Deadline: 28-Jan-22
Applications are now open for the Green Adelaide’s Water Sustainability Grants Program, an annual grant program to help improve Adelaide’s management of lakes, creeks, rivers and coasts.
Objectives
- The primary objective of the Water Sustainability Grants is to achieve better management of water-related benefits to and impacts on land, watercourses and coastal and marine environments, including improving the resilience of communities.
- Additional objectives that are important in delivering the primary objective of the Water Sustainability Grants are:
- Recognise the value of the knowledge of Aboriginal people, and of their participation, in better water management.
- Consider projects across all four key areas of intervention that they have identified in their work in better water management: research; policy/governance/strategic planning; on-ground projects; and capacity building.
- Recognise the synergies of this grants program with the landscape levy co-funded Water Sensitive SA capacity-building program and the research outcomes of the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities and its legacy vehicle the Water Sensitive Cities Institute.
- Leverage co-investment from their delivery partners and other project partners with the aim of achieving a minimum of $1 leveraged for every $1 of landscape levy grant funding – however, recognising the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local government and other potential delivery partner expenditure budgets, applications unable to offer 1:1 co-funding will not be unduly disadvantaged.
- Build on the success of the 2018/19 to 2020/21 Water Sustainability Grants, and the 2017/18 Water Sensitive Urban Design Grants, building on well over a decade of investment of levy funds and staff time in better water management
Priorities
Better management of water-related benefits and impacts in Green Adelaide will contribute to the achievement of their seven priorities:
- Coastal management, by addressing land-based impacts on coastal and marine habitats.
- Water resources and wetlands, by working for the continuous improvement of their creeks, rivers, groundwater and wetlands.
- Biodiversity sensitive and water sensitive urban design (BSUD and WSUD), by supporting projects that integrate these contemporary design philosophies into their overall design processes.
- Green streets and flourishing parklands, by recognising the synergies of fit-forpurpose water provision, at-source infiltration, and other sustainable water management opportunities for urban greening.
- Flora, fauna and ecosystem health in the urban environment, with projects that create opportunities to protect existing ecosystems and create new habitat through better water management.
- Controlling pest plants and animals, through projects which include the management of pest plants as part of broader management of their creeks, rivers and wetlands.
- Nature education, by supporting projects which involve communities and create assets for ongoing community engagement with nature.
Funding Information
A total of $550,000 is up for grabs for individuals, community groups, businesses, schools and councils to deliver projects that help protect and better manage their water resources across metropolitan Adelaide.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grants are open to any applicant prepared to enter into a grant agreement with the Green Adelaide Board.
- The grants are open to both on-ground projects and projects which do not have an on-ground construction/planting component (“non-works” projects).
- Projects may contribute to the achievement of the objectives by building skills, understanding, assets, and/or organisational commitments for better water management.
- The grants are targeted at projects that deliver multiple benefits within an integrated water management framework.
- Projects will be within the Green Adelaide region, or, for projects spanning more than one landscape region, will use the Water Sustainability Grants contribution in the Green Adelaide Region.
- Projects may contribute directly to the achievement of the objectives, and/or may contribute in the medium to long-term.
For more information, visit https://www.greenadelaide.sa.gov.au/grants/water-sustainability-grants