Strengthening Remote Communities – Food Security Grant Opportunity

Overview

The Strengthening Remote Communities – Food Security Grant Opportunity will help at-risk community stores to provide nutritious food and essential groceries to remote Indigenous communities. This includes increasing capacity to withstand supply shortages such as those experienced during extreme weather, road closures, regional product shortages or pandemic outbreaks. The objectives of the grant opportunity are, for remote Indigenous community stores, to: improve the range, quantity, quality and/or affordability of nutritious foods and essential groceries improve access to and continuity of power improve stock monitoring and replenishing capability strengthen supply chains and distribution infrastructure improve or expanding appropriate and secure storage (cold and dry) upgrade or acquiring equipment and/or minor infrastructure, and/or improve store management, governance and/or financial performance and viability. The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to: improve food security and reliable access to essential items in at-risk remote and very remote Indigenous communities; and improve the performance and financial viability of stores experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, significant barriers to providing continuous and accessible supplies of nutritious food and other essential items to remote and very remote Indigenous communities.