Creating Employment &

Leadership through Mentoring

Palestinian Entrepreneurs

The Mowgli Foundation & PICTI

June 2012 UK Registered Charity: 1127087

www.mowgli.org.uk

Why the Life of an Entrepreneur is so Satisfying

Autonomous

Uses the brain

Direct relationship between effort and reward

Benefits of Entrepreneurship

A Wealth creation for development

B Economic regeneration through innovation

C Creation of employment

D Philanthropy; financial and social, creating a better world

E A passionate belief in social empowerment

MOWGLI: PLACING MENTORSHIP AT THE HEART OF

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP

DEVELOPMENT

The Hero’s Journey

Mowgli's progress so far Three Critical Phases when an Entrepreneur

Needs a Mentor

Start Up

Growth

Success

Mowgli's progress so far Leadership: To Serve is To Lead

• The Mowgli Foundation exists to support entrepreneurs through the power of

relationship-based mentoring

• We provide entrepreneurs with relationships that inspire, support and empower

them in achieving their business and personal potential

• Using the power of mentoring, we unlock the potential of entrepreneurs to create

more sustainable business success

• Our mentoring program, “Mowgli Mentoring Experience” (MME), commences with

a 3-day program during which we prepare and equip our mentors, match our

mentors and mentees, and facilitate accelerated relationship building between

mentors and mentees. We then support the mentoring relationships for 1-year

About the Mowgli Foundation

How the Mowgli Mentoring Experience Works

Recruitment, Assessment &

Selection

Evaluate

Introduction to Mentoring

Relationship Building

Create Framework

Mentoring Support

Quarterly Review

Recruit Mentors & Entrepreneurs

Mentors & Entrepreneurs undertake Mowgli Mentoring Experience (MME) which introduces

them to the Mowgli approach to mentoring. Baseline information about skill level and

business performance is sought at this stage to enable success to be measured.

Mentors & Entrepreneurs undertake facilitated relationship building

Mentors & Entrepreneurs agree performance

measurement framework and set benchmarks

Mentoring relationship provides support to Entrepreneur for one year. Mentors and

mentees communicate typically on a fortnightly basis via Skype, telephone,

email and face to face. Mowgli provides Mentor with support and supervision through online forums and one

on one support.

Mentors & Entrepreneurs undertake quarterly review in line with agreed

performance framework. Mentors and entrepreneurs complete online

feedback reports to Mowgli.

At the end of the year long programme, Mentors & Entrepreneurs evaluate

progress and success against benchmarking report.

Mowgli assesses impact using end of year data and baseline information.

• 24 MME Programs resulting in the establishment of c.200 mentoring relationships

supporting entrepreneurs in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey,

Morocco, Algeria and the UK

• Partnership agreements in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Algeria and Qatar

• For every entrepreneur we mentor with Mowgli…at least 2 new jobs are created in

the first year

• c.35% of our entrepreneurs would like to be considered as a mentor for other

Mowgli entrepreneurs in the future

• c.75 % of mentoring relationships have lasted 12 months

• c.98% of our entrepreneurs indicated to keep in touch with their mentor beyond

the Mowgli programme

Mowgli’s Accomplishments To Date

Source: menamap.com

Countries where Mowgli has already run programs

Countries where Mowgli will run new programs in 2012

Mowgli: 175+ Entrepreneur/Mentor

Relationships in MENA

Mowgli in Palestine

“The skills developed will help me lead a stronger team at

my NGO. It allowed me to consider new techniques and

ways of supporting my team as individuals.” Mentor Feedback, Palestine MME, April 2012

Mowgli in Palestine

Train the Trainer Session Amman

Train the Trainer Project, Amman, Jordan

Mowgli in Palestine

Creating mentors & mentoring entrepreneurs

• Mowgli places mentoring at the heart of

leadership development to meet the

challenges of unemployment and the need

for better leaders in society

• Harnessing the support of the private

sector through mentoring is an essential

step in developing economies, eliminating

poverty & reducing unemployment

Building Skills

Developing Support

Networks

Motivating Entrepreneurs

What our entrepreneurs say about mentoring

“I was completely unaware of the mentorship concept

before attending. I have met wonderful people. I have

clarified my professional and personal goals.”

Eli Khoury, Mentee,2011

“I think [Mowgli is] a new school of business for entrepreneurs,

where business is driven by morals first, and interests

second.” Emad Ammouri, Mentee, 2011

86% of Mowgli graduates say their Mowgli mentor helped with “developing

confidence in my business decision making skills.”

77% of Mowgli graduates say their

Mowgli mentor helped them

“understand how to move the

business on to the next growth stage.”

“After being faced with challenges, market problems, investments… I couldn’t find anyone who believed in me as my mentor believed in me. I found a great friend and a wise specialist in the business who kept me motivated during the hard times. We now have our own offices and

have built a studio; we have 5 full time employees… I have begun to help others in the same way my mentor

helped me.” Ala Suleiman, Mentee, 2011

Project beneficiaries

Local SME and

Next Generation Family Entrepreneurs

Young Entrepreneurs

Creating Leaders

Local Communities

We need support for the project to be a success

Support Needed

Sourcing Entrepreneurs

Sourcing Mentors

Achieving future

sustainability

Partnerships