Round 2 will support local councils and state government agencies managing public land to combat illegal dumping. Stream 2 supports new grantees to test approaches in managing illegal dumping projects.
Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: $60,000
- Application opened: 31 January 2024
- Application closed: 5 April 2024, 5:00 pm
Program objective
These grants support the delivery of the NSW Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2022-27 and contribute to two of the key focus areas of the strategy:
- Reducing kerbside illegal dumping activities
- Reducing public land and bushland illegal dumping activities
The four grants streams aim to support local government and state government agencies to:
- gather baseline and ongoing data on the size of their illegal dumping problem
- develop a business case for investment in illegal dumping prevention
- proactively target localised illegal dumping issues
- collaboratively address illegal dumping across land tenures
- encourage entities to undertake illegal dumping prevention projects if they have not done so before
This program is administered by Environment Protection Authority.
Eligibility
Who can apply
Local councils or public land managers with an illegal dumping baseline data and have not received more than one illegal dumping grant in the past 3 rounds.
- Individual councils
- Groups of councils eg ROCs, JOs, Regional Waste Groups
- State government public land managers
Funding of up to $60,000 is available per project, which must be completed within 12 months.
Types of projects funded under this grant
This stream is designed to promote knowledge building and support trials and pilots for entities with limited experience in running illegal dumping projects.
Funding of up to $60,000 is available per project, which must be completed within 12 months.
Projects must include prevention measures to reduce the illegal dumping problem. The selection process will favour projects that show an integrated approach towards preventing and targeting illegal dumping (i.e. they use more than one of the approaches listed in the Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2022- 2027).
Applicants must provide baseline data on the illegal dumping problem within their jurisdiction (for example, within a local government area if the applicant is a local council). If there is no baseline data, please see Stream 1a Establishing illegal dumping baseline data.
No more than three hotspot areas can be targeted per project.
Spending on clean-up and disposal must not exceed 50% of total grant funding.
Successful applicants must engage with EPA regularly and report on agreed milestones.
Successful applicants must liaise with EPA regarding any media or other promotion of the project. They must acknowledge the funding contribution made by EPA. Any publicity materials (such as brochures, signage, advertising, social media posts) produced for projects funded by the grant must be in line with EPA-developed Report Illegal Dumping (RID) branding and style guides.
Successful applicants must use the EPA RIDonline database as part of their project, including all data relating to project activities. Grantees must make sure that data is brought up to date in RIDonline at least every three months.
If any applicants are currently receiving EPA funding for illegal dumping initiatives, including but not limited to RID programs/squad, they should demonstrate how this project will complement the other funded initiatives.
What your application needs to include
Prepare your application with this checklist
Completed application through SmartyGrants including:
- Relevant photos or maps
- Letter of support from project partners (if relevant)
Address the eligibility criteria
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
Address the assessment criteria
Eligible applications will be assessed by a technical review committee against the following criteria:
- Size and complexity of the illegal dumping problem, and how well is it demonstrated (40% weighting).
- Effectiveness of proposed approaches to prevent illegal dumping across targeted area, their probable extent and longevity of impact, extent of collaboration with appropriate partners and stakeholders (30% weighting).
- Probable longevity of the project’s impact (10% weighting).
- Appropriateness of budget and project value for money – predicted outcomes and outputs are proportionate to the funding amount requested and in-kind or other contributions (10% weighting).
- Robustness of project evaluation method (10% weighting).
After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: EPA CEO. Applications will undergo an eligibility check before being reviewed by an independent technical review committee using the criteria set out below. The technical review committee will recommend projects to the EPA CEO for funding.
Applications will be assessed by a technical review committee (TRC). The committee will assess potential performance based on an applicant’s ability to meet selection criteria.
The TRC will rank the eligible applications during the assessment process. The TRC then makes recommendations to the EPA. The EPA Chief Executive Officer will make final funding decisions.
We encourage any unsuccessful applicants to request feedback and consider re-applying in future funding opportunities.
All funding is 100% contestable.
Support and contact
Need advice? The Illegal Dumping Prevention Team can advise on these guidelines and the types of activities funded by grants. To contact staff email illegaldumping.strategy@epa.nsw.gov.au.