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The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM / ˈ w ʊ z əm /) is the largest and, after the Order of World Scouts (formed in 1911) is the second oldest international scout organization, having been established in 1922.
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM / ˈ w ʊ z əm /) is the largest international scout organization and was established in 1922. [1] [2] It has 176 members. [3]These members are national scout organizations that founded WOSM or have subsequently been recognised by WOSM, which collectively have around 43 million participants.
With the spread of the British Boy Scouts program throughout the world via the CHUMS (paper) [6] and Vane's efforts, Vane aligned the various national Scout organisations as the "Legion of World Scouts", the first international organization, launched on 1 May 1911. [7] [better source needed] This included the 'American Boy Scout'. [8]
In most countries of the world, there is now at least one Scouting (or Guiding) organization. Each is independent, but international cooperation continues to be seen as part of the Scout Movement. In 1922 the WOSM started as the governing body on policy for the national Scouting organizations (then male only).
The Scout Movement is a pluralist movement not a unitary organisation. Before the formation of national Scout organisations and long before the formation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, the Scout Movement had been well established for both boys and girls and Scouting was the purview of the world's youth. Boys and girls ...
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (2 C, 51 P) World Organization of the Scout Movement (3 C, 16 P) Pages in category "International Scouting organizations"
The European Scout Region comprises 47 National Scout Organizations that are members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, and services Scouting in Western and Central and Eastern Europe, inclusive, for cultural reasons, of Cyprus (technically not part of Europe, but a member-state of the European Union) and Turkey (which spans across two continents), and, as a member of the United ...
The World Scout Foundation (WSF) is an international, non-profit institution based in Geneva, Switzerland.Its mission is to develop World Scouting through the provision of financial and other support through the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).