Common Purpose and Mowgli Mentoring kick off the face to face component of the MAVA funded Leaders for Nature Academy
The program is transformative, powerful, and has forever changed the way I will relate to people.” Clive Poultney. Mentor, MAVA Leaders for Nature Academy, Southern African Wildlife College. Earlier this year, we announced our partnership with the MAVA Foundation and Common Purpose to launch the MAVA Leaders for Nature Academy, a program aimed at driving growth, […]
GIZ invests in and collaborates with Mowgli Mentoring to raise awareness about mentoring to support their Make-It In Africa program in Kenya and further place mentoring at the heart of the Kenyan entrepreneurship ecosystem
According to a 2014 survey by The UPS Store, 70 percent of small businesses that receive mentoring survive more than five years — double the survival rate of non-mentored businesses. To begin strengthening entrepreneurial businesses in Kenya, we recently partnered with Make-IT in Africa, a GIZ tech entrepreneurship initiative promoting digital innovation within East and West Africa […]
Mowgli Alumni Spotlight: Tarek Jaroudi
Mowgli Entrepreneur: Tarek Jaroudi Company: Moodfit Country: Lebanon Mowgli Mentoring program: Ideal 2015 — EU-funded program Over time, mentoring has been proven as a vital and cost-effective means of developing human capital. Research by Sage shows that 93 per cent of startups admit that mentoring has been instrumental to their success. Our latest impact report supports these statistics as it showcases increased business […]
Mentoring: How we’re using it as a tool to empower refugee entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and facilitate dialogue within host communities
Did you know that out of every 100 people in the world, 1 person is a refugee? If the refugee population were to be translated into that of a country, it would be the 24th largest country in the world! Makes you look at the refugee crisis in a different light, doesn’t it? According to […]
Bridges of Understanding
Written by: Mowgli Mentor and Organizational Development Consultant, Salma El Yassir.
Empowering Innovators Shaping the Future of the Mediterranean
Leader Mentor Training Program, Jordan The youth population in Middle East countries is predicted to increase by 40 percent by the year 2020 which means that the region will need to create 80 million new jobs to accommodate the working age population. Not an easy task considering the region is already dealing with an unemployment […]
Closing the Gender Gap: How Mowgli and the EBRD are Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Tunisia
“The empowerment of women is the most effective tool for development.” — Kofi Annan. When Mowgli expanded across Africa, we also increased our beneficiary focus to include women. We’re walking the talk having recently partnered with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to address Tunisia’s gender gaps, through the European Union funded, Programme d’Appui à la […]
Supporting Effective Leadership Through Mentoring
We’ve recently partnered with leadership development experts, Common Purpose to support the MAVA Fondation pour la Nature in developing a strong conservation community that will carry on MAVA’s mandate and multiply able leaders to champion conservation causes, long after the foundation’s closing. The MAVA funded Leaders for Nature Academy will see professionals from the foundation’s partner organizations […]
Climate change is the buzzword today and Mowgli is right where the action is, supporting this change with World Bank funded GCIC
Climate change has become a buzzword in this day and age, and rightly so. According to the World Bank report Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change, Ghana’s agricultural GDP may decline by 3 to 8 percent if measures to adapt are not implemented. Amidst the looming crisis, opportunities exist and the Bank Group’s agenda is to […]
Mentoring supports the development of youth agribusiness in Africa’s fastest-growing economy where 64% of the population are below the age of 30
Ethiopia, Africa’s fastest developing economy according to the IMF, is an agricultural economy with the practice contributing to nearly 50 percent of the country’s earnings. In a country where the youth make up 64% of the population, it only makes sense that our first strategic partnership in the country and Sub Saharan Africa, was with […]