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Dr. Abdelmajid Atef,
General Treasurer of the Arab Scouts Organisation and regional director,
pilot brigadier Ahmed Adellatif, Head of the Arab Scouts Council, and
Mr. Saad Zayan, Director of leadership growth with the World Scouts
Organisation’s office, opened a scout conference for the responsibility
of leadership development and phase expansion, with the aim of
guaranteeing the fulfilment of Scout resolutions in the area of programs
and phase expansion. This took place from the 13th – 15th
of April 2008 in the International Arab Scouts Centre in Cairo.
Sixteen Arab Scout
groups took part in the conference, with 63 participants in total, as
follows: Jordan (1), UAE (2), Bahrain (3), Tunisia (1), Algeria (2),
Saudi Arabia (6), Sudan (4), Sultanate of Oman (1), Palestine (4),
Kuwait (3), Lebanon (5), Libya (4), Egypt (15), Morocco (4), Mauritania
(1), Yemen (3) and the World Scout Organisation office (1).
The conference covered
the following issues: Management of phase and program expansion,
International Policy for leadership growth, The relationship between the
phases and leadership, Defining the roles and responsibilities necessary
to achieve the resolutions, Specification of training requirements for
the completion of the resolutions in the programs, Ways, means and
approaches of training counsellors, How to set up a system to certify
leaders, Placing measures for the continuation and support of leaders,
Explanation of the awarding of World Scouts Medals (Discovery
Volunteering Stages), Partnerships, Explanation of the Cairo Marine
Scouts Corps trial in the World Scouts medals program, Discussion
concerning how the programs should be incorporated in advanced and
itinerant scout activities, Future plans for the cooperation in the area
of programs and leadership.
Scout Commander
Abdelkader Karoudj, National Chief of Cubs, participated in the
conference’s activities, whilst Scout Commander Toufik Rahmani, in his
capacity as a member of the Arab Scouts Committee for Methods and
Programs, joined in the praise of several specialist guests, as well as
attending the first meeting of the Arab Scouts Organisation Methods and
Programs Committee
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