Deadline: 1-Jul-22
The NSW Government has launched the applications for Disaster Risk Reduction Fund – Local and Regional Risk Reduction Stream to improve disaster resilience across NSW communities.
Priorities
The framework’s four priority outcomes are to:
- Understand disaster risk: build awareness of disaster risk by using evidence-based information in a way to understand, share, integrate and inform operational and strategic decisions to reduce risk and build resilience to future disaster events
- Accountable decisions: make accountable decisions across all sectors to respond to immediate and long term disaster risk and actively manage the potential creation or exacerbation of disaster risk
- Enhance investments: enhance investments to reduce vulnerabilities to disasters, maximise outcomes and limit future disaster risk response and recovery costs
- Governance, ownership and responsibility: ensure governance, ownership and responsibility is transparent and sustainable for disaster risk management.
Funding Information
Under two funding pathways, Pathway 1 and Pathway 2, the Local & Regional Risk Reduction stream aims to deliver direct risk reduction and risk mitigation solutions, build capabilities in disaster risk reduction, and promote collaboration between local communities, councils and other stakeholders.
- Pathway 1 offers funding of $50,000 to $300,000, for projects run by a single entity with a focus on implementing smaller scale, place-based solutions to prevent new, reduce existing and manage residual disaster risk.
- Pathway 2 offers funding of $300,000 to $1.5 million, for projects delivered by a consortium of organisations or partnerships with a focus on strategic initiatives that create long-term regional benefit and build risk reduction capability building efforts across communities or regions.
Eligibility Criteria
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Applicants eligible for funding in Pathway 1 are:
- Local councils
- Charitable and incorporated not-for profit organisations, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) non-governmental organisations; and peak bodies and industry groups (if applicable)
- Local Aboriginal Land Councils
- Unincorporated community groups under the auspices of an organisation eligible to apply in its own right.
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Applicants eligible for funding in Pathway 2 are:
- Joint organisations of Councils (JOs)
- Regional organisations of Councils (ROCs)
- Consortia and partnerships with Local Aboriginal Land Councils or non-governmental organisations
- Consortia and partnerships with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) non-governmental organisations, communities, or groups
- Consortia and partnerships where the lead applicant is an eligible entity included in the list of eligible organisations under Pathway 1. Non-lead partners can include the private sector, social enterprises and B-Corporations, universities and academic institutions.
For more information, visit NSW Government.
For more information, visit https://www.nsw.gov.au/resilience-nsw/disaster-risk-reduction-fund/disaster-risk-reduction-fund-local-and-regional-risk-reduction-stream