Deadline: 9 June 2020
Enhancing Country Heath Outcomes (ECHO) is a grant program delivered by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR), established with funds provided by Beyond Medical Education.
Enhancing Country Heath Outcomes aims to improve health outcomes for people living in rural, regional and remote New South Wales and Victoria and provides targeted funds for charitable initiatives delivered by not-for-profit organisations that are endeavouring to improve accessibility to health care services or support the retention of high quality and contextually appropriate primary health care services.
Priorities
Priority will be given to locally driven initiatives, based in rural, regional and remote Victorian and New South Wales communities that:
- Improve accessibility and availability of innovative public primary health service delivery that while publicly available, is difficult to access;
- Enable communities to attract and retain a multi-disciplinary health workforce, including General Practitioners and allied health workers, through innovative and novel approaches;
- Support the rural, regional and remote health workforce in being prepared for living and thriving in their / these communities;
- Provide innovative responses to local health needs thatare collaborative, integrated and helpcreate systemic change;
- Develop and implement evidence-based, best-practice models of care that are affordable, acceptable and appropriate to meeting the primary health care needs of people living in rural, regional and remote areas.
Preference will be given to projects serving communities with populations under 20,000 in rural, regional and remote communities in Victoria and New South Wales.
Projects should:
- Be collaborative, multidisciplinary and integrated in nature;
- Be sustainable beyond the period of the grant, long term, scalable and capable of being adapted to meet the primary health care needs of other communities;
- Demonstrate innovative and novel approaches to achieve program objectives;
- Have a defined project plan and evaluation framework to measure outcomes;
- Not duplicate an existing service or program;
- Be able to demonstrate cash and / or in-kind support for the project from the applicant and other parties.
Projects funded in this round should be undertaken over a 24-month period between October 2020 and December 2022. Projects cannot be funded retrospectively.
Funding Information
ECHO has been established with funding from Beyond Medical Education and grants of between $50,000 and $150,000 are available for projects to be delivered over two years from October 2018. There will be approximately $349,000 available in this second and final round.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit community-based organisations from communities across rural, regional or remote Victoria or New South Wales, where funds support projects and activities that offer clear public benefit (i.e. are for a charitable purpose) and address a need in the community;
- Organisations with an ABN or Incorporation Certificate;
- Organisations with and without DGR endorsement;
- Not-for-profit regionally based primary health care organisations.
FRRR considers all eligible applications on their merit. Due to the volume of applications received, applications are assessed based on the documentation received at the time of application. NOTE: FRRR is unlikely to follow up missing documentation after applications have been submitted.
For more information, visit https://www.frrr.org.au/grants/ECHO.php