RECOGNITION OF ABILITY, INTEGRITY AND COMPETENCY
The commercial diplomat requires all the finesse and knowledge of foreign cultures required by a traditional diplomat. In addition, the commercial diplomat must acquire a wide range of analytical, policy advocacy and interpersonal, critical thinking, public diplomacy, anti-corruption, negotiating and commercial diplomatic skills.

Globally-focused and Carefully Structured
The Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programmes give practitioner-candidates the flexibility to expand their skills-based knowledge and skills-specific experience while pursuing their commercial diplomatic career. The strong desire to add a global perspective to a practitioner-candidate's current qualification makes such practitioner an excellent candidate for the Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programmes.

Mandatory Qualifying Programme
Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programme is the most rigorous continuing professional training programme for the career commercial diplomat. A commercial diplomat who has qualified and earned the QPA, QCD or C.Dipl designation has successfully completed a structured mandatory qualifying competency-based examinations (MQCE Essential Examinations) and demanding set of requirements involving aII the required disciplines and proven practical hands-on professional commercial diplomatic experience. 

The aim of the qualifying provisions is to provide for the better impactful regulation and standardization of career commercial diplomats, and to bring them in line with the rest of the global professional institutions and institutional bodies. Only those who can fulfil the criteria of skills-specific knowledge, specialism-based expertise, evidence-based proficiency, competency, dedication, good standing and advanced professional development shall qualify for admission into the commercial diplomatic profession and appointment to the rank and status of, QPA, QCD or C.Dipl, and be referred to as, 'Commercial Diplomatic Advocate', 'Commercial Diplomatic Counsel', or 'Commercial Diplomat Plenipotentiary'. This in sense provides the 'bench mark' for the competent career commercial diplomat.

Qualifying as an Accredited Commercial Diplomat 
To qualify for accreditation, the applicant must complete the required mandatory qualifying programme. While attaining QPA, QCD or C.Dipl is a challenge, it allows practitioners to remain current with what is new in the commercial diplomatic profession and field of practice, and to incorporate the latest advanced research techniques into their specialism-based expertise and competency-based practices.

Practitioners in any of the advanced mandatory qualifying programmes are preparing themselves for careers in which they will likely be given supervisory or executive responsibilities at senior executive level. They are expected to maintain integrity, demonstrate maturity, civility, probity, exceptional quality, self-discipline and ethical behaviour throughout the period of their Mastership and career. The ACCD-CDRA may cancel a practitioner-candidates application at any time for conduct deemed inconsistent with the integrity expected of an accomplished learned accredited commercial diplomatist. 

What does an advanced and accomplished learned accredited commercial diplomat look like in action? 
The ACCD-CDRA aims to explain how its compact and extraterritorialized commercial diplomatic profession is creating emerging practitioners and empowering commercial diplomatists in all jurisdictions, economies and broader regions.

Symbol of Competency for Career Commercial Diplomats
Mandatory Qualifying Programme
MQCP Mandatory Qualifying Programme is the most rigorous continuing professional training programme for practitioners of commercial diplomacy. A career commercial diplomat who has qualified and earned the accreditation designation has completed a structured and demanding set of requirements involving aII the required disciplines and . 

The aim of the qualifying provisions is to provide for the regulation of qualified career commercial diplomats and to bring them in line with the rest of the global professional bodies. Only those who can fulfil the criteria of knowledge, competence, dedication, good standing and advanced professional development shall be recognized, accredited and be referred to as:

• Qualified Policy Advocate,
• Qualified Certified Diplomat, or
• Accredited Commercial Diplomat. 

Symbol of Proficiency
Qualified Policy Advocate, Qualified Certified Diplomat and Accredited Commercial Diplomat Certified statuses (QPA, QCD or C.Dipl) is conferred only by the ACCD-CDRA, being the pioneer professional body for commercial diplomats and the commercial diplomatic profession, with the pioneering statutory rights and plenipotentiary regulatory powers to examine, qualify, certify, call to practice, admit to the profession, accredit and register practitioners who have successfully completed the Mandatory Qualifying Programmes, being the main category of professional accreditation denoting a level of professional achievement required through specialised vocational training-related comprehensive learning, mandatory qualifying competency-based examinations, proven impeccable integrity, significant practical hands-on professional experience, and key skills-specific knowledge at higher advanced level.

QPA, QCD or C.Dipl is, and shall be regarded as a symbol of integrity, professionalism, standards, proficiency, competency and professional achievement widely respected in all jurisdictions, economies and broader regions by governments, inter-governmental organizations and other employers.