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Announcing two new Global Cohorts of the Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme (PBAS)
PBAS is a unique professional skills training course, delivering 7-days intensive residential skills training followed by 3-months mentored professional practice. Driven by the growing demand from business, the public sector and civil society for professional brokers of multi-stakeholder and cross-sector partnerships and alliances, PBAS provides very real and practical skills in all phases of the partnering process of partnerships for sustainable development.
Applications are now being considered for places on Cohorts 14 and 15 of PBAS - both of these Cohorts will have a global reach, with the residential skills-based part of the Scheme held in the UK: at Trigonos, in Snowdonia National Park, Wales (Cohort 14, 30th September to 6th October 2007); and at Charney Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside, England (Cohort 15, 25th to 30th November 2007).
We would be particularly pleased to receive applications from individuals involved in the many global water partnerships and municipal water service partnerships that now influence water supply and sanitation delivery. We believe the brokering, facilitation and partnership management skills practiced within the PBAS Scheme are highly relevant to the multi-agency and cross-sector coordination of initiatives to raise investments for sanitation, improve cost recovery, enhance water supply affordability, reliability and coverage in rural areas, and build political will for private sector participation in W&S infrastructure and services management.
PBAS is designed for internal partnership brokers responsible for negotiating or managing partnerships within an organisation, as well as third-party external brokers and facilitators. To be accepted onto the scheme applicants will have demonstrated the following capabilities:
• management support from within their organisation (for ‘internal’ brokers), or scope within their current work portfolio (for ‘external’ brokers), for the practical application of partnership brokering skills in the three month period of professional practice immediately following the residential training;
• a level of educational attainment and/or practical experience that combines analytical capabilities with an aptitude for practical skills training and application;
• past or present engagement in multi-sector partnerships, as either a convenor, advisor, negotiator, partner, reviewer or third-party facilitator; and
• an ability to access levels of information technology commensurate with the distance learning requirements.
Each PBAS Cohort comprises participants from a cross-section of business, not-for-profit/ NGOs, local/regional government and bi- and multi-lateral donors. We particularly encourage private sector companies to nominate and fund candidates from their partner organisations in public sector local government, NGOs or CSOs. Within this construct, sponsorship, block bookings and bursaries are welcomed.
Please feel free to forward this invitation onto other local partners in government and the private and public sector with whom you already – or would like to – work in partnership. Places are limited to around 20 candidates per cohort, so please return your application as soon as you can.
Further details of these and other scheduled cohorts can be found at www.odi.org.uk/PBAS.
Further Global Cohorts, based in the UK will take place throughout 2008, and a separate Cohort dedicated to S.E. Asia and Australasia will hold its residential week in a similarly invigorating venue near to Sydney, Australia in February 2008. Additional cohorts, with Part l taking place in other regions, are under discussion including SE Asia / Australasia, Africa and South Asia. Please let us know if you are interested in supporting or participating in cohorts in these (or other) regions.
We thank you for your interest.
www.odi.org.uk/PBAS
PBAS@odi.org.uk
Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme (PBAS)
c/o Overseas Development Institute & International Business Leaders Forum
www.odi.org.uk/PBAS
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