‘We do it with a great deal of humility’

Locals know best what they need, a view the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women shares. The foundation partners with local organizations, from which it chooses the women who will participate in its e-mentoring program that it launched in July 2010. Cherie Blair shares with Devex what the Mentoring Women in Business Program, which has connected more than 500 mentors and mentees around the globe, offers participating women in business.

By // 25 September 2012

Locals know best what they need, a view the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women shares. The foundation partners with local organizations, from which it chooses the women who will participate in its e-mentoring program.

How difficult was it for the foundation to partner locally considering that often, local capacity may be lacking? We asked Cherie Blair during the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative.

Lars Schwetje contributed reporting from New York.

Check out the rest of our interview with Cherie Blair, as well as our conversations with other global development luminaries who attended this year’s Clinton Global Initiative..

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  • Rolf Rosenkranz

    Rolf Rosenkranz

    Rolf Rosenkranz has worked as a Global Editor for Devex. Previously, Rolf was managing editor at Inside Health Policy, a subscription-based news service in Washington. He has reported from Africa for the Johannesburg-based Star and its publisher, Independent News & Media, as well as the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a German daily.

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