LAR 4.2

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Category

Competence Level

Category name:

Upholding laws and regulations

Category code:

LAR

Category function:

Ensuring that laws regulations and rights affecting protected areas and biodiversity are upheld.

Competence level:

LEVEL 4

Code:

4

Scope of work:

Direction and management of large organisations.

Typical function:

EXECUTIVE

Knowledge statement:

Coordinate national policies strategies laws and regulations for addressing environmental crime and security threats.

Knowledge criterion:

International initiatives and agreements to combat poaching and the wildlife trade. Policies and laws affecting protected areas and biodiversity. Procedures for development and approval of legislation. Decision making structures and processes affecting legislation and its implementation.

Performance criterion:

Proposing new and strengthening existing policies and legal instruments for protecting species ecosystems protected areas and the environment. Proposing new and strengthening existing policies and legal instruments for law enforcement security compliance and crime prevention in protected areas. Lobbying for increased attention to wildlife and environment crime and imposition of appropriate penalties.