The Partnership Brokers Association

Multi-stakeholder collaboration
is critical…

… if we are to create a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Working in new ways and bridging traditional boundaries is, however, extremely challenging and often falls far short of the high expectations of all those involved. Partnership brokering is the term we use for the process of supporting and strengthening partnerships through innovative and skilled management of collaborative processes.

We provide training for Partnership Brokers – see our TRAINING dates and locations for upcoming courses.

Partnership brokers can be ‘internal’ (operating from within one of the partner organisations) or ‘external’ (called in to provide specialist support when needed). Partnership brokers serve the partners by helping them to shape their partnership. A brief introduction to brokering better partnerships is provided in this flyer.

PBA’s Handbook on Brokering Better Partnerships provides some initial guidance on what this means in practice.

Weaving Threads: How We Work will tell you more about our unique approach to supporting the partnering process.

The Partnership Brokers Association is the international professional body for those managing and developing collaboration processes. Our primary aims are to:

Challenge and change poor partnering practices so that multi-stakeholder collaboration can become truly transformational
Ensure those operating in partnership brokering roles are skilled, principled and work to the highest standards
Promote the critical importance of partnering process management to decision-makers in all sectors

With the growing number of graduates from our Partnership Brokers Training course, who come from all sectors and a wide range of contexts, and through an international pool of Associates, we provide:

Opportunities for sharing learning as it emerges.You can support this work by contributing financially through PBA’s Development Fund, to enable us to further our knowledge on partnership brokering.
Specialist and tailored vocational training (view training dates). We offer bursaries to individuals and/or organisations that would find PBA’s training valuable but who cannot afford it. With your support to the Access Fund, we can extend the financial support we provide.
Access to a range of innovative and transforming new initiatives including Working with Donors and Animating Alliances as well as our new on-line course for front-line practitioners: Brokering Remote Partnerships. Your support, through PBA’s Opportunities Fund, provides seed funding for the early stages of exploring new ideas or emergent issues.
A range of supporting interventions to assist in transforming the partnering landscape. PBA’s three Funds reinforce our goal to strengthen the notion of partnering as a value, and not simply as a transactional tool.

The Association is the global standard-setter for partnership brokering through its partnership brokering good practice principles and issues formal accreditation to those who reach the required standard.

“The Association is an experiment in creating a collaborative entity that can embrace a level of ambiguity and complexity. Our growing network of trained partnership brokers operate in all sectors and on all continents. They are skilled and committed change-makers who know when to step up and when to step back so that partnerships can flourish and transform our world.”

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