Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6097

The India enhanced business engagement: Australia-India Business Champions and the revitalised CEO Forum Secretariat Grant is a single grant opportunity with multi-year funding over four years from 2022-23 to 2025-26. It was announced as part of the Update to the India Economic Strategy and aligns with An India Economic Strategy to 2035. The program supports a dedicated Secretariat to administer the Australia-India Business Champions and a revitalised CEO Forum. This is a closed non-competitive grant program. The Business Council of Australia has been identified as the eligible organisation that meets the program requirements.

The program objectives are:
- to drive the Australia-India business relationship forward by supporting the Business Champions and CEO Forum to identify opportunities, resolve problems, and strengthen Australian and Indian business literacy
- support the Australia-India relationship and the Australian Government’s priorities as outlined in the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, India Economic Strategy to 2035 and Update to the India Economic Strategy.   

The intended outcomes are:  
- strengthen the bilateral relationship and support the government’s agenda for accelerating the Australia-India economic relationship
- manage operations and intersessional work of the Business Champions and CEO Forum
- strengthen business literacy and business engagement between Australia and India
- support business leaders to provide advice to the Australian and Indian Governments on challenges and opportunities within the economic relationship  
- facilitate opportunities for business leaders to discuss priority business issues directly with government and political leaders to resolve problems  
- support the Business Champions and CEO Forum on governance; project and event management; administration; policy; and financial management.

We administer the program according to the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines (CGRGs).   

Please refer to Section 4 ‘Eligibility Criteria’ of the Grant Guidelines.

$1,349,000.00

Electronic lodgement through the URL provided by email. For further information, please refer to Section 7 'How to apply for the grant’ of the Grant Guidelines.