South East European Initiative
Croatia

South East European Initiative

From 18th to 20th September 2015. a weekend meeting of members of the South East European Initiative was held in Ohrid. Croatian Scout Association was represented by Mirela Varović, Vice President, Helen-Marie Kerovec, Chief Commissioner, Jelena Drndić, International Commissioner, Katica Konstantinović, Program Commissioner and Tamara Karlović, office staff. Miran Lanšćak and Jadranka Ivaniš also participated. Other Scout Associations present at the meeting were Scout Associations of Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Scout Association of Israel attended the meeting as an observer. The reason is their desire to be involved in the work of our group. The representatives of the European Scout Committee Andrea Demarmels, Chairperson and Chip - Veerle Haverhals, were present giving their support to the work and efforts of our Scout Region. Jordan Bajraktarov, Director of Organizational Development was present as well. Our International Commissioner Jelena Drndić, opened the working part of the meeting with the presentation of common goals and tasks that have been fulfilled from the meeting held last year in Turkey. All participants presented the work of their Associations during the previous year, so everyone was acquainted with the activities and projects that were implemented in the SEE region. The most important topic of the meeting was the upcoming working plan of the European Scout Region in the period 2016-2019. In groups, participants were asked to suggest what areas of activity and priorities most important to us as a region should be included in the three-year work plan of the European Scout Region. WOSM project Messengers of Peace was also presented at the meeting. We were introduced with the possibilities available to fund scout projects, as well as examples of good practice from the region that were already financed by this fund. We had a chance to get information about the Global support program. Our national Association was involved in a pilot project of the program. It is the GSAT analysis during which the external impartial auditor, through a series of questions, determined which are good and bad sides of our work in the Association, and what things should be fixed and improved. Representatives of our Scout Association held a meeting with President of the Committee Andrea Demarmels where they introduced him the current situation in our organization. The discussion focused around the most current topic these days, the refugee crisis, how we got involved in helping and what we plan to do in the future. President Demarmels asked us how European region can help us in all our endeavors, except, of course, giving us financial support as they did before. He listened to all of our suggestions and promised to try to provide the maximum possible support in everything that we asked. Scout Association of Macedonia proved to be an excellent host. Except the working part of the meeting, we also had the opportunity of sightseeing in Ohrid and its surroundings.
Topics
Legacy BWF
Global Support Assessment Tool
Partnerships
SDGS

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