"Capacity building is NOT about a training workshop. Building real capacity can be achieved when a combination of methods is used including supporting the practitioner within the organisation. This community based research project focussed on listening and learning from community practitioners, on what they are already doing well and their capacity needs."

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Level 4 Learning Materials

Standard 1: Apply the principles of community based development practice in a specific community context

Standard 2: Develop and lead organisations

Standard 3: Facilitate learning processes within an organisation

Standard 4: Establish and maintain the formal structures of a CBO

Standard 5: Facilitate planning and participatory processes for CBOs

Standard 6: Monitor progress and report to stakeholders

Standard 7: Organise and participate in activities to raise awareness and influence behaviour or policy

Standard 8: Manage the finances of a small to medium sized development organisation

Standard 9: Implement and manage specific community development projects within an organisational strategy

Standard 10: Use media to advance the organisation

Standard 11: Mobilise financial and non-financial resources for community-based development projects

Standard 12: Engage with relevant local and provincial government departments on a specific developmental issue

Standard 13: Implement and maintain basic administration systems of a CBO

Standard 14: Manage staff and volunteers of a CBO

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"I would like it (competence certificate) but you must also check I do it. It’s very important to visit and see my books and see that I doing what I have to do. …If you can look at my work and then you can ... advise."

Hazel Maposela, 23 May 2007

Assessment of competence deals with the verification of skill of the development practitioner. There are two assessment guides on offer, a Self Assessment Guide (only available to registered users) to check whether the practitioner is ready for external assessment and an Assessors Tool, to guide the assessment of competence.