COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONER PROFILING FOR OCCUPATIONAL PROFESSIONALISATION, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUOUS QUALITY ASSURANCE

Regardless of the worldwide acknowledgement importance community development, challenge professional occupational recognition remains, intensified by lack practitioner profile data. Raising practice standards through standardised, cohesive and effective movements drives professionalism, guided a policy framework that describes its practitioners’ ethical code, standardised quality-assured knowledge skills to be measured against regulated norms standards. This article provides broad overview requirements for professionalisation linked countrywide survey conducted inform South African Community Development Practice Policy Framework guides professionalism pre- post-professionalisation. Keywords: development practitioners, continuous framework, profiling,