Workshop recommendation final

Environment Education in Scouting Recommendations Paper Swiss-Inn Waterfront, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia 04 - 07 June 2012

Committee 2012 – 2013

Datu Mohd Uzair Emmanuel Atin Malaysia Malaysia

Chairman Eilif Wang Taiwan

Jerry Junaidi Brunei

Mohammad Aminul Islam Bangladesh

Secretary Carolyn Phillips Singapore

Rohani Malaysia

Recommendations for APR • Encourages and supports NSOs to take an active role in developing environment education programmes and share these programmes with other NSOs in the region • Encourages NSOs to endorse the establishment of the recommendations committee as a team to follow up all environment activities in the region between 2012 workshop and 2013 workshop • The workshop suggests that the next Environment workshop in 2013 is to be hosted by Scouts of China in Taiwan • Provides format for reporting NSO activities in relation to the environment, that APR can publish regularly on the website • Gives recognition to the top two NSOs that are actively involved in environmental work by sponsoring two members at the next environment workshop

Commitment of NSOs • Provide details of World Environment activities to the APR Secretariat • Regularly exchange materials produced locally in implementing the WSEP or other environmental programmes (minimum 1 quarterly) • Continue to set up an Environmental Committee in their NSO • Provide training to leaders in delivery of the WSEP tailored to local NSO needs • NSOs are highly recommended to register and have an action plan to be involved in “Clean Up the World” in September 2012

Adoption of World Scout Environment Programme by NSOs • NSOs commit to the adoption of the WSEP, and appoint a WSEP coordinator • NSOs are encouraged to incorporate WSEP into the NSO youth programme • NSOs to establish accreditation of SCENES in their country • NSOs commit to adopt the action plan of their participant within a year, by 7th June 2013

Networking Among NSOs on Environment Aspect • Establish Social Networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter account for the environment network • NSOs are recommended to send the programme coordinator and/or the scouter delivering WSEP for the next workshop • Ensure the NSO responds to correspondence in 7 days

Gathering of Resources for the Implementation of WSEP • Translation of WSEP into local language • Environment coordinator gathering and send to APR more different type of activities run at NSO level, which allow cross sharing with the other NSOs • Develop culturally relevant resources

Partnership • NSOs are encouraged to share information on existing partnerships (objectives, programmes, monitoring, reporting, and etc.)