PROGRESS REPORT 2014
Messengers of Peace is a global initiative in World Scouting, inspired by The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Messengers of Peace are Scouts who make a difference in their communities and thus make the world a more peaceful place
Messengers of Peace works within the Scout Movement because of globally shared values, an effective global network and a proven success in training young leaders to change their world for the better
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The aim of the World Scout Messengers of Peace Initiative is to inspire millions of young men and women throughout the world to do amazing things in their communities and thus create a better world. When it was launched in 2010 the target was to have, in ten years, 20 million young people who have carried out a significant activity in their local communities, which will make the world a more peaceful place. This equated to 1,000,000,000 hours of service over ten years of the programme. With 577,000,000 hours of service recorded by close to 5 million scouts so far – the project is well ahead of schedule!
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he Messengers of Peace Initiative (MoP), approved by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud, and overseen by His Majesty the King of Sweden, began in 2010. In the year since the last report, the Messengers of Peace Initiative gained exponential momentum growing from 18 million to over 577 million hours of service – recorded on line. Among the world leaders to more recently recognise the importance of MoP have been His Majesty the Swedish King, HE President Hollande of France, HRH Princess Benedikte of Denmark, HE Price Minister Najib of Malaysia, HE Prime Minister Salam of Lebanon, HE President Aquino of Philippines and his Vice President, HE Vice President Binay. Almost 1 million local projects have been carried out by 5 million Scout volunteers throughout the world. These projects have been funded by the Scouts themselves from their own resources. The MoP fund is not needed for these projects.
“As a Scout I recognize that I have a responsibility to myself, my family, unit, and community. As I stand here today where so much blood was shed, I understand that scouting makes the world a better place through our friendships and shared values. I pledge today to remember that Scouts all over the world share my values and my hopes. I will be a Messenger of Peace in my home, in my community, in my nation and in my world”.
5,000 Scouts from the former enemy nations, gathered on the beaches of Normandy for the 70th Anniversary commemoration of D Day, in English, French, Polish and German, made this solemn pledge together
These Scouts are inspired by the MoP on-line platform! MOP has now fully integrated into the central Scout web Platform and Social media hub – www.scout.org - indicating the central role that the Messengers of Peace Initiative has taken within Scouting worldwide. Through its network of social media communities, over 5 million Scouts worldwide have been linked already to MoP.
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“Messengers of Peace has been an inspiration for our scouts of all faiths in our country to rally to the needs of our “guests” from our neighboring country”. HE Prime Minister Salam of Lebanon.
The 136 projects, which have been funded by the MoP Fund, have reached to some of the most needy communities in the world, and addressed some of the most pressing questions within communities worldwide. These funded projects have been used as models for others to follow.
Support has been provided from the MOP Fund to projects
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In poorer countries where resources are not available
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To projects which show potential for duplication and export to other countries/ regions
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To projects which need to be brought to scale
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To National Scout Organisations which need to get stronger in order to assure leadership development for potential Messengers of Peace
A key priority has been the dissemination of training in dialogue within the Scout Movement. Among the highlights in this area have been an important Peace Camp, which took place in Indonesia in April 2013, with a central theme of dialogue; Scouts in Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Sweden, Singapore and Ireland have also continued their development of international training modules inspired by the training they received in the King Abdulaziz Centre for National Dialogue in Riyadh. And the King Abdullah Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) hosted a unique meeting of international Scout Interfaith leaders in February, focusing Scout leaders globally on the importance of essential dialogue between young people of all faiths globally.
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The building of local capacity within the local Scout organisations has been a critical focus of the MoP Initiative. With a strong local organisation, young leaders are better trained and thus, MoP local community service activities are more effective. The opposite is also true – when local Scout organisations are weak, local groups struggle to perform effectively. World Scouting has thus engaged the world-renowned standards company, SGS, to assist in this work – carrying out audits and helping to improve standards of Scout organisations in the critical countries for Messengers of Peace. To date 39 of the 162 National Scout Organisation in the world have undergone certification audits by SGS. This is unique in the NGO world and provides an essential strategic baseline for sustainable growth in our MoP action for the coming years. Among the success stories for building capacities has been Kenya, where following an audit exposing major weaknesses, the entire leadership team has been replaced by its membership and the organisation is looking much more healthy. World Scouting has also transformed itself since the beginning of this Initiative: The World Scout Committee - with Prof Abdullah al Fahad from Saudi Arabia as one of its 12 members – has totally updated the services it provides to its 162 member countries. It has also appointed a new Secretary General to
oversee the activities of the Movement. Mr Scott Teare introduces himself as: “I am Scott and I am a Messenger of Peace”. He has begun to reform the structure and services of the World Scout Bureau Central Office, has moved from Geneva to Kuala Lumpur. In addition he has upgraded the quality of services provided by the six Regional Offices, which have become the vital service provider for the World Scout Bureau, and key actors in the inspiration for young people to take leadership locally, and thus key players in the implementation of the MoP Initiative globally. The MoP Initiative is firmly embedded in Scouting worldwide, and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in particular, it is clear that MoP has had an important impact. The 2012 Hajj pilgrimage saw hundreds of thousands of hours of service recorded on line by Scouts – young men and women of Saudi Scouting who were acting as Messengers of Peace. The fact that girls are now participating in Saudi Scouting is also a wonderful result for this Initiative. Saudi Scouting has also completed its fifth year of its Environment service project – a result unseen anywhere else on the planet – with hundreds of tonnes of rubbish collected – all in the name of Messengers of Peace.
In the words of Rabbi Peter Hyman of the Boy Scouts of America – “Messengers of Peace is the single most important thing that has happened to Scouting since Lord Baden Powell wrote Scouting for Boys in 1908. The young men and women in the Boy Scouts of America are truly part of this amazing global Movement. They are Messengers of Peace!”
These young volunteers – like their counterparts in 162 countries - see their local service contributing to a global impact. They see they are playing their part in making the world, not just their own country, a more peaceful place. Messengers of Peace Progress Report 2014
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Executive Summary
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World leaders say:
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Introduction
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Progress on three main goals
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Inspire Messengers of Peace
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Messengers of Peace Network and Statistics
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Promote Special Projects to address critical issues
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Build Local Capacity to ensure long term sustainability
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More Heroes of Messengers of Peace
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Latest News
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The Way Forward
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Governance
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Financial Report
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Appendices
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World leaders say:
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HM King Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden:
HE President Yudhoyono of Indonesia:
HRH Princess Benedikte of Demnark
“We must thank His Majesty King Abdullah for inspiring Scouts the world over to be Messengers of Peace”
“The importance of Scouting to the Republic of Indonesia is enormous. In their work, across cultures and faiths, means they are truly Messengers of Peace!”
“Scouts throughout the world should be proud of their achievements in the MoP Initiative! Well done!”
HE Prime Minister Tamam Salam of Lebanon:
HE Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia:
HE Vice President Binay of Philippines:
“We are pleased to welcome the seat of world Scouting here to Malaysia. Every Scout should be a Messenger of Peace. We are proud to help inspire more Scouts to do their best to work for this cause!”
Scouts in Philippines have made a hue impact following the typhoon. They are truly Messengers of Peace!”
“Please extend my thanks to HM King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for their inspiration of the Messengers of Peace initiative – it strengthens the Scouts here in Lebanon to work even harder to help the refugees from Syria!”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “Conflict resolution is a pressing goal for the world today. Scouts as Messengers of Peace can make a real difference! I am proud to be a Scout, and wear my MoP scarf with pride!”
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n the first report, presented in September 2012, we reported:
The challenge of His Majesty King Abdullah to Scouts throughout the world – to be Messengers of Peace – has been heard loud and clear”. The map from the on line web platform reported just over two million hours of service. Today we can report over 577 million hours of service! (With over 100 new stories being posted on line each day – check our www.scout.org ).
Today we can report over 577 million hours of service!
Scouts the world over are really listening to His Majesty’s message! This success has been achieved through a strong leadership of this Initiative from central actors in the Scout Movement matched with an innovative involvement of young people and their leaders in Scout organisations throughout the world. The global initiative has three main goals:
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Goal One: Inspire Messengers of Peace His Majesty the King of Sweden has worked tirelessly to promote the MoP Initiative globally – most recently during his visits to Philippines and Denmark where he worked with President Aquino and Vice President Binay, and then with HRH Princess Benedikte to encourage support for King Abdullah’s Initiative. He tasked WSF Chairman Siegfried Weiser to closely follow the work of 100,000 Lebanese Scouts who work with Syrian refugees. On every occasion, His Majesty and his team speak of the importance of young people taking leadership in their communities to help change their world for the better. Peer education is a core element of the Scout programme since its inception over 100 years ago. Today, the only difference is that with social media, peer education can reach farther than ever before. World Scouting has worked hard over the past year to provide a social media platform where young men and women can inspire each other to action.
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This investment has paid dividends, resulting in close to 1 million Messengers of Peace local projects being registered on line, producing these 577 million service hours – in over 200 countries and territories. Other, more traditional forums, such as Jamborees and other Scout meetings have also been used to inspire young people to be Messengers of Peace. It is important to note that these projects are inspired by the global Messengers of Peace Initiative, but paid for with local resources, raised by the Scouts themselves! Most notable among the National Scout Organisations are the world’s four largest – Indonesia, USA, India and Philippines - who have each adopted MoP as their national programmes.
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Goal Two: Promote special projects to address critical issues 137 projects have now been supported through the MoP Support Fund. These projects have been funded in areas of greatest need – with promotion of peaceful elections in Ghana and Kenya, Thai Scouts helping Rohingya Muslim refugees, and Palestinian Scouts working in Jerusalem. Indonesian Scouting hosted an international Peace Camp, addressing issues of dialogue between ethnic groups. Two major projects - the Irish and Singapore Scout Dialogue Training initiatives, both funded by the MoP fund, have developed training approaches for different audiences, introducing dialogue to both core Scout programmes and to young people living in tense community situations. In addition, the MoP fund has also supported the internet platform’s learning zone which launched the on-line training in dialogue during the year.
But it is when disaster strikes that Messengers of Peace truly show their colours. In Lebanon, Scouts ran the “My tent is Your Tent” initiative to welcome refugees from war-torn Syria to their communities. Scouts in Philippines supported their communities following the tragic typhoon disaster there. And Scouts in Bosnia have responded to flooding disasters thanks to MoP support.
In both Lebanon and Philippines, MoP programmes were shown in the press to make a difference – and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was praised for its support by senior leaders of the WSF
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Goal Three: Build local capacity to ensure long term sustainability When strong local Scout organisations exist, young people flourish in Scouting. They grow and develop as leaders, they are inspired to challenge themselves and their peers. They lead change in their communities. They work as Messengers of Peace In the past twelve months, World Scouting has begun a strategic process:
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to assess local capacities among the global network of 162 National Scout Organisations,
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to promote exchange of expertise between organisations in the network, ensuring continuous learning and improvement.
The global standards company SGS has been hired to support this process, and has so far carried out assessments of the capacities of an initial 39 National Scout Organisations using the SGS “Global NGO Benchmark”. SGS has also worked with Scouting to develop a targeted audit tool that addresses key programme performance issues unique to Scouting. With such a global mapping coming on line, World Scouting’s regional offices are now able to make strategic judgements on where resources are needed, and thus are able to follow up with targeted, professional support.
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Finally The SGS assessment of Kenya Scouting identified problems within the organisation in areas such as governance, financial control and management of dayto-day activities. Supported by the Regional Office of World Scouting in Nairobi, Kenya Scouting overhauled its governing board, appointed new and dynamic leaders and changed key executives. Kenya Scouting is now on it’s way to becoming a totally transformed organisation. Indonesian Scouting’s SGS assessment identified the need to separate roles of governance and staff within the organisation. The Scout Organisation’s Chairman called in SGS to run a training programme for all board members and key staff. This has helped to clarify roles and helped to put in place a reform of the Organisation’s Operating Procedures, and organisation chart. These steps are particularly important as the leadership of the organisation changed this year. A smooth transition of leadership and governance is vital in the most populous Scout Organisation, in a country where Scouting’s leadership is needed.
This report will describe the activities carried out in each of these three goals in detail. We highlight the impact using specific case studies from Scout Organisations throughout the world in the section Heroes of MoP. We then describe the plans for the coming year, and report on the process of governance and oversight of the Initiative during the year, and finally we present the audited financial reports for 31st December 2013
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Progress on three main goals
Goal One: Inspire Messengers of Peace
Promotion
Social Media
Among the most energetic in World Scouting to inspire young people to be MoP is His Majesty the King of Sweden. In the past year alone he has travelled to USA, Mexico, Switzerland, France, Japan, Hong Kong, and Philippines promoting MoP to young Scouts and to national and business leaders.
Following its initial launch in October 2012, the Messengers of Peace Social Media Platform has rapidly developed its global presence, with material in six languages and, as the site’s world map shows, participation from every corner of the Scouting world. A staggering 5 million Scouts worldwide have so far been linked to the MoP Initiative through its network of online communities. The state of the art technical innovation is assured by a Danish company, WEMIND, but the content and spirit is largely provided by the volunteers and staff of Scout Organisations worldwide.
Most recently in meetings with HE President Aquino and HE Vice president Binay of the Philippines, His Majesty has helped to link that country’s 2 million scouts to the MOP network. During His Majesty’s trips to Mexico and Paris, so inspired were a number of the leaders he met there that they have agreed to co-sponsor the MoP Initiative. The plight of the Refugees from Syria and the excellent work of Messengers of Peace was highlighted by Siegfried Weiser, traveling on behalf of His Majesty the King of Sweden throughout Lebanon in January and June.
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On average 100 new project reports appear daily and the success can be seen on the counter of hours of service which have recorded an amazing 577 million hours of service at the time of writing. Peer education is a core element of the Scout programme since its inception over 100 years ago. Today, the only difference is that with social media, peer education can reach farther than ever before. Through this platform – www.scout.org - young men and women inspire each other to action - on a peer-to-peer basis.
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One example of this is a young woman, Atta Veran, who last year began a project to help elderly and blind people by reading books to them. This project quickly inspired over 25o scouts in different parts of her native Indonesia to take part and do the same thing – but through the www.scout.org, now hundreds of Scouts in India – hundreds of miles away – have taken Ata’s project and are now implementing it in their own communities! In the past year, the six regions of World Scouting – Asia-Pacific, Arab, Africa, Europe, Eurasia and Interamerica – has each engaged in the promotion of Messengers of Peace through their networks, and have incorporated MoP into their regional and national plans. 31 training workshops have been delivered by global and local Messengers of Peace Ambassadors, and the 400 social media leaders – young volunteers – from 240 countries and territories have been trained. Together they are managing an impressive 146 social media communities linked to the Messengers of Peace global platform.
Young Messengers of Peace Ambassadors and National Messengers of Peace Coordinators have played a key role to actively promote and inspire people face to face to reach our grassroots Scouts in each local community. More than 1,000 young Scouts and leaders in local Messengers of Peace Promoter teams are engaged and spreading His Majesty’s message to inspire more Scouts in a human force of action. In addition, the role of the “Social Media Leader” is vital for the MoP platform. With social media today, the spirit can be positive, or can also be negative. The role of this virtual team of 400 young, trained, values-driven Scout activists is to inspire and encourage young people toward positive action – and to stop any negative or “un-Scout-like” behaviour online as soon as it happens.
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MESSENGERS OF PEACE NETWORK STATISTICS
340,335 VOLUNTEERS
REACHED THROUGH ACTIVITIES
31 TRAINING COURSES HELD GLOBALLY
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175 EVENTS
HELD NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
640 PROMOTERS
INVOLVED IN SOCIAL MEDIA
+133,452 SCOUTS
ENGAGED AS LEADERS ON CENTRAL MOP FACEBOOK
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240 COUNTRIES
INCORPORATING MESSENGERS OF PEACE IN THEIR ACTIVITIES
577,000,000 SERVICE HOURS
REGISTERED ON THE PLATFORM
1,000,000 SERVICE PROJECTS
REGISTERED ON THE PLATFORM
146 COMMUNITIES
NATIONAL AND INTERTIONAL ACTIVE IN SOCIAL MEDIA
1,540 AMBASSADORS ENGAGED LOCALLY
5,000,000 PEOPLE
REACHED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
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The training they receive is now available on line, and the nature of this network within a network is that it comprises hand picked young leaders who see themselves as part of an important team, supported by World Scouting to be part of this amazing Initiative – Messengers of Peace! George from Mexico City Scouts first became aware of MoP in the preparations for the visit of the Swedish King to Mexico in April 2013. He led a service project to help young migrants from Latin America who are stuck in Mexico and at risk from drugs gangs. He handed a virtual “cheque” representing 60,000 hours of service to the King showing the hours carried out by him and his colleague Scouts as Messengers of Peace. As part of his work as an MoP facilitator – he has worked on line in the MoP network - he travelled, overland, by road, to Canada to take part in the World Scout Moot (a camp for 18 to 25 year olds) where he helped as part of the global team! The success of this Initiative has had such an impact, that the global Scout website has now been phased out, with a new version, based completely on the MoP Initiative and model, in place. This symbolises the full integration of MoP into the Scout Movement and the success it has had.
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The possibility to interact with the community, inspire new people with relevant solutions of service actions and exchange ideas and results of their local initiatives from country to country is driving Scouts into a wave of social entrepreneurship and youth participation in community life. Peer education has gone global! Therefore in early 2012 the MoP Joint Executive Committee decided to reallocate the budget from “publications” to strengthen the on-line social media investment. This investment has paid dividends, as can be seen from the July 2014 Social Media report.
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Jamborees and Scout Gatherings Other, more traditional forums have been used by World Scouting to promote the Messengers of Peace Initiative, and helped to spread the Initiative to the grass roots of the Movement.
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World Scout Education Congress with over 500 participants (2,000 including on line participants) from almost every member country in WOSM, this congress addressed the key question for Messengers of Peace – how to inspire young people, through the Scout educational approach, to take leadership and become an active citizen – a Messenger of Peace. Speakers from throughout the world led the discussions – the result – better Scout programming, better training for leaders and an incredible opportunity to promote MoP worldwide!
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The Asia Pacific Jamboree with 15,000 participants serves as a test for the venue of the World Scout Jamboree to be held in 2015. MoP featured as a central part of the Jamboree’s programme both in the service project area, but also in the “Faith and Beliefs” area where Scouts participated in training for dialogue – all facilitated by a team of inspired and multicultural Messengers of Peace Ambassa dors from 10 countries and different religions working together for the same goal.
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The Peace and Dialogue Camp, hosted by the Indonesian Scouts involved 700 young people from over 50 countries from all regions of the world. The programme used the ethnic diversity of Indonesia and a learning tool for Scouts to experience inter-cultural dialogue first hand, to interview real-life examples of heroes of inter-ethnic communication and to build plans for their own groups back home. Messengers of Peace workshops allowed participants to learned skills related to leadership, youth participation, communications and social projects development.
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The Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree in 2013 hosted 40,000 young people from all over the USA. The central theme of the Jamboree was Messengers of Peace – with over 160,000 Messengers of Peace hours of service given by these Scouts to the local communities surrounding the Jamboree site. The Swedish King visited and joined in the camp, meeting with many Scouts and speaking to them in the closing ceremony. Both the King and the Queen visited the Messengers of Peace activities.
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The World Scout Moot gathered 2,500 senior Scouts from 100 countries near Montreal for a 10-day camp. This mini-Jamboree, with its participants in the 18 to 25 year age group, concentrated on leadership issues, and thus Messengers of Peace was one of its central themes and an inspiration for all participants to create a service project initiative to implement in their communities when they return.
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The Jamborees in Egypt, Argentina and Colombia, involving over 25,000 scouts resulted in the sure in participants in the on line social media platform for MoP.
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24/7 Global Network Jamboree: The permanent exchange and interaction of so many cultures, religions and ages is transforming young people into global citizens by raising awareness of global issues, local needs, diversity and unity amongst human beings.
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The New Jersey Camporee – organised by the Boy Scouts of America in collaboration with the New Jersey National Guard, this camp involving 10,000 Scouts from across the New Jersey State, inspired MoP projects from every participant – reported on a wall of canvas, 250,000 hours of service - this camp really made an impact!
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D-Day Commemoration 2014 – Five thousand Scouts from USA, UK, France, Poland, Belgium, Holland – and Germany gathered on the beaches of Normandy in a solemn commemoration of the day, seventy years before, young men of a similar age, from the same countries, fought on those same beaches. This time, gathered under the banner of the Messengers of Peace, these young men and women, all Scouts, shook hands, stood side by side and remembered a different time. French President, HE Francoise Hollande, in a letter to the Scouts, urged them to remember the sacrifice of those who fought 70 years ago, but encouraged each Scout to remember his Scout Promise, and to “be a Messenger of Peace!”
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Local and International Partnerships Peace as a goal is connecting Scouts with local and international organizations to build collaborative partnerships to support Scouts in their service initiatives. Scouting is being recognised as the global force of action through “active youth participation�. At least 50 local and international organizations are becoming aware of the potential influence Scouts have in their communities.
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Local actors like national and local government departments, Universities, colleges, and schools, the military and police forces, emergency relief, human rights, and environmental organisations, churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, NGOs, TV stations ‌ they are interested in taking part in Messengers of Peace.
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MoP Ambassadors – BSA’s Rabbi Peter Hyman Dialogue at Work As Scouts, we are connected by a shared set of values that promote respect of “self and others” and principles that help bring about and maintain peace in the world. B-P, in an essay where he outlined his vision of a world-wide Scouting movement, wrote: “Let us, therefore, in training our Scouts, keep the higher aims in the forefront, not let ourselves get too absorbed in the steps…The end is character with a purpose. And that purpose, that the next generation may be sane in an insane world, and develop the higher realization of service, active service of love, and duty to God and neighbor.” Baden-Powell believed that the Scouting movement could be transformational.
Messengers of Peace is doing just that, transforming the world into the world that B-P envisioned. Project by project and program by program bringing sanity to the insane circumstances that divide people and nations. MoP projects respond to the conflicts Scouts confront in their schools, their communities, their nations and in the world. B-P believed that peace would remain a distant vision until we, the Scouts, do the work of peace ourselves. Scouts as Messengers of Peace, are furthering peace one project at a time. By so doing, Scouts are making B-P’s vision real and transforming the world.
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projects have now been supported through the MoP Support Fund. These projects have been funded in areas of greatest need – with promotion of peaceful elections in Ghana and Kenya, Thai Scouts helping Rohingya Muslim refugees, Palestinian Scouts working in Jerusalem, and Lebanese Scouts working with Syrian Refugees. Indonesian Scouting hosted an international Peace Camp, addressing issued of dialogue between ethnic groups. The Scouts in Ethiopia, Kashmir, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Rwanda/Burundi, Madagascar, Yemen, Korea, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Ukraine and Nepal have really shown the strength of Scouting in building bridges between different communities in conflict areas. Their work shows how small initiatives can make a real difference (See appendix 1).
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Two major dialogue projects - the Irish and Singapore Scout Dialogue Training initiatives, have developed training approaches for different audiences, introducing dialogue to both core Scout programmes and to young people living in tense community situations. These two Scout groups will now host groups from different conflictual regions to help them develop a strategy for Scout action in their communities back home. Their work with the King Abdulaziz Centre for National Dialogue has also resulted in the development of an on line dialogue training module.
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Another major group of projects addresses marginal groups of young people in different countries – helping them to integrate back into “normal” society and thus avoiding conflict in these communities. With the Rwandan and Salvador Scouts this means working in youth prison, for Philippines and Bangladesh Scouts it brings them to the streets where street gangs comprising orphaned kids are brought into Scouting and thus these children’s lives are changed. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Romania, Brazil, run similar projects under the title of “Ticket to Life”. The Romanian, Slovak and Czech Scouts work with Roma communities. “Peace” within Scouting is also defined by the relationship young people have with God’s Creation – the environment in which we live. Any damage to the local environment can have a disastrous impact on the lives of communities living there. Therefore to restore “peace” to a community, action for the environment is vital. Scouts in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Indonesia, Austria and Macedonia have developed exciting programmes with the support of the MoP Fund.
Finally, in countries prone to natural and man made disasters, Scouts are in the front line in their local communities when it comes to support to the most vulnerable people there. Disaster preparedness and relief has therefore become an important role for these Scouts who have excelled. Scouts in Haiti, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Philippines, Indonesia and Mexico have been supported by the MoP Fund to build their capacity to respond to disasters. While the staff and volunteers of the different Regions of the Scout Network have been responsible for the on-going oversight and monitoring of the implementation of these projects, WSF brought in an external team from WISE Associates to evaluate the first projects to be supported by MoP – in El Salvador and Philippines. These projects were rigorously assessed by experts from the WISE team. Full reports are available from the WSF office. In summary the WISE team found that the performance of Scouting in both these projects was best in class. WISE recommended that in order to replicate and bring these projects to scale, collaboration with other agencies was essential. Both projects would be greatly enhanced with the addition of vocational training modules to the training provided.
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Africa – Peaceful Elections Rover Scouts of Mount Kenya University organized a MoP “Youth for Peace Forum” to help to ensure there was no repeat during this year’s election of the carnage following those in 2007 where more than 1’500 people were killed. The event was well attended and received strong support by other NGOs and government agencies. The Chief Guest, Prof. Mbula emphasized the role of young people in attainment lasting peace. She encouraged the youth to give peace a fresh start by embracing a culture that values and sustains peace founded on mutual social responsibility, accountability and reciprocity - being there for one another. “Your name as a young person is Now and Today, not Tomorrow or the Future. You must develop a strong character that says “NO” to violence and use your strength and intelligence for the good of the nation. You must be men and women of goodwill.”
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Scout Leaders emphasised the place of dialogue and reminded the audience, “let us not forget our unending call to become Messengers of Peace. Lets us shun violence and work together to promote a more unified nation free from tribalism; a nation where each of us can live freely and happily.”
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Thai Scouts Aid Muslim Minority
True to their Promise “To help others at all times” Thai Scouts are helping thousands of illegal Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, and who are now stateless, at several Immigration Detention Centers (IDCs). The United Nations, has reported that the Rohingya are “among the world’s least wanted.” For complex historical and political reasons they appear to be one of the worst treated and persecuted minorities anywhere. To alleviate some of the misery the Thai Scouts Promotion Foundation, in close cooperation with other Scouts and non-scout volunteers, collected monetary and in-kind donations such as food and supplies for more than 3,000 Survival Gift Packs, which cost about US $5 per pack to meet the needs of Rohingya illegal migrants in about 20 detention centers all over Thailand. Packing and transporting a single package requires more than one service hour.
The Thai scouts also managed to prepare a new Thai-Rohingya Dictionary to facilitate two-way communication since most of the arrivals can only speak their own language. Furthermore, the Thai Rover Scouts helped to repair and rebuild toilets and other needed shelters to provide additional comfort and security for them at the detention centers. And, perhaps for the first time in their lives the Rohingya have said that they have felt comfortable in a multi-ethnic and multireligious background. Indeed, the Scouts too are a potpourri of different faiths and backgrounds.
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Palestinian Scouts are Messengers of Peace in Jerusalem
The Al-Aqsa Mosque is located in the old town of Jerusalem (Al Quds in Arabic) – a holy city for the three major Abrahamic Religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third most Holy Site of Islam. It is a place of particular importance during the holy month of Ramadan, during which Muslims all over the world fast from sunrise to sunset. With support from the MoP Initiative, The Palestinian Scout Association, despite the difficulties in getting a permit, launched a project taking 600 Palestinian Scouts, girls and boys of different age sections, to the Al-Aqsa Mosque for an entire month to serve those, especially the elderly, sick and infirm, observing Ramadan.
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Scouts helped provide a safe and secure environment for those fasting as well as coordinated the breaking of fast meals and prayers at the Holy Mosque. The Scouts supervised the entrance and exit points to the Mosque and they ensured that everyone remained healthy because they fast in extreme heat and trying conditions. Scouts sprayed cold water on very hot areas around the Mosque for people to walk and move around without getting burnt in the heat and also preventing those who were fasting from getting dehydrated.
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Goal Three: Build local capacity to ensure long term sustainability
An important promise by Scouts to His Majesty King Abdullah was not simply that they would continue working as Messengers of Peace, but that they would increase the effectiveness (quality) of what they did, extend their reach and increase the impact (quantity) of Scouting to create peace and harmony in the world. Using projects such as those described in Goals One and Two are a vital element of this work. But more important was a commitment that Scouting made to King Abdullah that it would improve how it works, and how it is structured. Local capacity strengthening is therefore a key element of the MoP Initiative.
When strong local Scout organisations exist, young people flourish in Scouting, qualitative training is delivered to adults supporting them and the maximum impact of the Scout programme is achieved. Young people grow and develop as leaders, they are inspired to challenge themselves and their peers. They lead change in their communities. They work as Messengers of Peace. World Scouting is committed to ensure each of its 162 National Scout Organisations reaches a level of governance standards and operational effectiveness up to international standards. That will in turn enable each local Scout Organisation to implement the highest quality of youth program and adult leader support system for it. By doing that we achieve our mission of delivering real impact in local communities.
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In the past twelve months, World Scouting has thus begun a strategic process:
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to assess local capacities among the global network of 162 national scout organisations. 39 have been certified so far,
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to monitor changes and successes, making sure the story is told and actual impact can be measured
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to promote exchange of expertise between organisations in the network, ensuring continuous learning and improvement.
Engaging professional experts in capacity strengthening The global standards company SGS has been hired to support this process, and has so far carried out assessments of the capacities of an initial 39 National Scout Organisations using the SGS “Global NGO Benchmarking audit”. This standard has been developed based on best practices from non-governmental organisations from around the world, resulting in 101 criteria distributed across 9 dimensions crucial to the functioning of an NGO: the governing body; strategic framework; integrity management; communication, advocacy and public image; human resources; fundraising, resources allocation and financial controls; operations; outcomes and continuous improvement. The NSOs assessed are spread amongst the 6 Regions of World Scouting, to ensure that expertise was gained across the board for the next step in tailoring this tool to the needs of Scouting.
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Common issues identified so far particularly focus on the following:
Follow-up through Regional training courses on good governance and tailor-made follow-up
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Functioning of the national board, with the main challenge being the independence of the board vis-à-vis the operational management and thus the independence of oversight and strategy development functions
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Financial control systems, main challenges include the need to improve professionalism of project and programme administration, and the long term sustainability of financial resources
As a follow-up for the 39 NSOs who undertook the audit, training courses were organised, supported by SGS and key World Scouting staff and volunteers, to focus on specific challenges identified such as financial auditing, functioning of the Board, staff appraisal etc. These training courses were spread over 3 days each and have been carried out in the Asia-Pacific Region (Indonesia), the Inter-America Region (Panama) and the Africa Region (Ethiopia) with key decision makers of 23 NSOs attending the trainings.
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Continuous improvement, particularly the need for systematic monitoring of strategic plans / projects and adapting them where necessary based on the results of this monitoring
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Opportunities for growth – particularly in areas not normally serviced by Scouts – there are many opportunities for Scouting to do much better in terms of supporting vulnerable communities - in the Amazon region of Brazil, in ethnically divided areas of Bosnia, in poorer communities in Mexico
To ensure actual impact was achieved with these training workshops, each NSO was required at the end of the training to identify 3 key challenges on good governance in their NSO, based on the audit and experience gained during the training. Regional Office staff and volunteers have subsequently been tasked to follow up with each NSO on these priorities, ensuring proper support is put in place and change on the ground is happening. In addition, direct support has been provided to key NSOs in this process – South Africa, Mexico, Bosnia, Kenya, Indonesia and Haiti.
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The future challenge – mapping scouting round the world As part of this process, Scouting has worked with SGS to develop a targeted audit tool that, on top of the good governance practices addressed by the standard SGS NGO benchmarking audit, will also focus on key programme performance issues unique to Scouting such as proper child protection policies, membership and growth as well as qualitative adult volunteer training.
Additionally a training workshop for Scout volunteers and staff in 2013 and 2014 to develop a team of trained individuals who now accompany SGS as the auditor on the assessments they carry out worldwide. This is done in close interaction with each Region, so that we can ensure a proper follow-up for the NSO after each assessment has been conducted.
This so-called “Second Party Standard� is now being used for each new National Scout Organisation being assessed going forward. Thus the world of Scouting will be receiving an external assessment of its governance and operations by the end of this process, which in turn will help with a strategic plan for capacity building support. No other Global organisation has ever engaged in such a thorough process.
Working with SGS to develop this second party standard ensures the professional knowhow from a worldwide respected auditing agency is integrated.
The tool is also available for all NSOs worldwide for self-assessment as well as for Regional Offices and Committees so this tool becomes the new de facto standard for quality in National Scout Organisations. A manual is therefore being drafted which explains each of the included criteria, so ensuring mutual understanding of the set requirements by NSOs worldwide.
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A global mapping of capacity The results of each assessment are being compiled in a global dashboard, allowing world scouting to adapt policy based on real capacity on the ground and judge where resources are most needed and effective to make a difference.
Furthermore it also helps to facilitate peer-to-peer support between NSOs, e.g. if it is identified that no proper financial control system exists in country “A” but neighbouring country “B” scores excellent on this criteria, an exchange on this topic between peers can be easily facilitated.
“Lighthouses” (or centres of excellence) such as this have been already identified throughout the past 39 audits, where the Mauritius NSO was identified as having one of the best financial management systems in all African NSOs assessed. Subsequently the Africa Regional Office endeavoured to exchange the good practice from Mauritius with other NSOs who are challenged on this topic.
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The SGS assessment of Kenya Scouting identified problems within the organisation in areas such as governance, financial control and management of day to day activities. Supported by the Regional Office of World Scouting in Nairobi, Kenya Scouting overhauled its governing board, appointed new and dynamic leaders and changed key executives. Kenya Scouting is now a totally transformed organisation. Indonesian Scouting’s SGS assessment identified the need to separate roles of governance and staff within the Organisation. The Scout Organisation’s Chairman called in SGS to run a training programme for all board members and key staff. This has helped to clarify roles and helped to put in place a reform of the organisation’s Operating Procedures, and organisation chart. These steps are particularly important as the leadership of the organisation will transfer at the end of 2013 after 10 years. A smooth transition of leadership and governance is vital in this, the most populous Scout Organisation in the world.
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Haiti’s Scout organisation performed brilliantly in the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquake. However, while foreign agencies and UN organisations used the Haitian Scouts to implement their programmes, many of the key scout staff and volunteers were hired by these external agencies, thus gutting the Scout Organisation. In addition, these external bodies did nothing to support the local Scouts – despite the fact that the Scout infrastructure was also destroyed in the earthquake. The MoP fund has committed its largest grant ever to help Haiti Scouting rebuild its organisation and sustain itself in the coming years. In addition, thanks to an SGS assessment, Ernst and Young has also made a significant grant to Haitian Scouting to help its governance review. Former USA Scout CEO Bob Mazzuca has worked as a volunteer mentor for the Haitian leadership – under the flag of MoP - to guide them through these difficult times.
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And Scouts in Uruguay, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Greece, Vanuatu, Romania, Fiji, Maldives, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, South Africa, Guinea and Chad have also benefited from support in building their capacities.
With such a global mapping coming on line, World Scouting’s Regional Offices are now able to make real value judgements on where resources are needed, and thus are able to follow up with targeted, professional support.
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Messengers of Peace on the World Stage at the UN
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hattan Nguyen (18 yo) from Canada, a Scout and a young ambassador for Messengers of Peace, has been elected with the backing of WOSM as a Coordinator of Children and Youth for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Major Groups Facilitation Committee (UNEPMGFC). Nhattan serves a two-year term from January 2013 alongside Kehkashan Basu from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Nhattan’s role within the MGFC will be to coordinate the responses and inputs of Children and Youth in UNEP’s work, discussions and outcome documents. Nhattan had previously represented WOSM externally as a youth representative at the landmark UN event, Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil (June 2012).
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House Building Project Colombia
As part of their MoP project titled “Scouts promoting peaceful elections in Ghana” and after several pockets of post-election violence, the Ghana Scouts Association organized a press conference at the Ghana International Press Centre, in Accra, to make a statement for peace. Attending this conference were about 100 people, including Scouts, members of other youth organizations and the media, who have called on all political parties, religious organizations and the National Peace Council (NPC) to help ensure the peaceful co-existence of the people. The Scout message was eloquent and delivered with emotional sincerity under a headline of “There is only one Ghana” while saying: “Our interest as Scouts is to promote the development agenda of the country where opportunities and avenues are created specifically for young people to have jobs, create better lives for themselves and their families and to build the country we so much cherish and love”.
When a silent dream becomes a reality, you can believe in hope and in a better world! Such will be the case for 100 homeless families living in poor areas in Bogota, Colombia where the Scouts have embarked on a self- funded initiative to build 100 homes, each of which cost around 3000 USD.
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The Scouts of Colombia will provide their own tools and they will work in partnership with Catalina Muñoz Foundation (CMF). It will provide the technical support, including technicians and architects to erect a standard dwelling. Scouts will be involved in every step of the process, including the most difficult task of all which is deciding who the beneficiaries will be.
It will also be a learning process for the participants as Scouts will also improve their own skills, not only those required for all phases of construction but also in leadership and in project management. The initiative is already underway but with additional funding these, now experienced Scouts, could help realise the dreams of the poorest people in their communities by building more houses!
Intergenerational learning
Scout Heroes in Bangladesh
Excelscout is a Leader training course that has become a hallmark of the Eurasia Scout Region. It is now integrated as part of the MoP Initiative although, over many years, it has trained several generations of leaders. Its aim is to ensure “Better Scouting for More Young People” so as to remain relevant and attract more potential Scouts through interesting, challenging and purposeful programmes. Training was conducted at the Eurasia Regional Scout Center at Krasnokamenka, Ukraine. As well as local Scouts, others came from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. On returning home the participants, invigorated with additional leadership skills and ideas, will start to develop more MoP projects for Scouts in their local communities
The development and training skills acquired by the Bangladesh Scouts through the MoP Initiative were sadly tested in Bangladesh in April 2013 when an eight-story factory collapsed killing over 1000 and injuring more than 2000 people. The incident caught international attention. The Scout reaction was impromptu and immediate.
Scouts lined up to donate much needed blood. Scouts remained on site until rescue work ceased in May. Through their involvement they were proven to be exemplary, competent, dependable and efficient. Their effort was praised by the public and by the authorities alike.
In providing a “First response” and working alongside and helping other organisations such as the Red Crescent and the military they assisted in rescue operations, finding missing people, reuniting families and bringing comfort to the bereaved.
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Non-violence among youth
Dialogue for Conflict Resolution
The Scouts of Georgia launched a MoP project “Scouts Promoting Non-Violence among Youth”. The project for 13-16 year olds, aims to help raise awareness and build capacity amongst Scout mediators so that they can be a positive influence to help change attitudes and the response to aggression. Georgian Scouts encourage higher levels of “peer to peer” support amongst youngsters by strengthening their knowledge and understanding of conflict resolution through dialogue.
Training in dialogue has existed within Scouting for decades and has delivered the core fundamentals to listen, speak, empathize, and argue effectively. The opportunity exists to leverage and build upon this good work, in the form of a more structure program to bring in NSO representatives from each region and establish a more formal Scout Program on the teaching of dialogue skills at the local level. This would include a combination of institutionalizing the capacity, skill and strengths of the KACIID, along with the development of tailor-made ageappropriate training materials for the different age groups of Scouts, and the use of Scouting online presence and web platform, specifically the online “Learning Zone”.
The project has already attracted many nonscouts, who are also concerned about improper and violent behaviour. Most of them subsequently joined the Movement. The project has been undertaken because Scout leaders believed it was necessary to help other government programmes established to reduce a growing level of violence and ethnic tension. Since starting the Initiative Scout behaviour is recognised in communities as a model while the Scouts involved have honed their self- assurance and their leadership skills.
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Further, existing examples of significant success and results from NSOs and regions should be identified for replication. Resulting in knowledge sharing from undertaking formal Case Studies of these projects. Specific projects that should be assessed, evaluated and replicated based upon the results they have produced to date, and based on urgent needs in the local, regional and national communities they represent, include: the India-Pakistan Peace Camps; Circles of Existence Project – Israel and the Amahoro Amani projects in the Great Lakes of Africa.
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Latest news! The impact of MOP on communities throughout the world has been impressive. With over 577 million hours of service recorded on line – so far – and millions more being added manually by our larger Scout Organisations, millions of scouts have been inspired to act. Your Majesty, King Abdullah, You have changed them! But most interesting is the change that has taken place in Scouting throughout the world. MoP has changed how scouts throughout the world see their global Movement! Before MoP, Scouts say their own local group – maybe 50 or 100 scouts in their local community. They were very proud of this group, and knew that some other scouts existed elsewhere, but never really had much to do with them. These young men and women in community X in country Y did what scouts do – some service and had fun … But since MoP, these young men and women in community X, SEE their peers in hundreds of thousands of communities on line – in different languages and cultures – and see the combined impact of their little service to their community adding to the efforts of their peers worldwide: This inspires and motivates them to do more! Your Majesty, you have helped the one million local groups in every corner of the world to join together as a force for good!
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Highlights in the past year:
His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf meets HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to discuss how the Alwaleed Foundation will support MoP in the future
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HE President Aquino and Vice President Binay of Philippines praise His Majesty King Abdullah’s Initiative during a visit to Philippines by His Majesty the King of Sweden
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His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf recruits Mexico’s Ricardo Salinas to co-fund MoP initiatives in Mexico and Central America The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia congratulates HM the King of Sweden on his 40th Anniversary as King, pledging continued support for the Programme
Archbishop Desmond Tutu joins the MoP Initiative – a Scout as a Young man, he joined the movement to inspire young people to make a difference
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The King of Sweden leads a team to visit typhoon ravaged areas of Philippines, and thanks HM King Abdullah for his support to MoP which will help save lives there. He leads a solemn ceremony to mourn the victims. Scouts from Philippines show great heroism in their work to help victims of the typhoon which hit their country in November 2013
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Scouts join King Abdullah’s Global Dialogue Initiative – Vienna – Scouts join the KAICIID Global Forum and plan a cooperation strategy to spread the word of dialogue globally
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The Swedish King visits street kids who benefit from the MoP Initiative and raises a further major grant from a Swiss donor to help with scholarships to support future education needs
Ecuador becomes the latest Scout Association to benefit from MoP support – in a major new initiative the country’s president pledges support to help Scouting make a real difference to the country’s development plans
Scouts in the Arab Region support the work of refugees from Syria. His Majesty sends Siegfried Weiser to work with the Lebanese Scout MoP programme twice in 2014. HE Prime Minister Tamam Salam thanked both King Abdullah and King Carl Gustaf for their leadership and pointed out that MoP was vitally important for the Scouts, and the people of Lebanon!
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World Scouting integrates MoP fully into social media – the “new” www.scout.org was formally launched in October 2013 with MoP as its central theme
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Scouts from 98 countries gather in Sharjah to work for the principles of Messengers of Peace – led by HE Sheikh Sultan, Ruler of Sharjah, and HE Sheikh Nahayan (UAE)
The World Scout Education Congress, supported by MoP gathers 2,000 participants (on line and physically) to address the issues of leadership development, educational curricula in Scouting and relevance to young people and society today. This inspiring, highly participatory congress was a model for a crowdsourcing of global strategy and curriculum development … helping to inspire many more young people to do amazing things – and thus realise His Majesty King Abdullah’s challenge
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, 5,000 Scouts from seven different countries – former enemies in World War II – gather on the beaches of Normandy as friends. Each Scout present makes a solemn pledge to be a Messenger of Peace. HE President Hollande of France calls on Scouts to be MoP! Scouts throughout the world vote to move the global Central Office to Kuala Lumpur – in a move to ensure greater relevance, the global centre opened last month in KL, with HE Prime Minister Najib challenging scouts everywhere to be MoP!
HRH Prince Khalid al Faisal,Minnister of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia welcomes delegation from WSF to Riyadh and receives “Cheque” for 12 million service hours from USA Scouts.
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The following are the main priorities for 2014/5
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The Way Forward
In the coming year, therefore, the MoP initiative will be driven as follows
Goal One: Inspire Messengers of Peace
Goal Two: Promote Special Projects
The MoP web platform, will be further developed with the learning zone which will help to provide more tools for Scouts to work on local projects.
The process of selecting projects for support will continue, with greater emphasis in the future on replicability, knowledge sharing between regions, bringing smaller projects to scale, and ensuring greater impact.
The JOTI (Jamboree on the Internet) event will be used to inspire millions of scouts to participate in MoP activities and to tell their stories. Social media will be constantly renewed, and enhanced as technology advances. Social medial leaders will continue to be recruited and the monthly e-magazine will be continued to keep these young leaders inspired. The World Scout Conference (Slovenia) will be used to inspire greater take up by NSOs. Target: Another 500 million service hours.
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Trends in project areas will be mapped and special emphasis will now be placed on the project trends identified to date – dialogue, street kids, food security and leadership development – with additional resources sought to invest in these areas. Model projects will be shared using social media to Scouts the world over, allowing excellent projects to be copied easily from region to region. .
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Goal Three: Build Local Capacity
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The SGS process will continue, with greater emphasis on training auditors from within the Scout Movement who are certified by SGS.
The existing work will continue – with those responsible at regional, global levels in WOSM and in WSF continuing their work as described.
Mapping of NSO competencies will continue, with a number of strategies employed, including hiring consultants locally and internationally (from business, academia, NGOs etc) to help address the issues raised in the SGS audits.
The draft MOU with the Saudi Scout Association will be finalized and implemented, with the Trustees of the MoP Initiative called on to support the search for additional resources.
WOSM’s network of Capacity Building specialists will be broadened, ensuring an efficient use of the wide expertise available with in the Movement and among the Movement’s supporters.
A full-scale evaluation of the MoP Initiative will take place during the World Scout Conference in August 2014, involving all stakeholders to ensure, a third of the way through, that this initiative is going in the right direction. More donors will be invited to join the initiative.
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is Majesty the King of Sweden, in his role as Honorary Chairman of the World Scout Foundation, oversees the implementation of the Messengers of Peace Initiative. The systems in place within the Scout Movement support His Majesty in his work have now matured since the launch of MoP in 2010 to a well functioning, smooth operation. The Partnership Agreement signed between the World Scout Foundation and the World Scout Organisation (See appendix 3) outlines the different roles and responsibilities for these systems within the Scout “Family�. Simply put, the World Scout Organisation today takes responsibility for the smooth operational running of the MoP, and WSF executives oversee the financial management, with general oversight of operations being assured by the World Scout Committee and the oversight of the finances and operations assured by His Majesty and the Board of the WSF. A full audit is assured by PWC.
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This has been quite an achievement for the World Scout Organisation which has quickly implemented new management systems, supported by the WSF, including an on-line project reporting system called Newdea (www. newdea.com). This is a new tool for providing transparency to donors and the public for all Scout projects. Newdea is used for tracking project data and generates project, subject or region-specific impact reports. But the greatest achievement has been the adoption of an entirely new culture within the World Scout Bureau staff team – from the regional teams who carry the main load of management in this Initiative, to the Kuala Lumpur-based world Scout Secretary General – who have each embraced their roles very effectively. A formal Grant Application process is in place to serve the 162 National Scout Organizations (NSOs) via the 6 Regional Offices of WOSM. The primary focus of this Grant Application is to define project Activities and Outputs, including the requirement for a sufficiently detailed Project Budget. Further, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been introduced, which will expand over time, and which provide verifiable data to improve the overall quality of Scouting. This process is constantly being reviewed, and training is provided to ensure staff and volunteers alike play their roles effectively. 60
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The overarching objective - to professionalise the management structure of World Scouting and instil a culture of project management globally – is well on the way to success. The World Scout Foundation too, has adopted a new, more rigorous accounting standard, Swiss GAAP, to ensure clear reporting of MoP fund commitments. WSF has undergone its second year. His Majesty The King of Sweden has taken personal interest and responsibility for oversight of the MoP funds and operations. In His visits to Indonesia and more recently in Mexico, He has not only inspired young people to support this Initiative but also has engaged with business leaders in Latin America’s leading business school, and leading industrial and political leaders in Mexico to ensure a greater understanding of the need to invest in leadership development and Messengers of Peace. During His recent visit to USA he repeated the same message to similar groups.
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Message from Kuala Lumpur Scott Teare – WOSM Secretary General World Scouting’s flagship initiative has also completed its first four years. No matter how much I try, I will not be able to do justice in explaining the importance of this initiative, and the appropriateness of its timing for World Scouting. This Report and its contents provide us some glimpses of the many core programmes, small and big projects, and activities that have benefited immensely from Messengers of Peace (MoP). Regions, NSOs, global work areas, Priority Area Working Groups and World Events have all been inspire by MoP to maximise their impact.
Some of the above mentioned core functions have achieved new heights of success, reached new milestones and scaled-up like never before, thanks to financial contributions from MoP in this period. I thank the World Scout Foundation (WSF) and the donors for standing by World Scouting. They have helped by providing a broad framework for this initiative, based on a wider definition of peace and an understanding that lasting peace is only possible when people’s basic needs are satisfied Capacity strengthening was made a central pillar to ensure stable NSOs would deliver strong Scouting and help their communities to
be successful through the active citizenship of Scouts. Apart from NSOs, capacity strengthening projects have been initiated at Regional and global levels with support from MoP. Today, what stands out as a clear indicator for us is the fact that many ambitious looking plans that World Scouting intended to achieve three years ago, have been accomplished as we report back to the World Scout Conference this August. This helped us to overcome any hurdles and smooth our path to success. I personally believe that we have gained valuable time and traction by making the best use of funding support from MoP. As we go forward, I call out to all major stakeholders within World Scouting to continue to benefit from this generous grant and help increase the impact of Scouting worldwide. As Secretary General, I am committed to ensure my staff team and our wonderful global network of skilled volunteers do an excellent job in the management of this Initiative. We have, over the past years, increased the project and programme management capacity of our teams, both regionally and globally. Our systems – in terms of financial and project management – have been completely overhauled and are running smoothly. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, His Majesty King Abdullah, and His Majesty the King of Sweden challenged us to use our global network to build bridges between communities and peoples of the world. We are honoured to have been chosen for this task by these two world leaders. As Secretary General, my message is simple – we are ready for this challenge! The results speak for themselves!
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inancial management of the MoP Support Fund is assured by the World Scout Foundation. Fund allocations are recommended by the Regional Decision Committees of the World Scout Organisation, approved by the Joint Executive Committee (comprising representatives of the World Scout Foundation, World Scout Bureau and Saudi Scouting) and then funds are transferred directly to recipient National Scout Organisations in tranches, as funding is required, and according to satisfactory reports being submitted.
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WORLD SCOUT FOUNDATION MOP Budget Performance 2010 to 30 June 2014 (unaudited figures) All figures in USD budget
actual
Goal One: Inspire Messengers of Peace
2,800,000
2,800,000
Goal Two: Promote Special Projects
3,650,000
3,782,826
Goal Three: Build Local Capacity
2,300,000
2,300,000
900,000
900,000
3,000,000
3,032,520
12,650,000
12,815,346
Coordination and Governance Contingency Total
NOTE: The Joint executive Committee decided to approve an increase investment in the development costs of the Social Media Platform, and also in the up front costs associated with the Local Capacity Building programme in order to fast-track developments with the local activities of MoP. This excess in spending has been taken from the Contingency in the budget. The consequences are that future payments from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be needed in December of the previous year, or at the latest in January of the year being financed in order to ensure adequate cash flow for ongoing projects.
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Appendix 1
Projects supported by the Messengers of Peace Support Fund
Grant Amount from M0P
Country
Project Title
Status
AfricaScoutRegion
ARO - Quality Assured Scouting in Africa
235080
Int
Ethiopia
Ethiopia - Scouting in Peace Development
24791
Fin
Madagascar
Madagascar - Heart of Peace
24600
Fin
WSBARO
ARO - Developing Leadership in Young People in Africa
97400
Fin
BurundiRwandaDRC
Amahoro Amani-Civic education & building peace cohabitation between communities
213264
Int
SouthAfrica
South Africa Scout Association (SASA)Reenergising Scouting in South Africa
480825
Int
Guinea
Guinea - Capacity Strengthening (ASG)
23066
Int
D.R.Congo
D.R. Congo - Capacity Strengthening and ESP (FESCO)
24600
Int
Chad
Tchad - Capacity Strengthening program - FTS
23400
Int
Lebanon-Syria
My Tent... Your Tent (Phase 2)
110000
Fin
PalestineAuthority
Serving the Fasting prayers in Al- Aqsa Mosque, 2014
25000
Int
Sudan
Integration of children in conflict hot zones in the Scout activities
19950
Int
Lebanon-Syria
My Tent... Your Tent
128500
Fin
ArabRegionaloffice
Certified Training for Professional (CTP)
25000
Int
PalestineAuthority
Serving the Fasting prayers at Al- Aqsa Mosque, 2013
25000
Fin
SaudiArabia
Saudi Arabia - Saudi Environmental Camp
18985
Fin
Kuwait
Developing capacities of the scouting leaders in Programs& Scouting development
24700
Int
Jordan
Jordan - Palms plantation (Dates of Peace)
25000
Int
Algeria
Algeria - Capacity building of young volunteers in scouting
25000
Int
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Grant Amount from M0P
Country
Project Title
Status
Yemen
Yemen - Supporting young people displaced from the hot conflict zones
25000
Fin
Mauritania
Mauritania - Scouting for Life in Mauritania
24999
Fin
Indonesia
2014 - Indonesia - Messenger of Peace Team Indonesia
16100
Imp
Singapore
2014 - Singapore - Peace & I Workshop
55200
Imp
APR
2014 Indonesia - 2nd APR MoP NSO Coordinators Gathering
24960
Int
Philippines
2014 - Philippines - Messenger of Peace Team Philippines Gathering
16000
Int
Maldives
2013 - Maldives - Enhancing Youth Programme through Motivated Adult Leader
24448
Imp
SriLanka
2013 - Sri Lanka MoP NSO Consultancy Visit
25000
Imp
Thailand
2013 - Thailand - Globalization of Network at 4th ASEAN Scout Jamboree
19424
Fin
India
2013 - India - Messenger of Peace Karnataka Startup & Networking
9920
Int
Philippines
2013 Philippines - Typhoon Haiyan: Rebuilding Project Process
10000
Fin
Korea
2013 - Korea - A Study on the Moderating Effects of a Scout Activity
14000
Int
Myanmar
2013 - WSB/APR - Development Support to Scouting and its Organization in Myanmar
23250
Int
India
2013 - India - Messenger of Peace Team India
14200
Int
Bangladesh
2013 - Bangladesh - Integrated Friendship Development Amongst Ethnic Groups
24970
Imp
Australia
2013 - MoP Eliminating Bullying & Harassment Its not part of Scouting
25000
Int
AsiaPacificRegion
2013 - Asia Pacific Regional (APR) - Ticket To Life Project 2013
85000
Imp
Korea
2013 MoP The 19th DMZ Peace Trekking
25000
Fin
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Grant Amount from M0P
Country
Project Title
Status
Fiji
2013 - Fiji - Reviewing Organizational Structure and Youth Program Toward Q.S.
24970
Imp
NewZealand
2013 - New Zealand - Sustainable Growth in Adult Leadership
15189
Imp
Bangladesh
2013 - Bangladesh - Local Responses To Natural Disaster Through Scouts
24500
Int
Nepal
2012 -Nepal - Light in the Darkness: (Experiencing Scout with the Orphans)
22500
Imp
APR
2012 - MoP Network Coordinators Training
24600
Fin
APR
2013 APR MoP NSO Coordinators Gathering
24600
Fin
Maldives
2012 Maldives - Leaders Training and Resource Development
22701
Int
Pakistan
2012 Pakistan -2nd SAARC Scouts Friendship Camp
60000
Int
Indonesia
2012 Indonesia-International Scout Peace Camp
168698
Int
Mongolia
2012 Mongolia-Two Cultures United Through Scouting
24990
Int
Nepal
2012 Nepal-Reaching Out (Expansion of Scouting in Nepal)
16000
Imp
Bhutan
2012 Bhutan-Consultancy Support to Strengthen Adult Resources
17600
Imp
NewZealand
2012 New Zealand-Promoting & Developing Scouts in Multicultural Communities
24900
Int
AsiaPacificRegion
2012 WOSM/APR-Expansion of Scouting in South Pacific Islands
25000
Fin
AsiaPacificRegion
2012 WOSM/APR-Capacity Building at Regional Office to Support NSOs
36500
Int
Pakistan
2012 Pakistan-2nd Special Integration Camp India & Pakistan
12000
Int
SriLanka
2012 Sri Lanka Scout Association-Operation One Region (OOR)
14000
Fin
Australia
2012 Australia-Strengthening Leadership Capacity of Scouting in Timor-Leste
25000
Fin
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Grant Amount from M0P
Country
Project Title
Status
Philippines
2012 The Philippines Empowerment of Young People Through Online Infrastructure
23845
Fin
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia Scouts Coral Restoration
17000
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Use of Bamboo For Survival
16500
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Preserve Local And Traditional Cultures
24100
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Mangrove for Life
14250
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Flowering Gardening - Banten
9700
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Clean and Green River For Better Future
24000
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Embroidery to improve life style
14500
Int
Indonesia
2011 Indonesia - Building Leadership in Project Management
24000
Int
Georgia
2013 - Georgia - Time for Peaceful Coexistence
22264
Fin
Kazakhstan
2013 - New Breath of Scouting
24824
Fin
Armenia
2012 Armenia - Organizational Development and Involvement of Disadvantaged Youth
43506
Fin
Belarus
2012 Belarus - Step towards
21358
Fin
UEA
2012 UEA - Eurasia Regional Office Administartive support
30000
Int
Ukraine
2012 Ukraine - Peace Platform - Scouting unites Ukraine
24995
Fin
Slovenia
Slovenia - A picture is worth a thousand words
24000
Imp
EuropeanRegion
European Region - Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Objective Implementation
60500
Imp
EuropeanRegion
European Region - RDC Promotional Actions in Europe
8100
Fin
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Grant Amount from M0P
Country
Project Title
Status
FYROM
FYROM - Changing by Learning
33746
Imp
Belgium
Belgium - Dealing consciously with Diversity
46700
Int
Finland
Finland - Messengers of Peace Training Event
1440
Fin
Luxembourg
Luxembourg - GeoLux 2013 - Ertoba
20000
Fin
Austria
Austria - Garden of Solidarity - Helping with Heart and Hand
13100
Int
FranceandUK
France & UK - Strenghtening the Scout Organisation of Vanuatu
40480
Int
Finland
Finland - Scouts for Peaceful and Democratic Nepal
24728
Int
FYROM
FYROM - Leadership Development & Environmental Awareness Camp of Veles
2500
Fin
Romania
Romania -100 years of Scouting, 100 years of education, hundreds of Romanian MOP
25000
Fin
Israel-Palestine
Israel - Cross-cultures Council facilitators training
10000
Int
CzechRepublic
Czech Republic - Junak - Accross the borders
14700
Fin
CzechRepublic
Czech Republic - Junak - Century of Scouting
35000
Fin
Israel
Israel - Circles of Existence
24000
Fin
Brazil
Brazil - Scouting in the Amazon Rain Forest
101624
Imp
Guatemala
Guatemala - Interamerican Leadership Training
52316
Fin
Canada
14th World Scout Moot Canada 2013
39250
Fin
Mexico
Mexico - Interamerican Environment Network
25000
Int
Chile
Chile_Messengers of Peace at National Jamboree 2013
24950
Fin
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Grant Amount from M0P
Country
Project Title
Status
Haiti
HAITI - Community development carried on by a stronger organization
499850
Int
Brasil
BRAZIL_Scouting: A Inclusive Look
24999
Int
Nicaragua
Nicaragua - Strengthening our leadership
24990
Int
Uruguay
Uruguay_Renewing Youth Program
24900
Fin
IAR
WSB-IR Strengthening National Educational Methods in the peaceful resolution
24816
Fin
ElSalvador
El Salvador - Youth 4 Youth
67159
Fin
Dominica
Dominica - Reducing deviant behavior through Scouting
15500
Int
WSBCentralOffice
2013 - 1st World Scout Education Congress
250000
Fin
WSBCentralOffice
2013 - 14th World Scout Moot Canada 2013
27775
Fin
KISC
KISC - Messengers of Peace at the Permanent Mini-Jamboree
50000
Int
WSBCentralOffice
2013 - Developing the WOSM Quality Standard
393791
Int
WSBCentralOffice
2013 - Strengthening good governance principles in NSOs through training
70085
Fin
WSBCentralOffice
2013 - Impact Evaluation of 2 Flagship MoP Projects
48200
Fin
WSBCentralOffice
2012 - WSB Consulting Skills Workshop (Philippines)
25000
Fin
WSBCentralOffice
2012-WOSM Educational Methods meeting (Thailand)
12200
Fin
Appendix 2 Evaluation of Two Key Projects: TTL and Youth for Youth
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Evaluation of Key Projects:
Life-Saving Projects that Offer A Ticket to Life‌ Ticket-to-Life (TTL) is an on-going flagship project of World Scouting that originated in Africa, and has been replicated with huge success across the Asia-Pacific Region. Since being supported by the Messengers of Peace Initiative in 2011, TTL has grown to 8 countries, delivering weekly Scouting programs to highly vulnerable street children and orphans living on the margins of society. These weekly Scout meetings provide some of the only basic social care these children receive in the form of the Scout uniform and a predictable weekly meal. TTL also offers an educational opportunity through skills training that helps these children integrate into society and be productive citizens.
In 2012, TTL was the focus of an in-depth evaluation to assess effectiveness and impact. Using recognized experts in the delivery of social service and youth programs we learned that TTL is making a significant impact in the lives of hundreds of poor children. While targets for formal vocational training are not realized due to the young age of the children, we learned that we are generating positive change in street children through our Scout Method. A confirmed and significant impact in changing attitudes leading to action! Given its clear focus, replicable format and measurable results, our external evaluators strongly recommend we scale-up our TTL program. Accordingly, we are seeking additional funding to reach more youth and address more needs. Specifically, we will integrate a skillsdevelopment module to address bullying and intervene with children who are at-risk from sexual and labour exploitation.
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Life-Saving Options for Gangs in El Salvador Youth-4-Youth is a newer project started in 2010 that is designed and delivered by Scouts in El Salvador and funded through Messengers of Peace. Amid much initial apprehension, Scouts intervene directly with youth counterparts detained in the criminal justice system. By attending regular Scout programs, youth offenders learn Scout values and respect that provides self-worth independent of the violent gang culture. Including private sector partners, many former gang members are now learning important skills that will allow them to transition back into the norms of their local society and lead fulfilling, successful lives. As with the Ticket-to-Life project, an external expert was retained in 2012 to undertake an indepth evaluation of Youth-4-Youth. We learned that our unique project model successfully brings together a diverse range of strategic partners including Scouts, the Criminal Justice System and Private Sector actors who seek a stable business environment. Together, these partners engage with youth offenders who traditionally saw no alternative to their gang culture. Now they are learning life skills and receiving vocational training. Thanks to the Scouts of El Salvador, there is a Scout program that offers hope for real change across society.
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The model of engagement embodied within our Youth-4-Youth was acknowledged as a new and innovative solution by external evaluators. These experts emphasized the unique opportunity this project model offers to reach more youth offenders. Further, given the narrow focus and clearly defined objectives, Youth-4-Youth lends itself to replication in other cities across the region that are negatively impacted by the violence and despair of the gang culture. Thus, we seek additional resources to leverage the good work of the Scouts of El Salvador, and make this project model available across Latin America.
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Capacity Building – South Africa Scouting Another early recipient, the South African Scout capacity building project is in the process of completely reforming the programme, training, and administration and organisational management of the South African Scouts. Suffering from an Apartheid-style programme and structure, the old organisation needed reform, and with a complete overhaul of the educational materials and a different system of governance.
WISE found that this project is meeting its goals and while only two thirds completed, is also promising to be a model for other NSOs to duplicate.
Amohoro Amani Literally meaning Peace – in the language first of the Hutu, and then of the Tutsi people of the Great Lakes Region of Africa, this project has been one of the first to be funded by MoP. Spread over three countries – Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo, the project has trained 30,000 Scouts as “Peace Educators”, running peer to peer training, educational camps and carrying out service projects throughout the region, (sometimes literally) building bridges between former enemies in the ethnic conflict that ravaged the region.
WISE found that the programme runs effectively, with a broad network of volunteers, training being carried out systematically, but found also that Scouts in the programme need to take care to assess impact (which they observe as being impressive), but which due to organisation or national cultural reasons (or due to sensitivity of recent history of condemnation of those involved in cross community action) has not been systematically recorded.
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Appendix 3
Draft Memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabia
AGREEMENT Guiding the implementation of the Messengers of Peace Initiative
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THIS AGREEMENT HAS BEEN DRAWN UP BETWEEN: •
First party: The Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia, represented by HRH Prince Khalid Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, Minister of Education.
•
Second party: World Scout Foundation, (WSF) represented by Mr Siegfried Weiser, Chairman of WSF.
PREAMBLE In November 2001, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia called on Scouts to be the Messengers of Peace – bringing greater peace, dialogue and harmony to local communities and to the world. In His letter to WSF Honorary Chairman, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on 18th July 2011, The Custodian announced a grant of USD 37.25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the World Scout Foundation to cover to entire costs for the program detailed in the proposal submitted by HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on 8th July 2010. The World Scout Foundation intends to implement the Initiative as planned and budgeted, over the coming ten years, with a completion date in 2020. This Agreement outlines the commitment of each partner in ensuring the success of Messengers of Peace. This Agreement is based on the decision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King of Saudi Arabia as outlined in the letter to HM King of Sweden on 18th July 2011.
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Appendix 3 Draft Memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabia
ARTICLE 1
Project Aim:
The World Scout Foundation agrees to:
(i)
Implement the Messengers of Peace Initiative according to the detailed plan and budget submitted to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques the King of Saudi Arabia by His Majesty the King of Sweden, thereby assuring the effective management of the global network and the transparent management of the Global Support Fund;
(ii)
Manage the budget of the Initiative in accordance with the proposal of HM the King of Sweden, adapting the expenditures according to the needs which arise around the world, but not surpassing the initial sum of USD 37.25 millions;
Ensuring that the separate efforts of millions of local Initiatives are combined into one global whole;
(iii)
Ensure effective communication of the contribution of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the importance of this Initiative through whatever means possible to media and globally in internet communications;
Demonstrating the global impact of scouting, and providing a global platform for communicating to stakeholders of the Movement;
(iv)
Submit a funding request, supported by a detailed activity plan for funding to the president of the SASA in September of each year for the following year’s funding in order to achieve the activities as described in the original proposal;
(v)
Provide annual financial and narrative reports, not later than the end of February of the following year, to the President of the SASA detailing the progress in implementation of the Initiative, including any changes to the budget allocation, and use of the contingency funds during that year;
(vi)
Ensure participation of a representative of the Saudi Arabian Scout Association in any all events, relating to Messengers of Peace Initiative.
B.
The Ministry of Education and the Saudi Arabian Scouts Association agree to:
(i)
Provide the necessary financial support as agreed in the letter of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques the King of Saudi Arabia to His Majesty the King of Sweden, 18th July 2011;
(ii)
Ensure the funds are paid in a timely fashion by 1st October each year for the following year’s allocation;
(iii)
Help to inspire Scouts throughout the world through active participation in Initiative for Messengers of Peace hosted in different forums internationally;
(iv)
Inspire young Scouts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to participate in MOP projects in their own communities;
(v)
Ensure funding for its own MOP activities within the Kingdom from other sources;
(vi)
Provide feedback to the WSF concerning the reports submitted by the WSF.
Messengers of Peace has two elements:
A Global Network of Messengers of Peace:
Scouts who have worked for peace in their own local communities are considered “Messengers of Peace”. This network will be the platform for: Sharing of enthusiasm, energy, inspiration and knowledge;
It will also demonstrate the impact of the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques His Majesty King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and his co-patron of this Initiative, His Majesty the King of Sweden.
B.
A Global Support Fund
This fund will help to strengthen the capacities of National Scout Organizations and enable scouts in poorer countries to implement vital projects which change communities.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
A.
The aim is to inspire millions of young men and women throughout the world to work for the cause of scouting – Creating a Better World.
A.
ARTICLE 2
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ARTICLE 3
GOVERNANCE:
Governance of the MOP Initiative in terms of programme content will be assured through the WSF by the WOSM representative structures which are constitutionally charged with this function. Financial control and fiduciary governance is assured by the Board of the World Scout Foundation. High level oversight of the Messengers of Peace Initiative shall be guaranteed by a Board of Trustees. This Board of Trustees will be chaired by the Saudi Arabian Scout Association President HH Prince Faisal bin Abdullah, Minister of Education.
ARTICLE 5
Funding:
The total budget of the Initiative is USD 37.25 million, to be spent over ten years from September 2010 till September 2020, according to the budget approved by HM King Abdullah in His letter of 18th July 2011. An amount of USD 10 million will be spent directly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for international peace camp activities involving participants from overseas. The balance of the fund will be transferred to the WSF office, Geneva under title “The King Abdullah Fund for Dialogue and Peace� on an annual basis according to the terms described in Article 2 B (ii) of this Memorandum.
It will assure that the high moral aims of the Initiative are consistently upheld and that the strategic direction, and momentum of the Initiative are maintained. As such, it will receive reports from the World Scout Foundation detailing the direction and performance of MOP activities throughout the world. The Board will work to assure a strong financial strategy for the long-term sustainability of the Initiative. The Board will also work to enhance the public image of the Initiative including a comprehensive communication and outreach strategy.
ARTICLE 4
Administration:
Global support, coordination and promotion of the Initiative will be assured by WOSM office in Geneva and its global network.
First Party
Second Party
The Initiative will be administered by the World Scout Foundation (WSF) based in Geneva. Projects to be supported will be screened normally by the WOSM regional offices, and funding decisions made either in these offices or by the Joint Executive Committee comprising the SASA Vice President, the WOSM Secretary General and the WSF Director. Project grant awards will be assured by the WSF Geneva office and monitored by the WOSM regional teams and other experts appointed by WSF, as considered appropriate, for different projects. Reporting will be overseen by the WSF Geneva office and its network of project consultants. This office reports directly to the WSF Board. Annual reports are provided through the SASA President to the Board of Trustees.
HRH Prince Khalid al Faisal bin Abdulaziz al Saud MINISTER OF EDUCATION
Siegfried Weiser WORLD SCOUT FOUNDATION
PRESIDENT OF THE SAUDI ARABIAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION
Date:_____________
Date:_____________
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‘‘For the first time through Messengers of Peace, thanks to social media, the internet and mobile technology, we can see the real impact, of all our brother and sister Scouts in far flung corners of the world! History is being made!’’
HM The King of Sweden USA Jamboree, July 2013
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