Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 624 2.  Objectives, key assumptions and methodology for this analysis. 2.1 Report Objectives and Scope Create Ranger Parks and its supporters commissioned SVA Consulting to conduct a forecast cost benefit analysis (CBA) to estimate a Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) for the ‘Create Ranger Parks’ concept. This report considers and estimates the social, economic, cultural and environmental benefits that could be realised for Government, rangers and communities if the ‘Create Ranger Parks’ concept is adopted. It also looks at the likely costs of setting up and running the ranger programs and therefore the estimated BCR. The scope of the analysis looks at a range of 66 properties that make up five million hectares in the Midwest Gascoyne region over a 10-year period (nominally 2016/17 through to 2025/26). 2.2 Key assumptions It is understood that Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) will need to be negotiated with Traditional Owners before the ranger programs can be established. In this analysis we have assumed that twenty-five ILUAs will need to be negotiated. This is because there are twenty-five TO groups that cover the properties that make up the five million hectares. In the CBA model we have assumed that the ILUAs will be negotiated in the first year and then the ranger programs will be establishedin the following year. This marks the start of both costs and benefits materialising as a result of the ranger programs. We have assumed that twenty-five ranger groups will be required to cover the properties with coordinators in each group but that a central management team will be established to support the programs and to seek out and develop partnerships to leverage third party investment and additional economic opportunities. This is akin to the model used by the Kimberley Land Council. Many of the cost and benefit assumptions in the model are driven by the acreage of the properties and the number of rangers required to manage the land. The properties being considered total 5,000,000 hectares and we have assumed that all of this land would be actively managed by ranger groups. Rangers include Indigenous people who work on country as part of the ‘Create Ranger Parks’ proposal, whether on a casual or permanent basis. We have estimated the number of rangers using averages from other ranger groups that SVA has analysed in the past two years. This has been verified with reference to the experience of the Kimberley Land Council and Central Desert Native Title Services. We estimate that 212 rangers (100 full-time equivalent (FTE) rangers) will be required to effectively manage the land during each year of the analysis period. This amounts to 4 FTE’s for each of the twenty-five ranger groups made up of 4 permanent (0.75 FTE) and 4 casual (0.2 FTE) rangers. This assumption is consistent with what we have seen across other ranger groups that we have analysed and is consistent with the number of rangers and full-time equivalent positions funded through the federal WoC programme. This assumption is important as many of the benefits are only likely to be realised by rangers who work on country regularly.