Elements and Performance Criteria
- Promote the identification of land management and environmental issues
- Encourage group members to identify local environmental issues within the context of the group's activities and program scope
- Develop identified issues in terms of problems, causes and actions required
- Provide opportunities for group members to learn about environmental matters and to acquire additional related skills
- Facilitate development of priorities for action
- Facilitate group to develop potential action strategies for identified issues that comply with program scope
- Determine priorities for action strategies based on members' interests and skills, the impact on environmental issues and promotion of solutions, and compliance with the program guidelines
- Ensure facilitation processes used are appropriate to the level of group development
- Facilitate development of goals
- Facilitate the group to develop goals and link them to action strategies in a cohesive action plan
- Support group to document their goals and action strategies and achieve membership approval
- Review previous goals and action plans with the group as part of the development of new goals and action plans
- Identify role of coordinator in group development and management to reduce unrealistic expectations and conflict
- Manage individual views and interests to ensure group cohesion is maintained
- Enable group to develop its goals and projects within its rules of association and program guidelines
- Correlate goals and action strategies to regional plans and initiatives
- Support group to identify and evaluate potential projects
- Facilitate group to identify a range of potential projects within goals and action strategy
- Lead group through an evaluation process of alternative projects to determine: compliance with members' interests and skills; project scope within the resources of the group or network of regional groups; compliance within program scope; available funding; and potential for acceptance
- Encourage group to review the results of previous projects and submissions for funds as part of the development of new projects
- Ensure facilitation process is sensitive to individual member viewpoints, perspectives and cultures, and considerate of community goals and plans to manage any potential conflict
- Support group in development of project proposals and submissions
- Facilitate group to develop a project plan and costing within program guidelines
- Assist group to prepare project proposal in terms of the program requirements and to complete submission for lodgement to the authorities by the due date
- Assist group to document project evaluation requirements in accordance with program and proposal requirements
- Source relevant information to assist the group with the submission