Youth Empowerment Framework

The Youth Empowerment Team of the European Scout Region was established to work between 15 November 2022 and 15 June 2025, following the conference resolution 24ESC-02, with a primary goal of ensuring that young people and youth empowerment are held at the centre of all aspects of what we do in Scouting.

This document presents the work of the European Scout Region’s Youth Empowerment Team, which focused on:

• Identifying and developing best practices in Youth Empowerment within and external to Scouting, considering perspectives from Member Organizations of the European Scout Region, other Scout Regions, partner organisations and developments at the World Level of World Scouting.
• Developing a framework for implementing WOSM’s Youth Engagement Strategy (Document 10, World Scout Conference 2021) within the Region.
• Developing a Regional Youth Empowerment Action Plan, including a focus on Youth Empowerment in decision-making, guided by the outcomes of the World Scout Committee’s Youth Engagement in Decision-Making Task Force 2021-2024.
• Supporting and strengthening Member Organizations’ capacity to put young candidates forward to the European Scout Committee.