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Murray-Darling Healthy Rivers Program – Small Grants (Round 1)
The Australian Government is inviting applications for funding under Round 1 of the Murray-Darling Healthy Rivers Program (Small Grants). There is $6 million available in total funding for this round. Grants range between $5,000 and $50,000. This is an open, competitive grant round.
The program supports community-led, on-ground projects that improve the health and ecological condition of rivers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin, whilst supporting economic development and jobs.
The program aims to:
- improve health and ecological condition of rivers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin that build on water recovered through the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
- improve community involvement in restoring the environmental health of the Murray-Darling Basin
- increase economic activity and employment in Basin communities as a result of grant funding.
Applications are open from 3 March 2021 to
31 March 2021.
Round 2 of the Small Grants and the Large Grants round will open in mid-2021.
The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment consulted with Basin communities on the program, including the Grant Opportunity Guidelines. You can read the outcomes of this consultation on the department’s website.
To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:
- Indigenous Corporation
- Company
- Cooperative
- Incorporated Association
- Sole Trader
- Partnership
- Person
- Trustee on behalf of a Trust
- Unincorporated Association
Note: Irrigation infrastructure operators, and public and private schools, are eligible regardless of their organisational structure.
Applications from consortia are acceptable, if you have a lead applicant who is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Eligible organisations can form a consortia with ineligible organisations. The maximum grant size remains $50,000 for applications from consortia.
To apply, go to the application form here.