Women NSW grants and funding guidelines

Reporting requirements for grant recipients

Investing in Women Funding Program

Grant recipients are required to enter into a funding agreement with the Department of Communities and Justice. Organisations funded by the Department of Communities and Justice must operate in accordance with their contract and with legislation, policies and guidelines relevant to their program funding.

Grant recipients are required to evaluate their project within 12 months of commencing (and no later than 30 June 2022), and to submit a project acquittal and report within one month of completing the project.

Women's Week Grants

Upon completion of the project, grant recipients must provide Women NSW with a Final Completion Report and Acquittal Statement (completed online through SmartyGrants) by the date specified in their funding agreement.

If an acquittal is not received by the due date, Women NSW may deem the event not to have taken place and may request that any funding that has been provided is repaid within 28 days.

Disclosure of project information

Investing in Women Funding Program

Grant recipients agree to information about the project being used for evaluation, promotional and media purposes. If your application is successful, Women NSW may need to provide certain information to the media and Members of Parliament for promotional activities.

Grant recipients should not make public announcements about their project without approval from Women NSW.

Grant recipients agree to obtain consent from project participants for all still and moving images of participants captured by project organisers during the course of the project and provided to the Department of Communities and Justice.

Grant recipients acknowledge that the information provided in the application, and any images of the project provided to the Department of Communities and Justice, may be used by the Department of Communities and Justice in media and promotional activities. This may include publishing case studies, social media and website content, and/or media releases.

Women's Week Grants

For successful grant applications, the NSW Government may wish to provide information to the media and Members of Parliament for promotional purposes. This information will include your organisation and event name, project description, electorate and grant amount.

By disclosing information about your organisation and/or sponsoring organisation in your application, you give permission for the information to be used by the NSW Government for the promotion of projects and programs to the general public, events and related activities.

Privacy and Government Information Public Access (GIPA)

The NSW Government will collect and store the information you voluntarily provide to enable implementation of this grant program. Information is stored on a database that will only be accessed by authorised personnel and is subject to privacy restrictions. The information will only be used for the purpose for which it was collected.

The NSW Government is required to comply with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. The NSW Government collects the minimum personal information to enable it to contact an organisation and to assess the merits of an application.

Applicants must ensure that people whose personal details are supplied with applications are aware that the NSW Government is being supplied with this information and how this information will be used.

Information received in applications and in respect of applications is treated as confidential. However, documents in the possession of the Government are subject to the provisions of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009. Under some circumstances a copy of the application form and other material supplied by the applicant may be released, subject to the deletion of exempt material, in response to a request made in accordance with the Act.

Advertising and promotion

Investing in Women Funding Program

Successful grant recipients are responsible for the promotion and advertising of their project. Successful applicants will be sent a communications pack. The pack includes:

• NSW Investing in Women logo
• social media tiles
• poster image
• email/webpage banner.

Grant recipients are required to acknowledge the contribution and support of the NSW Government in accordance with the NSW Government Brand Guidelines.

Women's Week Grants

All grant recipients are responsible for the promotion and advertising of their event or activity. Successful applicants will be sent a communications pack. The pack includes:

• NSW Women’s Week logo
• social media tiles
• poster image
• email/webpage banner.

Grant recipients must use the official Women’s Week branding on all promotional and advertising materials relating to their grant-funded event or activity.

Successful grant recipients will have their events or activities announced on the NSW Women’s Week webpage.

Disclaimer

Investing in Women Funding Program

Submission of an application does not guarantee funding. Previous successful Investing in Women funding program applicants are not guaranteed funding in 2021.

Department of Communities and Justice accepts no responsibility for your project, irrespective of the funding provided by the agency to support the project, and irrespective of its listing on the Women NSW website or other Department of Communities and Justice publications.

Organisations are responsible for meeting their duty of care and all other obligations to project participants and other stakeholders.

Women's Week Grants

Submission of an application does not guarantee funding. Previous successful applications are not guaranteed funding. Women NSW accepts no responsibility for the event, irrespective of the funding provided by the agency to support the event, and irrespective of its listing on the NSW Women’s Week website or other Women NSW publications.

Organisations are responsible for meeting their duty of care and all other obligations to event participants, volunteers and other stakeholders. Event organisers should give due consideration to the safety of any children, young people or other vulnerable people involved in their event.

The Office of the Children’s Guardian can provide advice on child safety. Organisations who do not usually work with children or young people should consider partnering with an organisation or other stakeholder who does have expertise in child safety.

Investing in Women Funding Program: sources of evidence for applicants

These resources can be used as a starting point to gather evidence for a specific problem (i.e. the need for the intervention). They can also be used as the evidence that the specific intervention (your project proposal) is fit for purpose and will address the identified problem.

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Gender Indicators, Australia
• Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
• NSW Premier’s Priorities
• Towards 2025: Boosting Australian Women’s Workforce Participation
• NSW Gender Equality Dashboard

Investing in Women Funding Program: guidance for preparing applications and evaluation

These sources of guidance and information will assist you in developing ideas for the 2021 Investing in Women funding program and preparing applications.

Applications

The Office for Social Impact Investment has produced the Technical Guide: Outcomes Measurement for social impact investment proposals to the NSW Government.

The Technical Guide was created to support social impact investment proposals, however, it includes guidance relevant for applications under the Investing in Women Funding Program.

At a minimum, applicants should read:

• Section 2.2.1 Identifying the target population
• Section 2.2.2 Expected effect of the intervention
• Section 2.3.1 Defining program logic
• Section 2.3.2 Key principles of program logic
• Section 2.4 Outcomes

Evaluation

The NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet Evaluation Toolkit provides advice and resources for planning and conducting a program evaluation.

The NSW Government Program Evaluation Guidelines outline best practice principles to plan and conduct program conduct program evaluations.

Evaluation methods