Collaborative advocacy can be undertaken by a range of stakeholders and involve working with peers, allies, and coalitions. It can be undertaken by a range of organisations and stakeholders. The Grants Program supports collaborative advocacy to achieve energy system change.
Collaboration Grants support this advocacy by funding complex, multi-year advocacy projects aiming to drive energy systems change. Projects will typically be ambitious, recognising that pathways to success are negotiated and developed over time.
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These projects offer a collaboration opportunity with ECA but may also involve other partners, recognising that systems change is rarely affected by a single organisation. Proponents will have already come together in a collaboration before lodging an application.
Between collaborators, the project will have the requisite organisational capability, connections with decision-makers, and networks to help drive systems change in coalition.
We also welcome collaboration which combines the interests of household and small business consumers.
Successful collaboration grants will:
- Drive systemic change
- Address highly complex issues
- Build on an established track record
- Rely on constituency for change
- Have a theory of change reflecting an adaptive strategy
- Be independent of existing decision processes
Applications are sought twice a year. The next round opens in May 2025.
