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The Executive Directors' Team of the World Scout Bureau (WSB) comprises the Secretary General Luc Panissod and the 8 Executive Directors in the various WSB Offices around the world, including the six Regional Directors. The Team meets every six...
World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) is happy to announce the launch of its latest publication, Guidelines on Spiritual and Religious Development. These guidelines have been prepared to support Scout Associations in the development of the...
Following an open process carried out in collaboration and agreement with the Interamerica Regional Scout Committee, Luc Panissod, Secretary General of World Scouting appointed Mr Raul Sanchez Vaca, from Mexico as the new Regional Director of the...
Geneva, 10 March 2010 -- On the 8th of March, the security service of the United Kingdom submitted to the National Archives three bundles of declassified documents covering a period extending from 1937 to 1944. The World Scout Bureau acquired these...
Curitiba 5th February – Yesterday the World Scouting delegation continued their visit, in preparation of the upcoming World Scout Conference, by the evaluation of the conference center and all the lodging options. The afternoon allowed for some...
Curitiba, February 4, 2010 – A delegation of the World Scout Committee and the World Scout Bureau arrived in Curitiba, Brazil on February 1st to meet the 39th World Scout Conference organizing Committee. John Neysmith, Member of the World Scout...
As the last CNV mission in 2010, the Regional Scout Committee met with the key leaders of Scouts New Zealand in Wellington from 1-3 December to understand the recent developments in Scouting. With well prepared presentations highlighting the past...
The 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Leaders Summit was ceremonially inaugurated by H.E. Dr. Hansraj Bhardwaj, Governor of Karnataka State, India at Atria Hotel in Bangalore on 24th June 2010. More than 130 prominent Scout leaders from 22 countries in...
“Visibility of Scouting through community projects can encourage a Scout to bring in others to join Scouting,” said National Chief Commissioner of Malaysia and Consultant to the Regional Scout Committee, Dato’ Kaharudin bin Haji Mo’min, at the APR...
30 April 2010, Phnom Penh – Heading for further development of Scouting in Cambodia, the National Association of Cambodian Scouts (NACS) continues to strengthen its capacity building as they organize its first National Strategic Planning Workshop...
The 10th of September 2010 the IV Eurasia Regional Scout Conference elected new members of the Eurasia Regional Scout Committee for the term 2010-2013: Bagrat Yesayan (Armenia), Namik Jafarov (Azerbaijan), Tamara Shukakidze (Georgia), Valentina Ursu...
The World Organization of the Scout Movement is happy to announce that Belarusian Republican Scout Association (BRSA has become the 161st Member Organization with effect from 5 September 2010. Scouting in Belarus was first seen in 1909 when the first...
1st Youth Scout Forum and 4th Eurasia Regional Scout Conference took place September 7-8 & 9-11 in Batumi, Georgia. Delegates of all 9 Eurasia NSOs (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine)...
As part of their Tailored Support requests, four National Scout Organisations expressed the need for software for membership registration. Under a previous PFDG Fund project, the Region financed a project of Lithuanian Scouting which was about the...
On April 23-25 European youth organisations met in Brussels on the occasion of the European Youth Forum’s (YFJ) Council of Members. Based on the proposal of European Scouting the Forum adopted a set of priorities for the International Youth Year 2010...