Dear Colleagues,
Applications for the sixth cycle of MENTOR-VIP are now open. This means
individuals wishing to apply to be mentored during 2013-2014 may make their
applications via our website (link given below) between now and May 10.
We would be grateful if you could *circulate this to your networks**.*
MENTOR-VIP is designed to assist junior injury practitioners develop
specific skills through structured collaboration with a more experienced
person who has volunteered to act as a mentor. The programme provides a
mechanism to match demand for technical guidance from some people with
offers received from others to provide technical support.
Mentoring arrangements may take place in whatever language or languages the
mentor and mentee are comfortable to communicate in. The majority of
interaction between mentor and mentee takes place through low cost
electronic communication such as email, internet-based telephony, or
telephonic exchange.
In the first six years of function, MENTOR-VIP has established over 50
mentor mentee pairings. Each year we want the highest number of high
quality applications possible, which will require active dissemination from
all of us with respect to the programme and how to apply.
A general orientation of the programme is to initially target skills
development needs among more junior injury practitioners in low- and
middle-income countries. The skill categories targeted by MENTOR-VIP
include:
1. Planning and conducting research
2. Evidence-based programme design and planning
3. Programme implementation and management
4. Programme monitoring and evaluation
5. Policy analysis and development
6. Imparting knowledge and skills
7. Advocacy and communication
8. Assuring funding support
Applicants indicate which categories of skills they would like to develop
in providing their candidate profile, which is used to short list
candidates. Short listed candidates are then requested to provide
supplementary information which details the nature of their prospective
collaboration with a mentor. The pool of mentors who have volunteered for
the particular cycle next review this supplementary information as well as
the candidate profiles and rank candidates according to their preference
for mentoring them. Finally, the Core Group for MENTOR-VIP assigns
mentorship pairings on the basis of the rankings.
*I would be very grateful if you could take steps to ensure that
information about MENTOR-VIP is distributed within your office and relevant
country networks and that potential applicants to this programme are made
aware in a timely fashion.*
The main message for potential candidates is that applicants who wish to
apply for one of the available positions must do so by the application
deadline of May 10 through the capacity building section of WHO
headquarter's website for injury and violence prevention. You should also
be aware that the WHO Regional Offices were specifically noted as an entry
point where we could improve our efforts to disseminate information about
this programme and point prospective applicants to our website. All of you
have networks of CC's in your region, technical experts, country office
staff and academics who support your work who can assist in disseminating
this information. I would be very grateful if you can give this some
thought and leverage those networks.
All applications to the programme are made online and more detailed
information is available at *
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/capacitybuilding/mentor_vip
.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr David Meddings, copied here,
or myself.
Many thanks.
Best regards,
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