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The Southern African Development Community Qualifications Framework was formally named the SADCQF at a September 2016 meeting of the SADC Technical Committee on Certification and Accreditation (TCCA). SADCQF’s main policy and technical document, as revised in 2017, defines the purpose, scope, design features and underlying principles underpinning the SADCQF, as well as its governance structure.

Annex 1 of the SADCQF document specifies the SADCQF Level Descriptors and Annex 2, the 16 SADCQF Quality Assurance Guidelines. The SADCQF has acquired a stronger centrality in the region’s development plans for the decade (2020–30). SADC reaffirmed its intent to give a new impetus to promote and implement the SADCQF, by including relevant measures in two key strategic plans for the decade: RISDP 2020–2030 and the SADC Labour Migration Action Plan (2020–2025). This new impetus to strengthen implementation of the SADCQF capitalises on the outcomes of the first phase of implementation (2017–20) and aims to incentivise development of NQFs aligned with SADCQF, and work in complementarity with other tools supporting recognition of qualifications across the region, including SADC Credit Accumulation and Transfer System and SADCQF Quality Assurance Guidelines.

View also: Overview of Regional Qualifications Frameworks