FRM 3.2

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Competence Level

Category name:

Financial and Physical Resources

Category code:

FRM

Category function:

Ensuring that protected areas are adequately financed and resourced and that resources are effectively and efficiently deployed and used.

Competence level:

LEVEL 3

Code:

Scope of work:

Direction and management of medium sized organisations.

Typical function:

SENIOR MANAGER

Knowledge statement:

Prepare a protected area business plan/sustainable financing plan.

Knowledge criterion:

Theory and practice of business and/or financial sustainability planning. Current policies and practices for funding PAs. Options and sources for increasing/diversifying funding.

Performance criterion:

Developing a budget and medium-term business plan or financial sustainability plan for a PA (linked to a management plan). Identifying available funding and the funding gap between available funds and the requirements of the budget. Identifying strategies and options for filling the funding gap.