Disability Representative Organisations (DRO)

Overview

The Disability Representative Organisations (DRO) grant opportunity will run from 2024–25 to 2025–26. The DRO grant opportunity will provide $10.208 million (GST exclusive) over 2 years ($5.104 million per year) to organisations to provide systemic advocacy for Australians with disability. The DRO program provides the opportunity for people with disability, and their representative organisations, to have their views communicated to the Australian Government. Organisations funded under the DRO grant opportunity will participate in a range of engagement activities with the Australian Government, to ensure that disability issues and a diversity of voices are represented in decision-making, legislation, policy development and implementation of programs and policies that may affect people with disability. Additional information session 18 October 2023 The department held an information session for potential applicants at 3:00 pm AEDT on 16 October 2023. An additional information session will be held on Wednesday 18 October from 11:00am-12:00pm (AEDT). This session will provide an opportunity for potential applicants to be briefed and ask questions about the grant opportunity. Questions raised in the information session will be published in the Questions and Answers document, which will be updated after the information session and will be available on the GrantConnect website. To register for the information session please email SystemicDisabilityAdvocacy@dss.gov.au. A Microsoft Teams invitation will be sent to your email address prior to information session. Auslan interpreters and live captioning will also be available for the session held on 18 October 2023.