Providing formal or informal one-on-one mentoring opportunities for selected staff can contribute greatly to individual staff skills and personal development, especially if the conditions and goals of the mentoring program are clearly established. Mentor programmes can also assist the EMB to achieve some of its equity goals – for example increasing the number of women or other targeted social or ethnic groups holding more senior management or technical positions. In addition to internal mentoring programs, it may be possible to arrange short-term secondments of EMB staff to work with a mentor in another public-sector agency or private sector organisation.