NDIA seeking Applications for Individual Capacity Building Program 2020-21 (Australia)
Deadline: 22 April 2020
The National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency (NDIA) is currently inviting applications in an open competitive process to apply to deliver services under the Individual Capacity Building Program from 2020-21 to 2021-22.
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The Individual Capacity program is one of four discrete and complementary programs under the ILC Investment Strategy. The other programs are the National Information Program, the Economic and Community Participation Program and the Mainstream Capacity Building Program.
The objectives of the Individual Capacity Building Program are to ensure:
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People with disability have the skills and confidence to participate and contribute to the community and protect their rights through an increase in:
Skills and capacity
Motivation, confidence and empowerment to act
Participation and contribution to community.
Disabled Peoples Organisations and Families Organisations are strengthened in their capability to deliver services for people with a disability through:
Improving the organisation’s capacity and ability to deliver the organisation’s mission and Information, Linkages and Capacity Building in the community.
Activities
Individual Capacity Building activities must:
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Be developed and delivered in collaboration with people with disability;
Be for the primary and direct benefit of people with disability;
Build the knowledge, skills and confidence of people with disability to set and achieve their goals.
Funding Information
This grant opportunity has a total of $85 million (GST excl.) available for projects up to two years.
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Eligibility Criteria
To apply for funding under this grant opportunity your organisation must be one of the following three categories of organisations:
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Category 1: Disabled Peoples Organisation- A Disabled Peoples Organisation is an organisation that seeks to do one or more of the following:
Increase the knowledge, skills and capacity of people with disability and their families through information, advice, mentoring, peer support, training and development.
Be a collective voice of and for people with disability and families.
Assist people with disability to make the most of their packages of support.
Build the capacity of the community to welcome all people.
Share the collective lived experience of people with disability to empower other people with disability to have voice, choice and control. Uphold and be guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
To apply in this category, the organisation must:
Strongly align with the social model of disability
Be run by and for people with disability.
You must demonstrate this in your responses through
A governance structure where the majority of the Board (or equivalent governance body), members are people with disability
A governing document (e.g. rules of the association or constitution) that outlines the organisation’s mission as being for the benefit of people with disability.
The majority of paid staff (or volunteers in the absence of paid staff) are people with disability.
Where the organisation is also a Registered Provider of Supports, it is clear that the Disabled Peoples Organisation performs this role as a secondary activity to fund and further the mission of the organisation; and that the delivery of these activities is not the purpose or primary activity of the organisation.
Note: A Disabled Peoples Organisation is not:
An organisation governed by family members of people with disability established to be a Registered Provider of Support and/or;
Is not a person with disability or a family member or carer of a person with disability operating a business, where the focus of the organisation is service provision to people with disability.
Applications from entities such as these will be ineligible.
Category 2: Family Organisation – A Family Organisation is an organisation that seeks to do one or more of the following:
Support and enhance the health, wellbeing, capacity and resilience of families and carers.
Design and deliver supports or services for families and carers.
Consult with and act as a voice for families and carers.
Encourage families and carers to recognise and be aware of their own needs.
Identify gaps and highlight unmet needs of carers.
To apply in this category, the organisation must:
Strongly align with the Social Model of Disability
Be run by carers and families of people with disability for carers and families of people with disability.
You must demonstrate this in your responses through
A governance structure where a majority of the Board (or equivalent governance body), are family members (inclusive of siblings) or unpaid carers of people with disability
A governing document (e.g. rules of the association or constitution) that outlines the organisation’s mission as being for the benefit of families and carers of people with disability.
The majority of staff (or volunteers in the absence of paid staff) are family members (inclusive of siblings) or carers of people with disability.
Where the organisation is also a Registered Provider of Supports, it is clear that the Family Organisation performs this role as a secondary activity to fund and further the mission of the organisation, and that the delivery of these activities is not the purpose or primary activity of the organisation.
Category 3: Priority Cohort Led Organisation- A Priority Cohort Led Organisation is an organisation that seeks to improve the welfare of a specified community. In this grant funding opportunity, organisations that represent one or more of the following cohorts will be eligible to apply:
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, Asexual and Plus (LGBTIQA+) people
Children and young people (0-24 years
People experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.
To apply as a Priority Cohort Led Organisation, the organisation must demonstrate a:
Clear connection to the cohort group and community they represent
Commitment to the social model of disability.
For Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities; Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities; and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, Asexual and Plus (LGBTIQA+) people:
Have a governance structure in place where the majority of the Board (or equivalent governance body) identify as part of the priority cohort;
The majority of paid staff (or volunteers in the absence of paid staff) identify as part of the priority cohort.
For the children and young people (0-24 years) and people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness:
The organisation must have a history in the sector and a demonstrated long-term commitment to an organisational mission/purpose of working with children and young people; or people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, respectively.
For more information, visit https://www.communitygrants.gov.au/grants/individual-capacity-building-program-2020-2021