Mowgli Mentoring 10yr Impact Report

Connecting leaders across generatio
Aim
Leadership
development, enhancing
ecosystems
Regions
Africa, Europe and the
Middle East
Funder
MAVA Foundation
Lead Partner
Common Purpose
In 6 months:
100%
OF COHORT ONE MENTEES
FELT THAT THE MENTORING
COMPONENT OF THE MAVA
ACADEMY HAD AN IMPACT ON
THEIR PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL
OR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
100%
OF YOUNG LEADERS WHO
GAVE FEEDBACK AFTER FIVE
MONTHS REPORTED INCREASES
IN THEIR NETWORK SIZE AND/
OR AN INCREASED ABILITY TO
NETWORK WITH THOSE IN THE
CONSERVATION SECTOR
91%
OF THE MENTEES FELT
CONFIDENT THAT THEIR
MENTORING RELATIONSHIP
WOULD CONTINUE IN SOME
CAPACITY ONCE THE PROJECT
ENDED IN MARCH
The MAVA foundation 6 supports
biodiversity conservation projects for the
benefit of people and nature. Nathalie
Cadot, Manager in the Impact and
Sustainability team, tells us about their use
of mentoring to support current and future
conservation leaders.
“MAVA will phase out its funding to
all partners in 2022, so our support to our
conservation partners is ending. We are
well aware that the sustainability of our
actions lies in people, and that is why we
are investing in the individuals that make
our partner organisations so great.
“We wanted to support the development of
a new type of leadership in the conservation
sector and raise up new leaders. This new
generation of conservation and sustainable
development actors would work efficiently
with a diverse range of people to take
forward the work of their organisations in a
creative, confident and innovative way.
“We called for proposals from organisations
to support us with this, but were already
aware of Mowgli and the work that they
were doing. We liked the fact that Mowgli
focused exclusively on mentoring and had
good references about the quality of their
work and their impact at an individual level.
From the start, we identified that
mentoring is key to offering our partners
long-term support.
“We eventually partnered with Mowgli for
the mentoring component and Common
Purpose to deliver the leadership
component. We were very pleased with the
blended leadership-mentoring programme
they developed together and we can
now appreciate the strength of this joined
programme. Unusually, the programme
requests joint applications by young and
senior professionals, for them to work
on intergenerational relationships and
translate learning and experience into
their organisations.
“The first cohort of young and senior
leaders graduated from the programme
in April 2019 and we have embarked on
the second cohort with a French-speaking
academy. At the beginning the participants
were a bit sceptical about the mentoring
component – they didn’t really know what
to expect. But now they recognise that the
mentoring aspect of the programme has
been one of the most powerful components
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