Mentoring Among Local Organizations—Here’s How!

[Jennifer Lentfer]

Following on the interest in my posts on exchange visits between local organizations and oral reporting, here’s another set of guidelines on mentoring relationships for your use and adaptation.

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Stronger, more sustainable community-based organizations can contribute to a more effective and participatory civil society response to the needs of vulnerable people in the developing world.

Donors can support organizations even at the beginning stages of organizational development with an intent to leave groups stronger than when they first entered into partnership. Different types of capacity building activities such as exchange visits and mentoring relationships between organizations can offer the most relevant and supportive technical assistance through sharing on-the-ground experience among organizations at all levels of organizational development.

The following guidelines offer some sound practices as a starting point from which mentoring relationships can provide effective and meaningful technical assistance among local organizations.

Read more at: http://www.how-matters.org/2011/11/08/mentoring-local-organizations/

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(Please do note that this post is not describing a specific program. I am simply sharing the guidelines so that they can be distributed and used widely by donors and local organizations as a sound capacity building practice. I hope they can be useful as you connect with other organizations through your own initiatives.)