Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) Round 2024-2025

The Council for Australian–Arab Relations (CAAR) seeks to strengthen the Australian-Arabian relationship in ways that enhance mutual understanding and people-to-people links.

The aim of the CAAR is to broaden and strengthen Australian-Arab relations by advancing areas of shared political, economic, and social interest and building a greater appreciation of each other's cultures and values.

Key priority areas of the grant

• Innovation and Sustainability
• Health and Sport
• Social Cohesion & Gender Equality
• Arts and Culture

This scheme's UQ Indirect Costs rate is 0%, as noted in the UQ Indirect Costs Variation Register.

Global Partnerships supports the Global Engagement Framework. The Global Strategy and Partnerships (GSP) team welcome enquiries to identify potential partners in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Learn more about the grants, eligibility requirements and the application process:

Overview

Funding

• The estimated grant value is from $20,000 to $60,000 per year. The total grant funding available is $430,000.
• Co-contributions from other parties strengthen an application and are encouraged.
• Grants cannot be used for your organisation's fixed or recurrent expenditure, including subsidies of general ongoing administration of an organisation such as electricity, phone, rent, and salaries (including for research assistants or administrative staff). For further details, please refer to the grant guidelines.

Eligibility

Eligibility and important information relating to the grant can be found in the guidelines.

Overview

Step 1: Complete an application

All applications must be submitted electronically by the applicant using DFAT's SmartyGrants online application form by 11am AEDT on Thursday 14 November 2024.

The GSP team will provide a letter of support template, application cover sheet template to be completed by the applicant, brief UQ capacity statement, and information on UQ's engagement in the country of your application upon request. Please allow 7 working days for the GSP team to process the letter of support (by 4 November 2024). Letter of support will be issued after the signed cover sheet is received by the GSP team.

Step 2: GSP internal review and feedback

If you require a review of your application from the GSP team on compliance and for feedback, please email your application by 4 November 2024.