Assessment Criteria: EnvironmeNT Grants
The assessment criteria provided in this section will be used to determine the relative merit of applications during the assessment process. They are provided as a guide to help in the planning of your project.
1. What is the environmental benefit to community, region or whole of Territory (in terms of):
- Environmental outcomes of the project in the target community/industry/region?
- Environmental management skills/education/capacity building?
- Expected environmental health and social benefit delivered by project?
- Achieving behavioural change?
- Leverage funding (i.e. providing opportunities to access other funding sources to facilitate broader program delivery)?
2. Does the project address a significant environmental issue of concern? Does it:
- Mitigate significant environmental impacts?
- Improve awareness/uptake of more sustainable technologies?
- Improve environmental management in urban design/industry/remote communities?
- Provide culturally appropriate community education for specific communities? obtain better information for policy/management?
- Improve management of native or pest animals?
- Improve awareness about wildlife-related issues and problems?
3. Is there evidence of organisational capacity, commitment and community support?
- Evidence of genuine commitment?
- Evidence of capacity to deliver on outcomes (prior performance)?
- Any post-project commitment to ensure continuity of outcomes?
- Evidence of collaboration with other community sectors?
- Approval for the work from the land managers (where appropriate)?
- Joint development of proposal?
- Joint management of project?
- Level of contribution (cash and in-kind) from both the organisation or community, industry or agency partners?
- Potential for future collaborative work and extension of project?
- Opposition and/or lack of support?
4. What is the quality of the proposed project and degree of innovation?
- Addresses an important problem?
- Well researched?
- Original, innovative?
- Feasible and sound planning and methodology?
- Culturally appropriate?
- Time and capacity of proponents to make a serious commitment to the project?
- Represents good value for money?
- Complies with relevant Australian or NT Government policy, legislation and other relevant intergovernmental arrangements?
5. Does the project contribute to equity? Does it:
- Address inequitable provision of services and infrastructure to remote communities?
- Aid in geographically equitable distribution of program funding?
- Provide support to unfunded community groups?
- Target disadvantaged urban/regional communities?
