ACCAN recently submitted to the Mobile Network Hardening Program Round 2 – Draft Grant Opportunity Guidelines. In our submission we recommended that the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts should:
- Require recognition of third party funding co-contributions as a mandatory requirement.
- Provide further support to broker meaningful and ongoing partnerships with First Nations communities.
- Promote a data-driven approach to site selection through service reliability.
Publish the program’s outcomes, including information on successful locations, types of resilience upgrades, and how communities directly benefit from the program.
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