Grants

Current opportunities

Individual Capacity Building Grant Round 2020-2021

$85m (GST excl.) in grants will be available to support projects that will go for up to two years. These projects will enable systematic, nationwide access to peer support, mentoring and other skills-building for people with disability, carers and families.

Applications for this round will close 2.00pm AEST, 6 May 2020. Please note that this is a two-week extension of the original closing date to allow organisations affected by the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic further time to submit applications.

If you are interested in applying, please visit the Community Grants Hub .

Individual Capacity Building Program Roadshow: Questions and Answers

In late February and early March 2020, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) delivered an Individual Capacity Building Program Roadshow across Australia.

The roadshow aimed to provide an overview of the Individual Capacity Building Program, along with information to support organisations to apply in the current grant round. Throughout the roadshow, attendees had the opportunity to ask questions. These questions have been collated into a Questions and Answers document.

Below are the top five questions raised during the roadshow:

In developing your proposal, you should consider:

How well your proposed activities align with the ILC Investment Strategy.
How people with disability will be involved in your project design, delivery and evaluation, including employment opportunities.
The capacity of your organisation to deliver the project (avoiding overly ambitious activities).
The length of time to deliver the project and not default to the full 2-year period.
The total application budget not being more than 125 per cent of your average annual organisational operational budget.
Would the cohort your organisation represents be better served by a single application from a number of organisations representing this cohort?

Any disability type, although it is expected that the organisation would be seeking to include members to the fullest extent possible.

The Grant Opportunity Guidelines have definitions of both organisational types. If you meet the definition for both classifications, you can select either one on the application form.

Yes. Grant applications are assessed on how well they address the selection criteria, if they provide value for money, and how they compare to other applications.

In this grant round, applications from each organisation category in section 2.1.1 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines will be compared against other applications from that category.

We have a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework that has been approved by the Board. A public-facing document will be published shortly.

Alongside this, we are also working with the Scheme Actuary to seek to measure the impact and sustainability of ILC, including identifying high-performing organisations/projects and then scaling up or replicating that work.

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is leading the establishment of the National Disability Data Asset, which will help inform service choices by people with disability, their carers and families.

You can view the full list of questions and answers (DOCX 36KB).

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the full roadshow presentation, please email ILC at ilc@ndis.gov.au

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Individual Capacity Building Grant Round 2020-2021

Individual Capacity Building Program Roadshow: Questions and Answers