RECOMMENDATION 3: IMPLEMENT A SUITE OF COMPLEMENTARY INCENTIVES TO SUPPORT GRAZIERS IN ONGOING LAND MANAGEMENT FOR WATER QUALITY BENEFITS
It is recommended that the LDC project should provide a complementary mix of incentives including:
� Working with existing and proposed regulations; � Providing ongoing access to information( such as property management planning, financial planning etc); � Providing ongoing assistance to engage with and / or achieve BMP accreditation; � Providing grants tailored with payments associated with achieving key inputs or outcomes; and � Supporting recognition and reward of high performers or those that have made large changes in land management.
RECOMMENDATION 3A: LDC SUPPORT BBB LANDHOLDERS TO UNDERSTAND THEIR CURRENT REGULATORY OBLIGATIONS
We recommend that LDC should, through the Policy Engagement program area, ensure that BBB landholders fully understand their regulatory obligations, and facilitate landholder input to regulatory reviews or proposed regulatory amendments( including recent changes to the reef protection regulations and Vegetation Management Act). This could include brokering more effective State approaches to the co-design of local implementation arrangements for regulation.
RECOMMENDATION 3B: LDC PROVIDE ONGOING ASSISTANCE FOR LANDHOLDERS TO ACCESS INFORMATION, EXTENSION SERVICES AND SUBSIDISED TRAINING
Provide multiple and variable pathways for graziers to engage with training and support services. Information, extension and training should align with and complement existing industry BMP, DAF extension and property management planning processes including:
� Property mapping and planning; � Erosion and other land management planning; � Financial services including succession planning; and � Grazing management training e. g. DAF or commercial services.
RECOMMENDATION 3C: LDC REFINE THE CURRENT GRANTS SCHEME TO REWARD ON-GROUND CHANGE AND IMPROVED MAINTENANCE OF BENEFITS OVER TIME
It is recommended that the LDC refine the current grant scheme( applied only when landholders are considered to be operating at a level at or above‘ duty of care’) process to:
� Incorporate longer term management agreements( ideally attached to title, although landholders suggested this would not be well received);
� Include staged payments( some up front and some on the achievement of an input or output) focussed upon the achievement of key input or outcomes milestones( landholders suggested that this is reasonable and acceptable); � Include follow up monitoring( acceptable to landholders); and � Require that grant selection be based on return on investment( public benefit / public cost).
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