Non-aligned Scouting and Scout-like organisations

The largest two international organisations, WOSM and WAGGGS, have 362 national associations as members, encompassing 38 million Scouts and Guides.

There are also many single groups that are not affiliated with any regional or national association and the majority of these are in Germany, where Scouting is very fragmented.

There are also Scout-like organisations linked to faiths and churches, such as the Salvation Army's Adventure Corps, Pioneers and SAGALA Guards and Legion, Adventism's Pathfinders, the Nazarene Caravan, the Pentecostal Royal Rangers and Awana.

The Junior Forest Wardens has more direct ties to ecological conservation, and is popular in British Columbia and Alberta.

In 2003 Navigators USA was formed to enable people to take part in Scouting-like activities which was open to all children and communities.

Other groups such as YMCA, YWCA, Sokol, Rotaract and the National FFA Organization and 4-H have few similarities to Scouting.

It still exists in some fashion in the People's Republic of China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam and has been turned into a nationalist movement in Tajikistan-the King Somoni Inheritance.

Examples are the Children's Republic, camps run by the SJD-The Falken in Germany in the 1920s, however unlike the concurring Pioneer Movements, IFM–SEI works to further democracy.

Prior to World War II, Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary and Romania disbanded Scouting.

They believe that Scouting in general has moved away from its original intent, because of political machinations that happen to longstanding organisations, and seek to return to the earliest, simplest methods.

Others are a result of groups or individuals who refuse to follow the original ideals of Scouting but still desire to participate in Scout-like activities.

In the years following the First World War, the Commissioner for Camping and Woodcraft John Hargrave, broke with what he considered to be the Scouts' militaristic approach and founded a breakaway organisation, the Kibbo Kift, taking a number of similar-minded Scoutmasters and troops with him.

[6] Scouts-in-Exile groups were formed overseas from their native country as a result of war and changes in governments.

For the Scouts-in-exile groups, serving the community outside their homelands, there is resentment that they were not recognised during their nations' totalitarian periods.

[7] A number of exile Scout groups have their own national and multinational organizations, hold regional and world jamborees, issue training materials, and furnish leadership.