Skilling Up for Stronger Voices

Summary of recent research from the Improving Local Partnerships project at NAVCA

Steve Skinner and Linda Joy Mitchell

This publication draws together the work of two research projects carried out for NAVCA in 2007 and 2008.

Skilling Up for Stronger Voices looks in turn at the roles that representatives have in LSPs, the range of key tasks that they carry out and the types of skills and abilities they are using, and proposes a skills framework which divides skills and abilities into three simple themes:

• Partnership skills
• People skills
• Practical skills

We hope the material will be useful in supporting representatives and the organisations working with them, and that it will be used in a flexible way, adapted to different needs, and be seen as a set of working proposals for further exploration.

Skilling Up for Stronger Voices - A skills framework for third sector representatives (PDF 2893KB)

Hard copies of the publication can be ordered using NAVCA's publications order form.