Building solid foundations for impactful partnering

PBA leads the way in understanding and promoting the skilled and principled management of the partnering process.

Our Associates and programme graduates operate at all levels and in widely diverse contexts to bring about inclusive and transformative change.

Latest from PBA

  • Lessons in Community-based Partnerships from West Bengal

    One of the outputs of the 3-year programme Community Leadership in Collaborations: A route to sustaining Change? delivered with a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is this compendium of stories developed by place-based partnership practitioners who were participants of the Partnership Brokers Training in West Bengal. The stories were written a year after they participated in the course.

    The 15 contributors to “Fostering Change Together: Lessons in Community-Based Partnerships” share how the learning from the course has impacted their work with marginalized communities and local governance systems, and even personal lives.

    Read the paper

  • Embrace the Power of Collaborative Leadership

    Join our five-week course on Collaborative Leadership. This programme is designed for leaders working in networks, partnerships and other collaborative settings to support them to inspire cooperation, manage power dynamics and co-create solutions that matter. You’ll strengthen your ability to connect with others, navigate complex dynamics, and spark meaningful change.

    The course is delivered online, with live workshops, peer groups, and self-paced modules.

    Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24 June and 1 July 2026 (weekly on Wednesdays, 9-11:30am UK time)

    Learn more and apply

  • Join our team as Initiatives & Support Coordinator

    We seek a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work closely with the Initiatives and Support Lead, to strengthen all aspects of the portfolio’s work. Through the Initiatives & Support portfolio PBA offers support to organisations / partnerships and initiates ‘projects’ to explore specific aspects of partnership brokering practice.
    The Coordinator will help in developing or streamlining simple systems to ensure that we stay abreast of external opportunities, as well as support Associate Providers (partnership brokers undertaking contracts or initiatives on behalf of PBA). S/he will work closely with the I&S Lead, the PBA Coordinator, and those supporting the Training and Accreditation portfolios.

    Interested? Send your résumé/CV and a cover letter to info@partnershipbrokers.org by midnight (CEST) 22 May 2026.

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Practical, experience-based training, guidance and support to skilfully manage collaborative processes

We provide rigorous training that maximises deep learning; a wide range of support to help your partnership achieve its very best; advice from professional partnership brokers, to help your organisation to be a better partner; and rich resources that share what we have learned over the years.

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Accreditation: a professional qualification for those on the partnering front line

PBA has established the international global standard for the new profession of ‘partnership broker’ through our specialist training courses and this formal qualification.

PBA invites applications to our online Accreditation Programme whether you are working ‘internally’ (from within a partner organisation) or ‘externally’ (as an independent specialist) or in one of the growing number of hybrid roles and intermediary organisations.

Tailored support for any and all sectors

We work in and across a range of sectors, cultures and socioeconomic contexts, to find the solutions most relevant and necessary to you, your partnership or organisation.

We seek to bridge boundaries and break down silos, wherever these may be: public administration, public health, finance, business, education, international assistance, international cooperation, community growth, social inclusion, peace-building, justice.

A global network of change-makers

Our world is facing huge, complex problems, largely a result of humans’ inhumanity and irresponsibility. But we are also a world rich in resources, full of resourceful people. We have the power and know-how to bring about change, but only by working together; only by seeking the wisdom of those suffering the worst of injustices, by being humble and open. But working together isn’t easy.

It takes hard graft, dogged attention, persistent effort to make sure that relationships and partnerships can really work well, to achieve the change and the good that is needed. That’s what PBA is uniquely good at, but only because it is constantly learning and evolving.

PBA is a Company Limited by Guarantee (UK Company No. 7814169).
As a not-for-profit company, any surplus income is reinvested for the ongoing development of the Partnership Brokering profession.