People & Capability Program

The People and Capability Program offers grants for industry and providers to design and deliver tailored programs that address the challenges and opportunities identified in the Workforce Strategy, supporting AgriFutures Industries.

Program objectives:

• Provide a longer-term, strategic approach to capability investment across levied and emerging industries and cross-sector priorities.
• Understand and respond to current and future workforce needs.
• Attract and retain skilled industry participants by identifying and enabling key drivers of attraction and retention.
• Support capability development by equipping stakeholders with the skills and confidence to lead effectively.
• Respond to workforce and leadership needs unique to levied and emerging industries.
• Build transferable knowledge, skills, leadership and organisational capability that can be applied across multiple industries or the broader agricultural sector.
• Embed measurement and evaluation frameworks to demonstrate workforce impact.

Scope of grants

Industry Workforce Program Grants (up to $25,000)

Designed as a clear and transparent mechanism for distributing an annual allocation of funds to support Levied and Emerging Industries workforce needs.

Providers will be required to:

• Develop, design, and/or deliver an industry-specific program tailored to a levied or emerging industry (new or existing).
• Demonstrate alignment with AgriFutures’ priorities and industry needs.
• Engage stakeholders to co-design relevant activities, ensuring programs are practical, scalable, and industry led.
• Incorporate innovative approaches to workforce attraction, retention, and skills development, including technology and leadership pathways.
• Provide evaluation and reporting to AgriFutures’ impact framework.

Capacity Building Grants (up to $10,000)

Designed for industry associations to nominate individuals or groups for funding that benefits their industry.

Applications should:

• Showcase knowledge-sharing for levied and emerging industries.
• Demonstrate motivation and skills to lead industries into the future.

Cross-Sector People & Capability Program Grants (up to $40,000)

Designed for organisations to develop and design a projects that builds the capability of people and organisations across agriculture to understand, respond to and lead through significant challenges and opportunities affecting the sector.

Providers will be required to:

• Develop, design and/or deliver a program that builds capability to address one or more identified cross-sector challenges.
• Include a practical extension plan and outputs.
• Demonstrate relevance and potential benefit across multiple industries.
• Build participants’ knowledge, skills, leadership or sector-wide capability.
• Engage relevant stakeholders in the design and/or delivery of the initiative to ensure it is practical and scalable.
• Demonstrate how the capability developed can be applied beyond the immediate program or participants.
• Demonstrate alignment with AgriFutures’ strategic priorities.