Appendix V - Guidance on DSS expectations and values on collaboration and cooperation by all funded parties under DRO Grant Opportunity DSS funds Disability Representative Organisations to support people with disability, and/or people with lived experience of disability and/or the representation for disability service providers who support people with disability to ensure that disability issues and a diversity of voices are represented in Australian Government decision-making and policy outcomes. This Guidance establishes the principles that will inform how those funded under this Grant Opportunity will work together in pursuit of these objectives. This guidance, or parts thereof, will be proposed as Special Conditions within DRO Grant Opportunity Comprehensive Grant agreements The Special Conditions will seek for all DRO Grant Opportunity funding recipients to agree to some or all of the following: For the purposes of this Appendix the term Parties refers to all DRO funded organisations, Consortium and Alliance members. 1. DISABILITY REPRESENTATIVE ORGANISATIONS 1. Disability Representative Organisations will aim to: 1.1. Work cooperatively and collaboratively to provide informed and representative advice to government reflective of the diverse experiences and circumstances of people with disability, in particular people with disability experiencing intersectional disadvantage. 1.2. Cooperation and Collaboration might include: a) Sharing information activities you will be doing with the other Parties; inviting comment, offering opportunity to leverage resources, and collaborate in the running of these activities. b) Consulting with those bodies who may not be Parties to this funding, where they share disability interest and expertise, including non-disability bodies, complementary to the objectives of the DRO Grant Opportunity. For example: helping identify issues for mainstreamed services delivered to people with disability under the National Disability Strategy. c) Working to resolve differences/difficulties between funded Parties and parties, where otherwise a poor relationship might hinder the objectives of the DRO Grant Opportunity. d) Helping break down barriers between opposing interest groups where your engagement assists in developing more robust policy advice to government and/or improves the community of inter/intra-DRO relationships. e) Sharing opportunities for experiences, for example rotation of people that might attend forums or meetings to allow for development, capacity building and succession planning relating to systemic advocacy and policy skills.
Appendix V - Guidance on DSS expectations and values on collaboration and cooperation by all funded parties under DRO Grant Opportunity DSS funds Disability Representative Organisations to support people with disability, and/or people with lived experience of disability and/or the representation for disability service providers who support people with disability to ensure that disability issues and a diversity of voices are represented in Australian Government decision-making and policy outcomes. This Guidance establishes the principles that will inform how those funded under this Grant Opportunity will work together in pursuit of these objectives. This guidance, or parts thereof, will be proposed as Special Conditions within DRO Grant Opportunity Comprehensive Grant agreements The Special Conditions will seek for all DRO Grant Opportunity funding recipients to agree to some or all of the following: For the purposes of this Appendix the term Parties refers to all DRO funded organisations, Consortium and Alliance members. 1. DISABILITY REPRESENTATIVE ORGANISATIONS 1. Disability Representative Organisations will aim to: 1.1. Work cooperatively and collaboratively to provide informed and representative advice to government reflective of the diverse experiences and circumstances of people with disability, in particular people with disability experiencing intersectional disadvantage. 1.2. Cooperation and Collaboration might include: a) Sharing information activities you will be doing with the other Parties; inviting comment, offering opportunity to leverage resources, and collaborate in the running of these activities. b) Consulting with those bodies who may not be Parties to this funding, where they share disability interest and expertise, including non-disability bodies, complementary to the objectives of the DRO Grant Opportunity. For example: helping identify issues for mainstreamed services delivered to people with disability under the National Disability Strategy. c) Working to resolve differences/difficulties between funded Parties and parties, where otherwise a poor relationship might hinder the objectives of the DRO Grant Opportunity. d) Helping break down barriers between opposing interest groups where your engagement assists in developing more robust policy advice to government and/or improves the community of inter/intra-DRO relationships. e) Sharing opportunities for experiences, for example rotation of people that might attend forums or meetings to allow for development, capacity building and succession planning relating to systemic advocacy and policy skills.
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