PPP 4.3

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Category

Competence Level

Category name:

Protected Area Policy Planning and Projects

Category code:

PPP

Category function:

Providing a strategic and rationally planned framework for protected area management.

Competence level:

LEVEL 4

Code:

4

Scope of work:

Direction and management of large organisations.

Typical function:

EXECUTIVE

Knowledge statement:

Coordinate processes for designing and establishing protected area systems.

Knowledge criterion:

Relevant national legislation. Principles and practices of PA system planning. International best practice (including CBD guidance). IUCN protected area categories and governance types. Analytical processes such as gap analysis. Global/regional tools for identifying conservation priority areas (e.g. Key Biodiversity Areas). Design of ecological networks.

Performance criterion:

Developing and directing plans for rational establishment/expansion of a protected area system. Ensuring that PA systems meet requirements for coherence adequacy and representativeness. Ensuring that individual protected areas are appropriately located and designed (in terms of size shape boundaries). Including a range of protected area categories and governance types. Developing national and/or regional PA System Plans/Master Plans.