Our partners

Examination partner: certN

certN is ADP’s independent examination partner. certN designs and delivers the proctored online assessments that lead to SIPC certification — and to every other ADP credential as the portfolio grows.

The partnership is deliberately separated from the rest of ADP’s work. ADP develops the standard and approves the assessment specification; certN’s psychometrics team writes, blind-reviews, and maintains the question bank, then runs the live exam infrastructure. Candidates book directly with certN at vds.certn.global, pay certN directly, and are proctored by certN’s panel. ADP receives only the pass/fail result and the diagnostic breakdown by phase.

This separation matters. The body that owns the standard should not also be running the exam — independence is structural, not promised.

Trainer community

ADP-accredited trainers are not partners in the institutional sense, but they are the network through which the standards reach practitioners worldwide. Trainers operate independently — they set their own fees, build their own organisations, and run their own programmes — within the accreditation criteria ADP publishes.

The public trainer directory lists every active trainer. The criteria for each tier (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Standard) are published openly on the tiers page, and accreditation decisions follow the published process.

Become a partner

If your organisation operates in the international development sector and you are interested in a structural partnership — co-developing a standard, supporting translation, hosting working groups, or another collaboration — write to info@adp-international.org with a short note about your work and what you have in mind. Partnership criteria and conflict-of-interest policy are summarised on the Governance page.