Scouting Structure

Scouting and Guiding movements are generally divided into sections by age or school grade, allowing activities to be tailored to the maturity of the group's members. These age divisions have varied over time as they adapt to the local culture and environment.
Scouting was originally developed for youths between the ages of 11 and 17. In most member organizations, this age group composes the Scout or Guide section. Programs were developed to meet the needs of young children (generally ages 6 to 10) and young adults (originally 18 and older, and later up to 25). Scouts and Guides were later split into "junior" and "senior" sections in many member organizations, and some organizations dropped the young adults' section. The exact age ranges for programs vary by country and association. In Azerbaijan the age gradation is as follow: 6-12 Cub Scouts/ 12-18 Scouts / 18- above Rovers and Leaders.

The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) is the governing body of Scouting across the world. There are 160 National Scout Organizations that are Member of WOSM (World Organization of Scout Movement)
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) is the Non-governmental international organization which governs most national Scout Organizations, with 28 million members. WOSM was established in 1920 and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the counterpart of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). The mission of WOSM is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Scout Law, to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society. WOSM is organized into regions and operates with a conference, committee and bureau. Each region has number of member countries.

Scouting Regions
Africa
Arab
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Interamerica
Eurasia

Eurasian Scout Region
The Eurasian Scout Region is the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, headquartered in Gurzuf near Yalta-Krasnokaminka, Ukraine, with a branch office inMoscow. All the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia. In 1997, WOSM created the new Eurasian Region, ostensibly to assist in the rebirth of Scouting in the 12 former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Scouting Division
Scout Regions
National Scout Organization
District
Groups
Troops/Units
Patrols
Scouts

The mission of Scouting

The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law, to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society. This is achieved by:
involving them throughout their formative years in a non-formal educational process
using a specific method that makes each individual the principal agent of his or her development as a self-reliant, supportive, responsible and committed person
assisting them to establish a value system based upon spiritual, social and personal principles as expressed in the Promise and Law.
The purpose of the strategy is to implement the Mission. The adoption of the Mission in 1999 was a major milestone for world Scouting. The mission and the six challenges identified are essential to be addressed if our mission is to be achieved.
Six Challenges
Six challenges were identified at the Durban Conference and need to be addressed to achieve our mission are:
Relevance: meeting the needs and aspirations of young people.
Complementary nature: focusing on the distinctive contribution Scouting can make to the education of young people, particularly through the Scout Method.
1. Membership: reaching out to more young people.
2. Adults: attracting and retaining the adults we need.
3. Relationships and partnerships: working with others to better serve young people.
4. Unity: pursuing a common purpose at all levels.
The Three Strategic Areas
The six challenges provide three broad areas of work:
Young People: encompassing the challenges on Relevance, Complementary nature and Membership in order to bring better Scouting to more young people, especially adolescents.
Adults: encompassing the challenge on Adults: attracting and retaining the adults we need, with an emphasis on the concept of volunteering.
Structures and Systems: encompassing the challenge on Relationships and partnerships - which recognizes the need to work with others to serve young people - and the challenge on Unity: pursuing a common purpose at all levels. Work in this strategic area should lead to an increase in the overall effectiveness of the Movement.

The Strategy

The Strategy for Scouting responds to the needs of Scouting because:
It is based upon the mission of Scouting.
It takes into account the key challenges which NSOs are facing in implementing the mission.
It proposes a shared vision of Scouting for the 21st century.
It focuses on three main areas which are crucial for the success of Scouting:
the needs and expectations of young people,
the motivation of adult leaders to contribute to the mission of Scouting,
new trends in managing non-governmental organizations
It identifies and proposes seven strategic priorities which should be used by each National Scout Organizations to build up its own action plans.
It identifies clearly the areas on which the world and regional bodies should focus in order to support their associations.

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