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The Disaster Ready Fund Round (DRF) is the Australian Government’s flagship disaster resilience and risk reduction initiative

The objectives of the program are to:

• increase the understanding of natural disaster impacts, as a first step towards reducing the risk of future natural disaster impacts, 

• increase the resilience, adaptive capacity and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and affected communities to future natural disasters to minimise the potential impact of natural hazards and reduce the risk of future natural disasters, and 

• reduce the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a future natural disaster’s impacts, including reducing the recovery burden for governments, cohorts at disproportionate risk, and/or affected communities. 

Round Three (2025-26) of the DRF will build on previous rounds by making a further $200 million available for natural disaster risk reduction and resilience initiatives in 2025-26.