding about climate change; Scouts in France protecting the forests from wildfire; and Scouts all over the world from Turkey to Kenya and the United States planting trees and undertaking clean up campaigns to improve their local environments and contribute their part to the bigger picture of the health of our shared environment.

The World Scout Environment Programme offers tools, resources and initiatives to help Scouts all around the world work together for the good of the local and global environment.

Scout Centres that provide natural settings, offer environmental education programmes and demonstrate good environmental management practices may be suitable to become SCENES Centres (Scout Centres of Excellence for Nature and Environment).