1. Regional Centre for
Sustainable Rural
Development
Constantza, Romania
+4.0241-522012
Ceder@canals.ro
www.agrofarm.lx.ro

2. • 1. About us
• 2. Mentoring - our approach
• 3. Two projects
• 4. Research regarding mentoring
• 5. Womentor meeting in Constantza –
main results

3. Constantza
Region Danube Delta
Ukraine
• 800,000 inhabitants TULCEA COUNTY
• Main tourist area
Black Sea
• Danube Delta CONSTANTZA COUNTY
Cernavoda
Castelu
natural reservation Medgidia Constantza
• Main port infrastructure City
• Agriculture area
• Main City: Constantza Bulgaria
350,000 inhabitants
2,500 years of history

4. Constantza – the old town

5. The rural landscape

6. The Danube Delta

7. Trophaeum
Traiani
2,500 years of
history

9. INFO AGRO CONSULT
CASTELU
consortium of different TEHNICAL
CENTRAS legal bodies SCHOOL
NGO RESOURCE FOR
CENTRE AGRICULTUR
The E
Volunteering
Department

10. Target groups
• Young people and adults in rural
communities
• Representatives in the central and local
governments and their agencies
• Professionals in schools and rural
businesses

11. Current
Education Programs
• Training programs for farmers
• Training program for employees in the rural
administration institutions
• Training program in order to develop the entrepreneurial
behavior of the rural youth
• Training program for the youth associations in order to
improve their capacity to manage the volunteer human
resource
• Education program for volunteers in order to provide
peer to peer mentoring programs to youngsters in the
rural communities

12. Actual focus
• Implementing an education model for local
/ community development that includes
mentoring as education method
• Use of mentoring for educating volunteers
as reliable local / community development
workers
• 95% of our volunteers are girls

13. OUR APPROACH ABOUT
MENTORING
• Mentoring is based on the idea that young people
are supported by caring, concerned adults, they
are more likely to overcome difficulties and
achieve their goals.
• Mentoring programmes can be a positive tool to
enhance the development of young people.
• A DEFINITION OF THE MENTOR/ MENTEE
RELATIONSHIP:“Mentoring is a structured, trusting and
sustained relationship between a young
person and an adult, in which the adult
provides the young person with support,
guidance and assistance.”

14. A MENTOR IS SOMEONE WHO:
• Listens and attends to what Mentee is saying
• Guides Mentees to examine options and consequences
(there are 4 communication skills used by us)
• Supports Mentees to set goals and stick to them
• Is involved in a structured helping relationship with a
mentee
• Help the mentee to solve his problems

15. Stages of a mentoring relationship
• Stage 1
The mentor and the mentee become acquainted and informally clarify
their common interests, shared values, and future goals and dreams. In
this stage, there may be a lack of communication, or difficulty in
communicating. Mentees may be
reluctant to trust mentors, and may attempt to manipulate them.
• Stage 2
The mentor and mentee communicate initial expectations and agree
upon some common procedures and expectations as a starting point. In
the less likely event that the two individuals may not be compatible, the
pair is able to part on a friendly basis. In stage 2, there will be more
listening, sharing, and confiding in one another. Values will be
compared, and personal concerns will be expressed.

16. Stages of a mentoring relationship
• Stage 1
The mentor and the mentee become acquainted and informally clarify
their common interests, shared values, and future goals and dreams. In
this stage, there may be a lack of communication, or difficulty in
communicating. Mentees may be
reluctant to trust mentors, and may attempt to manipulate them.
• Stage 2
The mentor and mentee communicate initial expectations and agree
upon some common procedures and expectations as a starting point. In
the less likely event that the two individuals may not be compatible, the
pair is able to part on a friendly basis. In stage 2, there will be more
listening, sharing, and confiding in one another. Values will be
compared, and personal concerns will be expressed.

17. • Our projects in mentoring consist in a personal
development programme with a 3 parts structure:
1. Group Counselling sessions for developing self-conscience and self-
confidence (important elements of auto valorisation), using modern
techniques (active listening, reflection of emotions, reflection of the
content from the client speech, types of questions in a good interview)
and problem solving methods that will be applied in solving situations
from their own lives.
2. A training regarding social/ forum theatre techniques that valorise each
one’s personality in order to develop their resources, their potential.
During the project each child will be helped in developing his abilities
by a mentor volunteer.
3. Individual working/ “counselling” sessions between mentor volunteers
and abandoned children in order to valorise their free time.
In all 3 stages we used mentors volunteers who were trained in
mentoring techniques, methods and skills, in order to support the
abandoned children in a personal relationship (one to one).

18. • The most important questions of mentors
during their mentoring relationships were:
1. Why do we respond to some messages and not
others?
2. Why we are open to some people and not
others?
3. Why are we comfortable in some situations and
not others?

19. Two experiences regarding our
work with girls
“Spect-actors
for non-discrimination”
Volunteers promote
the women status/rights
in the family (they fight against
violence, discrimination in the
society).

20. Volunteers promote
the human beeing and the
women rights
National campaign of a NGO network from 14
Romanian cities and towns that promote the human
rights through the forum theatre
• Expected results:
140 schools all around Romania (14 schools in
Constantza rural area)
• 3300 teenagers are aware about the need for non-
discriminatory behaviors
• 700 adults (local government representatives, teachers
and parents) are prepared to act as a support factor for
social initiative

21. Forum theatre
as the oppressed theatre
• “The Oppressed Theatre” developed by Augusto Boal is
meant at helping the oppressed people to communicate with
the community.
• The word “oppression” is used for describing the state of a
person who has lost the right of expressing him selves.
• The method allows the community (including both,
oppressed and oppressor) to get actively involved in finding
(negotiating eventually) solutions to their own problems
related to discrimination and intolerance.

22. The importance of the forum theatre
in the fight against discrimination
• Social Theatre is a communication environment that allowed the
interaction between the oppressed young girls/ women, and the
oppressor in the family, in the comunity they live
• The method allowed the oppressed young girls/ women to express their
problems (through the volunteer actor)
• The method put the other in the public (students, teachers, parents and
so on), in the position of listening first
• Having the possibility to stop the play in any moment, the forum theatre
allowed the audience the opportunity to change the situation through
their own solutions to the problems
• Moreover, the forum theatre is supposing the use of the common
language that is very important for the effectiveness and efficiency of
any consultation process

23. The most important
feed-back and results
The most important conclusion and solutions proposed:
• 80% of the interventions from the audience proposed a change
at a verbal level, at the conceptual level, but less changes
regarding behaviors or attitudes
• The general trend was to teach the oppressor what he has to do,
to speak a lot about ethics, without doing something themselves
in order to make the oppressor to change.
• One of the practical solution proposed was to include in the
school curricula, non-formal education programs that may help
students to be tolerant and supportive to the other
• Another solution was to develop educational programs for
developing women life skills they can use against violence and
discrimination in the family

24. What our volunteers are doing?
“I know what I can, now I
can try”
Volunteers trained as MENTORS help
children and teenagers, especially the
young girls, in orphanages in order to
develop their life skills

25. Ongoing project supported by the National Youth
Agency
Our volunteers help children and
teenagers in orphanages
Context
• Children from orphanages are affected by a severe affective privation
• They lack the opportunities of having extended relationships with an
adult, relationships in which the institutionalized child may identify a
model
This all leads to:
• An introvert or depressive behavior
• Abandoning the hope of getting someone’s affection or sympathy
• They believe they are worthless

26. Our volunteers help children and
teenagers in orphanages
The aim of the project is to support 15 children, mostly
girls, aged 12 to 17, from 3 orphanages in order to:
• Develop their self-evaluation skills
• Identify their own weaknesses and strengths, and
resources as well
• Self valorization of their own life skills
• Developing their self-confidence, self-image and self-
esteem

27. Our volunteers help children
and teenagers in orphanages
Activities:
• Group Counseling sessions in order to develop self-awareness and self-
confidence that are important for self-valorization
Techniques used:
• Active listening
• Reflection of emotions
• Reflection of the content
• Problem solving methods that will be applied to in order to solve
problems they are currently facing in their day by day life

28. Our volunteers help children
and teenagers in orphanages
Activities:
• Training course in order to learn the SOCIAL/ FORUM THEATRE
as an opportunity for children to valorize their personality and
resources
• Peer to peer program through which each child is supported by a
VOLUNTEER MENTOR in order to develop his/her abilities
• The volunteer and the child plan and organize together free time
activities

29. In this project, the roles of the mentor are:
- teach young people how to relate well to all kinds of people and
help young people strengthen their communication skills.
- help improve a young person's self-esteem.
- provide support for young person trying new behaviors .
- help young people set goals and start taking steps to realize
them.
- help the young people with homework and improve their
academic skills.
“All mentors have the same goal in common:
to support young people to realise their
goals, to develop decision making skills and
reach their full potential.”

30. No. of organizations
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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9
10
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64.3%
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lac a f
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fes s
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35.7%
na
lac l in
k te
of g ra
inv tio
ol
ve n
m
35.7%
en dis
t in cr
th im
ee ina
co tio
n
Main problems and needs
of girls and young women
no
m
ic
21.4%
life
an
d
po
l itic
s
21.4%
fa
m
ily
vi o
len
ce
7.1%
pe
rs
o n
tra
fic
k ing
7.1%

31. Situation of mentoring
Organizations classification
according to the activity profile
16 100%
14
12 78,6%
No. of organizations
10 57,1%
8 35.7% 28.6%
6 14.3%
28.6% 28.6%
4 21.4%
2 7.1%
0 total no. of social services w omen right international volunteering / economic and health care training / other public religion
organizations promotion cooperation philantropy social education services
development

32. Situation of mentoring
Girls and young women from
the total no. of the organizations' beneficiaries
75%-100%
10%-25%
14%
21%
25%-50%
14%
50%-75%
51%

33. No. of organizations
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2
4
6
8
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12
14
16
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of iz
fin at
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la lr
es
100%
ck
of ou
qu rc
es
al
la if ie
ck la d
ck m
57.1%
of
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pp rs
la at
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of n p
28.6%
la pr er
ck th og so
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of in am
m vo s e l
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at ea
21.4%
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fo pr to
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pa ot ub
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ci n au
pa of
21.4%
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21.4%
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14.3%
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14.3%
na rs en
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to rin
tr a ria g
te lc
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14.3%
at
Problems and needs of the organizations providing mentoring services
ra
in tio
cl
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m
14.3%
en
to
rin
g
7.1%

34. No. of organizations
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
total no. of
organizations
equality 100%
promoting girls
71.4%
and young
28.6%
women
developing the
entrepreneurship
28.6%
personal
development for
85.7%
social integration
by the providing organizations
Principles and values promoted
personal
development for
professional
64.3%
integration
Situation of mentoring
social change
7.1%

35. No. of organizations
10
12
14
16
0
2
4
6
8
Total no. of
organizations
100%
Training
Psycological
councelling
92.9% 92.9%
Assistance /
Consulting
71.4%
Supervising
50%
Methods and tools
Mentoring
64.3%
the organizations are applying to
Coaching
Situation of mentoring
42.9%
Information
dissemination
21.4%

36. No. of organizations
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co
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ou nc
n e lli
ce
l li ng
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a
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2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
an erm
d so T
ily o
pr na ta
pl
of la l
dn
V es evni
ol n
100%
un si el g
on op
te
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in or en
64.3%
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50%
at
hi io
la n
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ro
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42.9%
py
E qu alt
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du D a
50%
ca om l it y ca
t io r
es , g e
n/ E ti c en
tr du
42.9%
vi de
women
ai c
ni at ol r
ng io en
n
35.7%
se , t ce
rv i ra
P i c ni
28.6%
In er es ng
te so
rn ns su
at A B Cu pp
21.4%
i o d O us ltu t ra ly
na o rg in ra ff i
l r pt i an es l ki
21.4%
eg on iz s tra ng
ul of ati m d
at i on an itio
a n
21.4%
i o ns
n tit al m ge s
re ut m
ga i o an e
21.4%
rd na ag nt
Training topics for girls and young
in liz em
g e
21.4%
th d c en
e h t
w ild
om re
21.4%
en n
r ig
14.3%
hs
7.1%

37. Situation of mentoring
Mentors in the organizations
Have
specialized
mentors
21%
Don't have
specialized
mentors
79%

38. Situation of mentoring
How the mentors are trained?
The organization
doesn't have
training programs
for mentors at all
14%
The organization
The organization has internal
is contracting training programs
individual trainers (internal trainers)
14% for mentoring
51%
The organization
is contracting out
specialized
training
organization
21%

39. Who is providing mentoring
for girls and youn women
A very few information on this topic
Two examples:
• CEDER – The Volunteering Centre
• Vodafone company

40. Seminar results
The mentors network
• Why do we need a mentors network?
• for information dissemination
• promoting mentoring and mentors
• defining and promotion of the concepts
• promoting standards for mentoring
• to facilitate the exchange of models of good
practices
• to facilitate the communication among mentors
• to participate in public policies elaboration
• for mentoring grants

41. Seminar results
The mentors network
• Methods for networking
• producing publications and materials
• meetings, seminars, conferences, workshops
• website
• researches, studies
• representing mentors at Brussels
• case studies
• models of good practice

42. Seminar results
The mentors network
• Resources
• accessing grants for mentoring projects/
programs
• fees/ contributions from specialized
mentors
• tariffs for some services and products
• human resources
• logistic resources for the network

43. Participants expectations from
the mentoring network
• Accessing financing programs in order to support mentoring
programs
• Developping programs in order to support integration of girls and
young women
• Promoting cooperation in the mentoring field
• Supporting the national mentoring programs in order to be efficient
at the national level
• Providing training for mentoring
• Information dissemination
• Transparency
• Involvement, seriousness of all the members
• Improving communication among the network members
• Increasing sustainability of the mentoring programs
• Promoting mentoring in communities

44. CONCLUSIONS
• The girls and young women main needs and problems in Roumania are
related to social values and beliefs, like the traditional status/ role of the
women in the society and in the family- the man is the had of the family
and the women has to obey the man and she has to take care of the
house and of their children also, she is not capable to be a leader. The
career girls or young women are not appreciated, because it doesn’t fit
with the social stereotype.
• The most of the participants at the seminar don’t know the meaning of
mentoring concept, the mentoring method and process, but they make
confusions between mentoring and some of the instruments used in
mentoring process, as councelling, training, assistance. They
understand the mentoring concept as „role- model” but they don’t know
how they can train specialised mentors for their organizations.
• The organizations dont’t have internal specialized mentors and they don’t
have informations regarding training opportunities for mentoring. In
Roumania the mentoring concept is very new and it is used as practice
and service mainly in the business sector. Only a few organizations in
Roumania are using mentoring services in educational and social field.
The participants at the seminar consider that mentoring can be used
successfully in their work with girls and young women.