AHCCCF601 Coordinate the development of regional plans

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AHCCCF601 Coordinate the development of regional plans

Modification History

Release	TP Version	Comment
1	AHCv1.0	Initial release

Application

This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to coordinate the development of regional plans in the context of natural resource management.

This unit applies to individuals who take responsibility for teams and exercise autonomy in undertaking complex work and analyse, design and communicate solutions to sometimes complex problems.

No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Pre-requisite Unit

Nil.

Unit Sector

Community Coordination and Facilitation (CCF)

Elements and Performance Criteria

Element	Performance criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes.	Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Scope requirements	1.1 Determine reasons for development of a regional plan to identify broad goals and legislative requirements 1.2 Identify prior regional planning work as input to proposed regional planning process
2. Determine regional boundaries	2.1 Determine regional boundaries from economic, environmental and social factors, that will produce a coherent plan 2.2 Identify economic, environmental and social factors that overlap the proposed regional boundaries to develop a scope and weighting of the factors 2.3 Review previous plans and reports to verify the suitability of the proposed regional boundaries 2.4 Meet program requirements for the development of regional plans in the identification of regional boundaries
3. Identify regional resource management issues	3.1 Research regional natural resource issues from past documentation and from stakeholder views 3.2 Research and assess current and potential impacts of government, economic, industry, environmental and social factors on natural resource management issues 3.3 Estimate the likely depth of research required to obtain sufficient information on issues for planning purposes
4. Scope stakeholders in regional resource management planning process	4.1 Scope economic, industry, social and government activities to identify influential organisations, groups and people and their particular interests 4.2 Approach organisations and groups to determine their interests, viewpoints on natural resource management issues, and willingness to participate in regional planning process 4.3 Identify nature of community involvement in planning process from understanding of issues and community
5. Develop proposal for regional plan	5.1 Review the objectives of the plan after scoping to determine feasibility of proposed processes 5.2 Develop proposal for a new or revised plan to obtain funding 5.3 Make estimates of time to complete tasks including time for consultations and approvals and any discussion with Indigenous communities and groups 5.4 Identify costs associated with development of regional plan from preliminary research 5.5 Prepare proposal to address the requirements of program and relevant legislation and agency policies and processes 5.6 Submit proposal for regional plan for approval and funding according to agency and program procedures

Foundation Skills

Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Range of Conditions

Unit Mapping Information

This unit is equivalent to AHCCCF601A Map regional issues and stakeholders.

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=c6399549-9c62-4a5e-bf1a-524b2322cf72