Programmes
Explore the government schemes through which financing, incentives and project designations are recorded. A named ceiling or lending authority is not an amount spent; the tracker records selected financial rows, not complete programme utilization.
Understanding programme finance — quick definitions
A government scheme can have an authorized ceiling, individual finance records and designations. Those are not interchangeable or additive.
- Program envelope
- The ceiling of a programme, fund or facility that awards are drawn from.
- Lending authority
- A ceiling on what a lender may lend or guarantee.
- Commitment
- Money, or a money-like promise, committed to a named recipient or project. The only role ever summed.
- Parent and child schemes
- A parent programme's record view can include the same financial rows as its child. Do not add both totals together.
- Designation
- Recognition of a strategic project is not a financial award, disbursement or proof of completed production.
12 of 12 registered programmes
One result is one registered scheme, not one award or a complete government budget. Parent programmes include recorded rows from their child schemes; those inherited rows must not be added again across results. Ceilings are stated authorities, not paid capital, and are never divided into recorded public-commitment rows. Designations confer recognition, not money. Empty counts mean no row registered here, not no activity outside SMPT.
United States (2)
Administered by U.S. Department of Commerce
No ceiling row recorded
12 public-commitment rows · 1 other financing row · 0 designations
Administered by Office of Strategic Capital (OSC)
Stated ceilings: USD 500 million · up to USD 100 billion
4 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
European Union (2)
Administered by European Commission
Stated ceilings: EUR 3 billion
0 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
Administered by European Commission
No ceiling row recorded
0 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 55 designations
Australia (3)
Administrator not named in registered sources
Stated ceilings: AUD 5 billion · AUD 1 billion
0 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
Administrator not named in registered sources
No ceiling row recorded
1 public-commitment row · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
Administered by Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Stated ceilings: AUD 1.2 billion · AUD 185 million
0 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
Japan (2)
重要鉱物に係る認定供給確保計画
Administered by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
No ceiling row recorded
0 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 4 designations
重要鉱物助成金交付事業
Administered by Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC)
No ceiling row recorded
4 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
Canada (2)
Administrator not named in registered sources
Stated ceilings: up to CAD 3.8 billion
6 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
Counts include registered child-programme rows
Part of Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy (Budget 2022 funding)
Administered by Natural Resources Canada
No ceiling row recorded
6 public-commitment rows · 0 other financing rows · 0 designations
India (1)
Administrator not named in registered sources
Stated ceilings: INR 163 billion
0 public-commitment rows · 1 other financing row · 0 designations
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