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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...
“Over the last triennium, the Youth Advisors had the opportunity to participate in the meetings of the World Scout Committee, served as members of several key world-level working groups, task forces and sub-committees. At each of these meetings, the...
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...
More than 177 Scouts from 80 countries are in Rogla, a mountain resort in Slovenia, for the four-day 12th World Scout Youth Forum (WSYF) that began today. The strong support from the National Scouting Organizations in sending their delegates to the...
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) is very happy to announce its candidate running for a second mandate in the Board of the European Youth Forum and keeping up the good work done for youth organisations: "I am very honoured to be...
UGANDA - Rovers from the Uganda Scout Association embarked on a sensitization campaign through a cycling expedition. The main objective of the expedition was to educate the Lwengi District communities on how to prevent and control the spread of...
NIGERIA - The Scout Association of Nigeria, celebrated the 2014 National Scouts Conference under the theme, “Scouting, Vehicle and Driver of Peace, Unity and Harmony”, in Uyo, the transformational City of Akwa Ibom State. The conference was attended...
An international high level conference of Safe from Harm! in Brussels (Belgium) marked the end of a 18-month project run by the European Scout Region with financial support from the DAPHNE III programme of the European Union. Speaking to more than...
My name is Eva M. Haunerová. I am a Czech Scout and came to Belgium four months ago to work in the Brussels Office of the European Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). This happened because my National Scout Organisation...
Greetings have been pouring in from well-wishers around the world in relation to the opening of the new World Scout Bureau Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Below are a selection: "The 18th of June 2014 , thanks to the generous support of the...
Today the World Scout Bureau opened its new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. These are the words I shared with our guests at the Grand Opening: - The Honourable Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia - Simon Rhee...
The Joint Meeting of the European Scout Committee of WOSM and the Europe Committee WAGGGS discussed and approved the WOSM (Europe) - WAGGGS (Europe) Memorandum of Understanding this weekend in Brussels, Belgium. The Meeting was held on the premises...
This weekend, Scouts et Guides de France, one of the five National Scout Associations in France, held its Annual General Assembly at the Centre Scout de Jambville. Delegates from local Groups and Territories (equivalent of districts in other...
NAMIBIA - The Southern Zone Conference and Youth Forum was successfully held in Windhoek, Namibia under the theme “Scouting: Contributing Towards Nation-Building.” The Youth Forum was held from 28th – 30th April while the Conference ran from 30th...
Doina Postica (Moldova) and Jeremy Apert (France) represented World Scouting at the World Conference on Youth. The government of Sri Lanka organized the event from 6 to 10 May 2014 as part of the bigger process to evaluate the Millennium Development...