The Partnership Brokers Association

Our trainers, Ros Tennyson and Julie Mundy worked with a diverse and interesting group of people during the flagship Partnership Brokers Association Training in Geneva in November 2017.  The World Economic Forum hosted us at their headquarters overlooking Lake Geneva. The challenges of high-level multi-stakeholder partnerships supporting the SDGs, the humanitarian sector, food security and climate change, and public-private partnerships were popular topics of discussion during the course.  Congratulations to our new graduates who are now part of the PBA worldwide alumni.

Geneva Partnership Brokers Training Nov 2017

We’ve been adding new dates and locations for training in 2018, and there will be more listed as we approach the end of 2017.  For an up-to-date list, please visit our Training Page.

The Partnership Brokers Association will be running its 150th Partnership Brokers Training in September. The course will be held in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 – 14 September, 2017. More information available from our Training Programme Page.

The World Economic Forum will be hosting Partnership Brokers Training in Geneva this November at their headquarters overlooking Lake Geneva.  Download a brochure and application form from our Training Page.

The Working with Donors project is a response to the need and opportunity for understanding better how donors (who are external to the partnership) participate in and contribute to partnering processes and what the potential is for changing the donor-partner relationship to be more effective and have greater impact.

Positioned as an enquiry, and based on the principles of emerging new knowledge through exploration and dialogue, we believe that this fills a real gap in the world of development partnerships. The role of donors is clearly changing as partnering becomes more sophisticated and its emphasis on inclusion and horizontal accountability more accepted as the norm.

Find out more at www.workingwithdonors.org and get involved by contacting rafal@partnershipbrokers.org.

We’ve added NEW DATES for 2017 & 2018 to our training program in Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.

In May PBA Associates from Australia, Philippines, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, UK, Austria, Indonesia and India gathered to exchange partnership brokering experiences, deepen and build PBA’s portfolio of work and to explore new approaches to building partnership brokering as a global movement. Stay connected with the latest news related to partnership brokering and our work at PBA via Twitter @PBA_Brokers

Equity, mutual benefit, openness, diversity and courage: How can technology help reinforce these principles of partnership brokering in remote partnerships where partners mostly do not meet face to face?

Join this 2-hour interactive online research inquiry, hosted by accredited partnership brokers Joanna Pyres and Catherine Russ.

SESSION 01  |  April 12 at 11.00 Washington D.C / 16.00 UK / 18.00 Addis Ababa / 20.30 India
SESSION 02  |  May 3 at 9.00 Washington D.C / 14.00 UK / 16.00 Addis Ababa / 18.30 India 

Only 15 places available at each session, so sign up now by emailing joannapyres@gmail.com. For more information download the flyer and share it with your colleagues and peers.

Our next training course begins in Jakarta on 10 April, running for four days.  After that we’ll be training in Kolkata, Edmonton and Toronto.  Our courses are the same the world over, so you’re welcome to apply for training at any of our locations. Please visit our training page for more details.

Read this interview between Bas Gadiot and Herman Brouwer on ppplab.org/interview where they tease out why partnerships require competent process management to break through discomfort and find new, perhaps unexpected, solutions.

held January 23-26th – for access to all the new ideas, outputs and tools go to www.remotepartnering.org/outputs

Remote Partnering – a new website (remotepartnering.org) has been launched to bring attention to this important and neglected topic. PBA has initiated this project in partnership with Action Against Hunger, British Red Cross, PAX for Peace and the Partnerships Resource Centre. The first phase involved a number of desk-top and action research activities and has resulted in a new publication: ‘The Current Status of Remote Partnering’.

If you are interested in sharing your experience, giving feedback on the publication or getting involved – either as an individual or on behalf of an organisation –  in this project let us know via info@partnershipbrokers.org.

PBA Director, Ros Tennyson, gave a 5 minute ‘lightening talk’ in the final session of the Global Summit on Community Philanthropy (#ShiftThePower, December 2^nd, Johannesburg) – she said that partnering would be the key to ‘shifting the power’ IF partnerships were truly transformational in their intent and process management. Download the PBA paper Shifting The Power, and Ros Tennyson’s presentation.

PEP (Promoting Effective Partnering), offers knowledge and resources on partnering to practitioners working in partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a newly created facility, people can learn about partnering, access help, share experiences and exchange ideas. Read the press release and visit www.effectivepartnering.org.

Our two most recent graduate cohorts have completed their training on opposite sides of the world – London at the end of October and Sydney at the beginning of November 2016.  Our training is the same worldwide, so wherever you choose to complete your Partnership Brokers Training, you’ll receive the same qualification and be eligible to apply for advanced training.  Contact our Training Manager (training@partnershipbrokers.org) for more information or visit our Training Programme Page.