Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme: East and Southern Africa Cycle 1 Mentoring Report

An optional professional mentoring component was built into the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) and was designed to offer mentoring relationship to participants (mentees) and mentors for 6 months of the programme. A pool of 15 CPiE experts including some graduates of the programme as peer mentors were all assigned a mentee from the programme to help mentees develop a greater knowledge base and deeper self-awareness. All participants initially signed up to the mentorship process however two dropped out. At the end of the programme, a survey was sent out with a 58% response rate out of the 21 graduates who took part in the mentoring process. The report also includes responses from 3 mentors.