RWSN and Women in WASH Mentoring Programmes 2024 Report

Description:

RWSN has been running a mentoring programme for the water sector since 2019 in English, French and Spanish. Since the start of the programme, over 1,659 mentors & mentees have been involved in the programme.

Since 2021, the RWSN Secretariat manages the mentoring programme through the platform Pushfar, so that participants can select their own mentor or mentee themselves. This was based on feedback from previous years, where mentees and mentors had sometimes found that their assigned mentor/ mentee was not a good fit for their needs or skills. By letting the mentors and mentees choose their mentoring partner themselves, we hoped it would improve the quality of the mentoring relationship for all parties.

This year, the mentoring program was organized in collaboration with Agenda for Change, featuring a special initiative called Women in WASH, dedicated exclusively to female mentors and mentees. The program consisted of two sub-programs: the Near-Peer Program, designed for women with similar levels of professional experience who want to support and exchange ideas with each other, and the Traditional Program, which pairs a senior mentor with a more junior mentee.

This year, we also collaborated with the Global Water Center, which, among other things, provides specialized training in solar-powered water systems. They actively promoted the mentoring program to their alumni, expanding the initiative’s reach to a broader and more technically skilled audience.

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Bibliographical Information:

RWSN, Agenda for Change (2024) RWSN and Women in WASH Mentoring Programmes 2024 Report.

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» Women in WASH Mentorship Program 2024: Building bridges in the WASH sector, Agenda for Change

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