Issue 5 of Betwixt & Between – the journal for partnership brokers – out now
And it is quite an issue. Here’s a taster of the 6 articles, followed by some useful links:
Diversity as an essential partnership ingredient: Marcia Dwonczyk
Addressing complex issues will need partners with different purpose, experiences, & approaches – such diversity is key to innovation. There is a role for the Partnership Broker in supporting & challenging partners to stretch beyond the obvious partners, and work beyond their comfort zones.
Brokering shorter food supply chains: Rafal Serafin
“Partnership brokering is needed because collaboration… must encompass not just farmers and consumers, but also other stakeholders in the local food system, including public agencies, community groups, media, schools, researchers…. An investment in partnership brokering in this way is an investment in building local food systems as transformative partnerships, which over time build the skills, knowledge, know-how and markets that enable them to self-organise and sustain themselves, generating benefits for all participating partners.”
Brokering in fast moving partnerships: A Digital Promise case study: Chelsea Waite
Fitting pace & style: How many partnerships start in a rush? Process & frameworks are appreciated & needed, however it doesn’t always play out that way. Here, the author took a resource from the Partnership Brokers Training Level 1 and adapted it to her working context.
Building competencies for co-creative partnering for local, adaptive development: Marisa Vojta
Organisations across the sectors must adapt their systems and processes, as well as their staff skills and competencies to become better partners if they want to remain relevant in the development space. Developing partnership brokering competencies in staff can change development practitioners’ mind-set from service- or solution-delivery to meaningful co-creation through facilitation of participatory processes.
Working with development giants – a brokers dilemma: Kenze Ndamukenze
Starting a complex partnership coordinator role with a key question: “What to do now?” – the importance of taking the time to understand the role of the coordinator – both with a partnership broker lens, and also through the eyes of the partners.
Exploring partnership culture – the partnership brokers role: Surinder Hundal
A greater understanding, awareness and sensitivity to organisational culture among organisations seeking to partner can increase their chances of partnering effectively. It also helps partnership brokers. They observe behaviours and group dynamics at work in the day-to-day life of the emerging partnership. Understanding a partnership in terms of its emerging organisational culture and in relation to the organisational culture of the partners creates an opportunity for partnership brokers to make practical and tactful interventions where required. Ethnographic approaches can be useful in understanding cultural dimensions of the partnering process.
Quick links
To view this issue, alongside the Editorial, and also past issues: https://partnershipbrokers.org/w/journal/
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