About Helma Brandlmaier

Helma is Knowledge Manager at WWF International and Co-lead of WWF's Global Mentoring programme. Key areas of work are to promote and establish a ‘learning organisation’ that improves the problem solving capacity of the organization through better access to and sharing of knowledge and expertise across a global team of nearly 600 forest staff in 40+ countries.

WWF makes mentoring effective for participants from the Global South

WWF ValuesDuring 2022, the WWF global mentoring programme saw an increasing number of staff joining the programme from Africa, Asia and South/Middle America. 60% of mentees and nearly 30% of mentors came from the Global South. Regardless of location, mentees say that mentoring assisted them with work-related challenges, built skills on the job and made them more confident. Mentors were motivated by the programme and found it developed their leadership skills.

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