Grant Opportunity CDP 2019

Overview

The Community Development Programme (CDP) is the Australian Government’s remote employment and community development service. This grant opportunity will select providers through an open, competitive process in 36 CDP regions, to deliver the CDP from 1 July 2019 for up to three years. Funding is for the delivery of the CDP only. The objective of the CDP is to support connecting working age Australians with real and sustainable jobs, including: ensuring remote job seekers participate in activities and gain experience that builds work-readiness and contributes to the broader community; fostering Indigenous business; and assisting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to generate economic and social benefits, including from their natural and cultural assets, and effective management of Indigenous-owned land and seas.  Activities that contribute to the CDP outcomes are: services to increase work-readiness of remote jobseekers; increased access to job opportunities and support for jobseekers to retain a job; and support for jobseekers to meet their income support mutual obligations. The CDP is a demand driven program, so operates differently to other grant opportunities in that funding is not paid up-front. CDP providers are paid on outcomes. In six of the 36 regions in this open grant opportunity, CDP providers will be required to deliver the Time to Work Employment Service in the prison within the region.