Relationship to society & Scoutings Profile

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• WOSM: World Scouting Report »
• WOSM: A Strategy for Scouting: Strategic Priority 4 - Reaching Out »
• WOSM: A Strategy for Scouting: Strategic Priority 7 - Scouting's Profile »
• WAGGGS: Relationship to society »
• PPÖ: Öffentlichkeitsarbeit »

WOSM - World Scouting Report

• World Scouting Report 2006 - Youth A Force for Development

As World Scouting prepares to celebrate its centenary in 2007, it is important that the Organization reflect on the contribution it has made thus far, in order for it to develop a successful future and achieve its mission of creating a better world.

In response to this, the first edition of the World Scouting Report was written to identify and explore the problems that young people face in today’s world, and to create a desire for debate, so as to find answers to them. Development needs actors who are aware that this is a permanent challenge. Scouting’s contribution to meeting this challenge is to educate young people, male and female, of each generation entrusted to it so that they can become responsible and committed citizens.

This 100-page publication focuses on youth and development, in particular expressing World Scouting’s response to the situation of youth today and their needs for the future.

The Report also makes extensive references to World Scouting’s various partnerships with other organisations in order to demonstrate that we are conscious of the need to work with others to accomplish our Mission and to have a stronger impact worldwide.

Through analysing the issues affecting youth, by thinking ahead as to how to provide appropriate educational proposals and by discussing these openly with its partners, Scouting seeks to define a fair alternative. Its success lies in its capacity to translate young people’s needs into ever-changing political and socio-economic scenarios, as its primary concern is to adapt to local and national realities. This is why Scouting invites young people to play an active role in responding to the issues within their communities, where the impact is likely to be the greatest. By offering young people a framework to analyse issues, the Scout Movement can help them to open their minds.

• World Scouting Report 2006 - Press Pack (zip)
• Global Media Plan

A Strategy for Scouting: Strategic Priority 4 - Reaching Out

The aim of this strategic priority is to support National Scout Organisations (NSOs) in identifying and responding to the needs of young people, adults and society where Scouting is not currently having an impact. This should result in an increase in membership and increase Scouting's impact in the world today.

PowerPoint Presentation on Reaching Out

This presentation includes more detailed information on 'Reaching Out', an overview of the situation in NSOs in July 2002 and an example of work being undertaken in Kenya with young people in especially difficult circumstances through the Extension Scout Programme.

• PowerPoint Presentation
• PDF version
• Script of the presentation (pdf)

WONDERforums* Background Papers and Reports

• Reaching Out (WONDERforum7): Background Paper, Report

Stories

• Getting the Most Out of Life - Brasil, provided by Scouts de France.
• The Child Labour Project in Egypt, provided by The Egyptian Scout Federation. / Movie (27,3 MB!)
• The Extension Scout Programme in Kenya, provided by The Kenya Scout Association.
• The Essex Experience, provided by The Scout Association (UK). 
• Slovakia: a project to integrate young people of the Roma community into Scouting.

The Bottom Line:

• Uganda
• Kenya
• Egypt
• Rwanda/Congo/Burundi

Europe Office WAGGGS / European Scout Office WOSM:

• Briefing Note on External Relations - Issue 1 (Summer 2005)
• Briefing Note on External Relations - Issue 2 (Autumn 2005)
• Briefing Note on External Relations - Issue 2 (Spring 2006)

Strategy News

• Diana’s new life in Sunrise Village, Uganda
  Diana has a new life, off the streets, in Sunrise Village, Uganda. Here is her story, which was told to a seminar on ‘Children in Difficult Circumstances’ in Nairobi.
• New opportunities for Ibrahim Kizito
  Scouting has provided Ibrahim with new and exciting opportunities. Ibrahim, a former street child in Uganda, tells about his new life as told to a seminar on ‘Children in Difficult Circumstances’ in Nairobi.
• Scouts Australia opens to the indigenous community in Queensland

A Strategy for Scouting: Strategic Priority 7 - Scouting's Profile

'Scouting does not exist in isolation; it is part of the community and it needs to work in partnership with others, from individuals to organizations and institutions at local, national and world levels' (The Strategy for Scouting). This strategic priority aims at strengthening Scouting's communications, partnerships and resources at all levels as these are vital in supporting the work to achieve the mission.

PowerPoint Presentation on Scouting's Profile

This presentation includes more detailed information on the three aspects of 'Scouting's Profile'; an overview of the situation in NSOs in July 2002 and an example of the Africa Scout Radio which is a development in the Africa Region.

• PowerPoint version
• pdf version
• script of the presentation
• Clip of the Africa Scout Radio (mov)

ScoutBoom.Comm

ScoutBoom.Comm is a resource produced by the European Region to support associations in strengthening Scouting's Profile, through developing communications, partnerships and resources: ScoutBoom.Comm

Stories

Promising Practices: 

• Accra's Big Breakfast Cook-0ff, provided by The Ghana Scout Association
• Africa Scout Radio, provided by Africa Regional Scout Office.
• Scouts and UNICEF - Interpersonal Social Mobilization for Polio Eradication in Angola, provided by the Scout Association of Angola.
• Youth for Youth Project, provided by the Arab Regional Office.
• The Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Foundation, provided by the Asia-Pacific Regional Foundation.
• The Asia-Pacific Region - results of a survey on the image of Scouting
• The Big Seven - an alliance of the world's largest youth movements
• The World Scout Parliamentary Union - an international organisation that unites the National Scout Parliamentary Associations that exist in more than 90 countries.
• Communication Technology Camp - to support the JOTA/JOTI event and help Scouts develop and try out their skills in a range of technologies linked to communication.
• Scouts have been active in planting 700,000 trees over a four year period to help save two of Australia’s largest river systems, the Darling and the Murray
• Public Relations Training for Young People to Support the 2007 Centenary Celebrations

The Bottom Line:

• Hong Kong
• Angola
• Sweden
• Saudi Arabia

Creating a Better Image

• A Communication Strategy for World Scouting (37th World Scout Conference Document 13, Tunisia 2005)

Strategy News 

• Half a Million Scouts take part in a Jamboree
  JOTA (Jamboree on the Air) and JOTI (Jamboree on the Internet) are events organized over a weekend in October every year in Scout Associations around the world, Internet and radio technologies enable Scouts from every continent to meet and chat with each other. 

• World Scouting assists the World Bank
  In October 2003, Scouting co-organised a conference in Paris on ‘young people and peace’ on behalf of the World Bank. In an interview Henrik Söderman tells why this was an important event and sets out the future plans. -> SP 7: Learning to work together - This document has been prepared as a response to the World Bank Progress Report. 

• Prime time adverts for Scouts in Guatemala
  Scouting in Guatemala has received the equivalent of a quarter of a million US dollars in prime time advertising thanks to a generous donation from an advertising company and the talents of a former Scout. This professional media campaign has raised the profile of Scouting in Guatemala.

Konkrete Projekte

• WOSM's work on external partnerships. Much of this work is being carried out by young project officers in the World Scout Bureau:
  
  • Report on External Relations and Partnerships (April 2004)
  • Report on External Relations and Partnerships (October 2004)
  • Report on External Relations and Partnerships (April 2005)
    
  • 37th Wolrd Scout Conference - Business Resolution "22/05 Partnership Development

• Partnerships for Change. In 1994, a Charter on Partnerships was agreed in Marrakech – called The Marrakech Charter. This Charter provides a framework for all partnerships in Scouting. It is a reference framework for partnerships between associations aiming at promoting partnerships, including greater North/South and East/West solidarity:
  
  • Achtung: Revised Edition vorhanden (s.u.)! The Marrakech Charter - The Charter encourages the establishment of multilateral partnerships with other Scout associations especially in the same geographical area and calls for active cooperation with entities external to the Scout Movement.
  • Circular N° 8/2002: Partnerships and the Marrakech Charter
  • The report on the implementation of the Charter to the World Scout Conference 2002
  • Partnerships: from Marrakech to Bangalore (37th World Scout Conference Document 11, Tunisia 2005)
  • Marrakech Charter (Bangalore Revised Edition) - The Seminar on Partnership in Bangalore was a response a resolution at the 36th World Scout Conference (Thessaloniki, Greece) which requested an evaluation of the work that has been done in the 10 years since Marrakech, in the area of partnership. The new Charter considered and included recommendations suggested during the seminar in Bangalore. Siehe dazu auch Circular N° 18/2006
  • |Partnerships for Change auf www.scout.org| - These web-pages support this Charter by providing information, resources, tools, examples, links to other web-sites and the text of the Charter in each of the areas. The web-pages are managed by the staff of the World Scout Bureau who support the work on partnerships (Strategic Priority 7) in consultation with the members of the North/South Network of the European Region.

• SCOPE (Scout Project Exchange). SCOPE is a process designed to facilitate partnerships between Scouts with needs, and others who are ready to offerwork on external partnerships: Introducing SCOPE (Circular N° 17/2005) - Partnerships for a better World. How SCOPE works - form project - form report - |Homepage|

• Scouting and the United Nations
  
  • "Scouting and the United Nations" - a guidebook for National Scout Organizations. A 108-page book explaining the relationships and work of Scouting with over 15 United Nations bodies: Complete Guidebook - 2 -page guide to using the guide
    
  • WOSM and the UN Millenium Campaign - letter, background document and regional partners (May 2006)
    
  • Memorandum of Understanding signed with the United Nations Environment Programme - A Memorandum of Understanding was signed jointly by Klaus Teopfer, Executive Director, UNEP and Dr. Eduardo Missoni, Secretary General of WOSM, in July, in Nairobi at the the world headquarters of UNEP. This recognises the long-time, worldwide work of Scouts in the field of environmental education and protection. It is hoped that the new agreement will lead to more cooperation and give support to obtaining resources to further the work of Scouts: Copy of the Memorandum (August 2004) / Circular N° 32/2004

• Scouting & The World Bank
  
  • Strategy News - World Scouting assists the World Bank in the development of youth policy. An interview with Henrik Söderman. December 2003
  • Learning to work together - This document has been prepared as a response to the World Bank Progress Report. It represents a coordinated point of view of the youth co-organisers of the 'Youth, Development & Peace 2004' meeting (the European Youth Forum and the World Organization of the Scout Movement). The report has been prepared by Richard Amalvy, World Organization of the Scout Movement. -> Circular N° 33/2004
  • World Scouting assists the World Bank (This editorial has appeared in several newspapers around the world)

• Scouting & The Humanizaton of Globalization
  
  • This document was originally prepared for a seminar on this subject to be hosted in Algeria in December 2003. The seminar had to be cancelled due to the earthquake tragedy which struck Algeria earlier in the year:
  • This subject is also included in the Secretary General's report to the World Scout Conference in 2002. Download the speech here.

A Strategy for Scouting - Zusammenfassung auf dieser Site

• Partnership for Youth - This publication summarizes the key inputs from a conference on Partnership for Youth which took place on September 12, 2003 at the Lego Centre in Billund, Denmark. The conference was held on the occasion of the 47th meeting of the Baden-Powell World Fellowship. The conference focused on partnerships between business and voluntary organizations such as Guiding and Scouting.

• Power of communication, power of information (Euro.Scout.Doc 1999/3): This issue presents the results of a European seminar on communication, which focused on enabling national associations to share ideas and experiences of how to provide young people with easy access to topical information. It includes examples of projects prepared by participants.

• The internet-oportunities and challenges for Scouting (Euro.Scout.Doc 2000/3): The purpose of this document is to give advice and guidance on creating and developing Scout websites

WAGGGS: Relationship to society

• Guidelines on relationship to society
• Triennial Theme 1996 - 2002: Building World Citizenship (Summary) 
• Media Relations Kit 
• Globalisation and the Scouts and Guides movement (Speech by Jan Bouke Wijbrandi)
• Seminar Report: Generation Europe - Partnerships for the future (Europe Region WAGGGS, Belarus, 2000)