The document discusses the Mowgli Foundation's mentoring program for Palestinian entrepreneurs. The program aims to create employment and develop leadership through relationship-based mentoring. It provides entrepreneurs with mentoring relationships to inspire, support, and empower them to achieve business success and unlock their potential. The program involves recruiting and matching mentors and entrepreneurs, an initial training, ongoing mentoring support for a year, and periodic reviews of progress. To date it has created over 200 mentoring relationships across several Middle Eastern countries. The entrepreneurs report benefits such as increased confidence, support networks, and motivation from their mentors.

1. Creating Employment &
Leadership through Mentoring
Palestinian Entrepreneurs
The Mowgli Foundation & PICTI
UK Registered Charity: 1127087
www.mowgli.org.uk June 2012

2. Why the Life of an Entrepreneur is so Satisfying
Direct relationship between
effort and reward
Uses the brain
Autonomous

3. 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

4. The Hero’s Journey

5. Mowgli's progressEntrepreneur
Three Critical Phases when an
so far
Needs a Mentor
Success
Start Up
Growth

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

7. About the Mowgli Foundation
• 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

8. How the Mowgli Mentoring Experience Works
Recruitment, Introduction
Assessment & to Mentoring
Selection Relationship
Building
Create
Mentors & Entrepreneurs undertake Mowgli
Recruit Mentors & Framework
Mentoring Experience (MME) which introduces
Entrepreneurs Mentors & Entrepreneurs
them to the Mowgli approach to mentoring.
Baseline information about skill level and undertake facilitated
business performance is sought at this stage to relationship building
enable success to be measured.
Mentors & Entrepreneurs
agree performance
measurement framework
and set benchmarks
Mentoring
Evaluate Support
Quarterly
Review
Mentoring relationship provides support to
Entrepreneur for one year. Mentors and
At the end of the year long programme, mentees communicate typically on a
Mentors & Entrepreneurs evaluate Mentors & Entrepreneurs undertake fortnightly basis via Skype, telephone,
progress and success against quarterly review in line with agreed email and face to face.
benchmarking report. performance framework. Mowgli provides Mentor with support and
Mowgli assesses impact using end of Mentors and entrepreneurs complete online supervision through online forums and one
year data and baseline information. feedback reports to Mowgli. on one support.

9. Mowgli’s Accomplishments To Date
• 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

10. Mowgli: 175+ Entrepreneur/Mentor
Relationships in MENA
Countries where Mowgli has already run programs
Countries where Mowgli will run new programs in 2012
Source: menamap.com

11. Mowgli in Palestine
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

12. Train the Trainer Project, Amman, Jordan
Train the Trainer Session Amman

13. Mowgli in Palestine

15. Creating mentors & mentoring entrepreneurs
• Mowgli places mentoring at the heart of
leadership development to meet the Building Skills
challenges of unemployment and the need
for better leaders in society Developing
Support
Networks
• Harnessing the support of the private
sector through mentoring is an essential
Motivating
step in developing economies, eliminating Entrepreneurs
poverty & reducing unemployment

16. What our entrepreneurs say about mentoring
“After being faced with challenges, market problems,
“I was completely unaware of investments… I couldn’t find anyone who believed in me
the mentorship concept as my mentor believed in me. I found a great friend and
before attending. I have met a wise specialist in the business who kept me motivated
wonderful people. I have during the hard times. We now have our own offices and
clarified my professional and have built a studio; we have 5 full time employees… I
personal goals.” have begun to help others in the same way my mentor
Eli Khoury, Mentee,2011 helped me.”
Ala Suleiman, Mentee, 2011
77% of Mowgli
“I think [Mowgli is] a new school graduates say their
86% of Mowgli graduates
of business for entrepreneurs, Mowgli mentor
say their Mowgli mentor
where business is driven by helped them
helped with “developing
morals first, and interests “understand how
confidence in my business
second.” to move the
decision making skills.”
Emad Ammouri, Mentee, 2011 business on to the
next growth stage.”

17. Project beneficiaries
Local Communities
Local SME and
Next Generation Family Creating Leaders
Entrepreneurs
Young Entrepreneurs

18. We need support for the project to be a success
Sourcing
Entrepreneurs
Partnerships
Support Sourcing
Needed Mentors
Achieving
future
sustainability