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Guidelines on Spiritual and Religious Development
These guidelines have been prepared to support Scout Associations in the development of the spiritual aspect of their members. It provides principles and guidance to support programme design rather more than a detailed discussion of the nature of spiritual development. It will take as the norm, the understanding of Spiritual Development articulated and reaffirmed by the World Scout Conference in its various Conference resolutions and documents.
Tell the Story
Training and Support Plan 2010
The second round of Regional Communication Fora is about to start. These fora are organised in parternship with WOSM’s Regions (Regional Offices) and with the hosting National Scout Organisations. The content is prepared by the World Scout Bureau’s team for External Relations and Marketing, and presented by a team of voluntary and professional trainers.
World Scientific Congress
Education and World Scout Movement: Experiences and Challenges
As a key outcome of the Centenary activities, WOSM launched a global project to build a "knowledge base" for people who engaged in a process of collective learning about Scouting. The first step of this project was the World Scientific Congress. The proceeding is the result of researchers, academics, UN and NGO representatives and of course Scout Leaders' contributions.
World Scout Environment Programme
Activities & Factsheets
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. This World Scout Environment Programme resource book contains Programme Activity Resources in Section 1 and Factsheets in Section 2 to help implement the programme in Scouting throughout the world.
Vision 2013
Asia-Pacific Regional Plan 2009-2012
APR Plan 2009-2012 contains the eight strategic priority areas of the Asia Pacific Regional Plan for the period 2009-2012. Small steps are necessary to reach our bigger vision. This is what this regional plan is all about. The plan reflects the inspired goals of many people, in particular the members of sub-committees and key leaders of National Scout Organizations. Through this plan, the goals are translated into objectives and action steps covering areas we want to achieve in the next three years from 2009 to 2012.
Triennial Report for Scouting in Africa - 2005-2008
Every three years, Scout leaders from the Africa Scout Region meet and plan for the next three years while evaluating the past triennium. In the annals of Scouting in Africa, the period 2005 to 2008 has perhaps been one of the most eventful eras. The main purpose of this report is to highlight plans, challenges, achievements and recommendations ahead of the 14th Africa Scout Conference to be held in Accra, Ghana, in November 2009.
Volunteers in Scouting Toolkit 2
Recruiting and Retaining Adult Volunteers
How could you prepare your next Volunteer recruitment campaign? How could you reinforce your volunteer recognition and retention strategy? How could you renew your volunteer management approach? If these questions are important for you as others issues, this toolkit is for you. This document includes some key concepts, new factsheets and practical worksheets to support Volunteer in Scouting.
Empowering Young Adults
Guidelines for the Rover Scout Section
This is a document with guidelines and ideas for programme developers on how to develop and implement the Rover Scout Programme within the Rover Scout section. Rover Scouting is the learning environment that Scouting offers to those who follow the last part of the "path" leading to the adult life. It's the final stage of Scouting's "educational offer". This document has been developed in the framework of the Strategic priorities “Youth Involvement” and “Adolescents”.
Accounts and balance sheet 2008
Accounts and balance sheet for the year ended 30 September 2008
Going for an Oscar
Awareness and recognition of your own competencies
A guide to why recognising adults in Scouting's competencies is important to retaining volunteers.
All World JOTA Reports
The World JOTA Report shows you all the different JOTA stories of the participating countries, statistical information, kit-builiding ideas and much more. With photos and graphics in full colour. Relive the JOTA weekend and download it from this web site.
Annual Report 2008
Scouting is an investment with long-term potential. The values and skills that young people acquire can last a lifetime.
How to Tell the Story
The World Scout Committee members have chosen three actions to shape the dynamics of the 2008-2011 mandate. One of these actions is “Tell the story”. This invites us all to leave our isolation to make communication a priority action, both within the Movement as well as outside of it. It isn't just enough to be seen in public. We must also learn to communicate. We must integrate training modules within the curriculum of scout leaders, that teach how to tell the story of what Scouting does.
Scout.Boom.Comm - 2nd Edition
Training manual - Second updated edition
Scout.Boom.Comm is a methodological tool to help leaders understand all the stages involved in implementing a branding strategy for the Scout Movement. It presents the concepts that are essential to understanding Scouting’s identity and the image that it reflects. It seeks to explain the link between image, key messages, Scout practices, and individual and collective behaviour.
World Scout Environment Programme
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.
Action for Growth
Better Scouting for More Young People
While the growth of our Movement is ultimately the result of delivering high-quality Scouting, haphazard growth is not sustainable. The factors affecting the growth and development of associations vary from one country to another, but, whatever the situation, offering better Scouting to more young people requires a strategic focus.
Learning Organisations
Looking at the Scout Movement and the principles of a learning organisation.
Scouts of the World Award Guidelines
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: Peace, security and disarmament; Development and the eradication of poverty; The protection of our common environment.
World Scientific Congress Report
World Scientific Congress Education And World Scout Movement: Experiences And Challenges Geneva 16 – 17 November 2007 One hundred years after its founding, the World Organization of the Scout Movement decided to examine it’s practices, methods and pedagogy. A Scientific Congress was planned within the framework of the centennial celebrations and took place in Geneva, on 16 and 17 November 2007. This document aims to give a first glimpse of the Congress before the “Proceedings” are published.
Constitution and By-Laws of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
Accredited representatives of National Scout Associations, which had adopted and practised the Scout Movement founded by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907, assembled in Paris, France, in July 1922 and established the International Scout Conference for the coordination of the Scout Movement throughout the world, together with an Executive Committee and a Secretariat. The present Constitution, as amended in July 2008, governs the operation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in a kindred spirit of world cooperation and friendship.
Guidelines on Scouting for Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances
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.
Guidelines on Scouting for People with Disabilities
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.
ScoutPAX
ScoutPAX is a tool to help plan and implement Scout community development projects and peace projects at local and national level. ScoutPAX was originally developed to support the centennial Gifts for Peace project and was distrube to NSOs as a CD-Rom. It has since been translated, modified into various languages and converted to web pages.
Education in love in place of fear
Re-edition of the report presented to the 3rd International Congress of Moral Education Geneva, 1st of August 1922
To celebrate Founder's Day, we suggest that you read the following text and share it amongst your friends or in your Scout group. It will most certainly inspire you.
Using Scouting’s Centenary for Adult Recruitment
Our Centenary was a fantastic opportunity to show the world what Scouting is all about.
Looking At Quality In Scouting
Looking at the quality in Scouting and whether it offers what it promises to.
Volunteers in Scouting Toolkit
For Scouting to grow and develop it needs volunteers who have a wide range of skills and experience. Sometimes the vision of who can volunteer to support Scouting is too narrow, sometimes we are not clear what we expect from our volunteers and sometimes we are not aware what our volunteers expect from us.
World Adult Resources Handbook
The World Adult Resources Handbook is to help National Scout Organizations design and operate a system for the management, training and development of adult leaders in all functions and at all levels of the Movement. It has been produced by the World Adult Resources Committee. The handbook includes the relevant sections from the earlier International Training Handbook, as well as more recent World Scout Bureau publications on "Adults in Scouting" and "Adult Resource Management". The 2005 edition replaces the 2002 edition. All chapters have been revised and a new section with training modules has been added.
Games on Spiritual Development
“SPI”, as in “spirituality” or “spiritual development”. Frightening words? No. Words that give food for thought and a choice in personal values. It is your challenge to organise a SPI activity, in your group, your local programme council, your regional meeting… Through the pages of this “spiritual handbook” you will find a lot of information, references and activities to organise with your group. Just go for it! All local and regional leaders are capable of organising a SPI activity. Published in conjunction with Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique.
Working Together
An insight into how the European Scout Region operates and their aims.
One of the Boys?
Doing Gender in Scouting
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 Mission of Scouting
Taken from the European Scout Symposium, held in Slovenia, January 2000. An in-depth look at the mission of Scouting.
Educational Objectives of the Scout Movement
This document, published by the World Scout Bureau, Interamerican Region, presents a full set of educational objectives for all the age-groupings. These are arranged by growth (development) area and by age-group.
The Essential Characteristics of Scouting
On the basis of WOSM’s Constitution, this paper provides a compact but comprehensive overview of the key elements which characterize our Movement and its mission.
Introduction to 'Adults in Scouting'
A practical tool to introduce the concepts of Adults in Scouting in an association. The booklet presents a series of session plans. Each session plan explores a specific aspect of the subject.
Trends
Trends in the world today. How they affect young people. Questions and challenges for Scouting
The present paper is a supporting document for the implementation of the “Strategy for Scouting”. As a non-formal educational movement, Scouting cannot be envisaged outside the national, regional and world reality that surrounds it. It is a living part of the political, social, cultural and economic context with which it is in constant interaction. To know the world surrounding us is, therefore, vital to our role as educators of youth.
Scouting, and the Environment
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.
World Adult Resources Policy
A reference document containing the full text of WOSM's Policy on Adult Resources as adopted by the 33rd World Scout Conference in Bangkok, 1993.
Trends in Volunteering
The Adults we Need
Looking at how societies trends affect European Scouting.
