Personal Development Initiative

ASFI Mentoring Program

The ASFI Mentoring Program (AMP) is a dedicated personal development initiative in which we help participants in our trainings to consolidate the skills they have learned from our courses and workshops. It is also a forum in which we match senior scientists within and without ASFI network to less experienced researchers. This matching will form a mentor-mentee relationship for the purpose of helping the junior researchers to consolidate on their scientific research skills. AMP is thus a complementary program aimed to strengthen ASFI's core capacity building and career development initiatives and it is totally free of charge.

What the AMP entails

The AMP program involves the following:

• Occasional response to questions posed by mentees to AMP experts
• Provision of ad hoc assistance to mentees by matched mentors
• Creation of forums for ongoing relationship of learning, dialogue, and exploration of innovative challenges between ASFI and mentees. A call is made after each course we offer for those interested. A new cohort is thus formed at the end of each course.

Who are AMP mentees?

• PhD students

• Independent researchers

• Research institutes

• Other interested persons or institutions

Issues covered in AMP

• Research project design and conduct

• Project monitoring and evaluation

• Data management and analysis

• Research funding and grant writing

• Scientific communication and publishing

• Other research-related issues

• And other subject-specific issues in science methodology that fall within ASFI's core areas of expertise

Issues not covered AMP

• Does not assume any supervisory role of the mentees' projects, but only to play a supportive role

• Is not a training program, thus will not replace actual training the mentees are receiving from their primary places of engagement

• Will not replace any of ASFI's capacity building courses and workshops

Empowering the next generation of African scientists through mentorship