Welcome to Development Practice online!

This website was created as a resource to support those interested and concerned with capacity building.

If you are a Development Practitioner or Community Worker, this website will offer you...

• Information on the skills, that other community workers told us that you will need, to do your work and run your organisation;
• An opportunity to check your current skills against a standard that was set with other community workers;
• A self-check assessment tool for you to check how you measure against the skills described in the standard;
• A resource manual on each of the areas of work or competence areas, so that you can update your knowledge and skills in a chosen area, yourself;
• And, some history on how the project decided on these areas of work or competence.

If you are a Practitioner involved in building the capacity of others, this website will offer you...

• 23 well thought out, relevant to practice, capacity building competence standards pitched at the equivalent of NQF level 2 and 4;
• A learner manual with exercises for the learners to complete in a participatory workshop;
• A facilitator’s guide with a detailed workshop plan on this area of competence;
• A detailed learner assessment guide that you can follow to assess whether the learner is competent in this area of work (job function) or not. This assessment guide can also be used to assess the pitch and scope of your training workshop;
• An assessment guide that explains assessment and the relevant processes and procedures.

If you are a private or government grant-maker or other institution involved in or interested in capacity building of community based development practitioners, the website will offer you...

• A detailed look at what development practitioners expressed as relevant competencies for community development practitioners. These are illustrated in 23 competence standards; 23 learner materials and 23 facilitators guide
• Guides for the assessment of competence...