A Review of Mentoring Programmes for Women’s Political Advancement and Leadership

SDG 5 is an urgent call for action to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The purpose of this paper is to review existing mentoring programmes for women’s political participation, leadership and advancement with focus on those supported by partners of CLGF, the ComWLG Network and PLATFORMA in the Commonwealth and beyond. The review is designed to offer a snapshot of select programmes, their salient features and lessons learned in the implementation.