National Risk Management Workshop -Leaders role for Minimizing Risk in Scouting (Project)
Managing risk is an important issue in an organization like Scouting. Considering this as one of the most important issue to be dealt in Scouting, the APR Scout Conference in 2001 proposed it to be the part of the APR Plan 2020 and help NSOs in acquiring knowledge and skills and implement appropriate risk management policy in their respective NSOs. Presently Scout Association of Mongolia (SAM) doe not have a National Scout Risk Management Policy. Leaders in the Scout Association of Mongolia, are either well not aware or little know about as an organization equipped with knowledge and skills in Risk Management
Since the inception of SAM, not much attention has been given to this area. Also the socio-economic background as well the traditionally the culture of Mongolians, we were aware of taking risk majors as individuals or small communities, however, as a National Association with International affiliation where young people are exposed to various risks as well with the social and economical development of society the organization is also faced with different risks in undertaking its activities. However, the leader in Scouting lacks knowledge and skills to develop necessary policy and procedures that could help in this matter.
National Risk Management Workshop
National Risk Management Workshop was conducted by Asia- Pacific Region and Scout Association of Mongolia at Scout Camp, Batsumber, Tuv aimag, Mongolia. The workshop officially opened on 6 July 2015 and continued successfully for 4 days. Totally 35 participants, 15 male, 20 female who are representatives from Khentii, Uvurkhangai, Selenge, Dornogobi, Dundgobi, Darkhan-Uul and Ulaanbaatar Councils, attended in the workshop.
At the beginning of the first day session, the workshop facilitators gave the participants an orientation of the workshop, the house rules and other regulations.
The workshop has been held as a presentation and a group work. The participants were told to be divided into small groups and complete the tasks.
During the sessions, the following topics were presented:
• Scout Associations Responsibilities towards its members in reference to their safety and security, Mr. Syd Castillo, WOSM/ APR
• Expected Risk to young people in Scouting (at unit level, in large gathering), Mr. Jamal Harim Bin Abdullah, Malaysia
• Risk Management process, Mr. Aminur Rahman, Bangladesh
• Input on Risk Treatment and developing a national scout policy on risk and safety management, Mr. Malcolm Tan Ban Hoe, Singapore
• Preparing an Action Plan on implementing Risk Management Policy in NSO, Mr. Syd Castillo, WOSM/ APR
The workshop participants kept interaction actively during the group work and group or class discussions. The staff is asked to provide participants with what they needed and to give feedback on day’s session to arrange the workshop schedule in a line according to the program.
After the daily sessions, Mr. Prassanna, a workshop co-director, held the staff meetings so as to ensure that the next sessions run properly and successfully.
On Day 4, the last day of the workshop, participants were asked to fill in the evaluation form and were awarded with the certificate of participation and appreciation.
To sum up, the workshop was unique for the Scout Association of Mongolia preventing risks which may occur during the scout activities and helping adult troops develop their managing risk skills.