This helps country teams get their projects off the ground. Where this is a part of project budgets, participants must apply as they would for any grant. In this instance guidelines for applications, and for the approval and monitoring of the small grants, are provided. Part of the country project will involve participants in activities between workshops where they must practice new skills such as working with the media and marketing their project to other nurses and key stake holders. Monitoring and evaluation of the country team projects by participants is a requirement.
Time is set aside at each workshop for work related to country team projects.
Mentors Mentors coach and guide participants. In particular, they work with participants with Individual Development Plans and usually also on the country team projects. They are an integral part of any program, and may well be an important key to program success. Experience suggests mentors need not be nurses - it is more important for them to be effective leaders and managers with the skills to help participants develop as leaders, network effectively, and plan and implement effective country projects. Increasingly, nurses are selecting their mentors strategically, with or without a nursing background, for their skills and ability to assist and enable the development of the individual participants, and nursing generally, in their countries.