The Albanese Labor Government is helping build social resilience to drought across regional and rural Australia with funding opening for the Future Drought Fund's $36 million Communities Program.
The program will be delivered through the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) and the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation (ARLF) with applications opening this week.
The program will offer a mix of grants and capacity building activities across the country, including leadership development, and will provide communities with support to boost their drought resilience and social cohesion.
The first two grant elements - Small Network Grants and the Regional Drought Resilience Plan Social Outcome Grants - opened this week.
This program is part of the Albanese Labor Government's wider rural support and drought resilience funding which has helped Australian farmers to prepare, adapt and respond to a range of hardships and issues including drought.
