In 1923, the Philippine Council BSA was formed through the efforts of the Rotary Club of Manila mainly to launch Scouting as a nationwide movement and provide guidance to the troops which had been independently organized throughout the country. Eventually, through the issuance of Commonwealth Act No. 111 by then President Manuel L. Quezon on October 31, 1936, the Boy Scouts of the Philippines was established as a public corporation tasked to, according to Section 3 of the law.
"to promote through organization and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in Scout craft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues, using the methods which are in common use by Boy Scouts."

From the early troops in 1914, the Boy Scouts of the Philippines prides itself today as one of the largest Scout organizations in the world, in terms of the number of Scouts against the number of young people of Scouting age, with over 2 million members nationwide.

Makati Mayor Jejomar C. Binay is the president of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and was also elected chairman of the Asia Pacific Region Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement during the 22nd APR Scout conference held in Tokyo, Japan. He will serve until 2012.

The committee is the governing body of the 25 scout organizations in Asia and the Pacific, one of the biggest regional scout groups in the world.

Binay, is the fifth Filipino to hold the highest position in the Asia Pacific Region. He followed the footsteps of Lawyer Francisco Roman, who was elected in 1989. But before Roman, the first Filipino to head the region was Mariano V. Delos Santos as interim chairman, followed by Ambassador Antonio Delgado in 1964; and Jorge Cui in 1980. Delgado and Roman would eventually become chairman, 30 years apart, of the World Scout Committee, the umbrella organization of all Scouts organizations in the world.