HHIP Monitoring and Evaluation Program - Final report

Monitoring and Evaluation Project – Final report

In October 2022, the Australian Government announced $100 million in funding to be expended on urgent works at Northern Territory (NT) homelands. This was the first major funding commitment to homelands made by the Australian Government since 2012, and it constituted a significant investment in homelands, given the NT Government otherwise provides about $40 million per annum in grant funding for the delivery of housing maintenance, essential services, and municipal services at homelands through its Homelands Program. In 2024, as part of a $4 billion remote housing package, a further $120 million over three years was committed to homelands by the Australian Government.

To ensure continual improvement of HHIP, the Department engaged Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) to undertake independent monitoring and an evaluation of the program. This project focussed on the first two years of the program (initial $100M investment) developing case studies to provide real-world examples of new investment through the HHIP, capturing the challenges of extremely remote service delivery as well as the demonstrated impact of the funded housing and infrastructure upgrades for families living on country. The final report collates these case studies and provides a broader picture of the program as viewed by its stakeholders.

Homelands Housing and Infrastructure Program Monitoring and Evaluation Project - Final report PDF (12.6 MB)

HHIP Final report - Policy brief PDF (136.8 KB)