Disaster Ready Fund Round Three 2025-26
Tender ID: 577122
Tender Details
Tender Description
The Disaster Ready Fund Round (DRF) is the Australian Government’s flagship disaster resilience and risk reduction initiative
The objectives of the program are to:
- increase the understanding of natural disaster impacts, as a first step towards reducing the risk of future natural disaster impacts,
- increase the resilience, adaptive capacity and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and affected communities to future natural disasters to minimise the potential impact of natural hazards and reduce the risk of future natural disasters, and
- reduce the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a future natural disaster’s impacts, including reducing the recovery burden for governments, cohorts at disproportionate risk, and/or affected communities.
Round Three (2025-26) of the DRF will build on previous rounds by making a further $200 million available for natural disaster risk reduction and resilience initiatives in 2025-26. Of the total amount available:
- $138,000,000.00 notionally allocated for infrastructure investment (infrastructure funding stream) encompassing the following primary project activity types as defined in the Glossary to the Guidelines:
- investment in grey infrastructure
- investment in green-blue infrastructure (including nature based solutions)
- investment in social infrastructure
- investment in natural hazard monitoring infrastructure
- $59,000,000.00 notionally allocated for other eligible project types, and
- $3,000,000.00 notionally allocated for administrative support for Lead Agencies.
There is no maximum grant amount, but grants cannot exceed the total available budget. The minimum total project value is $500,000 for infrastructure funding stream projects, with no minimum for other types.
Eligibility:
Applicants and projects must meet all eligibility requirements outlined in the Guidelines.
Grant Activity Timeframe:
The maximum project period is:
- up to five (5) years for infrastructure funding stream projects, and
- up to three (3) years for all other projects.
Project periods formally commence from the date of NEMA’s written endorsement of the relevant Implementation Plan.
Total Amount Available (AUD):
$200,000,000.00
Instructions for Application Submission:
Applicants must submit Project Proposals to Lead Agencies by the closing time and date noted above. Lead Agencies are in turn responsible for submitting Applications to NEMA by 5:00pm AEST on 30 May 2025. For additional information on submission processes and Lead Agency contact details see section 7 of the Guidelines and NEMA’s website: https://www.nema.gov.au/our-work/key-programs/disaster-ready-fund#LeadAgencies
Other Instructions:
Applicants developing Project Proposals should direct their enquiries to the Lead Agency in their state or territory (contact details are listed here: https://www.nema.gov.au/our-work/key-programs/disaster-ready-fund#LeadAgencies
Lead Agencies should direct questions to NEMA through: disaster.ready@nema.gov.au
Further information on the Program is available on NEMA’s website Disaster Ready Fund | NEMA
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Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
