Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program

Aims to improve the safety of Australian women and their children through the prevention of technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

The program forms part of the Government’s commitment to the aims and objectives of the National Plan to end violence against women and children 2022-32.

A total of $10 million in grant funding will be available from 2023 to 2028. Grants of between $80,000 and $400,000 will be awarded over a minimum of three open, competitive processes.

Funds available under Round 3: At least $3.5 million in grant funding is available.

The Program supports development of prevention initiatives, including new programs and resources, that contribute to the following objectives:
- Address one or more of the drivers of tech-based abuse against women and their children, and/or
- Aim to challenge and shift the prevailing social norms that contribute to tech-based abuse against women and their children, and/or
- Promote positive and respectful behaviour and accountability in men and boys that perpetrate or may perpetrate tech-based abuse against women and their children.

First Nations Projects - Priority Funding
- Up to $600,000 of the total funding for the round is available to organisations with a commitment to delivering projects with and for communities that focus on the prevention of tech-based abuse of First Nations women.

To be considered eligible grant activity, projects must:
- Be focused on the prevention of tech-based abuse against women, or women and their children
- Must directly respond to at least one of the four program objectives
- Must not solely focus on education of or behaviour change in potential or existing victim/survivors, and
- Must not wholly or substantially duplicate an existing program, service, or resource that is currently, or has previously been, available to the target audience.

Aims to improve the safety of Australian women and their children through the prevention of technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Be registered for the purposes of GST
- Have a bank account with an Australian financial institution
- Be a legal entity, and
- Be a non-government organisation registered as a not-for-profit charitable organisation with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission.

To be eligible for priority funding as a First Nations Project, the applicant must (in addition to meeting the requirements specified above) be:
- An Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation (ACCO); or
- An organisation that is primarily focused on achieving outcomes for First Nations communities; or
- An organisation that is partnering with an organisation that meets a) or b), above.