Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6803

The Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round (the grant round) provides the opportunity for successful applicants to contribute to improving traceability for Australian and regional agricultural industries and consumers, and will support collaborative agricultural traceability projects that will assist implementation activities under the National Agricultural Traceability Strategy 2023 To 2033 (the strategy).

The purpose of the grant round is to strengthen trust in Australia’s commercial agricultural traceability systems and robust credentials in our region by funding activities that increase supply chain transparency, build regional capability business-to-business and support development of sustainable, resilient and data enabled supply chains.

Projects developed under this grant round will facilitate this by communicating and showcasing Australian supply chain approaches to data-enabled agricultural traceability systems and credentials, as well as online tools that provide research and modelling to producers and other industry participants about:

• market intelligence,
• consumer trends and
• commercial trading partner requirements.

Projects will foster mutually beneficial outcomes, shared learning, innovation, capacity building, and technical expert engagement in Australia and Southeast Asia markets (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam) and provide mechanisms for practical collaboration amongst producers and supply chain participants to support free flowing agricultural trade and availability of Australian agricultural products in regional markets.

The grant round will award grants totalling $4 million (exclusive of GST) - $3.13 million in 2023-?24 and $0.87 million in 2024-25.

The program opened for applications on 15 February 2024, and applications must be received by 9:00PM AEDT on 27 March 2024.

To be eligible you must:

• have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
• be registered for the purposes of GST, or be willing to become registered
• have an account with an Australian financial institution

and be one of the following entity types:

• a company incorporated in Australia
• a company incorporated by guarantee
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
• an incorporated association
• a Commonwealth, State/Territory or Local government entity
• a partnership
• a joint (consortia) application with a lead organisation
• a not-for-profit organisation
• an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 To be eligible, grant activities must:
• address the grant round objectives
• focus on at least one of the export markets listed in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines
• address at least one of the grant round outcomes
• address at least one of the strategy’s priority areas of action.
• clearly and explicitly state how your project aligns with the objectives, outcome(s), identified priority areas for action, and other relevant frameworks within the application form and associated templates.

Who is not eligible to apply for a grant?

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’ (www.nationalredress.gov.au)
• an individual
• an unincorporated association
• an overseas resident/organisation
• any organisation that does not meet the eligibility criteria above.

A grant will also not be provided if the project duplicates or replicates activities for which the applicant, or a project partner, is already receiving or has previously received funding from the Commonwealth or from another source (e.g., state or local government or private sector program).

Expected timing for this grant opportunity

Assessment of applications: March-April 2024

Approval of outcomes of selection process: April-May 2024

Negotiations and award of grant agreements: May-June 2024

Notification to unsuccessful applicants: May-June 2024

Earliest start date of grant activities: June 2024

End date for grant payments: 30 June 2025

End date of grant activities or agreement: 30 June 2025

$4,400,000.00

From $55,000.00 to $550,000.00

Complete the Application Form and email it with the required attachments to traceability.project@aff.gov.au.

Applications must be submitted to the department by 9:00PM AEDT on 27 March 2024 to be eligible for consideration. Late applications will only be considered under exceptional circumstances.

Eligible applications will be assessed by a Selection Advisory Panel (SAP), who will rate and rank applications, and will make recommendations on whether to award grants based on how they score against assessment criteria.

The decision to award grants will be made by the First Assistant Secretary with line area responsibility for this grant program, based on the recommendations of the SAP.

Successful applicants will be asked to execute a Grant Agreement to receive funding, acquit grant expenditure, and report on the progress of their project.

Further information on the grant round and application process can be found in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines and the Application Form.

The applicant must adhere to the Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round Grant Opportunity Guidelines and information published in the Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round Questions and Answers document.

Grant applications must be submitted between the published open and closing times for the grant opportunity. Requests to submit applications after the closing time will only be considered if the applicant can demonstrate they have experienced exceptional circumstances that prevented submission. Refer to the Grant Opportunity Guidelines for further information.