Council for Australian-Arab Relations Grants Round (AU$400,000)

Deadline: 16 March 2020

The Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) supports projects that enhance Australia’s economic, cultural and social relations with the Arab world.

Priorities

The priority sectors for the Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) 2020 grant program are:

• Culture;
• Education and Sports;
• Innovation;
• Gender Equality.

(CAAR) 2020 Outcomes

The Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) 2020 seeks to:

• Take every opportunity to advocate for humanity and create awareness and economic opportunities in their respective countries;
• Share knowledge, ideas and networks to create ongoing partnerships;
• Encourage people to be open to reframe the way they connect and do business;
• Promote the annual grant round to potential applicants through professional networks and on social media;
• Engage in community and stakeholder events;
• Recommend priority areas for the annual grants round;
• Administer the grant program to align with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Public;
• Diplomacy strategy and regional priorities, and the CAAR Strategic Plan.

Funding Information

• The Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) has up to $409,500 to allocate for the 2020-21 grant round, subject to appropriation, starting in July 2020;
• Grant applications for a minimum of $10,000 and a maximum of $40,000 per year will be considered.
• CAAR funding for multicultural festivals and film festivals will be capped at $15,000.
• CAAR encourages applicants to seek additional funding for their project from other sources.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible you must:

• Be one of the following entity types:
  • An Australian entity with an Australian Business Number (ABN) or Australian Company Number (ACN);
  • An Australian consortium with a lead organisation;
  • An Australian registered charity or not-for-profit organisation;
  • An Australian local government body;
  • An Australian State/Territory government body;
  • A corporate Commonwealth entity;
  • An Australian statutory authority;
  • Be an Australian or permanent resident of Australia;
  • Be a non-Australian citizen/resident individual or organisation from the Arab world working in partnership with an Australian individual or organisation (one who meets the above eligibility criteria), where this will enhance Australian economic, cultural and social relations with the Arab world;
  • Holders of an Indigenous Corporation Number (ICN).
• And be willing to provide or develop child protection guidelines for your project if it involves people under the age of 18 years;
• Individuals who intend the grant to be administered by a university should apply on behalf of the university, i.e. your university is the applicant.

Ineligibility

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• Not an Australian citizen, a permanent resident of Australia or an Australian organisation;
• A previous applicant who has failed to provide a full and proper acquittal of an earlier IRGP grant.
  • You may provide an interim report with the agreement of the relevant Secretariat where existing grant funding will be expended prior to the commencement of the new grant requested.

Eligible Grant Activities

You must use the grant for the following activities:

• The project outlined within the application.
• You can use the grant to pay for costs detailed in your budget and grant agreement, including:
  • Economy flights, modest accommodation costs, meals and travel allowances, other transport;
  • Communication and translation;
  • Venue hire and catering;
  • Advertising and promotion, graphic design, photography and printed material;
  • Production costs, including freight and artists’ wages;
  • Only one participant per conference or meeting and only where the participant is a principal;
  • Speaker and the subject of the conference is of direct relevance to the grant opportunity.

What the grant money cannot be used for?

You cannot normally use the grant for the following:

• Capital expenditure, including purchase of real estate and vehicles;
• Purchase of equipment (for example, musical instruments, computers, videos, photographic or printing equipment);
• The covering of retrospective costs or recurrent funding of activities;
• Activities which are already commercially viable in their own right;
• Activities which will provide commercial advantage to the applicant (for example promotion of the applicant’s own business);
• Costs incurred in the preparation of a grant application or related documentation;
• Subsidy of general ongoing administration of an organisation such as electricity, phone, rent, salaries (including for research assistants or administrative staff), honorariums or administrative charges levied by the applicant’s organisation;
• Activities for which other Commonwealth, State, Territory or Local Government bodies have primary responsibility (for example academic research, assistance to business, development assistance projects);
• Activities undertaken by primary or high schools, including study tours, where travel by a significant number of students is the principal element of the proposal;
• Scholarships to individual students, and
• Completed projects.

The Council do not generally fund travel and accommodation for attendance at conferences or meetings, participation in fieldwork or sporting or other events, unless such activities are considered by the Board to be of direct relevance to its objectives. To be considered, a substantial program should exist in the sidelines or around the conference and there should also be a strong argument for the selection of applicant(s).

Selection Criteria

First the Council will assess your application against the eligibility criteria. Only eligible applications will move to the next stage. Eligible applications will be considered through an open competitive grant process.

• The Council will then assess your application against the criteria set out below and against other applications.
• Your application will be considered on its merits, based on:
  • How well it meets the criteria;
  • How it compares to other applications;
  • Whether it provides value for money and;
  • Whether it will ensure a reasonable spread of projects across priority sectors and across the;
  • Targeted country or regions.

How to Apply

You must submit your grant application in English on the application form, which can be downloaded at SmartyGrants available on the given website. This is an online application form that you can submit electronically.

For more information, visit https://dfat.gov.au/people-to-people/foundations-councils-institutes/caar/grants/Pages/grants.aspx