IBLF - Building Competencies

BUILDING COMPETENCIES

To date, 1,000+ partnership practitioners from all sectors and many different countries have participated in our professional training programmes.

Some graduates are grappling on a day-to-day basis with current or post-conflict situations (in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Palestine, Rwanda or the Sudan), many others have sole responsibility, often within large and complex organisations, for setting up and managing collaborative ventures with non-traditional partners.

Our Learning and Training programmes include:

Post Graduate Certificate in Cross-sector Partnership

PCCP is led by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, in association with IBLF. The programme is a one-year, part-time course aimed at those in full-time employment earning an academic qualification at Master’s level. It aims to deepen understanding and analysis of partnership as a sustainable development paradigm. Now in its 7th year, the next cohort starts in March 2008.
www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/pccp

Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme

Run as a collaboration between IBLF and the UK’s Overseas Development Institute, this four-month programme aims to build a new profession in which qualified individuals can develop and manage multi-stakeholder partnerships. The PBAS course comprises a one-week residential course, three month’s mentored professional practice and a final written project. Cohort 15 takes place in November 2007, Cohort 16 in Australia in February 2008 and Cohort 17 in the UK in March 2008.
www.partnershipbrokers.org

Partners in Action

A programme jointly run by IBLF and the United Nations System Staff College that, typically, offers 3 - 4 day awareness raising and skills training for UN staff operating in different regions and with a range of partnerships. Trainers with both UN and partnering experience are available to develop new programmes either for single or multi UN agencies in a number of languages as well as English including Spanish, French and Russian.
www.unssc.org/web/programmes/DC/

Tailored courses

Designed and delivered by The Partnering Initiative, these can range from one day to five day partnering skills training programmes either for single organisations or for whole partnerships. Such courses have been developed for agencies in all sectors including Microsoft, Nike, Nokia, Plan Netherlands, SwissContact, UK’s Department for Education and Skills and UNDP.

For more information contact us at info@thepartneringinitiative.org.