Protected Area Staff Training: Guidelines for Planning and Management

This guide from the IUCN is designed to help protected area managers to develop, implement, and evaluate targeted training programs to build and maintain staff competencies.

Author(s): Kopylova, S.L. and Danilina, N.R. (Editors)

Publication Date: 2011

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Key Points in Document:

• This guide from the IUCN is designed to help protected area managers to develop, implement, and evaluate targeted training programs to build and maintain staff competencies. Best practices are presented for all stages of the personnel training cycle (shown below).
  
• Also included in the guide is a discussion of the options and tradeoffs of training course certification, which might be of use to anyone considering the development of competence standards or certifications systems.

Citation: Kopylova, S.L. and Danilina, N.R. (Editors). Protected Area Staff Training: Guidelines for Planning and Management. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. (2011).