The Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting In Eastern and Central Europe
Creating Leadership Talents Status Report on the Collaboration between Scouts and Guides in Denmark and Eastern and Central Europe December 2011
Published by The Project Supporting Scouting and Guiding in Eastern and Central Europe Printed in December 2011 Editor Michael Aagaard Seeberg Contributors Torben Mølby, Katja Salomon Johansen, Anders Ljørring, Niels Rosenbom, Anne Rold, Anette Jappe, Martin Kristensen, Finn Jessen, Laila Nielsen and Mette Grønvold Photos Fotopatruljen: Thomas Bang, Martin Kristensen, Anette Jappe, Finn Jessen, Laila Nielsen and Mette Grønvold Design malenehald.dk. Contact details KFUM-Spejderne i Danmark Wagnersvej 33 DK-2450 Copenhagen SV mail: osteuropa@abox.dk www.GuidePartnership.org www.ScoutPartnership.org
contents
4 Introduction 5 A short introduction to the Project 8 History of the Project 10
Statements
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Project Case 1: Scouting in Armenia
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Trainers Pool
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Leader Capacity – a Toolbox on Organisational Development
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Project Case 2: Lithuania – Train the Trainers
23 The Characteristics of one Danish Leadership Trainer 24
Structure of the Project
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Members of the Committee and Project Group
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Project Case 3: Recruiting Guides in Ukraine
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Plans for the Future
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Project overview and finance
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Thank you to our sponsors and donors
introduction Introducing the Evaluation Report 2009-2011 of the Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe, the Chair of the Project Group, Torben Mølby
The Danish Committee for Support of International Scouting and Guiding (The Committee) has been established to raise funds for the development of Scouting and Guiding primarily outside of Denmark. Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte of Denmark serves as Honorary Chairperson of the Committee. The Committee includes prominent representatives from business and charitable foundations in Denmark and its meetings are attended by Chief Scouts and Chief Commissioners of all Scout and Guide Associations in Denmark. For more than ten years, the work of the Committee has focused on projects in Eastern and Central Europe. Therefore this region is the focal point of this report. The Committee has established a project group to oversee and carry out the work – the Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe (the Project). The Project group is headed by the secretary of the Committee and includes members of Scout and Guide Associations in Denmark. Creating leadership talents is a main vision of the Project. An overall aim is to create leadership, social responsibility and global vision through the Scout Method. Scouts and Guides are leaders of tomorrow. This is the reason why Danish business and charity foundations for three decades have given considerable funds to support the development of Scouting and Guiding.
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The keys to developing Scouting and Guiding are recruitment and training of volunteer and professional leaders, which is why the Committee has focused its work on these topics in close cooperation with the two world organizations within Scouting and Guiding: The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). In 2009 the Committee defined the objectives for the years 2009-2011 (see page 7). The Project group is proud to report that all targets have been exceeded. This is due to a unique combination of three factors:
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−− A highly committed team of volunteers from Scout and Guide Associations in Denmark. −− Strong partnerships with National Scout Associations in Eastern and Central Europe and the European regions of WAGGGS and WOSM. −− Strong and ongoing support from business and charitable foundations in Denmark. The status report contains a general introduction to the Project, including a description of its history as well as its objectives. The report includes an overview of the structure and financing of the Project; a presentation of the members of the Committee, of the members of the Group, and of the Guide and Scout associations involved in the Project. Also an introduction to the “Trainers Pool”, which makes up the Guide and Scout leaders responsible for the leadership training; a more detailed introduction to a number of local projects – from Lithuania to Armenia – to give an introduction to the leadership training in practice; and furthermore a short overview of all projects carried in 2009 -2011. Finally, the Project has many strong advocates, some of whom have contributed to the report with statements.
A short introduction
to the Project The people of Eastern and Central Europe are our new neighbours. The general development in the region has great impact on the Danish society, as well as that the future political, cultural and economic influence is all-important to the growth of the rest of Europe and to the international opportunities of Denmark now and in the future. We need to have good and close relations with our neighbours, and the method and organisation of Guiding and Scouting is well-suited as a tool for this general purpose. This region has seen a rapid development in the economy and in activities in the civil society during the last two decades, and Danish business community and charitable foundations have wished to support and enhance this development. National National Scout and
A Brief introduction to the two world bodies There are two world bodies – the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and the World Organization of Scout Movement (WOSM). WAGGGS uses the terms Girl Guide and Girl Scout, WOSM uses scout, hence Guide and Scout are used together and interchangeably in this report. Also, WAGGGS uses Association for national bodies, whereas WOSM uses Organisation. We use both terms interchangeably. The difference is of terminology – the objective of both bodies is the same. Together they have Guides and Scouts in more than 160 countries and approx. 38 million members worldwide.
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Guide Associations in Eastern and Central Europe is a great entry point in supporting the civil society in these countries. Moreover, organised Scouting and Guiding activities have seen continuous growth in the Eastern and Central European countries during the last two decades. There is great potential in supporting and developing Scouting and Guiding in this region. The project supports the Scout and Guide movements in these countries in seizing the great opportunity to further developing and extending the activities. There are many successful Scout and Guide Associations in these countries. Still, the Scouts and Guides have challenges in consolidating their national associations and succeed in having a national and local impact. These are some of the main reasons for bringing together a Committee of prominent representatives of Danish industry and foundations in the purpose of supporting international Guide and Scout activities. For at least twenty years, Danish business community and charitable foundations have given generous funds to support the Project. Funds give great value as all Guide and Scout activities are voluntary and driven by great enthusiasm for change and development. A basic principle of the engagement in this project is that none of the Committee members are being paid, neither are any of the leadership trainers from Denmark or from partnership countries in Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, this is a general principle of Guiding and Scouting. Less than 5 pct. of all people involved in the World Guide and Scout Movement are being paid. In addition, all voluntary work is based on core values that are synonymous to democratic values. Guiding and Scouting is an education for life – the core value is to educate for life any dedicated members of the society who take active part in their society and who care for fellow human beings. The main objective to the international work on Guiding and Scouting is to develop the individual to her or his fullest potential in order also to play a constructive role in the society with the aim of making a better world.
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objectives Focusing on the participants of the leadership training in the Eastern and Central European countries, the objective has been quantified in the following way for the period 2009-2011: −− Danish leadership trainers have assisted in carrying out at least 10 leader capacity training and development projects in at least 4 different countries in Eastern and Central Europe. −− In these 10 leadership capacity training and development projects at least 300 leaders from Central and Eastern Europe have participated and benefited. −− To prove the effect of the leader capacity training and the development projects, at least 8 out 10 of the associations and organizations involved indicate that the project has contributed significantly to the development of their Scouting and Guiding activities.
The Guide and Scout leaders involved in the project will be the role models of the personal development of young people in these countries – they will be the leaders of tomorrow. Thus, it is important that they are prepared to take such responsibility. Through the participation in leadership training, they will get intense training based on core values such as responsibility, democracy, tolerance, trust, and co-operation. Leadership trainers from Denmark and partnership countries plan and implement tailor-made organisational development and changemanagement, which aims at building up leadership capacity in the respective Scout and Guide Associations. This training will hopefully prepare them to lift the responsibility as young leaders of tomorrow. Danish business community and charitable foundations have contributed to bring out these core values in Denmark, as well as Central and Eastern Europe, by giving generous funding to the project. They have formed the basis for partnership activities. The funds cover the direct expenses of the leadership trainers involved in the activities as well as the related activities in the receiving countries. Thus, the involved leadership trainers from Denmark are volunteers and will not receive any compensation for their work except for their direct expenses. The basic principle of funding is to provide means that can be materialised into development of the civil society and democratic development in general. This is achieved by having trained leaders use their skills to train other Guides and Scouts in partner countries, or even their colleges at work. To fulfil this aim, the project cooperates with the two world organisations – the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and the World Organization of the Scout Movement, to safeguard that the raised funds get maximum local benefit. The project uses the infrastructure that WAGGGS and WOSM already have in the regions to identify suitable projects. Our ambition is to see a steady growth in the number of active youth members and more generally to support organisational membership in the world organisations. A high priority for the project is of course to create and maintain a pool of skilled Danish leadership trainers who are capable of participating in international training activities. These leadership training activities should broaden the horizon of the Danish trainers, as they also learn from their experiences abroad. The Trainers Pool meets three times a year to improve their skills together, interchange their experiences and best-practice from the training sessions, and also to be introduced to new knowledge in relation to leadership training. The Trainers Pool will be described further below.
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History of the Project
The Committee has supported international Scouting and Guiding for almost three decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Committee supported Scouting and Guiding in developing countries, primarily in Africa. Danish business community and charitable foundations gave considerable funds for this purpose through the Committee. These are listed in a textbox on page 35. The money was spent through the two world organisations WAGGGS and WOSM, to support the establishment of Guide and Scout groups and activities. In 2001, the Committee chose to make a shift in the focus of its work towards Central and Eastern Europe and more specific projects specific projects in which Danish Guide and Scout leaders can play a more direct role in collaboration with WAGGGS and WOSM. Several projects were launched following a model where a Danish company, which had a factory or an office in an Eastern or Central European country, acted as the liaison between local Guiding and Scouting groups around the particular company’s Danish headquarters and local Guiding and Scouting groups around the company’s branch in the Eastern or Central European country. However, this particular method proved more difficult to carry out in practice than expected. Consequently, the Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe used the raised funding considerably slower than expected. This was the reason for changing the focus of the Project’s activities towards more direct leadership training that could be carried out without the direct involvement of a specific company. This current model of practical leadership training activities in Eastern and Central Europe with Danish participation proved to be more successful.
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Example The Leadership Capacity Project is a good example of the recent development. The project was carried out in collaboration with the national associations and organisations in Latvia, Macedonia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The objective was to give these Guide and Scout leaders better tools to select, train and support volunteer leaders in these countries. Leadership trainers from the four countries as well as from Denmark and the two world organisations, WAGGGS and WOSM, participated. In collaboration, they developed and tested a number of tools. These tools have subsequently been used in a variety of leadership training activities. The toolbox is presented in greater detail on page 18-19.
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The value of Scouting and Guiding in 2011
Statements
Mogens Hugo Chairman of the Danish Committee for support of International Scouting and Guiding Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nordea-fonden “Eastern and Central Europe are our new neighbours. In these countries young people long for full democracy, development and involvement. The development of the region has a major impact for the Danish society. Their forthcoming political, cultural and economic influence is vital for the growth in the rest of Europe and for Denmark’s international possibilities now and in the future. Here Guiding and Scouting is of great value today and a reason why I myself am active” says Mogens Hugo.
Statement from Marianne Karstensen Chief Commissioner of the Danish Guide and Scout Association “I have personally experienced the positive effect of our involvement in several of the Eastern and Central European countries and also in Denmark. Danish leadership trainers have accomplished very much in company with their Guide and Scout friends in the various countries of Eastern and Central Europe. There is no doubt that the effort which the Danish Guide and Scout leadership trainers have put into the project, contributes to the international effort on Guiding and Scouting, and has resulted in more young people in Eastern and Central Europe involved in the development of Guiding and Scouting as well as the development of the local communities.”
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Lars Kolind Group Chairman, Grundfos Holding A/S World Scout Foundation “During more than 20 years, the Danish business community and charitable foundations have supported Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe, since they are our neighbours and a vital part of our common future. In this effort we have been able to involve thousands of young leaders across the region, giving them training that turns their potentials into capabilities. It has truly been a success and today we see these leaders as new role models setting the frame work for thousands of young people joining Guiding and Scouting. This way of empowering the next generation of leaders in Eastern and Central Europe by using Danish leaders as trainers not only provides useful skills, it also crosses the cultural gab and builds up a future friendship between us. NGO projects that works at global, regional, as well as local levels, based on a voluntary approach, have proven to be very cost efficient. By investing in small scale training these projects will change the possibilities for thousands of young people now and in future.�
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Project Case 1:
Scouting in Armenia
The history of the Scout Movement in Armenia
Armenia is a beautiful country with around 3 million inhabitants of which currently 2400 are members of the National Scout Movement of Armenia. These numbers prove The Scout Movement in that there is a great potential for growth in the number of Armenia was founded in 1918, members. However, there are challenges to this end. when Armenia obtained its first independence. The Scout The main challenge to Scouting in Armenian is to recruit and Movement in Armenia was founded maintain leaders. It is especially difficult to get men involved on the classical values of the in Scouting because of an extensive and compulsory miliWorld Scout Movement, but had tary service. The country has a relatively high military aca fragile organization and a weak tivity, especially because of the conflicted area of Nagornij administration. In 1920 the Scout Karabakh, therefore many men are needed in the military Movement in Armenia was banned service. Also, a high unemployment rate in the country, by the Soviet Union and was entice young men serving in the military to sign long conreplaced by the young pioneers. tracts of up to 12 years. Thus, there is a huge challenge of recruiting retired soldiers into the Scout Movement. However fledging, Armenia Moreover, the institutes for higher education are placed refugees kept the Armenian Scout in the capital Yerevan, therefore young men and women Movement going across the world, leave the countryside and move to the capital. That is of wherever Armenian societies were course a challenge to Scouting in the countryside, where established. Hai Ari, Association young leaders are much needed. of Armenian Scouts, became a member of the World Organisation (in exile with headquarters and approximately 1,100 members in France) in 1928. In 1997 the new Scout Movement in Armenia was reestablished, when Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun (HASK) was founded.
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There is a great spirit and optimism in HASK, which to a great extent is driven by the national administrative and organisational volunteers and the only one fulltime employed secretary at the HASK office in the capital Yerevan. These are greatly supported by many good and young enthusiastic leaders. The national body of scouts have established a national Leadership Training School in order to strengthen the future growth of scouts and girl guides. The Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe is part of this strategic development. The overall aim of this particular project is to address the ‘lack of quality leaders’ on national as well as local level. The hope is to create a permanent Scout and Girl Guide leadership training school, where leaders are trained and retrained on all levels needed to become good scout leaders within HASK. About 100 scouts from all over Armenia have participated in the leadership training activities. These are boys and girls in the age of 13 to 26. The oldest participants are the regional representative to HASK’s national board. Some have been Scouts or Girl Guides for some months, others for a few years. Because of the great age-span and also great differences in how much experience the participants have got, they are divided into three groups. The youngest age 1213 years, have basic training and games in order to be introduced to the Scout Movement and also to meet scouts from across the country. The middle age of 13 to 16, take full part in the programme. They have basic patrol leader training and are introduced to the Scout Methods and principles according to their age and skills. The oldest age 17 and up are given the full package with training as new Assistant Scout Leaders with little knowledge about Scouting and receive intensive training in the Scout Methods. The ambition with the oldest group is to equip them to be leaders of groups of Scouts, and to bring them skills to start new groups or expand the activities of already existing groups.
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On the latest leadership training seminar, the aim was to make a strategically and practically planning of the expansion of the scout activities in already established district-units, but also to enhance the activity in districts not yet involved in the Scout Movement. We cannot see the results yet, but look forward to evaluate in the end of 2011. In the evaluation of the project, the leadership trainers in Armenia were asked to describe a few topics which should under no circumstance be forgotten in the future. The topics that were emphasized give a good impression of the essence of leadership training – more particularly, that it does not have to be fancy and very complicated. The Danish leadership trainer, Martin Kristensen, brought thin climbing rope and cut it into small ropes. These ropes were given to each participant in order to train knots and the ability to train other trainers in knots. After the session it facilitated a great way ‘to talk through the rope’ – even without speaking the same language. Moreover, Martin brought wooden clothes-pegs as nametags for everyone to write or paint on at their own will. This is basic stuff, but essential elements in successful leadership training. There are a lot of ideas on the drawing board in the project. These include inviting young scouts from Armenia to participate in leader trading programmes in Denmark as well as plans of copying a Danish Young leadership training course (ULK) to Armenia for the scouts who are 17-19 years old. Moreover, there is a great potential in enhancing the scope of the activities of the project in Armenia, even beyond the borders to neighbouring countries of Euroasia.
“The previous two semesters have already shown that there is a direct impact from this project onto the ranks of HASK. Membership has risen (due to the availability of new leaders) and the level of activities has improved.” Oshin Peroomian International Commissioner National Scout Movement of Armenia
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Interview with Danish leadership trainer, Martin Kristensen “We really enjoyed having Martin (Leadership Trainer) here and his presence proved to be very beneficial for the seminars. Our leaders learned a lot from the interactions with him and still (I believe) have a lot more to learn. We really appreciate all his efforts and look forward to continued cooperation”. Narek Asatryan, 23 years old – has been a scout for 9 months.
“The participants obtained information and were introduced to how we do Scouting in Scotland and Denmark. Being able to meet scouts from abroad is today a crucial part of Scouting – even though their ability to travel abroad might not be an opportunity.” “We used modern technology in order to show pictures and movies from Scouting abroad. On the other hand, we gave sessions outside in a primitive environment in order to show them, that Scouting is not about access to the right technology, but more the will and the inspiration to just do Scouting, wherever you want to do it. That is, back to basic with no fancy tools.” Martin states moreover, that “The participants in the seminar were very satisfied with the result they gained from being at the seminar. They would like to have organised more of these seminars, and make the duration of seminars longer. They are eager to learn more practical activities but at the same time also learn more about national topics.”
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Trainers Pool
The members of the Trainers Pool act as trainers at international education and training activities, primarily in Eastern and Central Europe and secondarily in Denmark and other countries. The Trainers Pool is the core of the efforts of the Danish Guides and Scouts of supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe. The name of the Game The general task of the Trainers Pool is first of all to support the development of Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe. This is carried out in collaboration with WAGGGS and WOSM, the two world organisations for Guides and Scouts. The working method is to support the training of local Guide and Scout leaders to build the capacity of their organisations, by supporting local organisational change projects, and by contributing in any given way to international training through the (local) development of methods, tools and materials. Duty to Others – and to Oneself The trainers joining the Trainers Pool will personally benefit through: −− A larger personal and more international trainers’ network −− The opportunity to gain new knowledge and new professional and personal skills −− Greater awareness and understanding of other cultures −− International experience in Guiding and/or Scouting settings that contribute to their personal development Members of the Trainers Pool The Trainers Pool is composed of experienced leadership trainers who are familiar with international leadership training. They have obtained this experience in many different ways through their involvement in a Danish Guide Association or Scout Organisation.
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Working Methods of the Trainers Pool The Trainers Pool meets three times a year. The object of the meetings is to share information and experience from the ongoing projects, to develop professional and personal skills related to leadership training, and to expand the network. The first meeting was held in the autumn of 2009 with the participation of representatives of Europe Region WAGGGS and the European Scout Region. Representatives of WAGGGS and WOSM are invited to assure high quality and function as a strategic link to the overall priorities in the Region of Eastern and Central Europe. By the autumn of 2010, the Trainers Pool consisted of more than 20 trainers from four of the Danish Guide Associations and Scout Organisation (also listed in the report). î Ž
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Leadership Capacity – a Toolbox on Organisational Development
The trainers in the Trainers Pool of the Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe have created a Leadership Capacity Toolbox. It was created in close cooperation with Guide and Scout leaders in the four countries involved in the project: the Latvijas Skautu un Gaidu centrala organizacija – Latvia, Sojuz na Izvidnici na Makedonia – FYRO Macedonia, Slovensky Skauting – Slovakia and the Association of Ukrainian Guides. The participants worked to produce tools in response to their own needs, but also for wider use in Scouting and Guiding. A selection of materials was added to make the tools easy to use and to raise awareness of organisational and leadership development. The toolbox was produced to encourage Scout and Guide associations and trainers to use the tools on organisational and leadership development created under the auspices of the Project. The toolbox was distributed by Europe You can read and download the Region WAGGGS and the European Scout www.ScoutPartnership.org or Region to all Guide and Scout associations www.GuidePartnership.org in Europe to encourage associations and trainers to use the tools on organisational and leadership development. About the Toolbox The leadership toolbox contains eight tools. They cover a wide variety of leadership training tools. They can be summed up in eight headlines: Training on How to Become a Trainer, Training to Improve Leadership Skills, Forum for Development and Revision of a Training System, Development and Revision of Training system, Handouts for (New) Local Guide/Scout Leaders, Teamwork Know-How, LongTerm Human Resources Planning Management and Recruiting New Leaders. Some of the tools are very practically oriented and can be used for training events right away, such as the one describing how to make good handouts to leaders. Likewise, the tool on recruiting new leaders is very concrete. This tool describes a step-by-step process which takes the student through the key elements of a recruitment campaign for new leaders.
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toolbox at
Other tools are more abstract and thus more useful for reflections on elements of the leadership training process. The teamwork know-how tool, for example, gives basic knowledge on teamwork, but does not go into specific teamwork activities. The tool is useful for discussions on teamwork. The causes of team failures are mentioned in order to prevent them. The importance of team roles and understanding of the role in the team are also mentioned. All these parts provide a fruitful basis for discussing teamwork. The purpose of the tool is to help people establish successful and powerful teams that can work more productively. It is the core of this process that the group reflects on the roles of each person in the group, which obviously cannot follow a step-by-step process. Also, the tool on improving the training system does not lay out a recipe for this particular process. Rather, the tool is meant for national leadership to increase knowledge and raise awareness of the processes for the development/ revision of a training system. The tool on training to improve leadership skills contains 15 steps/modules. Some modules contain practical suggestions for the trainers (e.g. evaluation, learning styles and methods), while others are more open-ended. The reason for this is that it is not always straightforward to make uniform recommendations for some of the modules because of the differences and peculiarities of the different associations. Cross-Cultural Meeting – a Toolbox for Leadership Training in an International Environment Another toolbox is also on the drawing board. The focuses of this new toolbox is on the cross-cultural meeting that happens when people with different ethnic origins meet each other – either from different countries or different regions of a country. The main purpose of this toolbox is to make trainers feel well equipped when they go abroad to do leadership training. Yet, the use of the tools also has a larger perspective. It is useful for all Guides and Scouts in relation to international Guiding and Scouting, but also for Guides and Scouts in national associations and organisation of ethnically diverse settings, where people with different ethnic origins meet each other for example in the Guide or Scout Association.
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Project Case 2:
Lithuania – Train the Trainers
The involvement of the Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe in Lithuania started in August 2007 with a seminar on how to attract more leaders to the Guides and Scout Association in Lithuania. In December a joint Lithuanian and Danish visions seminar was held to plan the way forward. This led to several leadership training seminars in Lithuania in 2008 focusing on basic skills of Guiding and Scouting, and culminated in a week long training session in the Easter 2009, where Guide and Scout leaders from Klaipeda in Lithuania and Roskilde in Denmark led a combined youth leadership training seminar in Denmark. The participants evaluated the training event as very interesting and it gave lots of enthusiasm and inspiration to the participants. These seminars held in 2007 and 2008 focused on basic skills. Firstly and most basically, the training included reflections on the participants’ personal benefits from Guiding and Scouting and how we should communicate the good stories from Guiding and Scouting to people around us. This was the lead up to more strategic training in firstly how to build a recruitment strategy, and secondly, once recruited, how to support people who have become interested. Part of having a recruitment strategy also includes developing a strategy on targets groups – both with regards to Guides and Scouts, but also with regard to prospect leaders. Moreover, the training also focused on presentational skills, in the local group as well as in public forums, includes training in how to work with mass-media. After the great success of the first leadership training in Denmark, a new big training event was organised for Girl Guides in Lithuania. This leadership training included three main areas: basic leadership training, training on improving leadership skills, and training for recruiters. All in all 46 leaders were trained. The trainers included 4 out of 6 of those who participated at the leadership training sessions in 2008. These experienced trainers were given the respon-
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The participants were indeed very enthusiastic and keen on the project, at the end of each training course. “When we do this together the outcome is so much better, we are really grateful for the support and new friendships,” says Viktorija Kvietkute, Girl Guide leader in Silute, one of the 6 instructors from 2008 and one of the new trainers in 2010.
sibility for part of the modules on basic Scouting skills. Thus, a positive spiral was created in the leadership training of Lithuanian Guide and Scout leaders. Part of the leadership training also focused on how to support the establishment of new Guide and Scout units. Usually, new units or groups are started by an adult woman and a unit of 6-8 Girl Guides. Thus, the initiative to start up new Guiding and Scouting projects is very much dependent on how well-experienced the leader is. As a spinoff of the leadership training, 8 new units were established throughout the country. This is a rather great achievement of the project. Elaborating on the first two leadership trainings – the one in Denmark in the Easter of 2009 and in the autumn of 2009 in Lithuania – the project could now evolve into a training of the trainers. This was organised in January 2010. 18 leaders were trained as trainers and some of them will be responsible for the next Basic leadership training. The participants were trained in using leader tools such as SWOT and RACI, procedures for formulating objectives, which are all useful within strategic planning. The leadership training also involved time for discussion and the sharing of best practice. Many participants got the opportunity to reflect upon their involvement in the Scout Movement – what and how much life as a scout means to them.
Henrik Jørgensen, a leadership trainer from the YMCA Scouts in Rødovre, Denmark, and trainer on the Easter seminar in Denmark says: “I can only say that it is one of the best things I have ever been involved in. You just have to appreciate these young people and you get thrilled by their enthusiasm”.
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Time line of the project August 2007 “How do we get more leaders…”
December 2007 Visions seminar: “How do we progress…”
April 2008
Overall, the project has created a strong positive development, continuously growing the number of leaders and leadership trainers in Lithuania, by building on already existing resources. There is great potential in the project, and there are many ideas on the drawing board. These include a local training of leaders responsible for leadership training seminars in Lithuania; A mentor programme for Danish and Lithuanian leadership trainers, participation of Lithuanian leadership trainers on Danish leadership training seminars as observers; and expanding the local leadership training of Lithuanian leaders who are heads of a local Guide or Scout unit.
Training in basic leadership skills, with Danish trainers and six young Lithuanian leaders as co-instructors
November 2008 Training in basic leadership skills, with the six Lithuanian instructors and Danish co-instructors
April 2009 Easter seminar, all the modules from 2008 were put into practice during the week long seminar
October 2009 Leadership training seminar in Vilnius, Lithuanian Girl Guides were invited to this seminar. Four of the six instructors from the 2008 sessions participated as instructors in the basic skills modules
June 2010 Train the trainers, part 1
September 2010 Train the trainers, part 2
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The Characteristics of one Danish Leadership Trainer:
Why am I a leadership trainer?
“I have been a scout since I started years ago as a cub scout. For the last six years I have been the group leader for one of the local Scout groups in Roskilde. Before that I was one of the daily Scout leaders for more than 15 years. Everything that I have learned as a scout myself, e.g. regarding the patrol system, I have passed on to the Scouts and the other Scout leaders in my scout group. Working with Scouts and leaders has taught me that you need to be enthusiastic no matter what you do, always be well prepared, treat everybody with respect, and that everything should be a mix of something, and ‘learning by doing’. Being a Scout leader is, as I see it, a great opportunity to try new things and see them, not as problems, but as challenges.”
I am a Danish leader trainer because −− −− −− −−
It creates friendships We can all learn from our diversity It keeps my Scout Spirit alive It gives me new energy to do even more Finn Jessen, leadership trainer. Rear center
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Structure of the Project
The tasks of the Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe are first of all to grant funding and allocate human resources for international training events, including tools and materials. It also identifies new project partners in the Eastern and Central European countries and finds leadership trainers in Denmark. Finally, it monitors and evaluates ongoing projects and provides reports to the scout organisations and guide associations in Denmark, the partnership countries and the two world bodies WAGGGS and WOSM. î Ž
The Danish Committee for support of International Scouting and Guiding Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte, prominent representatives of Danish business community and charitable foundations, representatives of the national Guide and Scout federations and the Chief Scouts and Chief Commissioners of the Danish Scout Council.
The Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Guide and Scouts leaders appointed by their associations and the two federations.
The Trainers Pool 25 skilled leadership trainers from the Guide associations and Scout organizations in Denmark.
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Members of
the COMMITTEE AND PROJECT GROUP
Members of the Committee Her Royal Highness Prinssess Benedikte – Honorary Chairman of the Committee Mogens Hugo – Chairman Peter Augustinus Vibeke Riemer Karen Lauritzen Bay Jens Christian Lorenzen Lars Kolind Niels Due Jensen Flemming Lindeløv Jørgen Tang-Jensen Peter Højland Niels Boserup
Members of the Project Group Torben Mølby The YMCA Scouts Chairman of the Project Steering Committee. Anders Ljørring The Danish Guide and Scout Association liaison with WOSM Katja Salomon Johansen The Danish Guide and Scout Association liaison with WAGGGS Niels Rosenbom The National Scout and Guide Fellowship of Denmark liaison with the ISGF Michael Aagaard Seeberg The YMCA Scouts
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Project Case 3:
Recruiting Guides in Ukraine Recruitment in Ukraine (excerpts from an article written by Anette Jappe of the Green Girl Guides in Denmark).
Try to imagine that it was a condition for opening a bank account or ordering an official seal for your local Guide or Scout group that you, as the leader of the group, first had to overcome burdensome bureaucracy to have your group registered and approved by the local authorities. This is how the situation is for local Guide and Scout groups in Ukraine. Although the Association of Ukrainian Guides (AUG), the national member organisation of Girl Guides in Ukraine, is authorized by and registered with the Ministry of Justice, the local groups are not automatically registered. However, the hardship does not end there. When a local group has finally been registered, the leader of this group has to go to the local government office in person once a month to report the income of the group and provide information on its employees, even if the local group does not have any employees at all. This takes several hours each month. It is indeed waste of time – time that could have been spent much better on good activities for the guides. Fortunately, there are some brave young women in Ukraine who believe it is worth the effort to work their way through the bureaucracy to give Ukrainian girls the opportunity to become guides and thereby obtain unique experiences while developing themselves.
Anna Prytysk, Executive Director of the Association of Ukrainian Guides (AUG), stated, “The training event was very interesting and gave lots of enthusiasm and inspiration to the participants.”
Many girls want to become members, but the capacity of the AUG cannot accommodate the high demand. The association suffers from lack of leaders for which reason they do not have the resources to create new local groups. It is still a relatively young association, and the concept of Guiding and Scouting is generally unknown in Ukraine. Strong efforts are therefore needed to make young women assume the role as guide leaders.
It also means that most of the young women recruited have no previous experience within Guiding. Therefore, they need to learn many guiding skills from scratch. To many of the newly recruited leaders, their first personal contact with Guiding is also often the introduction to a completely different approach to learning and volunteering as compared with what they have previously learned. These new impressions might change them personally forever and give them skills which they can also use in their professional working lives.
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One of the participants reported from her experiences at the basic leadership training in May 2010 “Learning by doing was used widely as the main method to train new leaders: all main skills were practised during the course, including work in patrols and basic outdoor skills. But the main innovation was the inviting of real girls (members of a local Guide patrol) for one session. The training participants received tasks to prepare games, crafts, workshops for the girls beforehand, and then they had three hours to work with a real patrol. It was amazing! All the participants were so active, creative and enthusiastic while preparing. For the girls it was also a big event as they live in a small village and had never before seen so many Guides together. They liked the games and the activities, and at the end they also proposed some of their favourite games for our participants.�
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The Association of Ukrainian Guides has received financial support from the Danish Project Supporting Guiding and Scouting in Eastern and Central Europe for a recruitment project aiming at increasing the number of national recruiters, who are then to run campaigns to increase the national membership of the AUG. The project includes basic management courses for new guide leaders, preparation of promotional material and training of recruiters. These recruiters are responsible for motivating young Ukrainian women to become involved in Guiding in Ukraine and supporting them during their first period as guide leaders, hopefully starting a positive spiral that will make the association grow and give more girls the opportunity to become Girl Guides. In addition to the financial grant, the project support from Denmark also included Danish leadership trainers who travelled to Ukraine to facilitate two courses held in connection with the project. Such external facilitators usually give new inspiration and a breath of fresh air from the outside, but often they also give the hopeful participants a new way of looking at things. Anette Jappe was one of the Danish trainers who had the pleasure of joining the staff at the basic leadership training course. Upon her return she said, “It was an amazing experience to see how eager the participants were to learn. It was not only the participants who learned a lot, I also learned a lot myself from being a trainer. I acquired new skills and discovered new ways of looking at things that I can use as a trainer in other contexts of Guiding and Scouting. A project like this contributes tremendously to greater common understanding between members of both the Ukrainian and the Danish Guide and Scout associations.â€?î Ž
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Plans for the Future
The World Scout and Guide Movements comprise the largest and most widespread leadership development program on earth. About 13 Million young people graduate from this program annually after a training program which lasts an average of three years. This number far exceeds the output of the 100 largest educational institutions (universities and colleges) in the world. More than 700 Million people have been Scouts or Guides and they take up a disproportionally high fraction of leadership positions in business, civil society and government. Scouts and Guides build bridges between countries and groups within countries. Guiding and Scouting brings together Palestinians and Jews in the Middle East, Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, Hutus and Tsutsis in Africa and others in areas of conflict around the world. The impact of Guiding and Scouting cannot be overestimated. There is an almost unlimited demand for doing more. Our effort is small and focused only on one region of the world. But we believe that it matters. And we can document that there is no way of spending money for
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development purposes that matches the efficiency of Scouting and Guiding. We focus on empowering young people, which is why our work has a longterm effect. We focus on developing leaders, which is why our efforts reach so many young people. And last but not least: We are volunteers who will work day and night at no salary at all. The money raised for our work goes to cover travel and other expenses, training materials and whatever it takes to make leadership development work. Therefore we urge Danish business and foundations to continue the backing of our work. There is no better way to contribute to creating a better world. î Ž
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project overview and finance
For decades, the Committee has supported Scout and Guide projects around the world. Below is a list of projects within Eastern and Central Europe since 2009. Amounts spent on individual projects vary from under € 1.000 to over € 50.000. Since 1990 the Committee has raised more than DKK 3 million and the current target is to raise at least DKK 300.000 per year. Selected projects 2009 - 2011: WAGGGS Leadership Development Programme International development program in collaboration with WAGGGS Europe. 8 participants (two from each of the countries: Armenia, Belarus, Estonia and Ukraine). Klaipeda, Lithania Leadership training. 16 participants from Lithuania and 3 Danish trainers. Ukraine Leadership training. 80 participants in total at two training sessions Slovakia Roma Scouts. Leadership Capacity Development of international education toolbox and leader training seminars for scout leaders from Lithuania, Macedonia, Slovakia and Ukraine. The Tool Box is now available for scout leaders all over Europe. 150 scout leaders. Leadership Development Program Leader training seminar in cooperation with Europe office for Guides and Scouts from Armenia, Estonia, Ukraine and Belarus. 40 scout leaders. Ukraine Capacity building in Ukraine phase 1, 2 & 3 to build national structure of trained Guide and Scout leaders, including ”ambassadors”. 110 participants.
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Scout for Climate Copenhagen Building awareness/education programs on environmental issues for participants from Moldova, Macedonia, Russia, Slovenia and Tajikistan. Initiatives taken with Environmental Minister Conny Hedegaard. Participation in COP 15 and Global Climate statement. 70 youth scout leaders participated from more than 40 countries. 10.000 participants during the week of scout camp activities at Højbro Plads. Lithuania Scout Program National training of local area leaders in Lithuania. General toolbox education. Train the trainer and new leaders, phase 3, 4 & 5. 60 scout leaders participated. Grønsund – Czech Republic Leader training exchange program with Guide and Scout leaders from Dvojka. Phase 1 conceptualization and participation in summer camp activities for both adults and youth. 55 participants. Serbia Trainer for wood badge training. Slovakia Project for Scouting among Roma’s. Macedonia Project scope, training of leaders, training of patrol leaders, of National Board and a Danish/Macedonia youth seminar. Hungary National training/growth program for 2011 & 2012, joint WAGGGS effort. 17 participant at the first event.
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Romania National training/growth program for 2011 & 2012, joint WAGGGS effort. 25 participants at the first event. Armenia (& Georgia) Leadership School 1-4. Next phase Leadership School 5-6 jointly with Georgia. Best practice scout camp/center management & Danish/Armenia youth training event. Ukraine (NOSU) Ukraine NOSU School of efficient scout leaders 90 participants. Armenia – Better Leaders – Better Scouting 73 participants from Armenia and Georgia.
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Thank you to our
Sponsors and donors We thank all sponsors and donors not only for your generous financial support, but also for the encouragement you continue to provide to our work. In the period 2009-2011, the Project has spent donations from the following: Nordea-fonden www.nordeafonden.dk
Oticon Fonden www.oticonfonden.dk
Knud Højgaards Fond www.khf.dk
Augustinus Fonden
Lauritzen Fonden www.lauritzenfonden.com
VILLUM FONDEN www.vkr-fondene.dk
In the past, the following has supported Familien Hede Nielsens Fond
Otto Bruuns Fond
Fabrikant Chas. Otzen’s Fond
Ingeniørskolen Horsens
Brdr. Schurs Støttefond
Mærsk Data
Carlsberg Fondet
Finanssektorens Uddannelsescenter
Otto Mønsteds Fond
Roskilde Bank
Danske Bank Fond
Birch & Svenning
Det Obelske Familiefond
Vejle Erhvervsklub
Fabrikant Mads Clausens Fond
Siemensfonden
Skandinavisk Tobakskompagnis Gavefond
Egmont Fonden
Nykredits Fond
Sophus Berendsen
Ole Kirks Fond
Codan Fonden
Grundfos Fonden/Poul Due Jensens Fond
Den Berlingske Fond
Danisco’s Fond
Tryg Baltica
Kong Frederik og Dronning Ingrids Fond
Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond
Fonden Realdania
IBM Danmark
Nomeco
Skandinavisk Motor
Teknologisk Institut
GN Store Nord Fondet
SAP Danmark
Ernst & Young Fonden
Dansk Selskab for Virksomhedsledelse
Investeringsselskabet af 30.4.1992
KPMG C. Jespersen
Kraks Fond
Arbejdslederne Grenå
Y’s Men’s Club
Sct. Georgs Gilderne
Tønder Bank
Rotary Club
TIC Danmark
Århus Zontaklub
Sparbank Nord
Midtjysk Lederforum
Villum Fonden
EDB Gruppen
Rockwool Fonden
Det Danske Hedeselskab
Jyske Banks Almennyttige Fond
Danske Elværker Forening
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