Disaster Risk Reduction Fund

In 2020, the DRRF was established under the National Partnership Agreement on Disaster Risk Reduction (NPADRR) as part of a national implementation of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (NDRRF) to support each state’s meaningful progress.

Under a joint NSW-Australian Government agreement, $51.8m of grant funding is available (with a total $27.1m Commonwealth contribution) under the DRRF to:

• Take action to reduce existing disaster risk
• Minimise creation of future disaster risk
• Equip decision makers with the capabilities and information they need to manage and reduce disaster risk.

The DRRF also aligns with the draft risk mitigation (‘prevent’) outcome of the State Resilience Strategy currently under development.

Target projects under the program include:

• Disaster risk knowledge and data collection, analysis and sharing
• Targeted interventions to reduce an identified disaster risk affecting NSW 
• Developing and employing methods, tools and/or regulations to reduce systemic risk and disaster risk
• Uplifting public service capability and/or capacity for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

The program consists of 3 grant streams:

• $17.8m State Risk Reduction stream
• $30m Local & Regional Risk Reduction stream
• $4m Building Disaster Risk Knowledge stream