Current Grant Opportunity View - GO6958

The grant round provides the opportunity for successful applicants to contribute to developing, implementing, and improving traceability systems for Australian agricultural industries, specifically in the livestock, animals and animal products sector.

The purpose of the grant round is to enhance industry capacity and capability to meet national traceability outcomes and comply with current and emerging requirements. Enhancing traceability for livestock, animals and animal products will support Australia’s access to existing and new markets; enhance our ability to respond to exotic pest, disease, and food safety incidents; and help to demonstrate how our livestock, animal and animal product sectors meet changing consumer expectations.

Projects developed under this grant round will assist in reducing barriers to adoption of traceability and increase regulatory compliance capability. While the focus of this grant round is on the livestock, animals and animal products sectors, consideration should be given as to how projects could be applied across other agricultural sectors.

Projects developed under this grant round should consider potential links to projects under the 2023 Regulatory Technology Research and Insights Grant Round.

The Australian Government has announced a total of $4 million for grants under this program, with projects to run across 2024-25 and 2025-26 financial years. The program opened for applications on 15 May 2024. Due to the number of inquiries received, the Grant Round application period has been extended by one week, applications must now be received by 11:00 PM AEST on 8 July 2024.

To be eligible you must:

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

and be one of the following entity types or part of a joint (consortia) application with a lead organisation that is:

• a company incorporated in Australia
• a company incorporated by guarantee
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
• an incorporated association
• a partnership
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government Entity
• a not-for-profit organisation
• a publicly funded research organisation
• an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

Additional eligibility requirements

We can only accept applications from livestock, animals, and animal products sector organisations as listed below: 

• peak industry bodies
• Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs)
• Australian Commonwealth, State or Territory or local government bodies 

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
• unincorporated association
• overseas resident/organisation
• any organisation that does not meet the criteria in section 4.1 or 4.2.

Further information on eligibility can be found in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

If you are successful, you will be expected to start your grant in October 2024.

• Assessment of applications - August 2024
• Approval of outcomes of selection process - August-September 2024
• Negotiations and award of grant agreements - September 2024
• Notification to unsuccessful applicants - September 2024
• Earliest start date of grant activities - October 2024
• End date for grant payments - 30 June 2025
• End date of grant activities or agreement - 30 June 2026

$4,000,000.00

From $150,000.00 to $500,000.00

The Grant Round application period has been extended by one week. Complete the Application Form below, and email it along with the required attachments to traceability.project@aff.gov.au by 11:00PM AEST on 8 July 2024. Late applications will only be considered under exceptional circumstances.

Eligible applications will be assessed by a Selection Advisory Panel (SAP), who will  rank applications and will make recommendations on whether or not to award grants based on how they score against defined assessment criteria.

The decision to award grants will be made by the First Assistant Secretary with 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 Livestock and Animal Traceability Development, Implementation, and Improvement Grant Round Grant Opportunity Guidelines and information published in the Livestock and Animal Traceability Development, Implementation, and Improvement 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.