Can these grants be used for delivering services to people seeking asylum within their first five years in Australia or are people seeking asylum excluded? Asylum seekers are not eligible for services provided under the SETS Community Capacity – Building. Target groups are listed at 1.4.2 (page 9) of the SETS Community Capacity Building Grant – Opportunity Guidelines. SETS Community Capacity Building services are delivered to New and – Emerging ethno-specific: Communities, community leaders and emerging community representatives Organisations with limited corporate capacity. All target groups must be permanent residents or providing services for permanent residents. Can a consortium lead organisation submit one separate application per or territory per SETS stream? As per Question 15 of the Question and Answer document, and 7.1 (page 17) of the SETS - Community Capacity Building Grant Opportunity Guidelines, the Department will accept only one application per applicant. If you submit more than one application, the Department will only consider the most recent application submitted to the grant opportunity before the closing date and time. The requirement for one application per organisation is consistent with previous grant rounds for settlement activities. This approach reduces the administrative burden for applicants in preparing multiple applications. A lead organisation for a consortium applying to deliver services in multiple states or territories can only submit one application. A separate application can be submitted if a different lead organisation is nominated. Where a lead organisation in a consortium makes one application across various geographic areas in a particular state, can the Department award funding to only some of those geographic areas and not all areas applied for? Section 2 (page 11) of the SETS - Community Capacity Building Opportunity Guidelines states that the amount of funding provided to applicants will be determined based on the service areas applied for, numbers of potential client groups, the circumstances of the proposed support to be provided, and the Department’s program priorities. In some cases, the Department may decide not to award funding to all the areas applied for in an application. Will the Department negotiate with a successful applicant to award funding for geographic areas not applied for? While the Department will not typically award funding to a successful applicant for geographic areas not applied for, in some cases it may be necessary to negotiate service areas to ensure the SETS program has adequate national coverage. New question and answer added 25 May
Can these grants be used for delivering services to people seeking asylum within their first five years in Australia or are people seeking asylum excluded? Asylum seekers are not eligible for services provided under the SETS – Community Capacity Building. Target groups are listed at 1.4.2 (page 9) of the SETS – Community Capacity Building Grant Opportunity Guidelines. SETS – Community Capacity Building services are delivered to New and Emerging ethno-specific: Communities, community leaders and emerging community representatives Organisations with limited corporate capacity. All target groups must be permanent residents or providing services for permanent residents. Can a consortium lead organisation submit one separate application per or territory per SETS stream? As per Question 15 of the Question and Answer document, and 7.1 (page 17) of the SETS - Community Capacity Building Grant Opportunity Guidelines, the Department will accept only one application per applicant. If you submit more than one application, the Department will only consider the most recent application submitted to the grant opportunity before the closing date and time. The requirement for one application per organisation is consistent with previous grant rounds for settlement activities. This approach reduces the administrative burden for applicants in preparing multiple applications. A lead organisation for a consortium applying to deliver services in multiple states or territories can only submit one application. A separate application can be submitted if a different lead organisation is nominated. Where a lead organisation in a consortium makes one application across various geographic areas in a particular state, can the Department award funding to only some of those geographic areas and not all areas applied for? Section 2 (page 11) of the SETS - Community Capacity Building Opportunity Guidelines states that the amount of funding provided to applicants will be determined based on the service areas applied for, numbers of potential client groups, the circumstances of the proposed support to be provided, and the Department’s program priorities. In some cases, the Department may decide not to award funding to all the areas applied for in an application. Will the Department negotiate with a successful applicant to award funding for geographic areas not applied for? While the Department will not typically award funding to a successful applicant for geographic areas not applied for, in some cases it may be necessary to negotiate service areas to ensure the SETS program has adequate national coverage. New question and answer added 25 May
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