OSCE Mentor Networks Evaluation Seminar

Mentoring is considered an effective way to support marginalized, migrant, or minority women to improve their business or political skills and access new opportunities. Several OSCE field operations are supporting such mentoring networks. The OSCE Gender Section has implemented the project “Creating Mentor/Mentee Networks in the OSCE Region” since 2013, in co-operation with the Danish NGONGO
non-governmental organization KVINFO and Serbian NGO European Movement. The objective of the project is to develop and create the tools needed for establishing mentor/mentee networks across the OSCE region and support field operations and organizations in OSCE countries to apply them. Where the first phases of the project focused on tools development and training of OSCE field operations, the second phase entailed further trainings to NGOs interested to implement the mentor network methodology and a process to document and share the lessons learned of the project as a whole.

As a result of this project, several OSCE field operations and NGOs in participating States have established mentor networks for women, targeting different groups and using a wide variety of methods for this.

The objectives of the Evaluation Seminar are:

• Bringing together participants during the different phases of the project
• Jointly map and review the main results achieved so far
• Share and exchange good practices and lessons learned
• Agree on potential next steps

Participants are kindly requested to fill in the registration form and to send it to magda.jugheli@osce.org, not later than 23 January 2018.