Grants up to $500,000 to support Australia’s commercial agricultural traceability systems and robust credentials in the region by funding activities that increase supply chain transparency.
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What is the Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round (BTAATC)?
The grant round provides the opportunity for successful applicants to contribute to improving traceability for Australian and regional agricultural industries and consumers.
The purpose of the grant round is to strengthen trust in Australia’s commercial agricultural traceability systems and robust credentials in our region by funding activities that increase supply chain transparency, build regional capability business-to-business and support development of sustainable, resilient and data enabled supply chains.
Projects developed under this grant round will facilitate this at the business-to-business level by communicating and showcasing Australian supply chain approaches to data-enabled agricultural traceability systems and credentials, as well as online tools that provide research and modelling to producers and other industry participants about:
- market intelligence,
- consumer trends and
- commercial trading partner requirements.
Projects will foster mutually beneficial outcomes, shared learning, innovation, capacity building, and technical expert engagement in Australia and Southeast Asia markets (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam) and provide mechanisms for practical collaboration amongst producers and supply chain participants to support free flowing agricultural trade and availability of Australian agricultural products in regional markets during the transition to global net zero.
BTAATC level of support
Grants
The Australian Government has announced a total of $4 million over two years for the grant round.
- Minimum grant amount – $50,000
- Maximum grant amount – $500,000.
Co-contribution
- Co-contributions by your organisation or participatory partner(s) in the project may be in the form of financial or in-kind contributions
BTAATC important dates
- This program is currently closed
- Register your interest here with GrantHelper
BTAATC objectives and outcomes
The objectives of this grant opportunity are to:
- Promote and showcase Australian agricultural traceability and credentials in Southeast Asia markets to influence uptake of agricultural traceability systems and tools that support Australia’s trade agenda, including boosting the availability of Australian agricultural products in these markets.
- Facilitate information sharing and ongoing business-to-business engagement across Southeast Asia markets to develop resilient and transparent supply chains that support verifiable claims which fairly represent Australian agricultural products and in turn, build trust in Brand Australia.
- Build regional capability, business-to-business, through technical demonstration and information sharing and engagement to enable the uptake of efficient and transparent supply chain practices in a way that is verifiable and secure, including through access to information relevant to supply chain traceability (including market intelligence and research into emerging trends) and online tools that provide research and modelling on consumer trends and commercial trading partner requirements.
OUTCOME 1: Demonstrate how agricultural traceability data and data standards can be used to create transparency, verify credentials to build trust, and facilitate acceptance and adoption in Southeast Asia markets.
Example activities include, but are not limited to:
- Providing industry with access to information relevant to supply chain traceability (including market intelligence and research into emerging trends).
- Demonstrating secure data-enabled approaches to credentialling that are underpinned by verifiable product claims, delivering value back to farmers in support of cross-border trade and resilient global supply chains and connecting producers to consumers to build trust and combat greenwashing.
- Delivering pilots that demonstrate the benefits of digital and data enabled traceability systems that reduce time, effort and cost of trade whilst providing greater levels of assurance and reinforce product claims.
- Enhancing data accuracy and automation, data standards, interoperability, and collection in export supply chains to support credentialling and claims made about food and fibre products for international application.
- Education initiatives, including communications, that enhance understanding and trust about the benefits of agricultural traceability data in supporting claims made about Australian products, maintaining confidence in Australian commodities, preventing greenwashing, supporting verifiable ecolabelling, supporting provenance information, combatting food fraud, and informing reporting on sustainability and other emerging requirements.
- Engaging in initiatives that strengthen national and international collaboration and partnerships on traceability to protect Brand Australia , promote a principles-based and ‘no one size fits all’ approach to sustainability, influence international trends and demonstrate our world class systems and online tools that provide industry with access to relevant information.
- Expanding international business-to-business partnerships to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) on-farm opportunities to build robust cost-effective agricultural traceability systems and the use of data to verify credentials.
OUTCOME 2: Researching and modelling emerging credential requirements, such as sustainability, and leveraging traceability data to enable market access and boost the availability of Australian agricultural products in Southeast Asia markets.
Example activities include, but are not limited to:
- Providing industry with access to information relevant to supply chain traceability (including market intelligence and research into emerging trends).
- Conducting market research into and providing intelligence about premium value benefits for sustainable and other credentialled products exported to Southeast Asia markets; identifying market opportunities there for Australian supply chain participants. This includes quantifying the potential economic benefits for the agricultural sector and supply chain participants.
- Coordinating foresight analysis to help industry meet new and emerging product claim requirements and changing market demands to support producers, remain competitive and enhance trust in Australian produce.
- Researching and modelling new and emerging product claim requirements (including food safety and quality, carbon neutrality, circularity, and organics) and market trends and demands to support producers, remain competitive and enhance trust.
- Leveraging cross-commodity data points and indicators to develop robust and verifiable sustainability and emerging credentials when exporting to Southeast Asia markets.
- Supporting regional capacity building and partnerships in Southeast Asia markets to help importers, regulators and consumers understand Australian production systems, and credentials and develop online tools and initiatives to strengthen their traceability systems and share research on consumer trends.
Activities eligible for BTAATC support
To be eligible, grant activities must:
- address the grant round objectives
- focus on at least one of the following export markets:
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- the Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Vietnam
- address at least one of the grant round outcomes
- address at least one of the strategy’s priority areas of action referred to in section 2.0 of the guidelines
- clearly and explicitly state how your project aligns to these objectives and outcomes within the application form and associated templates.
See the guidelines for full details of activities eligible for BTAATC support.
Expenditure eligible for BTAATC support
Eligible expenditure items are:
- Reasonable costs associated with the delivery of your grant activities, for example salaries, wages, and on-costs of those directly associated with the project delivery.
- Eligible travel costs (including accommodation, flights, travel insurance and general travel expenses). Travel costs must be directly related to the project and agreed as a part of the grant agreement and/or the activity work plan.
You cannot use the grant for the following activities:
- purchase of land
- major capital expenditure
- the covering of retrospective costs
- costs incurred in the preparation of a grant application or related documentation
- subsidy of general ongoing administration of an organisation such as electricity, phone and rent
- major construction/capital works
- activities for which other Commonwealth, state, territory or local government bodies have primary responsibility
- protecting or patenting intellectual property
- establishing new commercial ventures (that is, the set-up costs associated with a new commercial venture)
- travel costs not agreed as a part of the grant agreement and/or the activity work plan.
See the guidelines for full details of expenditure eligible for BTAATC support.
Other BTAATC important details that you will need to know
BTAATC priority areas
- Priority area for action 1: Identify and influence national and international traceability data standards, classifications and assurance models that can be used to support a consistent approach to agricultural traceability.
- Priority area for action 2: Align processes and technologies to capture and use data for multiple purposes, such as regulators and feedback to farmers.
- Priority area for action 4: Enhance and support trust and adoption of agricultural traceability through demonstration of value-add and return on investment.
- Priority area for action 6: Improve two-way, producer-consumer information flows to identify value-add creation and distribution opportunities and drive business development.
- Priority area for action 11: Promote the importance of agricultural traceability to reach mutually beneficial outcomes with Asia-Pacific partners and other countries.
Organisations eligible for BTAATC support
To be eligible you must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- be registered for the purposes of GST, or be willing to become registered
- have an account with an Australian financial institution
and be one of the following entity types:
- a company incorporated in Australia
- a company incorporated by guarantee
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
- an incorporated association
- Corporate Commonwealth Entity
- Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entity
- Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
- Corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
- Local Government Entity
- a partnership
- a joint (consortia) application with a lead organisation
- a not-for-profit organisation
- an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
You are not eligible to apply if you are:
- an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’ (www.nationalredress.gov.au)
- an individual
- an unincorporated association
- an overseas resident/organisation
- any organisation that does not meet the criteria in section 4.1 of the guidelines
See the guidelines for full details of organisations eligible for BTAATC support.
BTAATC assessment criteria
Criterion 1: Project alignment to the grant program purpose, objectives and outcomes (25 points)
- the project’s overall aim(s) and why it is important, including how it will align to the identified priority area(s) (see section 2.0) for action under the strategy, emerging international frameworks such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, standards and sustainability frameworks such as the Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework or sectoral frameworks
- how the project will deliver against the grant program objectives, and which outcome(s) (see section 2.1) will be achieved. partnership(s) and collaboration in the project, for example across industry, scientific organisations; cooperative research centres; state, territory or local governments; corporate Commonwealth entities; universities; or, public and private research organisations
- the long-term benefits that your activities will deliver to industry and Australian agriculture.
Criterion 2: Suitability and effectiveness of the project to achieve its aims (25 points)
- the activities you will undertake including how, where and when they will occur
- how the proposed methodology(ies) or approach(es) to undertaking the project activities will assist with achieving the project’s aim(s)
- the specific partner(s) involved in the project and the activities they will undertake to support achieving project outcome(s)
- how progress towards achieving the project’s outcome(s) will be measured
- potential risks to the success of the project and how these are to be managed or mitigated.
Criterion 3: Capacity, capability, and resources to deliver your project (25 points)
- your organisation’s ability to deliver the outcomes, your track record (if any) in delivering similar projects, and access to (and availability of) personnel with the right skills and experience relevant to the project
- how you will pro-actively manage and monitor your project, including taking responsibility for oversight
- how your organisation will work with partners, and engage agricultural industry and other relevant stakeholders to inform grant activity design and delivery
- how you will manage risks to your organisation and partners that could affect grant activity design and delivery
- how you will manage risks (including cyber security risks), and involvement of international business partners where applicable.
Criterion 4: Value for money (25 points)
- how the funding requested is proportionate to the aim(s) of your project
- any co-contributions by your organisation or participatory partner(s) in the project (including financial and in-kind contributions)
- any future financial or private benefit(s) that may accrue from delivering on the project
- how your project outcomes could be applied across other agricultural sectors or the supply chain in the future to reduce barriers to adoption of agricultural traceability and support regulatory and commercial compliance capability.
See the guidelines for full details of the assessment criteria.
How do I get the BTAATC?
Applicants must:
- Read and understand the guidelines.
- Ensure eligibility for the funding. Applicants that do not meet all the eligibility criteria will not be considered.
- Deliver the project as outlined in the application.
- Provide complete information requirements.
Information to prepare for the BTAATC application
The following documents are required with your application:
- project plan using the mandatory template
- an indicative budget using the mandatory template
- a risk management plan using the mandatory template
- a letter of support signed by each of the consortia partners (required for joint (consortia) applicants only – refer to section 7.2 of the guidelines for details).
See the guidelines for full details of information requirements.
Applying for the BTAATC
To apply, you must complete the online grant opportunity application form on the GrantConnect website and submit your application/s to Traceability.Project@aff.gov.au.
Register your interest here with GrantHelper to explore your alignment with this grant and how we can assist you to increase your chances of success.
BTAATC resources
The guidelines and application form are available from the GrantConnect website.
After you register, click on ‘Grant Opportunities’ and search for Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round or GO ID: GO6803.
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