Elements and Performance Criteria
- Scope requirements
- Determine regional boundaries
- Determine regional boundaries from economic, environmental and social factors, that will produce a coherent plan
- Identify economic, environmental and social factors that overlap the proposed regional boundaries to develop a scope and weighting of the factors
- Review previous plans and reports to verify the suitability of the proposed regional boundaries
- Meet program requirements for the development of regional plans in the identification of regional boundaries
- Identify regional resource management issues
- Research regional natural resource issues from past documentation and from stakeholder views
- Research and assess current and potential impacts of government, economic, industry, environmental and social factors on natural resource management issues
- Estimate the likely depth of research required to obtain sufficient information on issues for planning purposes
- Scope stakeholders in regional resource management planning process
- Scope economic, industry, social and government activities to identify influential organisations, groups and people and their particular interests
- Approach organisations and groups to determine their interests, viewpoints on natural resource management issues, and willingness to participate in regional planning process
- Identify nature of community involvement in planning process from understanding of issues and community
- Develop proposal for regional plan
- Review the objectives of the plan after scoping to determine feasibility of proposed processes
- Develop proposal for a new or revised plan to obtain funding
- Make estimates of time to complete tasks including time for consultations and approvals and any discussion with Indigenous communities and groups
- Identify costs associated with development of regional plan from preliminary research
- Prepare proposal to address the requirements of program and relevant legislation and agency policies and processes
- Submit proposal for regional plan for approval and funding according to agency and program procedures