Tender Details
Responses Matter is a new one-off, time-limited funding initiative that will work with specialised sexual violence delivery partners to strengthen non-specialist service responses to disclosures of sexual violence.
The NSW Department of Communities and Justice is requesting proposals from potential delivery partners for projects that aim to increase the capacity of non-specialist services to receive and respond to disclosures of sexual violence from priority communities.
For the purposes of this tender:
• ‘Specialist services’ refers to organisations or services that have expertise and experience in delivering service responses to victim-survivors of sexual violence as part of their core business.
• ‘Non-specialist services’ or the ‘broader workforce’ refer to those who are sometimes in contact with victim-survivors or perpetrators of sexual violence and are required to deal with the impacts of sexual violence despite it not being a significant focus of their role. Examples are police, nurses, teachers, disability support workers, community services and social workers, youth workers, and corrective services workers.
Responses Matter will focus on services that support victim-survivors from four priority communities:
• Aboriginal communities
• multicultural communities
• people with disability
• LGBTIQA+ people.
Research shows that disclosing sexual violence is incredibly challenging for many victim-survivors, particularly for victim-survivors from the above priority communities. Due to this, victim-survivors may disclose their experience of sexual violence to people in non-specialist services that they access for other reasons, such as disability or community-specific support services, or to family and friends. Non-specialist services
receiving sexual violence disclosures from priority communities may not always be equipped to respond to disclosures safely and effectively and to support survivors who may be disclosing for the first time or who may be in situations of ongoing harm.
Areas of capacity building may include:
• receiving and responding to disclosure
• responding to trauma
• coordinated responses and referrals pathways
• facilitating healing and recovery from violence and trauma.
Delivery partners
We will engage a minimum of one delivery partner for each of the four priority communities. We will also consider engaging multiple delivery partners per priority community and partnerships between delivery partners, depending on the range of proposals received. We encourage a range of organisations to submit a proposal, including small to medium suppliers.
Responses Matter projects will require expertise in the following areas:
• sexual violence service delivery
• capacity building
• community connections and demonstrated ability to work with the selected priority community(ies)
Funding amount
The Department expects to allocate approximately $300,000 for each priority community. This is subject to change based on market information obtained as part of the tender process. Project budgets should therefore be kept to a maximum of $300,000 unless you are working across multiple priority communities. Depending on the proposals received, we may award funding to multiple projects within a priority community.
The exact funding amounts for each delivery partner will be determined as part of this Request for Proposals stage.
The Department may run an additional limited tender round if there are many suitable proposals or more detail is required to make a decision on the responses. This will be determined by the Tender Evaluation Committee after the Request for Proposals stage and evaluation.
If successful, your project proposal will receive one-off funding to deliver your project by June 2025.
This tender opportunity can only be accessed and responded via the Department’s end-to-end procurement system, Procurement Central.
Any submission lodged outside of Procurement Central will not be considered by the Department.
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