RESI Continues to Monitor Resilient Infrastructure Policy Developments: Why Disaster Ready Fund Round Four Deserves Attention from Infrastructure and Community Renewal Stakeholders

RESI Continues to Monitor Resilient Infrastructure Policy Developments: Why Disaster Ready Fund Round Four Deserves Attention from Infrastructure and Community Renewal Stakeholders

Among the currently open opportunities, Disaster Ready Fund Round Four 2026–27 is one of the most relevant for organisations involved in infrastructure upgrades, community facilities, resilience planning, risk reduction, or place-based project delivery. Compared with smaller grants that are more narrowly focused on research or sector-specific pilots, this programme is attractive because of both its scale and its direct connection to disaster mitigation and long-term resilience.

From an industry perspective, this kind of programme is especially relevant to businesses and organisations already engaged in public projects, community infrastructure, regional upgrades, or advisory and delivery work associated with place-based development. The policy signal is clear: future investment priorities are no longer centred solely on what gets built, but on how construction, resilience, and long-term risk management can be integrated into the same project logic.

• Especially relevant to organisations involved in infrastructure upgrades and community facilities.

• Closely aligned with projects focused on resilience planning, risk reduction, and place-based delivery.

• Signals a policy shift towards integrating construction, resilience, and long-term risk management.

What makes this programme particularly important is not simply the size of the funding available, but the way it reframes infrastructure as part of a broader resilience agenda. For many organisations, the shift is significant. Projects are increasingly expected to demonstrate not only delivery value, but also long-term social resilience, risk reduction, and public benefit. For teams with relevant delivery capability, this makes the programme well worth close attention.

At the same time, it should not be understood as a grant that any organisation can enter casually. The real difficulty usually lies in project positioning, collaboration structure, pathway selection, and the quality of the material prepared in support of the application. For many applicants, the real value lies not just in discovering the opportunity, but in assessing early whether the project is genuinely aligned and whether it is worth investing resources to proceed.

What can RESI do?

RESI continues to monitor policy developments and to review the application logic, core process requirements, and common barriers associated with relevant grant opportunities. Our aim is to help the industry assess, at an earlier stage, whether a particular opportunity is suitable, whether it is worth pursuing, and what the next step into the process may look like. For many organisations, gaining clarity on direction before formally commencing an application is often more valuable than rushing into the process too early.

Contact RESI

If you are currently exploring opportunities related to infrastructure upgrades, community facilities, resilience planning, place-based delivery, or disaster mitigation, then Disaster Ready Fund Round Four is worth reviewing sooner rather than later. As eligibility criteria, collaboration structures, and documentation requirements are often complex, it is generally advisable to undertake an initial feasibility and suitability assessment before making a formal commitment. If you would like to assess whether your project may be well positioned to proceed, you are welcome to contact RESI.