Disaster Ready Fund in Australia

Deadline: 06-Mar-23

The Government of South Australia is pleased to announce the applications for Disaster Ready Fund (DRF) to support Australians to manage the physical, social and economic impacts of disasters caused by climate change and other natural hazards.

Objectives

The DRF’s Objectives are to:

increase the understanding of natural hazard disaster impacts, as a first step towards reducing disaster impacts in the future;
increase the resilience, adaptive capacity and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and affected communities to minimise the potential impact of natural hazards and avert disasters; and
reduce the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a natural hazard’s impacts, including reducing the recovery burden for governments and vulnerable and/or affected communities.

Streams

Stream One: Infrastructure
- Stream One projects must fall into one or more of the following categories:
  - Investment in grey infrastructure;
  - Investment in green-blue infrastructure (including nature based solutions);
  - Investment in hazard monitoring infrastructure; and/or
  - Business case development for future infrastructure (including investigation, modelling, concept and detailed design activities).
Stream Two: Systemic risk reduction
- Stream Two projects must fall into one or more of the following categories:
  - Supporting a better understanding of risk, through a better evidence base to understand and raise awareness of risk;
  - Strengthening decision making by enhancing governance networks and communities of practice;
  - Adaptation projects that improve land use planning and development practice projects;
  - Projects that build the capacity and capability of businesses, community sector organisations and/or at-risk communities to improve their preparedness and resilience to the impacts of future disasters; and/or
  - Projects that enable and incentivise private investment in disaster risk reduction.

Eligible Hazard Types

Project activities can target any, or multiple, Natural Hazards (as defined in the Glossary), including:

Geological hazards, such as, but not limited to:
- Avalanches, mudslides and landslides
- Earthquakes
- Volcanic eruptions
- Sinkholes
- Tsunamis
Extreme weather and climate-driven hazards, such as but not limited to:
- Bushfires/wildfires
- Heatwaves
- Damaging wind incidents, including but not limited to dust storms and tornados
- Storms and tropical cyclones
- Severe thunderstorms, hailstorms and blizzards
- Floods, flash flooding, including storm surges
- Coastal erosion, and coastal inundation
- Sea level change
- Pollen storms
- East Coast lows
- Geomagnetic solar storms (X or M Class)