by Chooi Yew Tzen, Medel Angara, Kalikasan Castillo, Wind Love Cucal, Berthold Sinaulan, Adrian Uy yung Cheng
The spirits kept high among delegates during the “breakout” session at the 26th APR Scout Conference, PICC, Manila, Thursday 18 October 2018. All 600 delegates were assigned to one of seven breakout groups.The seven groups were: (1) APR Plan 2018-2021 and WOSM Triennial Plan 2017–2020, (2) Diversity & Inclusion and Dialogue for Peace, (3) World Adults-in-Scouting (AIS) Policy and eLearning, (4) Educational Methods in Global Support Assessment Tool, (5) Scouting and Sustainable Development Goals, (6) Messengers of Peace, and (7) Growth.Facilitators from the WOSM and APR offices handled the breakout groups.
During the meeting, it was discussed that the APR Plan is aligned with WOSM’s Triennial Plan. It was understood that the needs of each NSO are unique. The plan also aims to monitor and keep track of the NSOs’ development and achievements. It promotes inclusion and diversity having “In Growth, Everyone Counts” as its main theme.
Diversity and Inclusion
The group highlighted the importance of considering the differences of NSOs. Also, NSOs in the Region must be able to initiate efforts on diversity and inclusion through the creation of a position paper. It was emphasized that the program should always be inclusive in all aspects – inter-religious, inter-cultural, and cross-border.
World AIS Policy and E-learning
The meeting highlighted key points on Recruitment, Performance, Decisions for the future and Recognition. The group recommended that Adult Training must be multimodal in delivery, placing emphasis on eLearning opportunities, a creation of a set of guidelines for best practices in all parts of the AIS lifecycle, and the establishment of an APR network or avenue to share ideas for Trainers.
Educational Methods in Global Support Assessment Tool
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The World Triennial Plan aims to have 75% of NSOs to complete the GSAT assessment, looking at its 10 dimensions – (1) NSO-WOSM Institutional Requirement, (2) Governance Framework, (3) Strategic Framework, (4) Integrity Management, (5) Communication, Advocacy, and Public Image, (6) Adults in Scouting, (7) Resources Allocation and Financial Controls, (8) Youth Programme, (9) Growth Potential, (10) Continuous Improvement. During the presentations, the facilitator said that APR was not far behind compared with GSAT statistics of the world.
Scouting and Sustainable Development Goals
The session was partitioned based on two objectives. The first was about the relationship between Scouting education and Education for Sustainable Development, emphasizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of the seven critical issues in the Asia-Pacific Region. The second objective was to make a list of recommendations regarding Education for Sustainable Development.
Messengers of Peace
Scouts around the world have contributed more than one billion service hours for Messengers of Peace (MoP) activities, and around 840 million of those hours were credited to APR. (WOSM made a projection of over 3 billion service hours by the year 2030). AP Region actually achieved over 840 million,but some projects and events in MoP were not reported and documented in scout.org. The group recommended the creation of an approved structure, in collaboration with the Youth Program team, to implement and evaluate the MoP program in the NSOs.
Growth
The Growth breakout group discussed the challenges that hinder NSO growth. Some of these were lack of financial resources from the government, increased focus on formal education, retention of existing members, increase in competing organisations, and lack of consistency in leaders’ provision for the program. With these challenges, the group identified the following solutions: formalize leadership recognition, provide logical progression for young people to be leaders to prevent them from leaving the Movement, and projecting the message that Scouting is inclusive.