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The aim of the Mentorship Component is to form a community of women entrepreneurs – mentors who will share knowledge and experiences through effective methods with early-stage female entrepreneurs and help increase the role of women in starting and developing the business.

“The development of female entrepreneurship in the Republic of Moldova is a priority for ODSME. All that mentors are going to do is for the benefit of women who take the first steps in entrepreneurship. This exercise is necessary and I am sure it will have the maximum impact for the beneficiaries who tend to achieve the expected results and take the positive experience from the mentors. I hope that your discipoles will continue to share their experience ", said ODIMM Acting Director-General Petru Gurgurov.

Project coordinator Ana Sochirca highlighted that during 6 training days, 30 female entrepreneurs with successful experience in entrepreneurship across the Republic of Moldova will have the opportunity to know in detail what the work of a mentor is, what their obligations, responsibilities and role in the work of an entrepreneur are.

“Specifically for this training, the Guide to Mentoring that will enable future Mentors to subsequently work in this field has also been developed”, stressed Ana Sochirca.

The training programme shall include three two-day sessions each:

Session I – 26-27 April 2018;

Session II – 3-4 May 2018;

Session III – 15-16 May 2018.

Participants will be trained as mentors by enhancing mentoring skills and competences, effective communication and skills development in leadership, conflict management, negotiation and information transmission techniques. At the end of the training, 10 mentors will be identified, who will guide 10 entrepreneurs with the most innovative investment projects, selected in the Baw Grant Competition, who will receive a grant of EUR 6 thousand.

Previously, around 300 businesswomen across the country were trained in making the business model more efficient and the company oriented towards expansion and export, under the Baw Training Component.