Disaster Risk Reduction Package (DRRP)

Applications for the Disaster Risk Reduction Package are now being assessed. Successful projects will be announced in April 2023.
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The Disaster Risk Reduction Package makes a total of $6.2 million available nationally over 2022‑23 and 2023‑24 for nationally significant initiatives that reduce systemic disaster risk in line with the  National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework.

To be eligible for funding projects must:

  1. Have significant national and cross-jurisdictional effect, impact or influence, and
  2. Demonstrate how they contribute to achieving the priorities, five-year outcomes and 2030 disaster risk reduction goals of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework to:
    • take action to reduce existing disaster risk,
    • minimise the creation of future disaster risk, or
    • equip decision makers with the capabilities and information they need to reduce disaster risk and manage residual risk.

Projects must proactively reduce the risk and limit the impact of disasters associated with natural hazards on Australian communities and economies. Eligible natural hazards include bushfires, floods, cyclones, storms, heatwaves, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Projects funded under the NDRRP may include:

  • Activities that support individuals, communities and/or small businesses to understand and take action to address disaster risk and impacts.
  • Inclusive community partnership projects with diverse stakeholders (including Indigenous Australians, people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse communities).
  • Research, innovation and knowledge initiatives to improve awareness, understanding and engagement on disaster risk and impacts (including hazard, exposure, vulnerability, capacity and environment).
  • Development of national technologies, systems and capabilities (including improved disaster risk information and data collection, hazard mapping and modelling, risk assessment tools, decision support systems, and emergency warning communications).
  • Development and review of national standards, codes and guidelines to minimise the creation of future disaster risk.
  • Establishment of sector-specific professional development and guidance materials to build the capability of practitioners and decision makers to make disaster risk informed decisions (including land-use planning, building, construction and infrastructure).
  • Creation of governance structures and planning frameworks to advance disaster risk reduction.

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