The Capacity Building grants focus on increasing community capacity and capability for climate-smart, sustainable agriculture and natural resource management practices in Australia to drive on-ground adoption.

These grants support the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program’s outcomes by:

• Increasing farmers' awareness, knowledge, and skills of best practice climate-smart sustainable agriculture approaches

• Enhancing the capacity and capability of community organisations, Landcare groups, First Nations groups, and industry partnerships to assist farmers in adopting climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices

Funded Projects

The grant opportunity will fund projects that:

• Increase awareness, knowledge, and skills of best practice climate-smart sustainable agriculture approaches

• Assist community organisations, Landcare groups, First Nations peoples, and industry to support farmers and landholders in adopting climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices

• Provide opportunities, initiatives, and information resources to assist the agriculture sector in increasing the adoption of climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices at scale

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must:

• Have an Australian Business Number (ABN)

• Be a permanent resident of Australia

• Have an account with an Australian financial institution

• Be financially viable

• Be located in Australia

Eligible entity types include:

• Company

• Cooperative

• Corporate Commonwealth Entity

• Corporate State or Territory Entity

• Incorporated Association

• Indigenous Corporation

• Local Government Entity

• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity

• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority

• Sole Trader

• Statutory Entity

Ineligible applicants include:

• Non-corporate Commonwealth Entity

• Non-corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority

• Unincorporated Association

• International Entity

• Organisations listed on the National Redress Scheme’s website as not having joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme

• Organisations listed on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website as non-compliant