Current Grant Opportunity View - GO6949

The Australian Government is inviting applications for funding to provide expert gender advice to Government and ensure women’s voices inform implementation of  Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality (the Strategy).

This grant opportunity will establish a network of up to 6 civil society organisations to provide collaborative, intersectional, evidence based gender expertise and strategic advice to Government to inform ongoing progress of the Strategy’s outcomes. Advice will focus on elevating the lived experiences of women in all their diversity and bringing together the expertise of the women’s sector and expert stakeholders. Cross alliance collaboration will be a central feature of the program, to ensure advice to Government is intersectional and prioritised.

The voices of First Nations women; migrant and refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse women; women with disability; and women living in regional, rural and remote areas will be central to guide progress under the Strategy, ensuring Government takes a genuinely intersectional approach to women’s policy.

Organisations may apply to represent one or more of the following themes:

• gender-based violence
• women’s economic equality and leadership 
• migrant and refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse women
• First Nations women
• women living in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia
• women with disability.

Applications from consortia to represent multiple themes are encouraged.

To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Corporate State or Territory Entity (Universities only)
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Partnership
• Statutory Entity

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must be one of the eligible entity type as listed above.

Further information on entity types is available on the Community Grants Hub  webpage.

Assessment of applications - July to September 2024

Approval of outcomes of selection process - September 2024

Notification to applicants - October 2024

Negotiations and award of grant agreements - October to November 2024

Earliest start date of grant activity - 2 December 2024

End date of grant activity - 30 June 2029.

To apply, you must:

• complete the online application form on GrantConnect 
• provide all the information requested
• address all eligibility criteria and assessment criteria
• include all necessary attachments
• submit your application to the Community Grants Hub by 5:00 pm AEST on 3 July 2024.

Please see:

• Addendum notice - Application Form Outage
• National Womens Alliances - Questions and Answers - version 7
• Update to grant opportunity landing page
• National Womens Alliances - Grant Opportunity Guidelines - version 2.

The Office for Women hosted an information briefing for all potential applicants on Wednesday, 29 May 2024. The purpose of the briefing was to:

• highlight the core eligibility requirements
• outline the program priorities and restrictions
• provide an opportunity for consortia partnerships to be considered.

The briefing was recorded and is available on the Working for Women Grant Opportunity webpage, along with the transcript and PowerPoint slides from the session.