Preparing Australian Communities – Local Stream

Overview

The Australian Government has committed $600 million over six years from 2021-22 to 2026-27 for the Preparing Australia Program. The Preparing Australia Program will support projects that mitigate or reduce the disaster risk, impact and consequence associated with large-scale natural hazards. This opportunity is part of the Preparing Australia Program. There is $150 million available from 2021–22 to 2024–25 for this grant opportunity. The objectives of the Preparing Australia Program are to: improve the long-term resilience of Australian communities and households to natural hazards including  bushfires, floods and tropical cyclones deliver disaster risk reduction projects that reduce hazard exposure or vulnerability and are aligned with the recommendations of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements  and the National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework. The intended outcome of the Preparing Australia Program is to reduce the impact of natural hazards on Australian communities, including by: increasing disaster preparedness and resilience reducing the cost of recovery following future disasters reducing the time to recover following future disasters encouraging reductions in insurance premiums through a reduction in disaster risk.