Specialisation Training Course
Mentoring and Advising
19 June 2011 - 24 June 2011
Berlin, Germany
The main objective of the course is to convey the significance of successful mentoring and advising for the implementation of the overall mission mandate and to determine how mentoring schemes and processes can successfully contribute to local ownership of a host nation.
The challenge of how to integrate local knowledge and traditions into the transitional process - how to strike the proper balance - in the implementation of internationally accepted standards is tremendous and demands patience and subtlety from all partners involved. Successful mentoring can contribute to reducing the friction caused by these transitions.
The fact of gaining and holding the respect of local staff as a pre-condition to be accepted in the role of a mentor is addressed in the training, and participants are introduced to tools and techniques in working with interpreters.
Furthermore the dilemmas of “intrusive” peace-building measures and how those can affect and influence the relationship of a mentor and mentee are discussed. Sustainable capacity development requires a comprehensive, continuous and logical process that begins with strategic planning and is followed by assessment of capacity needs, planning for capacity development interventions and finally periodical monitoring and evaluation.
Implementing Partners
Lead implementing body: Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Germany
Other partner implementing bodies: Barcelona Peace Center (BPC), Spain
ENTRi Certification
This course has been certified by ENTRi. For more information on the ENTRi certification process, please click here.
