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Download the Excel workbook of a global register of competences for threatened species recovery practitioners
Competence frameworks are widely used in many professional sectors, helping to develop capacity by defining and recognising the required skills, knowledge and personal attributes. A global register of competences for threatened species recovery practitioners is a register of competences in the form of a directory of the possible skills, knowledge and personal attributes required by practitioners working in threatened species recovery programmes around the world, in both in-situ and ex-situ contexts. This Competence Register has the potential to transform approaches to capacity development within threatened species recovery and help improve the effectiveness of this branch of conservation and increase its impact. Its structure largely follows that of A global register of competences for protected area practitioners (Appleton, 2016).
“The major role of a global register of competences for threatened species recovery practitioners, is to highlight that strengthening technical capacity in this field cannot be achieved solely by occasional courses on specific skills at places where existing financial and professional capacity is low. It requires sustained, long-term investment in this well-defined, extensive portfolio of skills, knowledge and personal attributes that may be comparatively easy to acquire in few countries but are very scarce in most of the rest of the world.”
Jon Paul Rodríguez, Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
