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Resilience Funding Arrangements

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Disaster Ready Fund - Round 3

Status: CLOSED on 5pm 16 April 2025

Overview

The Disaster Ready Fund is the Australian Government’s flagship disaster resilience and risk reduction initiative which will fund projects to support Australians to manage the physical, social and economic impacts of disasters caused by climate change and other natural hazards.

The Australian Government’s Disaster Ready Fund provides up to $200 million per year to fund projects that build resilience to prepare for, or reduce the risk of, future natural hazard impacts across Australia.

The primary objectives of the Disaster Ready Fund are to:

  1. increase the understanding of natural hazard disaster impacts, as a first step towards reducing disaster impacts in the future;
  2. increase the resilience, adaptive capacity and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and affected communities to minimise the potential impact of natural hazards and avert disasters; and
  3. reduce the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a natural hazard’s impacts, including reducing the recovery burden for governments, cohorts at disproportionate disaster risk, and/or affected communities.

Funding and administration decisions are made by the Australian Government.

Resilience and Recovery Tasmania (RRT) in the Department of Premier and Cabinet administers whole-of-government programs that support Tasmanian communities to build resilience and reduce disaster risk. RRT is the Lead Agency in administering Tasmanian Applicants for Disaster Ready Fund in partnership with the Australian Government's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

RRT is responsible for conducting an initial assessment of project proposals, prioritising them against state/territory priorities, seeking ministerial endorsement and submitting the most competitive proposals as applications to NEMA using NEMA’s online application portal.

Closed - Future Drought Fund programs

The $5 billion Future Drought Fund is part of the Australian Government’s Drought Response, Resilience and Preparedness Plan.

The Tasmanian Government is coordinating the delivery of two Future Drought Fund programs in Tasmania.

Contact us:

For more information about Tasmania’s resilience funding arrangements or general enquiries please contact: resilience@dpac.tas.gov.au or Community Grants on 1800 204 224 or grants@dpac.tas.gov.au