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Practitioners' Views

Following completion of a residential skills training course and a three-month period of mentored professional practice, each candidate is asked to submit a Final Project. This work focuses on either:

a critique of some aspect of partnership or brokering theory informed by the period of professional practice; or
some aspect of innovation in the practice of partnership brokering, tried and tested during the period of professional practice.

With their kind permission, the Final Projects submitted by those candidates awarded ‘accreditation with distinction’ are published below. They are available to download as individual eassys, or as the published collated compendium 'Café Conversations'.

Accredited Broker

‘Partnerships’: Strong Language – vernacular or meaning?
Maria Bobenrieth

Engaging Project Managers in a Multi-Sector Partnership: trends in the extractive industry and how these impact brokering activities
Dorine Bosman

External Brokers and Coaching Tools: understanding and equalising power in partnership relationships
Bernie Ward

On the Origin of Partnerships: the Modern Darwinist Guide to Brokering
Andrew Donnelly

Five Key Things I Have Learned About Partnership Brokering: over 20 years of professional practice in Canada, UK, Poland and other countries of Central and East Europe
Rafal Serafin

Making the Private Sector Business Case for Partnerships
Kate Sullam

Funding Approaches for External Partnership Brokers
Ian Dixon

Café Conversations in the Partnership Journey: adapting organisational development tools to the partnership process
Trish Hall

The Key Challenges of an External Broker in the Partnership Cycle
Akachukwu Nwankpo

Risky Business: Removing Barriers to Effective Partnerships for Development
Risk Management for the Broker’s Toolbox
Julie Mundy

An Adaptation of the PBAS Internal Assessment
Ann Condy

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The views expressed herein are those of the author alone. Styles of writing and prose may vary.

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