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Our Marine Parks Round 2 Gogs Our Marine Parks Round Two Grant Opportunity Guidelines Opening date: 9 December 2019 Closing date and time: 11.00PM AEDT on 28 February 2020 Commonwealth policy entity: The Department of the Environment and Energy Administering entity Community Grants Hub Enquiries: If you have any questions, contact Community Grants Hub Phone: 1800 020 283 (option 1) Email: [email protected] Questions should be sent no later than 5.00PM AEDT on 21 February 2020 Date guidelines released: 9 December 2019 Type of grant opportunity: Open competitive Contents 1 Our Marine Parks Round Two Grant Opportunity processes ................................................ 4 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 5 2 About the Our Marine Parks Grant Round Two opportunity .................................................. 5 3 Grant amount and grant period ................................................................................................. 7 3.1 Grants available ............................................................................................................... 7 3.2 Project period ................................................................................................................... 8 4 Eligibility criteria ......................................................................................................................... 8 4.1 Who is eligible to apply for a grant? ................................................................................. 8 4.2 Who is not eligible to apply for a grant?........................................................................... 8 5 What the grant money can be used for .................................................................................... 9 5.1 Eligible grant activities ..................................................................................................... 9 5.2 Eligible locations ............................................................................................................10 5.3 Eligible expenditure ........................................................................................................10 5.4 What the grant money cannot be used for.....................................................................10 6 The assessment criteria ...........................................................................................................11 7 How to apply ..............................................................................................................................12 7.1 Attachments to the application .......................................................................................13 7.2 Joint (consortia) applications .........................................................................................13 7.3 Timing of grant opportunity processes ...........................................................................14 7.4 Questions during the application process ......................................................................15 8 The grant selection process ....................................................................................................15 8.1 Assessment of grant applications ..................................................................................15 8.2 Financial viability ............................................................................................................15 8.3 Who will assess and select applications? ......................................................................15 8.4 Who will approve grants? ..............................................................................................16 9 Notification of application outcomes ......................................................................................16 9.1 Feedback on your application ........................................................................................16 10 Successful grant applications .................................................................................................16 10.1 The grant agreement .....................................................................................................16 10.2 Specific legislation, policies and industry standards ......................................................17 10.3 How we pay the grant ....................................................................................................17 10.4 Grant payments and GST ..............................................................................................17 11 Announcement of grants .........................................................................................................17 12 How we monitor your grant activity ........................................................................................18 12.1 Keeping us informed ......................................................................................................18 12.2 Reporting .......................................................................................................................18 12.3 Audited financial acquittal report ....................................................................................19 Our Marine Parks Round Two Guidelines Page 2 of 31 12.4 Grant agreement variations ...........................................................................................19 12.5 Compliance visits ...........................................................................................................19 12.6 Record keeping ..............................................................................................................19 12.7 Evaluation ......................................................................................................................19 12.8 Acknowledgement ..........................................................................................................19 13 Probity ........................................................................................................................................20 13.1 Enquiries and feedback .................................................................................................20 13.2 Conflicts of interest ........................................................................................................20 13.3 Privacy ...........................................................................................................................21 13.4 Confidential information .................................................................................................21 13.5 Freedom of information ..................................................................................................22 14 Consultation ..............................................................................................................................23 15 Glossary .....................................................................................................................................24 Appendix A. List of Australian Marine Parks ...............................................................................28 Appendix B. Australian Marine Parks management program outcomes and management strategies ...................................................................................................................................30 Our Marine Parks Round Two Guidelines Page 3 of 31 1 Our Marine Parks Round Two Grant Opportunity processes The Our Marine Parks Round Two Grant is designed to achieve Australian Government objectives This grant opportunity is part of the above grant program which contributes to the Department of the Environment and Energy’s Outcome 1.1 Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and the Environment. The Department of the Environment and Energy works with stakeholders to plan and design the grant program according to the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines 2017 (CGRGs). The grant opportunity opens We publish the grant guidelines on GrantConnect and Community Grants Hub websites. You complete and submit a grant application You complete the application form and address all of the eligibility and assessment criteria to be considered for a grant. We assess all grant applications We assess the applications against eligibility criteria and notify you if you are not eligible. If you are eligible, we then assess your eligible application against the assessment criteria including an overall consideration of value for money and compare it to other applications. We make grant recommendations We provide advice, through the Selection Advisory Panel, to the Minister for the Department of the Environment and Energy (the decision maker) on the merits of each application. Grant decisions are made The decision maker decides which applications are successful. We notify you of the outcome We will advise you of the outcome of your application. We may not notify unsuccessful applicants until grant agreements have been executed with successful applicants. We enter into a grant agreement We will enter into a grant agreement with you if successful. The type of grant agreement is based on the nature or complexity of the grant and will be proportional to the risks involved. Delivery of grant You undertake the grant activity as set out in your grant agreement. We manage the grant by working with you, monitoring your progress and making payments. Evaluation of the Our Marine Parks Round Two grant opportunity We evaluate
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