Australian Government announces National Women’s Alliances Grant

Deadline: 5-Mar-21

The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply for grant funding under the Women’s Leadership and Development Program (WLDP) to serve as National Women’s Alliances.

The National Women’s Alliances grant opportunity will establish 6 civil society networks (Alliances) to ensure women’s voices are heard in the policy-making process.

Thematic Areas

Alliances should have a national footprint. Given this, organisations should apply under one of the 6 specific themes to achieve maximum impact. The 6 themes are:

Women’s safety;
Women’s economic security and leadership;
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds;
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women;
Women living in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia;
Australian women living with a disability.

Funding Information

A total of $4,925,392.20 GST exclusive over 2021-22 to 2023-24 is available for the Alliances.
Each Alliance will receive a maximum grant amount of $820,898.70 GST exclusive over the funding agreement period.

Outcomes

The intended outcomes of the National Women’s Alliances stream are that Alliances:

Represent Australian women, including underrepresented women.
Collaborate with policymakers to inform the Australian Government’s understanding of policy issues affecting Australian women.
Collaborate with policymakers to inform the development of policy solutions to issues affecting Australian women.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible applicant must be one of the following entity types:
- Indigenous Corporation;
- Company;
- Cooperative;
- Incorporated Association;
- Statutory Entity;
- Partnership.
If applicants are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.
Applications from consortia are acceptable, as long as applicants have a lead applicant who is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above.
Applicants are not eligible to apply if they are:
- Corporate Commonwealth Entity;
- Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entity;
- Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority;
- Commonwealth Company;
- Corporate State or Territory Entity;
- Non-corporate State or Territory Entity;
- Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority;
- Local Government;
- International Entity;
- Sole Trader;
- Person;
- Unincorporated Association.