Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO1799

The Community Development Programme (CDP) is the Australian Government’s remote employment and community development service.

This grant opportunity will select providers through an open, competitive process in 36 CDP regions, to deliver the CDP from 1 July 2019 for up to three years. Funding is for the delivery of the CDP only.

The objective of the CDP is to support connecting working age Australians with real and sustainable jobs, including:

• ensuring remote job seekers participate in activities and gain experience that builds work-readiness and contributes to the broader community;
• fostering Indigenous business; and
• assisting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to generate economic and social benefits, including from their natural and cultural assets, and effective management of Indigenous-owned land and seas.

 Activities that contribute to the CDP outcomes are:

• services to increase work-readiness of remote jobseekers;
• increased access to job opportunities and support for jobseekers to retain a job; and
• support for jobseekers to meet their income support mutual obligations.

The CDP is a demand driven program, so operates differently to other grant opportunities in that funding is not paid up-front. CDP providers are paid on outcomes.

In six of the 36 regions in this open grant opportunity, CDP providers will be required to deliver the Time to Work Employment Service in the prison within the region.

To apply for funding, the IAS Grant Guidelines eligibility criteria states:

• applicants must be a legal entity and have full legal capacity to enter into a Project Agreement with the Commonwealth (unincorporated associations or individuals are ineligible to apply); and

• the Department will only enter into a Project Agreement with a single entity. Where two or more entities seek funding as a consortium, a member entity, or a newly created entity must be appointed as the lead that will enter into any agreements with the Department. The lead entity must be identified in any application for funding and that application should identify all members of the proposed consortium. 

Specific to this CDP grant opportunity, priority will be given to local Indigenous organisations.

Successful applicants will commence services on 1 July 2019 with funding offered up to 30 June 2022

The online application form can be found through this link:https://forms.business.gov.au/smartforms/servlet/SmartForm.html?formCode=PRD00-PMCAPP18&FRID=4-9PR3QMT&RegID=4-9PXZX1V

The CDP grant opportunity Application Kit provides key information to assist applicants to complete the online application form. All material within this Application Kit should be read in conjunction with the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) Grant Guidelines.

To view Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their responses, please refer to Go Documents