World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts
Vision and Mission
Vision
• All girls and young women are valued
and take action to change the world.
Mission
• To enable girls and young women to
develop their fullest potential as
responsible citizens of the world.
About WAGGGS
• The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
(WAGGGS) is the largest voluntary movement
dedicated to girls and young women in the world
• 145 Member Organizations (MOs), with 10 million Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts around the world
• Five WAGGGS regions – Africa, Arab, Asia Pacific,
Europe and Western Hemisphere
• Four World Centres: Our Chalet in Switzerland, Pax
Lodge in the UK and Our Cabana in Mexico and
Sangam in India
• The World Centres are residential training centres
where girls and young women develop skills through
international programmes and friendships
About WAGGGS
• The World Conference and the World Board provide the
direction and framework for WAGGGS activities
• WAGGGS and its MOs educate, take action and speak
out on topics such as environmental sustainability,
equality and empowerment, poverty and ending
violence against girls and women.
• We also work towards encouraging youth participation,
female leadership and increasing awareness on the
value of non-formal education.
• WAGGGS develops programmes and resources to
support this work at the global, regional, national and
community level, based on the needs of our MOs.
WAGGGS programmes and
initiatives
• Millennium Development Goal
programme - Global Action
Theme, “Together we can
change our world”
• Global advocacy campaign –
“Stop the violence – speak
out for girls’ rights”
• WAGGGS Leadership
Development Programme
(WLDP)
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Centenary
• World Thinking Day
WAGGGS opportunities
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World Centre events and seminars
– Community leadership and advocacy
events, challenge and adventure, selfdevelopment, international friendship,
resident and community programme
volunteer
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WAGGGS regional and global events
and seminars
– World Conference and Regional
Conferences for MOs and
representatives, fund development,
leadership development and PR and
advocacy training
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External events
– Commission on the Status of Women,
UN climate change conferences
(COPs), Rio+20
WAGGGS resources
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Training Guidelines
Training/workshops
Country visits
Mutual Aid
Members’ Area
Websites
Global Action Theme (GAT)
“Together we can change our world”
• GAT is an educational and
advocacy programme, which
develops awareness, and
supports action at community,
national and international level
by WAGGGS, Member
Organizations, and Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts to achieve the
UN Millennium Development
Goals.
The GAT story so far
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More than 60,000 GAT badges
distributed
16 languages
257 young women delegates at
YWWF 2010 and 2011
Two badge curricula on climate
change and biodiversity with FAO
22 GAT champions
MOUs with FAO, UNICEF, UNEP,
UN WOMEN, Millennium Campaign
Over 100 youth delegates at CSW,
COPs, World Youth Conference
Strategic partnership resource 2010
Training on MDGs, partnerships,
fund development, advocacy at
World Centres, leadership
seminars, Regional and World
Conferences
WTDs on four MDGs so far with
more than 500,000 website hits
Implementing GAT
• GAT Toolkit
• GAT badge curriculum and
guidelines
• Strategic partnerships resource
• Annual MDG themed World
Thinking Day activity pack and
website
• GAT projects – Mutual Aid, Olave
Awards, Centenary projects, FAO
mini grants
Stop the violence campaign
• Global advocacy campaign
• Consultation with Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts showed
violence against girls and
young women was a concern
for them
• More than 7500 voices added
on the campaign counter
www.stoptheviolencecampaign.
com
• Badge curriculum with UN
Women – 20 pilot MOs
• 10 April 2012 – national
campaign launched
•Report on where it is
safest to be a girl with
Plan International
•Survey on girls
perception and
experiences of violence
What you can do to
stop the violence
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Add your voice to the campaign counter
Get other people to add their voices
Join the advocacy network
Raise awareness about the issues within the Movement
and externally
Do an activity with your units/groups or in your
community and tell us about it
Take part in the 16 days campaign in November
Develop a campaign action plan, to run the campaign in
your country
Send a young woman to an international event as an
advocacy delegate
Influence decision-makers using WAGGGS statements
and research
Organize advocacy training for national board/leaders
WAGGGS Leadership
• WAGGGS Leadership Development
Programme, Helen Storrow seminars,
Juliette Low seminars
• Leadership toolkits and guidelines
• WLDP e-learning platform
• WLDP facilitators training
• Coaching and Mentoring approach
Centenary
2010 Plant
2011 Grow
2012 Share
Centenary
• 103 MOs have taken part in a centenary
activities
• 257 young women from 94 MOs have
participated in the YWWFs
• 30,000 centenary activity packs have been
downloaded
• World Centres have celebrated each year
• Regional and World Conferences were
themed on the centenary
• 138 Centenary Ambassadors
• Centenary merchandise
Centenary around the world
• Ireland – Centenary celebration day for 6,000 people
and the centenary logo was beamed onto the moon
• Sri Lanka - A rally for 3,500 people on empowering
girls and young women
• Korea – Plant, Grow, Share camp for 10,500 campers
from 20 countries
Centenary 2012 – Share
• Girls World Forum is the final instalment
in the US in July 2012.
• 2012 centenary activity pack
• 10 April 2012
– Share the Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting story
– Share your voice to stop violence
• Global Action to happen at the end of
2012 will be announced on centenary
web pages
New marketing campaign
www.girlsimaginemore.com
World Thinking Day
• 22 February – themed around different
MDGs each year
– 2012 MDG 3 Environmental sustainability
– 2013 MDGs 4+5 Reducing child mortality
and improving maternal health
– 2014 MDG 2 Universal primary education
– 2015 MDG 8 Peace and partnerships
World Thinking Day 2012
“we can save our planet”
• Activity pack
– Fun, educational activities
– Fundraising ideas
– Speaking out
• Website
www.worldthinkingday.org
• Survey to collect girls views
on environment to take to
COP 17 and Rio +20
• Collect 201,200 actions to
save our planet
• Collected more than
200,000 environmental
actions so far
World Centres
• Pax Lodge, UK
– London location, history of Girl Guiding, ‘Get Away’
and educational events
• Our Chalet, Switzerland
– Adelboden, spectacular mountain setting, challenge
and adventure, environmental leadership
• Our Cabana, Mexico
– Cuernavaca, safe and supported environment, cultural
learning
• Sangam, India
– Pune, safe and supported environment, community
leadership and cultural learning, community
programme
• 5th World Centre pilot project
– Africa based World Centre experiences at Member
Organization training centres
World Centres opportunities
• Seminars and events
• Day and evening programmes
• Group guests, individual guests, bed and
breakfast, day visitors
• Coeducational
• Some bilingual programme
• Programme synergy with MO programmes
• Volunteering - guest services, marketing and
communications
• Community partnerships, community
programmes
WAGGGS regional and
global events
• WLDP Japan October 2012
• Juliette Low Seminar
October/November 2012
• WLDP Denmark February 2013
• Helen Storrow March 2013
• World Centres events and
seminars throughout the year
External events
• Rio+20 Earth Summit July 2012
• COP 18 (UN climate change
conference) November/December 2012
• Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW) March 2013
WAGGGS Online
• Members’ Area
• News and event information
• Resources such as programmes,
communication material, templates
• Case studies and tips from best
practice work
• Networking with partners, MOs and
volunteers
• Project team online collaboration
WAGGGS online
• Website - www.wagggs.org
– The latest news from around the world
– WAGGGS/World Centres event information
– Resources such as programmes, communication
material, templates
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Facebook www.facebook.com/wagggs
Twitter @wagggs_world
Utube
www.youtube.com/user/WAGGGS2008
Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/wagggs
Thank you