AHCPER418 — Provide advice on permaculture principles and practices
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What an assessment for AHCPER418 must cover
54 assessable components: 4 elements (19 performance criteria), 5 performance evidence and 28 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 2 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Identify client requirements for advice
- 1.1Initiate contact with client and record personal details according to workplace procedures
- 1.2Determine scope and type of permaculture advice required
- 1.3Identify financial and time constraints available to client for advice
- 1.4Prepare a brief for requested advice and confirm with client
- 1.5Secure approval to progress with brief from client according to workplace procedures
2 Provide client with general information on permaculture
- 2.1Source general information on permaculture design principles and practices
- 2.2Provide client with general information on permaculture design principles and practices
- 2.3Clarify general information on request from client
- 2.4Provide client with supplementary resources and references according to client needs
- 2.5Record general information provided to client
3 Undertake permaculture research
- 3.1Determine strategies and sources of information to support research
- 3.2Investigate specific applications of permaculture principles and practices according to client brief
- 3.3Investigate current developments in permaculture principles and practices
- 3.4Compile and summarise research findings
4 Provide advice on specific permaculture principles and practices
- 4.1Document advice according to client brief and workplace procedures
- 4.2Communicate and confirm contents of documentation with client
- 4.3Clarify or expand on advice according to client requests
- 4.4Finalise advisory process according to workplace procedures
- 4.5Seek and respond to feedback from client
Performance evidence
- identified requirements for advice and prepared a client brief
- provided general information to support client understanding of permaculture principles and practices
- investigated current principles and practices of permaculture
- investigated permaculture applications for client brief
- documented and provided specific advice on permaculture practices and strategies according to client brief
Knowledge evidence
- twelve principles of permaculture
- ethics of permaculture, including:
- care for the earth
- care for all people
- fair share of surpluses
- setting limits to biophysical growth, including population, resource use and waste
- permaculture practices and strategies, including:
- personal, household, community and bioregional strategies
- sustainable agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture and organic gardening
- economic alternatives that support sustainable living
- low energy and low embodied energy building and manufacturing
- appropriate technology
- restoration ecology and maintenance of biodiversity
- sustainable community development, bioregional development and relocalisation
- reuse and return of products in manufacturing cycle and waste utilisation
- waste water, grey water, sewage and resource treatment for reuse and recycling
- sustainability education
- elements of permaculture systems
- functions of permaculture systems
- permaculture design techniques
- innovation in plant, animal and technology selection, use and performance
- recent practice in bioregional community development and local energy descent planning
- client communication techniques, record-keeping and listening techniques
- preparation of reports and presentations for clients, including:
- types of presentation of advice, including visual, oral, formal or informal
- Statements of Limitation and liabilities of stakeholders
- intellectual property
- copyright and referencing in documentation
Foundation skills
- Writing: Prepare and produce client brief for a specific context using clear and detailed language in order to convey explicit information, requirements and recommendations for permaculture systems development
- Oral communication: Determine and confirm client requirements using collaborative and inclusive techniques, including active listening and questioning and reading of non-verbal signals, to convey, clarify and confirm permaculture requirements
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Questions about assessing AHCPER418
What does an assessment tool for AHCPER418 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for AHCPER418 needs to address all 54 unit components: 4 elements with 19 performance criteria, 5 performance evidence requirements, 28 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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Related units
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- AHCPER218 — Prepare and store products from a permaculture system
- AHCPER219 — Plant and maintain crops in a permaculture system
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- AHCPER221 — Recognise characteristics of integrated plant and animal systems
- AHCPER222 — Use and maintain basic hand tools and equipment for garden and farm
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