Applications close: 5pm 30 June 2026.
Funding:up to $100,00
Regional Drought Resilience Plan (RDRP) Social Outcome Grants support not-for-profit organisations in remote, rural and regional Australia to develop and deliver local projects that will broadly result in strengthened social capital, wellbeing and connectedness to prepare for and build social resilience to drought.
Part of the Future Drought Fund’s Communities Program, supported by the Australian Government, this program invests in the future by enabling agriculture-dependent communities to identify and act on their drought preparedness priorities at a grassroots level and in ways that best suit their communities.
The list of eligible LGAs can be found here.
For more information and to apply.
Priorities for program investment include:
- Projects that primarily support social resilience outcomes.
- Activities and initiatives that focus on long-term social connection, capability building and an increased capacity for people and communities to adapt to change over time.
- Activities and initiatives that can make a clear and distinct linkage to building drought preparedness in local communities.
- Initiatives that are tailored to meet local needs and the unique geographical, climatic and community context.
- Projects that are clearly identified in the Regional Drought Resilience Plan within the eligible region.
- Applications for projects that are to be delivered across multiple RDRP regions need to provide evidence of alignment to each RDRP and support from local communities within each RDRP region for the proposed project.
- Initiatives that build upon learnings, sustain momentum and deepen impact of previously funded FDF projects.
- Demonstrated community readiness to support the project at a local level.
- Collaboration of a diverse range of community-based organisations (non-agricultural focus) who play an active role during drought.
- Initiatives that specifically engage local young people and First Nations people or communities.
- Projects that do not duplicate other Future Drought Fund investments, or other community resilience initiatives.
