Secretary General’s World Scout Bureau BIANNUAL REPORT JANUARY - JULY 2015

Secretary General’s World Scout Bureau BIANNUAL REPORT JANUARY - JULY 2015

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Š World Scout Bureau Inc. Management September 2015 World Scout Bureau, Global Support Centre Kuala Lumpur Suite 3, Level 17, Menara Sentral Vista, No 150 Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA Tel.: + 60 3 2276 9000 Fax: + 60 3 2276 9089 worldbureau@scout.org scout.org Reproduction is authorised to National Scout Organizations and Associations which are members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Credit for the source must be given.

Secretary General’s World Scout Bureau BIANNUAL REPORT JANUARY - JULY 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 6

Executive Summary 8 YOUTH ENGAGEMENT 12 At World Level 13 In the Regions 14 EDUCATIONAL METHODS 16 At World Level 17 In the Regions 19 DIVERSITY & INCLUSION 22 At World Level 23 In the Regions 24

SOCIAL IMPACT 26 At World Level 27 In the Regions 29 COMMUNICATIONS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS 30 At World Level 31 In the Regions 34 GOVERNANCE 36 At World Level 37 In the Regions 39 Staff Support 40 Finance 42 WSB Funding Report, January-July 2015 43

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INTRODUCTION

This report presents a summary of accomplishments of the World Scout Bureau Support Centres for the period of January to July 2015. This last six months’ period started with the WOSM Work Streams meeting - that took place in Athens, Greece, and during which WSC members, appointed WOSM Volunteers and WSB Staff, had the opportunity to meet, shape their Work Stream and working methods, familiarise again with the Strategy for Scouting/Vision 2023, and develop KPIs. The 23rd World Scout Jamboree (WSJ), marks the end of this reporting period. It gathered twenty-three thousand young people from more than 160 countries and territories, supported by 10’000 adult volunteers, and deployed the largest solidarity program ever.

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INTRODUCTION

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am happy to present the 2nd edition of the World Scout Bureau’s Biannual Report. As a result of your feedback following the first report, we have started to improve the relevance and quality of the information presented.

An important additional feature in this report is the impact stories. Be it response to Ebola, or capacity strengthening in Tunisia, the stories give a glimpse of what we are contributing to, in terms of bringing positive change.

and the income stream is limited. One thing I always said has become clearer than ever before - a big vision also needs a big budget. I am confident we will find ways to manage all we need to accomplish, but we need to accept this situation today. The FMS rollout has continued and we have made excellent progress with our fee collection, the best we have done in several years.

The more the NSOs see value in what we are doing, the easier it is to justify what we ask in terms of fees.

Another key thing you will notice is that many of activities in the Regions are more and more aligned to the world level Triennial Plan, Strategy for Scouting, and Vision 2023. It needed some work initially, but credit is mainly due to Regional volunteers and staff members who have been a big force behind this alignment process. Our next task in this direction will be to see how we can keep our focus on the KPIs.

The World Scout Jamboree in Japan saw an excellent programme offered to young people. The WOSM team worked hard with the hosts and other volunteers to ensure the success of the Jamboree in trying conditions (at times).

Work at the Global Support Centres in Geneva and Kuala Lumpur is gathering momentum around all the volunteer teams in the Operational Framework of the World Scout Committee. Efforts in all the Work Streams (and Units), Task Forces and Standing Committees have been initiated or have gained serious traction in this period. We have also produced a robust budget in excellent time (as per plan). It has not been easy, as the expenses are growing heavily

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I have to recognise here, the efforts of colleagues who have worked on compiling this report. From all the Support Centres around the world, spearheaded by the Senior Management Team of the WSB, an immense reporting system is initiated based on the framework set out. The work of synthesising such a report into what you see as final output (both in terms of form and content) is also a massive one. A big thanks to everyone behind creating this report!

Scott A. Teare Secretary General, WOSM

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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s per the previous report, that covered the quarter 3 and 4 of 2014, this report is structured according to the six Strategic Priorities and presents the activities that were conducted at World and Regional levels for the 1st and 2nd quarter of 2015.

Youth Engagement

Social Impact

The major developments that occurred during this period at World level were the first meeting of the Planning Team for the 13th World Scout Youth Forum, during which provisional themes, topics were discussed in consultation with the young people of the Movement through the Youth Wall; and the promotion and integration of the Youth Engagement topic at world events. At Regional level, support was provided to the organisation of regional events related to Youth Engagement, youth employability and life skills.

The key developments in this Strategic Priority at World level were: the execution and completion of the MoP evaluation (including 14 case study visits to NSOs), the development of a concept paper on Social Impact in Scouting and the set up of a membership dashboard and development of a draft paper on membership criteria by the Membership Task force in close collaboration with the Constitutions Committee. At Regional Level, support was delivered in the areas of disaster management, membership growth and methods for measuring the impact of Scouting.

Educational Methods One of the highlights of this period was the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, during which the WOSM “Better World� tent, centrepiece of the World Scout Centre, offered an important number of educational activities. The Better World Framework was disseminated to all regions to collect feedback on how to enhance the impact of a joint collaboration between the three world programmes, Messengers of Peace, Scouts of the World Award and the World Scout Environment Programme. At regional level, important events took place gathering experts and trainees in the areas of Educational Methods, Youth Programme and Adults in Scouting.

Diversity & Inclusion In the area of Diversity and Inclusion, the Duty to God task force was setup and started working. Support was provided to religious organisations with consultative status to take part in the Faiths and Beliefs zone at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree during which the work on Dialogue with King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) was also presented. At Regional level, efforts were focused on the integration of the Diversity and Inclusion strategic priority into regional plans. Several meetings and trainings on the subject took place, support was provided to deliver the first dialogue training and projects such as the Ticket to Life were further supported and promoted.

Communications & External Relations Within Communications and External Relations, scout. org was moved to a new developer and migrated to a new platform. Social media use achieved an important outreach, and a new newsletter, the WorldScoutInfo, was published. In the area of External Relations the efforts invested in the Global Development Village at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree were successful. At the regional level, some meetings and trainings in the area of communication were hosted and several partnerships were initiated.

Governance In this area, progress was made with: the development of KPIs in line with the World Triennial Plan 2014-2017, the set up of a Constitutions Committee and start of the review of the backlog of NSO constitutional amendments, the implementation of the objectives of the WSC renewed Working Methods and the further integration of the Global Support System. At the regional level, opportunities of alignments of triennial plans were reflected on in view of the coming Regional Conferences and support was provided to NSOs in the areas of Strategic planning, Constitutional Matters and Capacity Strengthening. In the area of Finance, the new Financial Management System has been deployed and has gone live across all WSB Support Centres.

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YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

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YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

3.1 At World Level

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hen it comes to Youth Engagement on world level, two major developments occurred during this period: – The Planning Team for the 13th World Scout Youth Forum, accompanied by the other Youth Advisors, gathered at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, in West Virginia, USA where the team had a very productive three days meeting and started planning the Azerbaijan 2017 experience. The meeting’s main outcome was the definition of a road map and associated timeline, for the two upcoming years, with a clear distribution of tasks within the team. During the meeting, the team also had the opportunity to discuss provisional ideas, themes and topics for the next Youth Forum - all this in consultation with the young people of the Movement through the Youth Wall on Facebook and Twitter.

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– With the support of the appointed volunteers involved, the Youth Engagement topic was raised, promoted and discussed on the occasion the 23rd World Scout Jamboree as well at the 16th Africa Scout Conference. The promotion included the World Scout Youth Involvement Policy, World Scout Youth Forum and the opportunities for Youth Engagement in the community through the World Scout Programmes (namely; Messengers of Peace (MoP), Scouts of the World Award (SWA) and World Scout Environment Programme (WSEP)). The next steps will include the development of additional visual materials to support the Youth Engagement ideas and some measures are currently being considered to ensure that Youth Engagement, as an important indicator of success, is further included within the Global Support Assessment Tool, the Regional/World Scout Events planning and the work of the Regional/World Scout Committees.

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YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

3.2 In the Regions

– In the European Scout Region, direct support is delivered in the preparation of the Roverway, which is the most important European event for Rovers. This includes Contingent meetings, Planning Team meeting and WOSMWAGGGS coordination meetings.

The WSB European Support Centre also supported the 9th edition of Agora - the European event organized “by Rovers for Rovers” that took place in Jambville, France, and gather 51 participants aged 16-22 from 18 countries, as well as the planning of YESS – the Youth Empowerment Study Session that is scheduled for September 2015 in Romania. Direct support was also provided to the 1st Romanian Scouts Agora, that took place in April and gathered 27 participants aged from 18 to 22. As an outcome of this support, the event received an international perspective on issues like youth empowerment within the programme for last age section.

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– The Interamerica Support Centre conducted a Youth for Change (Y4C) workshop, bringing together 23 participants from 17 NSOs. Topics such as Youth Involvement, Intergenerational Dialogue, Youth Changing Communities, Life Skills and the Better World Framework were explored together with World and Regional Scout Committee representatives that facilitated the sessions. The evaluation of the workshop scored 92.4% satisfaction while the initial challenges was raising awareness towards the importance of these subjects. The next steps will be to plan eight Y4C seminars at national levels and translate all the material to Spanish for proper dissemination.

The Interamerica Scout Region also hosted the Youth Network meeting during which youth participation in the Region and the role of the Youth Network were discussed together with the Regional Triennial Plan and ideas for the upcoming Interamerican Youth Forum.

Technical support will be delivered as a next step to update materials about youth participation, develop documents on best practices and provide an annual report template.

In the same line, direct support was provided to Ecuador where the WSB Interamerica Support Centre met with the National Youth Network and discussed the Youth Participation Policy with 16 venture scouts and rovers.

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YOUTH ENGAGEMENT In the Regions

– The Arab Support Centre conducted the 4th Youth Employment Fair in February 2015 with the participation of 1300 talented youth and 40 companies.

This initiative was proven successful in building capacity and employability in the areas of graphics, leadership and training, however the WSB Support Centre recognizes that more areas of work need to be found. The next steps will be to involve more NSOs in this type of initiative.

– In the Africa Scout Region continuous support was provided to the regional youth advisors coming from Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia and Zimbabwe in preparations for the 7th Africa Scout Youth Forum that took place in August 2015 in Uganda. Two of the regional youth advisors are currently serving in WSC Work Streams and Two Zonal Youth Forums (Southern and West) will be led by current regional youth advisors. Support was also provided in the selection and preparation for training on Scouts Go Solar1 . The next steps will include the launch of the regional Scouts Go Solar platform.

Scouts go solar is the results of collaboration between Solafrica, the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and Greenpeace. The objective of the project is to promote solar energy as a climate protection measure in 2011. Read more on http://scout.org/user/52180/about and http://solafrica.ch/scout-badge/?lang=en 1

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– In the Asia-Pacific Scout Region, Scouts from three NSOs were trained about the Solar Challenge Badge through the Scouts Go Solar Training held in April and hosted by the Boy Scouts of Philippines, under the pilot implementation of the Solar Project in partnership with WOSM, Greenpeace and SolAfrica. As a result, trained Scouts are now contributing to the launch of the Solar Challenge Badge and many volunteers from the Region are now members of APR Network for Environment Education. The next steps include the APR Workshop on Environment Education in Scouting, which will take place in Pakistan in September 2015 and the launch of the Solar Challenge Badge at the same event. The Asia-Pacific Support Centre also conducted the APR Seminar on Life Skills for the 21st Century, in June 2015, in Bhutan. Next plans will now focus on overseeing the 8th APR Scout Youth Forum that will take place on October – November 2015 in Korea.

– The main highlight in the Eurasia Scout Region was Regional Scout Committee’s approval of the Policy on Regional Youth Advisors and Policy on Regional Youth Forum.

Following this important step, the implementation will be the main focus of the region in this area of work.

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EDUCATIONAL METHODS

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EDUCATIONAL METHODS

4.1 At World Level

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he main highlights for Educational Methods were:

• The 23rd World Scout Jamboree that was organised by The Scout Association of Japan and that took place between 29 July and 7 August in Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi, Japan. Twenty-three thousand young people from more than 160 countries and territories had an

unforgettable and life-changing Scouting experience. This was only possible through the dedication and hard work of the 10,000 adult volunteers who directly supported the event and the many thousands of other adults who did not attend but helped the young people make the journey to the Jamboree.

In every respect the Jamboree brought Scouting’s values and mission to life. The overall Jamboree experience offered a balance of social, intellectual, physical and spiritual experiences.

The daily programme offered the chance to experience Japan’s nature and culture, learn about global issues and science, participate in typical Scouting activities and experience the importance working for peace.

The WOSM team at the event was composed of 100 people and, in 15

partnership with SAJ, supported every aspect of the Jamboree. The WOSM “Better World” tent, which was funded by the World Scout Foundation, was the centrepiece of the World Scout Centre. The tent offered a wide range of very popular educational activities and was visited by more than 1000 participants each day.

• The Better World Framework concept endorsed by World Scout Committee (WSC) in November 2014, has been disseminated among the six Regions to gather feedback, both from Youth Programme directors and different Networks. Input is expected on the different elements to be considered to enhance the impact of a joint collaboration between the three world programs, MoP, SWA, and WSEP. The concept itself served as an inspirational framework to integrate all the educational experiences presented to young people and leaders during the WOSM exhibition at the 23rd WSJ. One of the aims of this integrated framework is to leverage the relevancy of “Active Citizenship” along with community service actions. In an effort to acknowledge and recognize local Scouts’ efforts on community service, regional and global community service projects are featured in the Better World Magazine Special edition. Its latest issue includes testimonials of external partners like Duke of Edinburg Award, U-report and TheGoals and their perspective about the relevance of Scouting in achieving positive change in local communities.

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EDUCATIONAL METHODS At World Level

“The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre launched the World Scouting – UNESCO World Heritage Recognition initiative at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree. The initiative aims to empower young people, particularly Scouts, to preserve and promote World Heritage sites through the framework of the Scouts of the World Award (SWA) Programme. Through the initiative, Scouts and non-Scouts (aged between 15–26) who succeed in completing their SWA project at one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites will receive a World Scouting-UNESCO World Heritage Recognition badge (the Patrimonito-Scout Badge), and certificate. They will also be encouraged to develop Scout Heritage stories to inspire Scouts and other young people to protect their cultural and natural heritage. The initiative hopes to raise awareness and mobilise young Scouts and non-Scouts to participate in World Heritage preservation and promotion; to promote active citizenship and help strengthen synergies among young people and their local communities 2”.

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• In this Framework: – The Scout of the World Award (SWA) continued evolving.

Two publications are currently being developed, the SW Award Guidelines, now directed at the young person wanting to complete the award, and a SW Award Implementation Manual, directed at the NSO wanting to adopt the Award. Due to a change in the format, young people will now be able to report their stories back to WOSM on scout. org, which will allow the WSB to further promote the SW Award by using their stories but also to track the youth’s engagement with the award.

– The Messengers of Peace took further steps as a follow-up to the working document that was endorsed in November 2014 by the WSC. A preliminary document of MoP Educative objectives and guidelines was presented and launched during the 23rd WSJ. It currently includes the dimensions of Peace and Positive change in Scouting, the educational objectives of MoP, the 4 steps to become a Messenger of Peace in action and the 3 levels of the MoP badge. The next step will be to turn this document into an official Programme Guideline in consultation with all the Youth Programme and Training Directors and Commissioners and MoP Coordinators at National and Regional levels. As part of the dissemination and recollection of feedback, several MoP

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Programme sessions have been and will be included in national and regional youth and adult events.

– WSEC2: Proposals to host the 2nd World Scout Education Congress have been received and proposed venues have been visited and assessed.

Considerable work has also been undertaken to define a realistic budget for the event.

Initial discussions have also been undertaken with the World Scout Foundation regarding funding support. A paper detailing proposals is being presented to the next meeting of the World Scout Committee.

– The Adult in Scouting global team meeting was hosted in Kuala Lumpur in June 2015 and gathered the regional staff in charge of this area of work. The meeting was used to kick-off collaboration on AiS work according to the strategic objectives on the Triennial Plan as well as to put hands-on-work on a number joint actions to be implemented (i.e. Adults in Scouting global survey; GSAT scoring criteria on AiS; Standards for Adults in Scouting; Review of the policy publication) and projects on the pipeline (i.e. Child protection; regional Educational Methods events). The meeting was topped with the development of terms of reference for the global team and definition of working methods.

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EDUCATIONAL METHODS

4.2 In the Regions

On the regional level, the WSB Regional Support Centres supported the following events: • The Interamerica Scout Region organised an advanced Youth Programme course, in El Salvador, with the objective to train National Youth Programme (YP) national teams in view of improving the implementation of the YP and development of YP policies at national levels. The course gathered 62 participants from 10 NSOs. In the area of Adults in Scouting, a Design and implementation of Adults in Scouting policies and management systems was organised, in St Vincent and the Grenadines, for Caribbean NSOs. The course consisted of three phases, two virtual based on the e-learning platform and one phase on-site. Each phase consisted of providing participants with concepts, methods, strategies and techniques to design national policies, management systems and

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material to motivate adults. The main challenge of this operation was to convince the Caribbean NSOs’ members to attend the training in order to improve their current situation. The next steps will consist of a strong follow-up work to keep the momentum. Regional Network meetings also took place in the area of Youth Programme and Adults in Scouting with some common sessions on the Vision 2023, the Regional Policies, the GS Assessment Tool and Communications.

• The Africa Scout Region supported 3 Woodbadge Trainings for Lesotho (June 2015), Zimbabwe (April 2015), and Botswana (July 2015) and one Youth Programme Review Workshop for Lesotho (July 2015), with each also focusing on their respective plans to increase membership. The key challenges that were observed are limited financial and human resources to sustain growth, the lack of support materials for NSOs and leadership with no access to internet. The next steps will include technical support to the Cub Scout Leaders training of Botswana and Zimbabwe in December 2015 with the objective to revive the Cub Scout section within Southern Africa.

Direct support was provided to Côte d’Ivoire who’s hosting the 7th Africa Scout Jamboree in 2016. A review of the preparations was conducted with the host and the outcome was a clear timeframe with agreed upon deliverables for the NSO. A Memorandum of Understanding was drafted regarding the government’s support.

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EDUCATIONAL METHODS In the Regions

• The Asia-Pacific Scout Region organised the APR Workshop on Needs and Challenges of Young People, Adults in Scouting in June 2015, in Manila Philippines, during which participants exchanged on opportunities to strengthen adult support in the implementation of a better Youth Programme. The next steps will be to oversee the APR Workshop on CommunityBased Scouting, support the APR Programme Sub-Committee meeting and the preparatory meeting of the 31st Regional Scout Jamboree that will take place in Mongolia, and conduct the APR Course for Leaders Trainers.

• In the European Scout Region, the 8th European Educational Methods Forum took place in May 2015 and was organised in Antalya, Turkey, gathering 138 participants from 34 countries. The next step will be the presentation of a number of topics related to youth empowerment to be delivered by volunteers from the Strategic Priority Group at workshops during the Academy (November 2015 in Porto, Portugal).

The ICT Round Table in Prague looked at ways in which information technologies could support the development and implementation of programmes and trainings.

Direct support was provided to the Romania Educational Methods Forum in May 2015, extending knowledge and sharing regional ideas. The Forum gathered 63 participants representing 51 local centres.

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• The Arab Scout Region conducted a special post 4 beads training in Dubai, UAE, to strengthen the capacity of the regional network of trainers who support their own NSOs, communities and neighbouring countries. The next step will be to approach potential stakeholders to support capacity building of the volunteers on the regional level. The region also organised it’s 5th Regional training for Certified Training Professionals (CTP) in April 2015, attended by 30 participants from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco and Mauritania.

The next step will be to conduct a talent Management training in collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University in October 2015.

The Arab Scout Foundation provided direct support, including financial support, to the Jordanian Scout Association to conduct the 31st Arab Scout Jamboree that will place in September 2015.

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EDUCATIONAL METHODS In the Regions

• In the Eurasia Scout Region, during the Exceltscout 2015 that took place in Armenia, 23 participants from 8 NSOs gathered together with 5 Regional Trainers. The main outcomes were the demonstration and confirmation of the effectiveness of educational methods that were

development of the Excelscout project. In the area of Youth Programme direct support was provided to Belarus and Ukraine in the development of their respective Youth Programme. As for the Educational Methods, a close follow-up on the 8th Educational

developed in the Regional Support Centre for the “Excelscout” project.

NSOs got potential Adult Leaders, who are motivated to work in the area of Youth Programme. At the end, Regional Trainers formulated proposals to the Eurasia Regional Scout Committee for further

Methods Forum, organised in the European Scout Region in Antalya, Turkey, was conducted in view of the replication of a similar event in the Eurasia Scout Region. The Educational Forum/Congress in the Eurasia Region is considered for Spring 2016.

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

5.1 At World Level

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n the area of Diversity and Inclusion, two important developments can be highlighted: • Dialogue Programme and Badge: • The Duty to God Task Force was As a complement to the Intersetup and started working by setting Religious Dialogue effort, a new tool its priorities based the Conference to promote inter-cultural Dialogue is outcomes and TP 2014-2017 under development with the support objectives. The main challenge of KAICIID. Since March 20153, of this Task Force is the political two workshops were held. The first sensitivity of this area of work. focused on the development of Support was provided to the religious an overall concept and a general organisations with consultative status perspective of dialogue in Scouting; to take part in the Faiths and Beliefs the second one looked at the zone at the 23rd WSJ in Japan. integration of a working group which includes representatives of the six Scout Regions to support the implementation of Dialogue as a transversal tool. The first products of this working group were presented within Better World Tent at the GDV and Faiths and Beliefs zone during 23rd WSJ4. A first validation of Dialogue training took place during the 7th Africa Youth Forum, with more than 58 youth delegates from 21 countries. The second validation of the training will be held at the Asia-Pacific Youth forum.

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

5.2 In the Regions

The main goal of “Messenger of Peace Team India” project was to build internal capacity for better understanding and awareness about the peace initiative at a nationwide scale. Taking into account the geographic and administrative spread of the country and of the Bharat Scouts & Guides (BSG), the project aimed to offer training to at least one leader from each of the 45 states of India.

As a result, the MoP initiative has been taken to distant places, including the countryside. Activities were designed to influence communities in supporting the Scouts’ call and actions for peace. While feedback from key leaders is generally positive and enthusiastic, there is a strong need to train more young leaders to reach out and go deeper into the communities.

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he developments at regional level in the area of Diversity and Inclusion are as follows: • In the European Scout Region, several sessions on diversity and inclusion and spiritual development were delivered at regional or subregional level including at the EM Forum (in Turkey, 2 sessions, 31 participants, 18 NSOs/NSAs), the Overture Network (1 session, 48 participants, 14 NSOs/NSAs and one questionnaire handed over to all participants to gather D&I best practices), and the Nordic Conference (1 joint session

definition and implementation of the support on Spiritual development to NSOs/NSAs and the finalisation of the DIPPG Policy document on Diversity. Direct support was provided to FOS Open Scouting, Belgium, in order to enable the European Scout Region and FOS to explore Diversity & Inclusion at the very local level as well as national level. The Region will support FOS in sustaining the Diversity & Inclusion project by elaborating a

23,465,217 Service Hours 1,516 Service Projects 65 Young Leaders trained to be the local MoP Coordinators at the state level

WOSM & WAGGGs, 12 NSOs/ NSAs, MOs/MAs). An LGBTI Roundtable was organised, inviting 3 external experts and gathering 12 participants from 8 NSOs/NSAs and 3 consultants for European Scout Region on LGBTI identified. Next steps will include the organisation of two trainings on LGBTI, one for countries where LGBTI is taboo and one for countries which have a tradition of discussing it; the

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co-funded strategy for 2016-2017.

The WSB European Support Centre is also closely following-up with the Scout Association of Macedonia, FYROM, in the implementation of an inter-ethnic project led by Albanian Scout groups. Support is provided in the development of a multi-ethnic approach.

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION In the Regions

As part of the 23rd WSJ Operation Kirara support, 149 scouts from Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe got support to attend the 23rd WSJ.

• The WSB Africa Support Centre supported the selection and preparation for the training in dialogue at KAICIID. The next step will include the execution of the plan to train more youth. The Africa Support Centre also supported the development of strategy to reach out to marginalized communities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Niger and Uganda, working towards overcoming the cultural and social barriers. It also helped the implementation of a religious tolerance programme in Ethiopia and coordinated the dissemination of materials towards growth in the entire Region. As a next step, the Africa Scout Region is working toward launching diversity & inclusion drive as part of the Regional Triennial Plan.

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• In the Eurasia Scout Region attention was given to integrating the diversity and inclusion strategic priority, not as a separate theme, but rather as a transversal subject in the agenda of both the 3rd Regional Youth Forum and 6th Eurasia Scout Regional Conference.

It aim at creating opportunities to talk about Human Rights, to break barriers of communication between Christians and Muslims, and focus on the dialogue between youth and adults. Financial support was provided to enable young people with limited resources to participate in Exceltscout 2015. Discussions led also to a whole session dedicated to Diversity & Inclusion at the next Exceltscout.

• The WSB Asia-Pacific Support Centre continued providing support to the Ticket to Life (TTL) project in the Region. TTL projects are in the Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

Some challenges are met in receiving reports from NSOs TTL coordinators on time. The team in charge is now working toward getting the approval from the MoP Joint Executive Committee for the 2015 project proposal.

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SOCIAL IMPACT

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SOCIAL IMPACT At World Level

6.1 At World Level

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Some important achievements in the area of Social impact include:

• The execution and completion of the MoP evaluation including 14 case study visits to NSOs. Very limited time was given for planning and executing of the case study visits but despite this 14 were completed out of the 15 planned. The evaluation focused on measuring the social impact the Initiative has achieved so far by using various research methods, including:

surveying MoP network members and NSOs’ leadership, interviewing external partners, conducting case studies in selected countries, as well as organizing focus groups with Scouts present at the 23rd World

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Scout Jamboree in Japan. The next steps of this project will be to focus on the implementation of the recommendations of the evaluation in the years to come. Connected to the case studies that took place in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Georgia, Tunisia, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Uruguay, Dominica,

India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, a review of project management practices within NSO was conducted which lead to the plan of enhancing reporting processes for existing MoP projects and providing input for future MoP projects coming from case study NSOs.

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SOCIAL IMPACT At World Level

An impact assessment of the Haiti MoP project was conducted. The current project was completed with satisfaction and a new project is now being developed. The governance review work was successful, which is as an important next step towards the actual implementation of this work. Additionally, considerable work was done on youth involvement through youth forums, as well as the on-going work in supporting local communities. Parents have a belief in the added value Scouting is delivering to the education of their children.

• The development of a concept paper on Social Impact in Scouting that was distributed to NSOs for consultation. The WSC Work Stream in charge of this area of work is currently reaching out to research institutions to further define Social Impact and its measurement in Scouting, and establishing partnership with knowledge institutions in order to ensure support for the planned work on measuring Scouting’s social impact.

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• The Membership Task force worked toward gathering data and setting up a membership dashboard.

Additional consultant resources will be needed, as the scope of the Membership Task Force requires specific knowledge and experience that is not currently accommodated.

A draft paper on membership criteria was developed in close coordination with the Constitutions Committee.

The next steps will include further work on the membership criteria based on the input from the WSC.

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SOCIAL IMPACT In the Regions

6.2 In the Regions

Examples of Regional activities in the area of Social impact include: When the Ebola pandemic first broke out in late 2014 in Sierra Leone, which registered a vast majority of the cases in West Africa, “Ebola Kills” was the first public health message that created fear and led to increased infections. As it happens on such occasions, Scouts swung into action to fill the gap, to once again showcase how the Scout Movement has generated millions of active citizens over the years.

Sierra Leone Scout Association trained 300 Scout volunteers in Freetown to intensify the social mobilisation drive in their local communities. They did contact tracing, surveillance, safe and dignified burials, psycho-social counselling, temperature screening and supporting the police in providing security in quarantine homes.

Grafton National Scout Camp was also converted into an isolation centre for Ebola survivors awaiting to be reintegrated into their communities. The camp also offered refuge for children orphaned by the Ebola virus pandemic.

In Liberia, over 30 Scouts from a local community troop in the outskirts of Monrovia embarked on a month-long anti-Ebola awareness campaign. The Scouts creatively developed street plays of their messages to educate the local community on preventive measures and alerting each other on signs and symptoms of the disease.

A nationwide Ebola Prevention and Eradication Project trained 75 Scouts and Scout leaders who embarked on an 8-hour daily service to facilitate campaigns on Ebola information, prevention and its eradication.

• The coordination work done by the WSB Asia-Pacific Support Centre with BOOKBRIDGE Foundation to establish learning canters in Sri Lanka. Book Bridge Foundation accepted Sri Lanka as the third country in which they implement the project (after Mongolia and Cambodia). The Agreement will be signed in September 2015. The WSB Asia-Pacific Support Centre also conducted four Disaster and Risk Reduction (DRRM) Training Courses as part of the MoP Project, “Disaster Preparedness Programme in the Philippines”. A total of 266 participants were trained. Three more courses will be conducted by the end of 2015.

• The launch of membership growth drive in 14 NSOs, in the Africa Scout Region, in line with WOSM Vision 2023 and the organisation of a Strategic change management workshop for selected NSOs in August 2015.

• The Arab Scout Region delivered technical support in the area of Disaster Management to the NSO of Yemen to help them be better prepared.

• In the context of the preparation for its Regional Conference, the Eurasia Scout Region conducted an in-depth analysis on the NSOs’ strategies and action plans, including activities of NSOs aiming at enhancing the impact on the society. This subject will be submitted for discussion to the Regional Scout Committee to move forward in the area of Social impact on the regional level.

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• The European Scout Region launched the Impact of Scouting and Guiding report at the European Social Committee, supported by key inputs from Scout and Guide representatives, a young Member of the European Parliament and contributions from others exploring impact. More that 60 representatives, including about 15 NSOs and partner organisations explored the issue of the impact Scouting and Guiding has on society and the current challenges around fundraising, while also sharing good practices of relationships between donors and Guide and Scout associations, and highlighting the added value of increasing and adapted funding.

Scouts of Brazil and Panama launched a campaign “Scouts for Ukraine” with NOSU (the National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine) as the main partner on the ground. The objective of the project is to address the refugee crisis and help children who suffered from war find back a peaceful childhood. A summer camp was organised for refugee children and Scouts activities will be organised throughout the school year in schools where refugee children came to study.

School material will also be distributed thanks to this Scout Aid Project.

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COMMUNICATIONS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS

NSOs receiving direct support (January-July 2015)

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COMMUNICATIONS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS At World Level

7.1 At World Level

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n the area of Communications and External Relations, important efforts were deployed around the website, the social media reach and increasing awareness of Scouting activities and events;

survivors on April 29th achieved almost 1.8 million reach and 59’350 likes. Additionally, on the occasion of Happy 158th Birthday B-P the Facebook post achieved 791’808 reach and 29’962 likes. The B-P related video achieved 68’231 views and 340’096 reach, and as for the infographic, it achieved 285’056 reach.

• Scout.org is now supported by a new development vendor and migrated to a new platform, which lead to cutting cost of hourly rate by 70% and granted a full 24/7, • Direct support was provided to all 365 days support service. Some WSB Regional Support Centres, challenges were met to find a gathering stories on Scouting suitable analytic tool for campaign activities and events held by monitoring and funding for future Regions and NSOs and featuring expansion of scout.org. As for the them in the new WorldScoutInfo. next steps, focus will be dedicated The WorldScoutInfo is a quarterly to the intranet, the scout centre newsletter, which replaces the database, events market and crowdprevious WorldInfo, aiming at funding opportunities. The World keeping NSOs and all subscribers map will also be redesigned. informed about Scouting activities, events and projects as well as • On the Social media level, a developments throughout the six #ScoutAid dedicated page Scout regions. The first issue was was launched during the Nepal distributed in February followed by Earthquake to share stories and one in June 2015 with a total as of collect donations. The dedicated today of 70’192 subscribers. campaign collected USD 38’000 in donations and Facebook posts • In the area of External Relations, of Scouts assisting earthquake Scouts, leaders, ISTs and external partners saw the Global Development Village (GDV) at the Japan World Scout Jamboree as a great success. Despite some initial logistical wrinkles that were resolved in the early days, the site handled between 1500-2000 Scouts during the 3-hour sessions each morning and afternoon. 80 tents were set up on-site, with approximately 30 fun, interactive educational activity run by NSO Contingents, 30 by the local host SAJ, and 20 activities related to global impacts by External Partners. The presence and quality of activities, especially by External Partners, vastly exceeded expectations. The GDV was honoured by visited by HRH Prince Bandr bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and UN Special Envoy for Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi.

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COMMUNICATIONS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS In the Regions

6.2 In the Regions

In the areas of communications and external relations, the following has been achieved: • The Arab Scout Region hosted in March 2015, a Visual and Digital Communication Seminar that took place in Egypt gathering 50 participants from 13 NSOs and during which the topic of “Effective use of scout.org and social

media for NSOs” was presented.

The result of this support was the increase of postings and sign up of NSOs from the Arab Region. NSOs also learned to use the World map as an analytic tool to measure the progress of their MoP projects.

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• The Interamerica Scout Region had the opportunity to promote the image of Scouting on TV. In May 2015, the Regional Director of the Interamerica Scout Region was interviewed by the famous presenter Ismael Cala who’s TV Show “Cala” is hosted by CNN en Español, a Spanish TV broadcast version of CNN, covering millions of people in all Latin-American countries. The interview was done in CNN studios in Miami, Florida and was broadcasted in July. The interview was seen by millions of persons who had the opportunity to better understand the Scout Movement. Many people and scouts in Latin-American NSOs watched the interview thanks to an important promotion strategy on scout.org and social media.

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• In the area of External Relations, – The Asia-Pacific Scout Region initiated meetings with two new partners during the kick off activity between ILO-Philippines and WOSM in an advocacy concert called “No to Child Labour, Yes to Quality Education” and drafting an MOU with Habitat for Humanity Asia-Pacific Office, which will be launched in November 2015.

– The European Support Centre supported the organisation of the regional Partnership Event which took place in March 2015 in the Netherlands gathering 85 participants from 22 NSOs (8 from other regions – in particular Interamerica), as well as the Funding Network Meeting that gathered 21 participants

from 14 NSOs/NSAs. The WSB European Support Centre also provided direct support to a number a NSOs in developing their funding applications by providing individual advices on the sources of funding and examples of funding applications to the German speaking NSOs, the Scouting Français and SouthEastern Europe NSOs. Four funding applications have been developed and two have been granted already. The next steps on the regional level include the development of funding applications for most of the activities of the Region, organising the Network Meeting for external representatives and organising a training/coordination meeting for the external representatives active in the board of the European Youth Forum.

– The Arab Support Centre initiated consultations with WHO for Health Promotion and control of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) working toward gaining trusts form key institutions and NGOs to believe in the capacity of scout organisations.

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COMMUNICATIONS & EXTERNAL RELATIONS In the Regions

The Interamerica region hosted its 1st Regional Meeting on Volunteers Management gathering 17 participants from 11 NGOs. Participants had the opportunity to exchange on the challenges of volunteering and volunteers’ management.

Participating Organizations exchanged on what they do, how they define and work with volunteers, exchanged on their policies and the challenges they meet when working with volunteers. Participants worked on opportunities for sharing practices about: information, training systems, research, volunteering and participating Organizations realized that Scouting is an important partner in developing joint actions in many fields.

• The Africa Scout Region is currently leading the review of its Communications and External Relations Strategy in line with the global strategy with the objective of launching the revised version and organising a Regional Communication and External Relations Forum in November 2015. The Africa Scout Region also provided direct support to Uganda by supporting the promotion and coverage of the Africa Scout day 2015, and the Regional Scout

Conference and Scout Youth Forum which lead to the improvement of the NSO’s capacity in managing various aspects of communications related to events. Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe were also supported in the promotion of the zonal Scout Conferences and Youth Forums, which increased awareness and mobilisation towards events. The Region also lead a situational analysis of Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire and Mozambique’s communications and IT infrastructure establishing a development plan addressing concrete identified needs.

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• In the Eurasia Scout Region, a regional seminar was held in Kiev, Ukraine, in February 2015, and gathered representatives, from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, in charge of communications and the implementation of the promotion strategy for improving the image of Scouting at national level. The main outcomes of the seminar were the formation of a regional communications working group, which defined the coming work, including the preparation of the regional newsletter. The subject of online support for events was

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also discussed. The next steps will include an update of NSOs’ official Internet resources, as well as providing more regular information in advance on upcoming activities and events to key stakeholders. Direct support was provided to Tajikistan in the promotion of Scouting and the NSO activities which lead to the organisation of a number of workshops that took place in schools and other educational institutions as well as summer camps and during which WOSM and the NSO of Tajikistan were presented to small groups of 6 to 8 people.

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GOVERNANCE

NSOs receiving direct support (January-July 2015)

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GOVERNANCE At World Level

8.1 At World Level

In Governance, some progress was recorded in the following areas: In May 2015, the NSO of Tunisia held a 3-day workshop to develop a strategic plan for the next 10 years of the NSO. The methodology was inspired by WOSM’s process for Vision 2023 and directly supported by the Global Team, Organisational Development and the Arab Scout Region. The event was preceded by three months of careful mapping out of the current internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats towards the NSO in Tunisian society and local communities. All results were brought together during the event where more than 200 leaders from all levels of the organisation participated.

Priorities were considered, discussed and from there a 10-year Vision of where the NSO should be in 2025 was crafted. Continued support to the NSO is being delivered, as it is now formulating its first 3-year plan to innovate its structures and programme to better serve 60’000 Scouts and their local communities in Tunisia.

• Strategy: The first half of 2015 saw the development of the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) in line with the World Triennial Plan 2014-2017 objectives, which were all published and distributed to NSOs in the second issue of the TP.

• Constitutional Matters: During this same period, the Constitutional support was handed over to the Organisational Development Global Team, whose first steps were to setup the Constitutions Committee and to start of the review of the backlog of NSO constitutional amendments. A lot of time was invested in understanding the institutional and historical specifics of WOSM, for certain pending constitutional files, during the handover process. As for the next steps, the team aims at building up a knowledge system around historical WSC and institutional decisions of WOSM making it easier to access and maintain these records.

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This was not an easy undertaking as it was the first time this had been done. The next step will be to develop a performance measurement tool for the Vision 2023 building on lessons learnt from the KPIs for 2014-2017.

In line with WOSM constitution and international best practices the following countries are supported in the review of their Constitutional amendments: Aruba, Colombia, Curacao, Georgia, Haiti, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg, Macau, New Zealand, Palestine, Paraguay, Portugal, Sao Tome e Principe, Seychelles, Slovakia, Zambia.

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• Working Methods: Following its • Global Support: Based on the induction session, the WSC renewed progress made during the previous their Working Methods and defined Triennium the newly appointed a number of objectives for this Global Support Core Group built-on new area of work. This led to the the achievements by setting high development of individual and group expectations including the launch review systems, to ensure follow-up of a new round of 20 GSAT Audits, on the renewed Working Methods, the development and testing of and a definition of the transparency the WOSM internal assessment review plan. The definition of this last version of GSAT for NSO Capacity objective took a considerable amount Strengthening, and the creation of of time, however after consulting the a GS Consultants Pool, regionally Steering Committee and WSB staff owned, to ensure follow-up of involved, a final plan is now ready the GSAT Assessment. The high for rollout. The next steps will include ambition of the Global Support the compilation of the results of the group lead to some challenges in WSC members’ self-evaluation, staff capacity to follow-up on the the definition of the WSC Mid-Term work needing to be done. This was Review structure and the rollout solved by an additional staff resource of the “Improving Transparency” allocated to this task. The next steps objective. The Working Methods unit will include the launch of the WOSM will also be conducting in-meeting Assessments on regional levels as evaluations to monitor the progress well as the GSAT self-evaluation, of the implementation of the WSC which will be available on the GS renewed working methods. online platform.

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As per its KPIs, the Global Support Unit aims are conducting at least 20 GSAT Assessments per year. As of today, 3 GSAT Audits already took place, 11 are already scheduled for 2015 and 2 for next year, and 4 are under consideration.

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GOVERNANCE In the Regions

8.2 In the Regions The WSB Interamerica Support Centre has recently moved forward with its strong commitment of developing and supporting growth of Scouting in accordance to the Vision 2023, by strengthening the capacity of NSOs in good governance practices, youth program delivery and the adult leader support system. To achieve this the WSB Support Centre has actively participated and contributed to the working groups related to Global Support at World Level.

The Support Centre created a Regional Global Support Consultants Pool composed of 6 key volunteers from the region to: act as GSAT facilitators; support the NSOs prioritize their actions based on the results of their assessment; and act as WOSM Assessors in the future.

This group of volunteers (two per strategic area: Youth Programme, Institutional Development, Adults in Scouting), together with all the regional staff and three Regional Committee members participated in the 1st GSAT Facilitators Training hosted by the Region and facilitated by the Global Support Team and are now ready for the full roll-out and follow-up of GSAT Assessments in the Region, with as a next step the development and testing of the 2nd party assessment version of GSAT (now called WOSM Assessment).

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n the regional level progress was made as follows:

• Strategy: The European Scout Region provided active support to several NSOs/NSAs in setting their priorities and/or development and implementation of their strategic plans, such as: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany (VCP), Lithuania, Luxembourg (FNEL). The Africa Scout Region supported a strategic planning workshop in Swaziland, which lead to a new plan supported by the government. The Southern Africa Scout Zonal Conference and Youth Forum gathered 105 delegates and observers from 10 NSOs who adopted a new Zonal Strategic Plan and had the opportunity to have bilateral discussion with representatives from the Africa Support Centre.

The Arab Regional Scout Committee welcomed the WSC Chairperson who presented the Vision 2023

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and World TP 2014-2017 and discussed the opportunities of alignment. The region called on the regional summit, which includes the members of the 10 regional subcommittees, to finalize the last phase of the regional strategy and the triennial plan before the Arab Regional Conference. The AsiaPacific Scout Region drafted its 2015-2018 Regional Plan based on the outcomes of the APR Scout Leaders Summit held in April 2014. All five AP Sub-Committees developed strategic statements, objectives and action steps, which were subsequently accepted by the APR Scout Committee.

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• Constitutional Matters: The Eurasia Scout Region supported the NSO of Georgia with regards to the changes they wish to make to their Constitution, by supporting the process of agreeing on the amendments to be submitted for the approval of the National Council and for the review of the WSC Constitution Committee. The European Scout Region delivered a similar type of support to the NSOs of Malta and Czech Republic, who now started a consultation on what the Scout Promise actually means.

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• Global Support: In the capacity strengthening area: The Africa Scout Region supported the delivery of GSAT workshops in Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar and Swaziland, whose main issues are in the area of governance and conflicting leadership, and which led to the review of governing documents and development of MoP capacity building MoP projects for the case of Lesotho. The Africa Region also supported the AGM of 3 NSOs, Ghana, Kenya & Zambia, and induction of newly elected leaders in Botswana, Ghana and Zambia to equip the new leadership with governance and management skills. The next steps in the area of Governance is the induction of the newly elected Africa Scout Committee and implementation of additional GSAT workshops in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and DRC. The European Scout Region is supporting the follow-up of the GSAT Audits that took place in Croatia, Lithuania and Austria which lead to, among other things, a long term, multi sectorial support addressing issues of structure, risk management, financial and change management for Croatia. Additional GSAT audits are scheduled in the coming month for four other NSOs as well as the testing and roll-out of WOSM Assessments to be lead by the region. As for the Asia-Pacific Scout Region, the WSB Support Centre supported NSOs in building professional capacity by organizing the 50th APR Basic Management Course that was held in February in India.

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In the area of Governance in general: – The Asia-Pacific Scout Region launched the APR Scout Supply Chain at the Scout Managers meeting held in Taiwan in March 2015. This initiative, from the APR Finance Subcommittee, has the objective of making Scout supplies available to members.

The concept is currently being finalised and efforts will be focused on the coordination with internal and external agencies to ensure that the supply chain serves NSOs and members as a service entity and not as a business.

– The Asia-Pacific and Arab Scout Regions respectively organised preparatory meetings, field visits, coordinated and allocated preparatory work and supported the organisation of their Regional Conferences that will take place at the end of this year.

In the area of Messengers of Peace Support Fund: • Three new projects were funded for Benin, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, in the Africa Scout Region, and the Support Center is working toward the submission of MoP applications for the Unguyu 3 project (a multilateral cooperation project between the Africa and European Regions) and for the extension of the Food for Life project in Namibia, Tanzania and Togo. The Regional Support Center encountered some challenges with regards to the quality of the reports submitted by the NSOs and plans as next steps to support MoP project development for DRC, Tanzania and Malawi.

Direct support was also provided to MoP coordinators in developing and implementing plans to strengthen MoP network and youth-led interventions in Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Madagascar, Namibia and Togo. As a result, seven MoP coordinators have formed a core team to support the strengthening of the MoP network.

• There are 8 new projects in the Asia-Pacific Scout Region. There is great potential for more MoP projects but the key challenge is the lack of manpower to support, coordinate and follow-up on the regional level. The next steps will focus on continuing to support the NSO MoP coordinators and propose a planning and training activity.

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STAFF SUPPORT T

he following charts present an estimation of the support that WSB Staff (Global and Regional Teams) has devoted to each Strategic Priority in the first half of 2015. Compared to the last half of 2014, a small increase was observed in the Educational Methods, Communications and External Relations and Governance; and the General and Administration role allocation decreased by 5%.

Alldistribu.on staff: distribution of support All staff: of support for each Strategic Priority for each Strategic Priority

Youth Engagement

8%

Educa5onal Ma8ers

13%

33%

TheDiversity chart shows the number of staff & Inclusion members that have specified tasks towards Social Ieach mpact Strategic Priority (out of an updated total of 132 in the period Communica5ons E.R. of January – July&2015).

4% 9%

Governance 14%

19%

General / Administra5ve role

The chart below present the breakout of average time spent on each Strategic Priority in each Support Centre:

Number of staff working on each strategic Number of staff working on each strategic priority (from 1% to 100% ;me) priority (from 1% to 100% time) 80

77 69

70 63 60

61

59

58

50

47

40

30

20

10

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Youth Engagement

Educa9onal Ma<ers

Diversity & Inclusion

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Social Impact

Communica9ons & E.R.

Governance

General / Administra9ve role

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The charts below present the breakout of average time spent on each Strategic Priority in each WSB office:

Africa SCenter upport Center Africa Support 8%

Asia-Pacific Support Center Asia-­‐Pacific Support Center

32%

10%

10%

Youth Engagement 9%

14%

Diversity 37% & Inclusion

5%

Communica5ons & E.R.

6%

Governance 8%

General / Administra5ve role 14%

21%

Eurasia Support CenterCenter Eurasia Support 15%

9% 3% 10%

12%

11%

14%

Social Impact 8%

12%

3%

General / Administra7ve role

Interamercia upport Center Interamercia SupportSCenter

Educa5onal Ma8ers

Social Impac

Communica5ons & E.R.

Kuala Lumpur and Geneva Global Support Centers

9% 3% 10%

3%

Diversity & Inclusion

10%

Social Impact

Educa8onal Ma;ers Diversity & Inclusion Social Impact

Communica7ons & E.R. Governance

Youth Engagement 4%

Communica8ons & E.R. Governance

18%

25%

General / Administra7ve role

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0%

Governance

Kuala Lumpur and Geneva Global Support Centers

11%

Educa7onal

Social Impact

General / Administra5ve role 31%

29%

28%

Diversity &

port Center

Educa7onal Ma:ers

Youth Engag

Diversity & Inclusion

28%

Youth Engagement

General / A

Youth Engagement 25%

Communica7ons & E.R.

Governanc

4%

Educa7onal Ma:ers

Governance 9%

Communica7ons & E.R.

11%

Diversity & Inclusion

Social Impa

Communic

General / Administra7ve 18% role

Europe SCenter upport Center Europe Support

Youth Engagement

5%

Social Impact

9%

14%

Educa7ona

Diversity &

Governance

24%

42%

13%

34% Ma:ers Educa7onal

Diversity & Inclusion

Social Impact 19%

Youth Enga

Youth Engagement

Educa5onal Ma8ers 3%

Arab Support Arab SCenter upport Center

General / Administra8ve role

12%

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FINANCE

10.

FINANCE

New Financial Management System: After a prolonged wait, a new Financial Management System has finally been deployed and went live across all 8 WSB Support Centers in July 2015.

The new system, whose strength lies in consolidation and real-time reporting, replaces the legacy system better known as Office Maker Finance. Credit goes to the FMS deployment team comprising the global and regional accounting team for their great effort and contribution in achieving this important key milestone in the history of World Scout Bureau.

Audit Progress: After completion of their audit work on all of the individual entities and the Consolidated Financial Statements of the World Scout Bureau, KPMG is now finalising the audited report for 2013/14.

The next step will be to move to the statutory and consolidated audit for the 2014/15 financial year.

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Budget for 2015-2016: The compilation of the last estimates and budget for 2015-2016 were completed and are now subject to the approval of the Finance Committee.

NSO Registration fees: With good support from Regional Support Centres, the World Scout Bureau collected 94.6% of the current year NSO registration fees as of 31 July 2015. The main challenge encountered was to ensure that all NSO contact details were up to date. The next step will be to plan and execute the annual NSO registration billing for 2015/16 in coordination with the Secretary General Office.

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10.1 WSB Funding Report, January-June 2015:

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he financial year of the WSB is 1 October to 30 September. In the other words, to correspond with the overall reporting framework (January-June 2015), the numbers below reflect Q2 2015 (January-March) and Q3 2015 (April-June) of the financial year

Q2 FY14/15

Q3 FY14/15

Budget

Actual

Budget

Actual

USD

USD

USD

USD

735,843

734,831

735,843

743,573

Africa

183,803

183,804

183,803

183,804

Arab

116,828

116,829

116,828

116,829

Asia Pacific

176,072

176,070

176,072

176,070

Eurasia

104,775

104,775

104,775

104,775

Europe

31,497

31,497

31,497

31,497

Fund Received from the WSF: Fund Allocated to Regional Offices:

Inter America

Fund contributed by WSB:

170,111

170,112

170,111

170,112

783,086

783,087

783,086

783,087

47,243

48,256

47,243

39,514

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Š World Scout Bureau Inc. Management September 2015 World Scout Bureau, Global Support Centre Kuala Lumpur Suite 3, Level 17, Menara Sentral Vista, No 150 Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA Tel.: + 60 3 2276 9000 Fax: + 60 3 2276 9089 worldbureau@scout.org scout.org