The Multicultural Development Program provides support and assistance to the ethnic communities of Alice Springs.  The program can also assist individual people from ethnic communities who continue to need help after the initial five year period of SGP assistance has finished.

The funding from the Northern Territory Government provides support for:

• Assistance with settling into Australian lifestyles
• Encouragement of multiculturalism in the community at large
• Encouragement of community participation 
• Organisation and participation in community events
• Promotion of integrated services 
• Promotion of the use of interpreters to agencies and service providers
• Helping large CALD and ethnic communities to form their own associations
• Seminars on governance and organizing the running of associations