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Astra: Empowering Women in Business

Malta · Msida · National · See the Malta profile

This Programme will be specifically developed to nurture, support and empower promising leaders by addressing the barriers and hurdles commonly faced by women at the workplace. The Programme will help the participating companies to build a pipeline of candidates so as to fulfil s

Astra: Empowering Women in Business

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Zaar — website
Power domain
Economic Power
Methods / tools
Gender Training, Awareness-raising
Region (NUTS)
MT00
Keywords
leadership training, mentoring, coaching, professionals networking

Context

Astra is a Maltese leadership programme promoted by Zaar with the University of Siena (UNISI) as partner, developed to nurture, support and empower promising women leaders by addressing barriers commonly faced by women at work, inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Objectives

Help participating companies build a pipeline of women candidates for senior leadership roles, and support organisations to innovate and flourish through more diverse leadership.

Activities

A mix of mentoring, coaching and training activities intended to create a network of leaders who support and empower each other.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No budget or cost figures published in source materials.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — No defined programme duration is stated in the source; described in future/conditional terms suggesting a newly designed, not-yet-long-running initiative.
Staffing & skills
Zaar (Maltese promoter/delivery organisation), University of Siena / UNISI (training-design partner), Mentors and coaches drawn from the business leadership network

Conditions for success

  • Sustained mentoring relationships
  • Buy-in from participating companies to build leadership pipelines
  • Alignment with SDG-linked, purpose-driven business framing

Common failure modes

  • No evaluation or outcome tracking found; the source itself flags that effectiveness has not yet been investigated

Where it fits

Governance type
NGO/company-partnered training programme
Scale
national
Income level
high-income

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