Get accredited by TVET CDACC as an assessor, verifier or assessment centre
TVET Curriculum Development, Assessment and Certification Council · sources read 3 Oct 2026
Assessors, verifiers and curriculum developers apply to TVET CDACC on form TCDACC/APP/1, attend a suitability interview, and get an accreditation certificate. A training institution or workplace registers as an assessment centre through the CDACC portal with its TVETA licence, pays KSh 10,000 and is inspected on site.
- Fee
- KSh 10,000Registration of an assessment centre
- Where
- Assessment centres: online on the TVET CDACC portal. Assessors and verifiers: form to TVET CDACC, Absa Towers, 10th Floor, Loita Street, Nairobi
What you need
- Assessors and verifiers: filled form TCDACC/APP/1
- Assessors and verifiers: certified copies of your academic and professional certificates
- Centres: your TVETA licence showing the CDACC courses you are accredited for
- Centres: details of your internal assessors and verifiers for each unit
- Centres: evidence for the quality audit (management structure, equipment, safety, staff, records)
Steps
- Assessor, verifier or curriculum developer: fill form TCDACC/APP/1, tick the type of accreditation and submit it to TVET CDACC.
- Attend the suitability interview. If you pass, you are entered in the Council's register and get an accreditation certificate.
- Assessment centre: apply on the CDACC portal (portal.tvetcdacc.go.ke), attach your TVETA licence and pay KSh 10,000.
- CDACC inspects the centre on site, then tells you whether you are accredited or what to improve, and issues a certificate.
Watch out
- Get your TVETA licence first. To register, a centre must show a TVETA licence listing its accredited CDACC courses.
- A centre may be told it is not accredited and given improvements to make before it can assess candidates.
Who can apply
- Assessors: instructors or trainers, workplace trainers, skilled workers, and supervisors in industry or training institutions.
- Curriculum developers: individuals who develop curricula for a trade.
- Assessment centres: a training institution, industry or other set-up that meets CDACC's quality standards for competence assessment.
Official sources (5)
- Registration (accreditation of curriculum developers, assessors, verifiers and assessment centres) tvetcdacc.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- Citizens' Service Delivery Charter tvetcdacc.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- TCDACC/APP/1: Application Form for Accreditation of Curriculum Developer/Assessor/Verifier tvetcdacc.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- Application form for accreditation of assessment center tvetcdacc.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- TVET CDACC CBET Portal portal.tvetcdacc.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026