Evaluation of the community development practitioners’ professional development programme: CIPP model application

Mokgadi Molope and Akpovire Oduaran

Development in Practice, 2020, vol. 30, issue 2, 194-206

Abstract: Although resources are invested in maintaining the professional standards, knowledge, and skills of community development practitioners (CDPs), research has not established if they have benefited adequately from the provisions of an appropriate professional development programme. The Stufflebeam’s CIPP model was used to evaluate this, which is the first exercise of its kind in South Africa. This qualitative study reports on the circumstances associated with its planning. Lack of alignment between the professionals’ needs and learning activities was uncovered, which resulted from the absence of learning activities which meet the needs of CDPs and poor planning. A planning framework is proposed to mitigate the obstacles and challenges.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2019.1650894

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