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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Gather information about the community and community projects
   • Research major characteristics of the community
   • Identify features and impact of community projects
   • Define local land ownership, use and management issues
   • Determine community traditions and customs
   • Define main issues and trends impacting on community
   • Determine relationship of community project with a permaculture system or community
2. Assist in project preparation
   • Participate in community consultation
   • Obtain tools, equipment and resources for project and prepare for use
   • onfirm work schedules and programs with supervisor
   • Identify any issues relating to project completion with supervisor and address these while planning
3. Work within a community project
   • Observe community protocols according to community or organisational guidelines and work procedures
   • Respect community traditions and customs and reflect in organisational work procedures
   • Complete project work on schedule and in cooperation with community

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

gather information about a community and community projects, including major characteristics, features and impacts of community projects

research the community

assist in project preparation

work within a community project

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

permaculture principles and practices related to community work

issues important to communities, such as:

health

housing

land rights

schooling and education levels

economics

town planning

transport

leisure activities

employment

communities and social structures and characteristics, such as:

living arrangements

patterns of daily life

roles of men, women and children, class structures

predominant language used

main economic activities

main transport systems used

main information systems used

predominant religion or spiritual beliefs

main system of law and order

main type of government

main social upheavals experienced over specified periods of time

main problems experienced by the society over specified periods of time

cultural customs and heritage of indigenous or other minority groups

cultural protocols, such as:

recognition of authority

taboos

religious or other belief sensitivities

economic sensitivities

issues of trust

project plans and programs

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