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Dear Brother and Sister Scouts It is a great, inspiring and motivating moment for me to join you on the last day of the 12th World Scout Youth Forum. For the first time, I am participating in a Youth Forum as your Secretary General. Let me first take...
Better World Magazine is the official publication of WOSM’s flagship initiative - Messengers of Peace. A new special edition is being launched at the 12th World Scout Youth Forum and 40th World Scout Conference, in Slovenia, and is now available...
After each World Scout Conference, the World Scout Committee develops a Triennial Plan based on resolutions adopted at the Conference and other ongoing projects. For the 2011-2014 triennium, the four Priority Areas have been: 21st Century Leadership...
João Armando Gonçalves, member of the World Scout Committee, in his welcome speech, applauded the participants and their National Scout Organizations for making the 12th World Scout Youth Forum, the biggest ever to date. “Your participation in this...
NAIROBI - From the 16th – 20th June 2014, the World Scout Bureau Africa Regional Office conducted a Staff Management Conference (SMC) at the regional secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya. This year’s Staff Management Conference brought about a new dimension...
World Scouting has been engaging strongly with the processes for identifying the Post-2015 development goals by the United Nations. MY World, the global survey for citizens led by the United Nations and partners, continues to capture people's voices...
Yesterday, April 11 with a day of enriched work in the discussion of "Best Practices" in the context of WOSM, the Central America Communications Network continues to work on the second day of the meeting being held in Iztarú School Camp located in...
From April 2-6 the Scouts of Dominica hosted the Level 1 Course (Training of Trainers) for the Caribbean. During four intensive days, 19 participants from 7 different countries “learned by doing” and with group discussions, about different topics...
A new name, a new constitution, a new national leadership, registration of boy AND girls and men AND women with the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM), and work on Junák’s new Strategy 2022: more than 450 delegates representing 50000...
During March 22 - 24, near the city of Ibagué (Colombia), was held the 51st National Assembly of the Scouts of Colombia Association. All Scout Regions were present, as well as other guests, among them the World Scout Bureau – Interamerican Region...
"Strategic plan is important to any organization. A good organization must have a clear vision and direction to achieve its goals and a plan can only be good when goals are achieved," said Dato Paduka Ar. Awang Haji Idris bin Haji Abas,President of...
The Institution is all of US! March 15th 2014. Valley of Angels, Honduras. The 2014. cicle of presential meetings of the Regional Networks with the Institutional Development Subregion of Latin America, corresponding to the Central America Subregion...
For its second regular meeting in the 2013-2016 triennium the European Scout Committee travelled to Zagreb (Croatia) on the first weekend of March 2014. Apart from discussing regular matters, the Committee used this opportunity to meet with members...
The Bharat Scouts & Guides (BS&G) held its National Strategic Planning Workshop from 4-8 Mach 2014 at the National Headquarters, in New Delhi, India, with a vision to shape the future of Scouting in India in coordination with Asia-Pacific Region...
The official World Scout Education Congress Report is now available! The Report includes background about the event, the Congress itself, the outcomes and conclusions as well as the steps forward. The aim of the Congress was simple but ambitious: to...