2026 Mentoring Program

Our people are committed and passionate about improving lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they get to do what they love in a diverse, collaborative and stimulating work environment. At the IDB, we’re committed to improving lives. Since 1959, we’ve been a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. We do more than lending though. We partner with our 48-member countries to provide Latin America and the Caribbean with cutting-edge research about relevant development issues, policy advice to inform their decisions, and technical assistance to improve on the planning and execution of projects. For this, we need people who not only have the right skills but also are passionate about improving lives.

Learning goals

• Build a strong, trust-based mentoring relationship
• Set clear, meaningful, development-focused goals
• Turn conversations into action and progress

Learning experience and activities

Participants experience an interactive, practice-based journey where they:

• engage in real scenarios, discussions, and reflections to build self-awareness and clarify roles
• co-create goals and practice mentoring conversations through exercises, roleplays, and feedback
• apply learning through action planning, tracking progress, and continuous reflection to sustain

Content

The program focuses on four key content topics:

• Align → building shared understanding, trust, roles, and expectations
• Aim → setting clear, meaningful, and development-focused goals
• Adapt → strengthening mentoring conversations, questioning, and adaptability
• Act → translating learning into action, accountability, and sustained progress

Estimated effort

It took approximately 8/hours to complete this course.

Further information

This program was especially designed for the IDB Group Institutional Mentoring Program, and was mainly based in the organization’s Mentoring Playbook.

Badge type

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