Accreditation

Achieve an internationally recognised qualification

Accredited Partnership Brokers assist partners and other stakeholders in shaping their partnership in an informed, imaginative and courageous way. This role is increasingly seen as central to ensuring multi-stakeholder collaboration is more effective, sustainable and transformative. Accredited partnership brokers help to set high standards for collaborating in a systematic, principled and ethical way.

There are a number of pathways on to the Accreditation Programme to ensure the best fit for those from diverse experiences, backgrounds, sectors and contexts. These include:

Three features of the Accreditation Programme

The Accreditation Programme has three strong features:

  • An emphasis on becoming a more reflective practitioner in order to de-layer your partnership brokering experiences and to give yourself space for insights to emerge.
  • Working closely with an assigned mentor who accompanies you on your Accreditation journey and supports you in taking brave steps, challenging poor practice and pushing boundaries
  • A comprehensive and rigorous assessment process to ensure that the decision to award Accreditation (or not) is appropriate and fair.

Accredited Partnership Brokers are able to:

  • Join the PBA’s International Network of Accredited Partnership Brokers
  • Become a PBA Associate – which entitles you to help shape and build the organisation and to be able to apply to become an authorised PBA trainer, mentor or service provider
  • Put APB (short for ‘Accredited Partnership Broker’) as a post-nominal after your name
  • Put this logo in your CV or email signature alongside any other professional credentials:

Kennedy Miruka

Accreditation Programme Manager
based in Kenya

For more information download this sheet about the Accreditation Programme including the different pathways, criteria for acceptance, timings and the costs involved:

If you want to have a conversation with someone from the Accreditation team about whether the programme is right for you – contact the Programme Manager on accreditation@partnershipbrokers.org

We look forward to hearing from you!

“Prior to the training I had been trying to broker a strategic partnership for nearly two years… During my PBA Accreditation, I employed the concepts and tools of partnership brokering … and within weeks the partnership arrangement was formalised.”

“As Accredited partnership brokers, we need to disrupt the notion that technical skills and knowledge alone will be enough to change the world. Partnering for transformative change requires wisdom (more than knowledge), presence (rather than ego), unity (instead of duality) and an understanding of complexity (instead of an assumption of logical progression).”

“I used the Accreditation Programme to build on my previous professional experience and acquire a whole new specialisation. My mentor asked me really challenging questions, and helped me to reflect on my own performance and partner reactions. I was pushed to think about my frames of reference and to work through my emotional responses to the work. It set me up to work more confidently as a partnership broker.”

“As an Accredited partnership broker I now truly understand that courageous partnership brokering means being present, stepping up when necessary, challenging unhelpful behaviours and organisational cultures, holding space for new things to emerge, living with a level of tension and reflecting honestly and courageously.”

“The recent success of our highly complicated partnership now seems surprising to all the partners, like some sort of magic that cannot be replicated… but it is clear to me that after many years of frustration and impasse, my newly acquired skills as an Accredited partnership broker was the critical success factor.”

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