In order to ease the mission of CEOs, entrepreneurs and experts cooperating with businesses in developing countries, we put the following material at your disposal, periodically updated and extended:

On Mentoring:

Find tips on how to be a good mentor/mentee and take out the best from a mentoring experience at:

• Clutterback Associates Website (register and then go to Donwloads/Articles/Mentoring)

• Mentoring Works - Mentoring Essentials

Also: CEOs Without Borders has inaugurating a wiki-mentoring-guide at www.wikilearning.com. We will post a new on our website when this guide offers substantial content.    

Inspiring business stories in Africa. Learn about the environment of the buinesses you will be supporting:

• Africa Open for Business, by Carol Pineau "The award-winning documentary shown on BBC and PBS, shows an Africa rarely seen in the media or taught in schools -- an Africa that works! " - This documentary pictures a variety of very different business successes in Africa.

• Cellphones Catapult Rural Africa to 21st Century - The New York Times & Mobile Banking - The Economist. Learn how the mobile-phone revolution has created thousands of new livelihoods in Africa.

• Food for thought for financiers - Financial Times, tells us how we, managers in developed countries, have a lot to learn from some business models in developing countries.

• Tapping women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana - Africa Renewal

• Educaçao sebrae - access to training courses and tools to set up and improve your business.