Café Conversations: A compendium of essays on the practice and theory of brokering multi-sector partnerships for sustainable development

This compendium presents twelve essays on experiences in multisector partnerships for sustainable development. The perspective taken is that of a partnership broker or facilitator. The essays describe accounts of two different types of partnership broker:

• Internal broker' an individual from an organisation who takes on the role of preparing their organisation for working in multi-sectoral partnerships, negotiating their organisation's involvement in a partnership, or playing a role in maintaining a partnership arrangement or tracking performance; and
• External broker' an independent third-party contracted to plan or facilitate consultation or negotiations to develop a partnering arrangement, or to research, maintain, monitor, review or evaluate partnerships over time.