Deadline: 24-May-23
The Innovative Biodiversity Monitoring Grant Program seeks to support the development of innovative solutions for biodiversity monitoring that will support the developing Nature Repair Market.
The aim is to enable confidence that each nature repair project is delivering biodiversity improvements while making monitoring easier, less time consuming and more cost-effective.
Australia’s natural environment is deteriorating and the scale of the task to reverse this decline is beyond government and individual landholders.
In response, the Australian Government is developing a Nature Repair Market that will enable the private sector and others to more easily invest in nature repair and create opportunities for landholders.
The Innovative Biodiversity Monitoring Grants Program encourages innovative, fit-for-purpose solutions for lower cost biodiversity monitoring. The monitoring will support the delivery of environmental outcomes from a Nature Repair Market that have an appropriately high level of integrity.
This grant opportunity will:
- provide innovative biodiversity baseline assessment and monitoring technologies and approaches to be deployed in the nature repair market
- enable assessment and monitoring capability to support confidence in the integrity of the nature repair market
- lower the costs of project monitoring compared to more traditional approaches, and
- deliver a range of monitoring technologies and approaches that can be deployed across the various Australian environments.
Funding Information
- The program has funding of up to $8 million over three years from 2022-23 to 2024-25.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible you must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- be registered for the purposes of GST
- have an account with an Australian financial institution
- and be one of the following entities:
- an entity incorporated in Australia
- an entity limited by guarantee
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
- an incorporated association
- a joint (consortia) application with a lead organisation, provided you have a lead organisation who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply
- a registered charity or not-for-profit organisation
- all higher education providers listed at Table A and Table B of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (Cth)
- corporate Commonwealth entities
- State and Territory business enterprises which undertake publicly funded research, or
- an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006.
- Applications from across Australia are eligible.
Ineligible
- You are not eligible to apply if you are:
- an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’
- an individual
- a partnership
- unincorporated association
- overseas resident/organisation
- any organisation not included in the list
- a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
- an Australian local government body
- an Australian state or territory government body
- an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012), or
- your project has already received grant support from a Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government grant for the same activities proposed to be funded by this grant opportunity. However, you may apply if grant funding under this grant opportunity will value add.
For more information, visit Innovative Biodiversity Monitoring Grant.