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The main topic of this meeting
was to modernize the professional arm behind
the world scouting, which is called the World Scout Bureau. And,
as most conventional organisation, this organisation
consists of a traditional head office and
6 regional offices. The regional offices serve the
regions while the head office develop
and did the central functions. Now
what the board was to discuss was to modernize that
and move it into a network of global
offices in seven cities serving the movement as a whole.
One global team serving one global movement.
This is a very, very difficult decision because it
challenges the regional committees'
control over the region offices.
And in it was also a decision
on terminating our head office operation
in Geneva and building
up an addition office in Kuala Lumpur to serve as a shared service center.
Not as a new head office but a shared service center.
The board had this discussion and came
totally divided. But through a process of dialogue and
tweaking and discussing
and
I would say a creative process. Actually the board ended up
deciding by consensus, which is absolutely unheard of.
By consensus it decided upon
a new structure which will become a much stronger
profissional back end service organization
to develop world schouting. The reason why this is really important
is that we currently serving 36 million
young people that we could have served 360 million
young people. We've to get our act together and I think today
or yesterday was a milestone in that process.
Interviewer: So it is not just the outcome that will have a great impact for the
future scouts but also the process itself that you are pleased about.
The outcome is twofold. One is that
now we've decided to create a much better structure. But we've also demonstrated that
across all
continent, all sorts of countries. I think this board represent at
least 20 different nationalities from all over the world that
we can actually come, divided but leave united, which
I think is very promising for the future. Sounds good. Thank you