Trained partnership brokers are operating in all these countries
What is Partnership Brokering?
Multi-stakeholder collaboration is now widely seen as vital to creating a more sustainable world. But such collaboration (commonly known as ‘partnership’) is hard to build, manage and scale up without expertise that helps to navigate what is inevitably a complex and challenging process.
In 2000, we evolved the term ‘partnership broker’ to describe those who support partnerships by the skilled management of the partnering process. Since 2003, we have offered professional development and skills training for those operating as partnership brokers to enable them to fulfil the function effectively. Read more about partnership brokers.
The Partnership Brokers Association
After eight years of running professional training programmes for partnership brokers – through the Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme (PBAS) set up as a collaboration between the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) – we have launched the Partnership Brokers Association.
Read more about Partnership Brokers Training. New – Toronto Level 1 in November. Last few places in Amsterdam – June
The Association is the international professional association for partnership brokers and operates as a membership-driven, not-for-profit company. As such, any surplus income is reinvested for the ongoing development of its education & vocational training objectives. It was created to promote good partnership brokering in advancing effective cross-sector collaboration for an equitable and sustainable world by:
- Developing education and training courses for those operating as partnership brokers worldwide
- Setting high professional standards for those operating as partnership brokers
- Advancing knowledge in the field of partnership brokering – through action enquiry and participative research
- Providing a public voice to communicate the benefits of professional partnership brokering for sustainable development
- Connecting partnership brokers across the globe so that they can more confidently transform the partnering environment
