WOSM fee system World Scout Conference, Curitiba, Brazil, January 2011

Overview - 1 At the 2008 World Scout Conference in Korea, business resolution 2/08 - Registration Fee System - was passed.

“The Conference … • requests the World Scout Committee to continue refining the new fee structure to ensure maximum benefit for all National Scout Organizations and to ensure completion in time to enable a vote to be taken at the World Scout Conference in Brazil in 2011

• decides to adopt, as an interim measure for the triennium 2008-2011, the alternative proposal contained in Annex 4 of Conference Document No. 10, which renews the fees due during the triennium 2005-2008 adjusted for inflation by 4.3%”.

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Overview - 2 A Task Force was formed with the following members:

• a Chairman appointed by the World Scout Committee, • one representative of each of the following National Scout Organizations: Indonesia, Philippines, United Kingdom, United States of America, • one member of the World Scout Committee as Liaison Person • one Youth Advisor to the WSC nominated by the Chairman of the Task Force • WOSM Secretary General

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Overview - 3

Task Force:

• reviewed all existing data regarding the current fee system

• reviewed the current system, its history and the reasons why the above resolution was passed

• made recommendations to the World Scout Committee for review, acceptance and subsequent submittal to the 2011 World Scout Conference in Brazil.

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Current status - 1

• The current fee system passed in 1996 in Norway. • Developed to ensure a more equitable and practical fee system. • A four category – A, B, C, D - fee system based on member NSO’s GNIpc. • As a result each member NSO paid an annual world fee directly related to their GNIpc and membership.

Furthermore: • flat fee of CHF 300 to NSO's with a GNIpc <USD 350, • upper-limit of 1million members above which no fee per member was charged for countries in category A and B. • no NSO charged an annual fee more than 35% of the total annual fees.

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Current status - 2

• System: fair, • But a number of inequities which negatively affected certain member NSO's. • Was not the intent of the system. • The 2005 World Scout Conference passed a resolution to review and recommend whatever changes should be made to the fee structure to ensure a more equitable and practical fee system.

• Two recommended options were presented to the 2008 World Scout Conference. The Conference then adapted resolution 2/08, as noted above.

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Factors considered - 1 • The current system is:

-  basically fair -  equitable -  easy to manage -  has no unknowns -  allows for adjustments – up or down - as may be justified

• Drastically changing the current system may result in new problems which cannot be currently forecast.

• Certain NSOs are in a position, and have expressed a willingness, to augment their current fees paid.

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Factors considered - 2 • Existing system is fair and equitable for the vast majority of members. • Certain members, specifically six NSO's in the Asia-Pacific Region, merit recognition of their:

-  high membership -  organizational status -  economic and social realities

which place them in a difficult position to pay under the current world fee structure. • The challenge to the World Scout Committee is to eliminate the perceived value-gap felt by some member NSOs who may feel they are net receiving their “money’s worth”.

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Recommended World Fee System - 1 • Major changes not required in the existing fee system.

• Rather, more of a fine-tuning is required. Supported by following aspects:

• NSOs are accustomed to an evolution of their annual fees over the years, as per the increase in CPI (Switzerland), and the change in their membership. • The present system is simple, well known, accepted and has demonstrated its fairness and practicality. • Given the current world economic situation, changes in the GNIpc base (2004) would cause certain non-equitable results, not to speak of the uncertainty resulting from the current world economic and financial crisis.

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Recommended World Fee System - 2 • The RFTF therefore recommends to the World Scout Committee to maintain the current fee system for the 9 coming years with the following modifications:

• Maintain the current four categories - A-B-C-D - on the basis of the GNIpc base and ceiling lines used from the Tunisia to the Korea World Conferences. • Maintain the GNIpc of each NSO at the current level being used, i.e. GNIpc used from the Tunisia to the Korea World Conferences. • Maintain the previously mentioned factors under the Current Status section above. • Adjust the membership figures with the census as at 31 December 2009.

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Recommended World Fee System - 3

• Augment this fee every three years commencing fiscal year 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012 by the CPI (Switzerland) over the last 36 months.

• Agree with those six Asia-Pacific NSO's, recognizing their unique high membership, organizational status, economic and social realities a mutually acceptable payment.

• Review the possible augmented fee that may be paid by certain NSO's given their willingness and ability to do so to address any shortfall in revenue.

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Recommended World Fee System - 4

• RFTF members considered representation made by several NSO’s concerning fees paid to both WAGGS and WOSM.

However it is of the view that no discount for such joint membership be recommended, or reduction in declared membership acceptable.

Members felt that there was no reduction in the costs incurred by WOSM for supporting such NSO’s.

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Proposal

• To freeze annual fees parameters for 3 trienniums 2011-2014, 2014-2017 and 2017-2020

• Inflation would be the only increase from one triennium to the other

• During 3rd triennium WSC to study new fee system

No impact of membership increase on annual fee = incentive to declare true membership + incentive to grow

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Resolution proposed by the World Scout Committee The World Scout Committee proposes the following resolution to the 39th World Scout Conference: The Conference : • adopts the registration fee system described in Annex 1 of Conference Document N° 10 as the WOSM Fee System from fiscal year 2011-2012 starting 1 October 2011, • decides that the following shall apply for fiscal years 2011-2012 to 2019-2020:

-  basic fee per member: CHF 1.22, -  on a voluntary basis, basic fee per member, as defined above, augmented by 5% for all 25 NSOs with a GNI per capita greater than USD 20,000, -  basic fee per member, as defined above, to be adjusted to inflation for the triennium 2014-2017 and 2017-2020, - category A, category B, category C, category D: as defined in point 6 of the Conference Document N° 10: WOSM Registration Fee System, - minimum annual fee payable: CHF 300, - annual flat fee for Member Organizations in a country with a GNI per capita of less than US$350: CHF 300, - annual flat fee for an Accredited National Scout Organization: CHF 200.

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Thank you for your attention!