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Commonwealth Grant Details

Funding/expenditure to date

Outcomes/Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)/Reporting

Destination Relevant Tourism Research (DRTR) (previously Destination Visitor Surveys (DVS)

The ACT Government also facilitated DRTR, which provided tourism research to support business decision making. The program was funded and facilitated through Tourism Research Australia.

Indigenous Advancement Strategy

Funding was applied for in 2014-15 for activities with a focus on sports support/delivery.

Initial funding of $264,396 was received in 2015-16 for:

• Small Grants ($50,000);

• Partnered Programs ($105,000);

• a guiding strategy for Boomanulla Oval ($84,396 – fully expended); and

• a community activity research report ($25,000 – fully expended).

Small Grants and Partnered Programs received subsequent additional funding in 2016-17 ($155,000) and 2017-18 ($177,000).

For Partnered Programs, $258,181 has been expended on 18 projects. A small amount of residual funding for this was transitioned to Small Grants.

Approximately $144,000 in Small Grants remained unspent (as at 1 July 2018), with individual participation support opportunities continuing through 2018-19.

• Boomanulla Oval – a site conditions report was funded, with support also provided to Winnunga to assist in the development of a Strategic Plan for the Oval in response to an Expression of Interest process.

• Research report – completed work with the Australian Sports Commission in relation to ACT Indigenous qualitative study on participation barriers. ORC was engaged to undertake this project with the report presented to the sector in December 2017.

• Partnered Programs – 18 sport and recreation participation programs supported with organisations as varied as Outward Bound, AFL NSW/ACT, Tedd Noffs Foundation and Netball ACT.

• Small Grants – To 30 June 2018, 518 individuals from across the ACT and immediate region had received direct participation support to assist in covering participation fees.

Community Services Directorate (CSD)

Australian Early Development Census (AEDC)

The AEDC collects data on early childhood development at the time the children commence their first year of full time schooling.

CSD received funding of $586,000 in 2017-18 to spend over three years on the AEDC.

The expenditure on the AEDC to February 2019 is $255,000.

The outcome of this funding is the successful administration of the AEDC instrument in all ACT schools across the public, independent and Catholic sectors every three years.

Education Directorate

Digital Literacy School Grant

The Commonwealth provided funding of:

• $50,000 in 2016-17; and

• $50,000 in 2017-18.

This funding was fully expended.

A completion report was submitted to the Commonwealth detailing achievements under the grant program.