The Partnership Brokering Project

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.”

PBA’s Stewardship Team