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Australian Sports Outreach Program (ASOP)

Pacific Sports Development Grants

Country Priority List 2009-10

Primary Target Countries

Secondary Target Countries

Criteria for Allocation
  • Predominately Commonwealth countries
  • Do not receive ASOP assistance
  • Do not receive strong support/funding from other sources
  • High priority for public diplomacy
  • Australian diplomacy representation in country
  • High development priority
  • Predominately non-Commonwealth countries
  • Already receive other ASOP assistance
  • Receive strong support/funding from other sources
  • Lower priority for public diplomacy

Countries

 Pacific:

  • Cook Islands
  • Fiji
  • French Polynesia
  • New Caledonia
  • Niue
  • Solomon Islands
  • Tonga
  • Tuvalu
  • Wallis and Futuna

Pacific:

  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Kiribati*
  • Marshall islands
  • Nauru*
  • Palau*
  • PNG*
  • Samoa*
  • Vanuatu*

* These countries are assisted under the Pacific Component of ASOP or other major initiatives.

 

Grant Guidelines and Application Form

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Selection Criteria

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2009-10 Grant Timetable

Posts invited to submit applications

31 March 2009

Closing date for applications with Posts

15 May 2009

Date applications are due in Canberra

5 June 2009

Grants Steering Committee meeting

24 June 2009

Completion of grants approval process

24 July 2009

Inform successful grant applicants

7 August 2009

Reports and Acquittals from 08/09 round due

30 November 2009

Reports and Acquittals from 09/10 round due

30 November 2010

Successful projects

Project Evaluation Template

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Example of a good submission

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Non-Pacific Countries: Australian Sports Outreach Program - Sport Development Grants

The Australian Sports Outreach Program Sport Development Grants will soon be open for non-Pacific country applications. For the countries listed below, please visit the Australian Sports Commission for guidelines and further information about applying.

Participating Countries:  (bold text indicates countries where an Australian diplomatic mission is located. Countries named on the right hand side are served by the relevant diplomatic mission or are in the same region)

Afghanistan  
Bangladesh  
Pakistan  
Sri Lanka Maldives
India  
Nepal  
Ghana Gambia, Sierra Leone
Kenya Uganda
Mauritius Seychelles, Madagascar
Nigeria Cameroon
South Africa Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia
Trinidad Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & Grenadines, Turks & Caicos, Guyana, Belize, Barbados, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Maarten, Martinique, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands
Indonesia  
East Timor  
Vietnam  
Laos  
Cambodia  

Links

Australian Sports Commission International Relations, Development Programs