Partnership Brokers Training AMSTERDAM - January 2025

Trainers

HELGA VAN KAMPEN (lead trainer)
Helga is a partnership specialist, working independently since 2011. As an Accredited Partnership Broker, she supports complex global partnerships in developing, managing, reviewing and moving on processes. Helga supports professionals in the HOW of collaboration. She has worked with a wide variety of organizations from all sectors (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Humanitarian and Development Sector, Municipality of Amsterdam, Women Rights organizations, the corporate sector such as Microsoft, Rabobank Foundation as well as multi-stakeholder alliances). Her work is done in the Netherlands and abroad (f.i. Ethiopia, South Africa, South-Sudan, Turkey, Nigeria, DR Congo, Egypt, Uganda, Jordan).

Helga is an Authorized Practitioner Trainer, Associate & Mentor of the Partnership Brokers Association

TILLEKE KIEWIED (co-trainer)

Tilleke brings experience with shaping, supporting, reviewing partnerships in the international development and humanitarian sector. In the sector, management of projects is much more prominent than management of the partnerships required to create context-relevant impact. Tilleke contributed to quality partnerships by giving attention to the partnering process and to the principles supporting partners to navigating their collaborative journey.

Working independently since 2019 Tilleke offers facilitation and training promoting equitable partnerships and towards more principled collaborative relationships in the humanitarian sector and beyond.

Tilleke is an Accredited Partnership Broker and Associate of the Partnership Brokers Association. She is also an ICF accredited coach.

RACHEL HOUGHTON (co-trainer)

Rachel’s collaboration experience spans 24 years, and she has held senior positions in a variety of collaborative initiatives seeking fundamental change in the humanitarian and international development sectors. Rachel’s core expertise lies in convening, shaping and brokering global networks, partnerships and consortia. Since 2017, she has worked as an independent consultant with a primary focus on facilitating greater understanding and implementation of effective multi-stakeholder partnerships. This has involved a move into training and capacity building, with an emphasis on equipping a variety of initiatives, from partnerships, networks and consortia to single organisations, with effective partnering skills. She’s also experienced in partnership capacity assessment processes, in writing capacity assessment reports and partnership improvement plans, as well as developing bespoke and practical materials for the implementation of strategic partnership functions. Rachel is an Accredited Partnership Broker and is on the pathway to become an Authorised Practitioner Trainer.

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