Scouting and Guiding in Switzerland is made up of numerous scouting and guiding bodies which act to provide the opportunities to scout. This could be though Swiss national Scouting and Guiding organizations, through independent troops (attached to the German Scout organization) or through international troops established in Switzerland. While the latter two are similar, there is a fundamental difference because the three independent groups while taking guidance under different national regimes it is a program developed by people in the various cities, where the presence of international groups in Switzerland is a top down targeted programs that have been developed to offer expatriates scouting and guiding in the language they are used to (mostly English) and are developed in areas with a larger expatriate community. All of which are supported the existence of
KISC and
Our Chalet, both acting as semi-permanent jamborees.
In
Basel operates a single Girl Scouts troop of the German traditionalist Catholic Scout association Katholische Pfadfinderschaft Jeanne d'Arc. This troop operates within the
Society of St. Pius X.[13]
Pfadi Weiach in
Stadel,
Kaiserstuhl and
Fisibach. The troop is interreligious, coeducational and is a former unit of the Swiss Guide and Scout Movement[14]
IG Gewässerschutz Kollbrunn-Flusspfadi Tösstal in
Kollbrunn,
Sea Scouts, interreligious and coeducational[15]
International Scout and Guide units in Switzerland