Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7410

The Better Renal Services for First Nations Peoples - Round 3 closed non-competitive grant opportunity will provide up to a total of $18.583 million over 2 years (2024-25 to 2025-26) in infrastructure funding for the establishment of dialysis units in up to seven locations. The funding can be utilised for costs of construction, alterations or renovations, completion and fit out of relevant buildings.   

The organisations eligible to apply for the following locations are:

• Western Dessert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation:

1) Alekarenge (Ali Curung), NT

2) Yuendumu, NT

• Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation - Galiwin’ku, NT

• Puntukumu Aboriginal Medical Service – Jigalong, WA

• Mala’la Health Service Aboriginal Corporation – Maningrida, NT

• North West Hospital and Health Service - Normanton, Qld

• Ngaanyatjarra Health Service (Aboriginal Corporation) - Warburton, WA

The grant opportunity is designed to facilitate a comprehensive approach, divided into two stages, to align with the principles outlined in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap:

• Stage 1 - scoping and design (crucial in informing the subsequent stage)

• Stage 2 - construction of the dialysis unit.  

This will support First Nations Australians with end stage kidney disease who must undergo dialysis treatment, often in locations far from their families and communities.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

The eligible organisations invited to apply for this grant opportunity are:

• Western Dessert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation – for the location of Alekarenge (Ali Curung), NT

• Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation - for the location of Galiwin’ku, NT

• Puntukumu Aboriginal Medical Service – for the location of Jigalong, WA

• Mala’la Health Service Aboriginal Corporation – for the location of Maningrida, NT

• North West Hospital and Health Service - for the location of Normanton, Qld

• Ngaanyatjarra Health Service (Aboriginal Corporation) - for the location of Warburton, WA

• Western Dessert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation – for the location of Yuendumu, NT

The eligible organisations are invited to apply for this grant opportunity as they either: 

· have the capability to deliver the grant activities in the identified location/s  

· are a First Nations community-led organisation that will deliver community-led solutions 

· have existing infrastructure and relationships to support the grant activities  

· have experience and capability to deliver to the grant objectives and outcomes, and  

· have demonstrated value with money in delivering outcomes in the current market. 

Given the locations identified and community relationships required to deliver the dialysis units announced under Round 3 of the Better Renal Services grant opportunity, the department considers these to be the only eligible organisations for the Better Renal Services for First Nations Peoples Round 3 grant opportunity.

Potential grantees are advised that an election for the House of Representatives may be called before this grant process has been concluded. If an election is called and the House of Representatives is dissolved, then caretaker arrangements will apply to the business of Government. By convention, decisions are not taken during this period that would bind an incoming Government and limit its freedom of action. Consequently, potential grantees need to be aware that any grant processes which have not been concluded before the caretaker period, or which commence during the caretaker period, may experience delays in finalisation and could potentially be revised or cancelled.

$18,583,000.00

From $2,800,000.00 to $7,000,000.00

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