The National Landcare Programme regional funding stream will invest through Australia’s 56 natural resource management (NRM) organisations, recognising the crucial role the organisations play in delivering NRM at a local and regional level.

Regional NRM organisations have a significant role in the Programme’s delivery, through regional funding, and are expected to:

• in collaboration with community, landcare and farming system groups, lead regional NRM planning and prioritisation of NRM activities to support environmental protection and sustainable agricultural practices
• deliver nationally important outcomes that assist Australia to meet its national and international obligations
• broker partnerships, collaborate with networks and support local stakeholders in delivery of regional NRM activities
• build local community and industry engagement, skills and capacity in NRM and sustainable agriculture
• support Indigenous participation in delivering NRM outcomes
• report NRM outcomes at a regional level and contribute to Programme reporting at the national level.

The Australian Government recently conducted a public consultation process on the design and delivery of the regional stream of the National Landcare Programme. For more information on the outcomes of the consultation and a summary of the feedback please see the Consultations page.

Regional funding

Regional funding is now open and will close at 2.00pm (AEDT) Thursday, 4 December 2014.

• More about Regional funding
• Government ensures National Landcare Programme funding flows to local projects - media release 13 November 2014