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POWER UP FUTURES
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Partnerships

Four pathways, one process

Partnerships are documented before they are announced. Every pathway begins with a qualification conversation and ends with a written scope and governance note.

Pathways
Knowledge Partner
Research collaboration, data contribution, methodological review and co-published evidence.
Programme Partner
Delivery collaboration on a track, programme or cohort, with defined outcomes and reporting.
Country Collaboration
National engagement through NPMTI: baseline assessment, capability development and annual delivery reporting.
Regional Collaboration
Regional forums, corridor work and the rotating Seat of Honour, coordinated with APLIS.
Process

How partnership works

  • 1. Enquiry — you tell us the institution, the interest and the intended outcome.
  • 2. Qualification conversation — scope, fit, governance constraints and conflicts.
  • 3. Written scope and governance note — obligations, reporting and boundaries in writing.
  • 4. Pathway placement and public announcement, once signed.
Who partners

Institutional partners

Governments
Ministries, delivery units and qualification authorities.
Multilaterals
UN and multilateral bodies — participation aspirational and subject to their own approval processes.
Development finance
DFIs aligning financing with skills and enterprise outcomes.
Foundations
Co-funding scholarships, inclusion and research through the Endowment Fund.
Universities
Research, curriculum alignment and placement pipelines.
Employers
Hiring compacts, workforce transformation and sponsorship.
Professional bodies
Standards, recognition and CMP adoption.
Civil society
Youth and women's networks, diaspora organisations and NGOs.
Sponsorship

Global Week sponsorship

Sponsorship packages cover the Opening Global Plenary, individual tracks, the Allocation Ceremony and the Global Excellence Awards. Sponsorship confers visibility and convening access — never influence over research findings, award judging or compact registration.

Boundaries

What partnership does not include

Partnership does not confer charitable access, editorial control over publications, preferential treatment in awards or funds, or the right to describe the Secretariat as an endorser. Commercial services are contracted separately through approved ecosystem partners.
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Working groupsContact the Secretariat
Four-entity mandate model
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA)
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA) is the U.S.-incorporated, IRS-recognised Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation providing governance, philanthropy and public-benefit oversight for the ecosystem.
GSTLW
Global convening, partnerships, policy, research and publisher of record; institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy.
APLIS Africa Foundation (NGO)
Continental institutional implementation partner: continental programme ownership, public-sector transformation and regional coordination of APLIS Forums.
NPMTI — National Project Maturity & Transformation Initiative
Country-level execution framework (maturity methodology, government engagement model, assessment and reporting mechanism). Never a separate brand, entity or event.

Fund governance: the Global Skills Endowment Fund is governed under PUFF-USA (public benefit). The Global Skills Enterprise Fund is governed through PCA Group or an appropriately authorised investment vehicle — never through the Secretariat. Accelera 1000 is a platform brand only; contracts issue through approved legal entities. Commercial services are delivered separately through approved ecosystem partners (Paraklete Institute / PCA Group). All references to UN and multilateral participation are aspirational and subject to those institutions' own priorities and approval processes.

GSTLW is the institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy. GSLI supplies the evidence, the GSEF Twin Funds align capital, the Global Week creates the compacts, APLIS coordinates regional implementation, and NPMTI translates cooperation into national project maturity and transformation.