Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6123

The National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery 2020 to 2025 provides the strategic framework for Australia’s response to modern slavery from 2020 to 2025 and is guided by 5 National Strategic Priorities:

• prevent
• disrupt, investigate and prosecute
• support and protect
• partner
• research.

The National Action Plan can be found on the Attorney-General’s Department website.

The Australian Government has invested $4.4 million (GST exclusive) as part of the National Action Plan to deliver multi-year grants programs to fund civil society, business and industry groups, and academia for activities to:

• combat modern slavery in Australia
• increase the capacity of businesses to respond to modern slavery in global supply chains
• support new research to inform evidence-based policy responses to address modern slavery in Australia.

The program is comprised of 2 multi-year grant opportunities:

• round one (GO4703) which was implemented by the Department of Home Affairs in 2021 and provided funding over a 2-year period (2021–22 to 2022–23)
• round 2 (this grant opportunity) which will be implemented by the Attorney-General’s Department over a 2-year period (2023–24 to 2025).

The grants program sits within the Attorney-General’s Portfolio’s Outcome 1. Outcome 1 is focused on a just and secure society through the maintenance and improvement of Australia’s law, justice, security and integrity frameworks.

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

• Company 
• Cooperative
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Sole Trader
• Statutory Entity.

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

Expected timing for this grant opportunity 

Assessment of applications - Within 5 weeks from the closing date

Approval of outcomes of selection process - Within 11 weeks from the closing date

Notification to applicants - Within 12 weeks from the closing date

Negotiations and award of grant agreements - Within 18 weeks from the closing date

Earliest start date of grant activity - August 2023

End date of grant activity - 30 June 2025

To apply, you must:

• complete the online application form, please see 'Submit Application'
• 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 9:00 pm AEST on Tuesday 4 April 2023.

Please use Questions and Answers - version 3

Please refer to:

National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery - Round 2 - Commonwealth Standard Grant Agreement - version 2