WITS over the past 20 years has identified and undertaken a number of initiatives in areas relatiing to women's participation in SET. These initiatives included the Recruiting and Retaining women in SET. Returning women to technical careers was the natural progression for the organisation and was the impetus to create the Re-Enter programme. WITS, as a voluntary member funded organisation, has limited resources and as such needs to be pramatic in it's approach to projects by seeking out others both in europe and further afield who may have already developed initiatives to address particular challenges. In this case WITS identified the EU funded RETURN programme developed by the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET as a starting point to model the Re-Enter programme on.  Where possible the programme leveraged the learnings and experience of the RETURN programme.