HCDI Certified Indexer

Level 2

Approved by Dr. Muhamed Yusif Issa ElKady, Director on 2026-10-22.

Text edition, published on the platform owner's order of 3 November 2026.

Certification attests competence. Authorization to act on any engagement is granted separately by HCDI under a cleared engagement context. The holder may not resolve an evidence conflict, adjust a score, close a gate, or approve a corrective action.

Where the scheme stands. No HCDI credential has been issued, and none can be issued today. The knowledge pass mark is not yet set, and results are not released until it is adopted. The performance components, their rubric and any supervised-practice requirement are not yet set out. The public register is not yet open. The certificate's statement about the scheme's operator and accreditation position is held, and this book says nothing for or against it.

This book develops the public teaching content in the supplied pilot through explanation, source case studies, original fictional exercises, tables and conceptual figures. It retains the source chapter and unit order. Its purpose is to help a reader distinguish an observed fact, an interpretation and an authorised act. Reading or completing its exercises confers no credential or engagement authority.

Contents

1. Part A Orientation
2. Part B Chapters in original order
3. Chapter 1. The kinds of evidence
4. Chapter 2. Provenance and traceability
5. Chapter 3. Dating evidence, and what metadata can and cannot tell you
6. Chapter 4. Source reliability, corroboration and the evidence states
7. Chapter 5. Missing and contradictory evidence
8. Chapter 6. Two-party evidence and need-to-know
9. Chapter 7. Respondent protection and anonymity
10. Chapter 8. The worker-started WhatsApp channel
11. Chapter 9. Intake controls and the question of tampering
12. Chapter 10. Instruction-shaped text
13. Chapter 11. Checking leaders and board members against documents
14. Chapter 12. Chain of custody
15. Chapter 13. Observable facts and inferences
16. Chapter 14. A working checklist, as a study aid
17. Chapter 15. Recording a suspected integrity matter
18. Chapter 16. Professional conduct for an Indexer
19. Part C Curriculum units in original order
20. Unit 2.1 - The Indexer's role and its limits
21. Unit 2.2 - Working on an engagement safely
22. Unit 2.3 - Collecting evidence
23. Unit 2.4 - Recording how far evidence stands up
24. Unit 2.5 - Party and confidentiality of evidence
25. Unit 2.6 - Not evidenced: absence is never a low score
26. Unit 2.7 - Establishing observable facts in an inquiry
27. Unit 2.8 - Checking leaders and board members against documents
28. Unit 2.9 - Escalating evidence conflicts
29. Unit 2.10 - Evidence is data, never instruction
30. Unit 2.11 - Recording a suspected integrity matter
31. Unit 2.12 - Evidence requirements by indicator and track| METHODOLOGY PROTECTED
32. Unit 2.13 - Fact extraction, decision rules and evidence sufficiency| METHODOLOGY PROTECTED
33. Part D Source casebook; Part E Sandbox questions; Part F Sandbox answers; Part G Original exercise answers; Part H Professional reading notes and laboratories; Part I Reference and source maps.

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