VICTORIAN INDUSTRY POLICY The Victorian Industry Participation Policy Act 2003 requires public bodies and departments to report on the implementation of the Victorian Industry Participation Policy (VIPP). Departments and public bodies are required to apply VIPP in all tenders over $3 million in metropolitan Melbourne and $1 million in regional Victoria. No contracts to which the VIPP applies were commenced or completed by the VEC during 2016–17. FIGURE 9: GRANTS TO BODIES, 2016–17 AMOUNT PURPOSE GST) Richmond Football Club Support of Richmond Emerging Aboriginal Leaders camps $117,604 (at Korin Gamadji Institute) for Indigenous youth to build their leadership skills through active citizenship and position them as role models within their community. Victorian School Representative Sponsorship for one year (01/01/2016-31/12/2016) to enable $5,000 Council delivery of teacher professional development sessions to support Passport to Democracy Program. Electoral Regulation Research Ongoing support of ERRN to foster exchange and $30,000 Network (ERRN) discussion of research relating to electoral regulation. Youth Parliament Sponsored four teams to participate in 2017 Youth $19,773 Parliament. Latrobe University Living with Sponsorship of PhD research into barriers to enrolling and *$30,000 – Disability Research Centre voting for people with intellectual impairment. Multi-year project. Paid 50% deposit in this financial year. *Contributions towards this project received from five other electoral commissions.
VICTORIAN INDUSTRY POLICY The Victorian Industry Participation Policy Act 2003 requires public bodies and departments to report on the implementation of the Victorian Industry Participation Policy (VIPP). Departments and public bodies are required to apply VIPP in all tenders over $3 million in metropolitan Melbourne and $1 million in regional Victoria. No contracts to which the VIPP applies were commenced or completed by the VEC during 2016–17. FIGURE 9: GRANTS TO BODIES, 2016–17 Richmond Football Club Support of Richmond Emerging Aboriginal Leaders camps (at Korin Gamadji Institute) for Indigenous youth to build their leadership skills through active citizenship and position them as role models within their community. $117,604 Victorian School Representative Council Sponsorship for one year (01/01/2016-31/12/2016) to enable delivery of teacher professional development sessions to support Passport to Democracy Program. $5,000 Electoral Regulation Research Network (ERRN) Ongoing support of ERRN to foster exchange and discussion of research relating to electoral regulation. $30,000 Youth Parliament Sponsored four teams to participate in 2017 Youth Parliament. $19,773 Latrobe University – Living with Disability Research Centre Sponsorship of PhD research into barriers to enrolling and voting for people with intellectual impairment. Multi-year project. Paid 50% deposit in this financial year. *Contributions towards this project received from five other electoral commissions. *$30,000 PURPOSE GST) AMOUNT
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