7 Consolidation and Future Planning Week 20
Future Planning , Evaluation and Consolidation Sustainability and Growth
The trained mentors from Croatia , France and Italy who delivered this programme in their respective locations , to enhance the effectiveness of the EPGs by supporting them to start up social enterprises , provided critical insights and reflections that informed the finalised curriculum as presented here . You can find the Mentor Profiles within the Project Handbook .
b . Developing the Toolkit
The project methodological tool comprised four separate but complementary tools which are available within the Project Handbook ; the Mentor Guide , Self-Assessment Tool ( Business Diary ), Evaluation Tool ( to measure the participants ’ learning ) and the Mentor Training programme ( to ensure consistency in delivering the training across different cultural contexts ). Whilst the toolkit was developed so that each took can be used independently , and separately , to replicate the Social Start Up Methodology effectively , all components should be used together due to their complementary nature . As the Social Start Up Project was focused upon EPGs operating within the agri-food sector , the toolkit ’ s Mentor Guide and the Self Assessment Tool ( Business Diary ) both included an informative section entitled Food Safety , Hygiene , Quality and Certification which was developed by the project partner Parco 3A specifically for this programme .
a . Mentor Guide
b . Self Assessment Tool ( Business Diary )
The Mentor Guide is a step by step guide for those who wish to support their EPG members in starting up a social enterprise . The Guide provides all the content needed for leading seven sequential training sessions , accompanied by planning and reflection tools to enhance the mentor ’ s overall mentoring skills . We recommend that the whole Guide is read before embarking on the Social Start Up journey so that mentors are aware of the process and end point from the beginning . This approach allows the mentors to effectively lead all the training sessions .
This Business Diary is a learning and reflective tool to help participants to chart their team ’ s progress in starting up a social enterprise . Ideally , the Business Diary will be used in conjunction with a mentor led social start up training programme , but it can also be used on its own . The Business Diary guides the participants and their team members through seven sequential training sessions , and provides introductory content , planning and reflection tools to support their social enterprise start up process . We recommend that participants read through the whole Business
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