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Presentations and papers
Day zero
Day zero
Launch – Where is the money for women and girls in the Pacific? Mapping funding gaps,
opportunities and trends
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Chair: Tulika Srivastava, Executive Director, Women’s Fund Asia
Panellists:
Michelle Reddy, Fund Manager, Fiji Women’s Fund
Virisila Buadromo, Co-Lead, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights Asia and Pacific
Tara Chetty, Gender Adviser, Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development
Launch – Fit for the future: priorities for Australia’s humanitarian action
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Chair: Marc Purcell, CEO, Australian Council for International Development
Panellists:
Fiona Tarpey, Head of International Advocacy, Australian Red Cross
James Gilling, First Assistant Secretary, Humanitarian, NGOs and Partnerships Division, DFAT
Bina D’Costa, Professor, Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU
Jeremy Wellard, Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, International Council of Voluntary Agencies
Launch – Pacific perspectives on the world
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Chair: Leanne Smith, Director, Whitlam Institute
Dr Tess Newton-Cain, Principal, TNC Pacific Consulting
James Cox, Executive Director, Peacifica
Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Lecturer, Anthropology, Western Sydney University
Linda Kenni, Local Consultant, Vanuatu
Launch – The Asia Girls’ Leadership Index
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Chair: Susanne Legena, CEO, Plan International Australia
Panellists:
Dr Ratchada Jayagupta, Thailand Representative to the ACWC for Women’s Rights
Chamaiporn Siangyen, Regional Research and Evidence Lead, Plan International Asia-Pacific
Krista Zimmerman, Head of Influencing and Program Strategy, Plan International Asia-Pacific
Keynote address – ‘Good intentions, great policies, crappy outcomes: the difficult dynamics of deals’
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Chair: Clare Walsh, Deputy Secretary, Global Cooperation, Development and Partnerships Group, DFAT
Speaker: Dr Lant Pritchett, Research Director, RISE Programme; Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
Day one
Day one
Conference introduction
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Ashlee Betteridge, Manager, Development Policy Centre, ANU
Dr Gordon Hein, Senior Vice President, Programs, The Asia Foundation
Keynote address – Women, peace and security: an agenda for the future
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Chair: Dr Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Speaker: Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate
Panel 1a – Aid design, management and adaptive programming
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Chair: Ally Bridges, Assistant Director, Investment Design Section, DFAT
Panellists:
Key strategic issues in design – unpacking where and how to invest to maximise development impact
Kirsten Hawke, Lead Design Specialist/Director, DFAT
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Creativity in confronting the challenges of adaptive and flexible programs
Sarah Boddington, Director, Governance Advisory Section, DFAT
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Adaptive management: is it too FAR-fetched an idea to make progress?
Graham Teskey, Principal Technical Lead , Governance, Abt Associates
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Panel 1b – Connecting farmers to markets
Chair: Jenny Gordon, Chief Economist, DFAT
Panellists:
The ANCP Review
Dr Julie Delforce, Senior Sector Specialist, Agriculture and Food Security, DFAT and Tim Gill, Sector Specialist, Agriculture and Food Security, DFAT
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The Market Systems Development Synthesis Review
Bob Warner, Academic Visitor, Development Policy Centre, ANU
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Discussants:
Andy Hunter, Principal Adviser (Market Systems Development), World Vision Australia
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Dr Alwyn Chilver, Director of Economic Growth, Palladium
Panel 1c – Capacity development in infrastructure
Panellists:
Alison McKechnie, Regional Manager – Physical Infrastructure, Cardno
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Dr Neil Paulsen, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
Soli Middleby, CEO, Australia Pacific Training Coalition, TAFE Queensland
Anna Naupa, Country Director for Vanuatu and Nauru, Australia Pacific Training Coalition, TAFE Queensland
Panel 1d – Global lessons from Indonesia’s anti-poverty programs
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Chair: Professor Budy Resosudarmo, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Panellists:
Dr Vivi Yulaswati, Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Development Planning for Social Affairs and Poverty Reduction of Indonesia (Bappenas)
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Dr Elan Satriawan, Chief of Policy Working Group, National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) of Indonesia
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Lina Marliani, Executive Director of The Abdul Latief Jameel Poverty Action Lab Southeast Asia (J-PAL SEA)
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Panel 1e – Education
Chair: Karyn Docking, Program Director, Principal, Cardno
Presenters:
The transformational possibilities of a peer education program to address child marriage in Nepal: peer educators unveiling women’s plight
Dr Maria Amigo, Academic Director of PACE in the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
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Evaluating long-term impacts: challenges and lessons learned from tracing Australia Awards alumni
Amanda Taylor, Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research, Dr Daniel Edwards, Facility Manager, Research Director, Australian Council for Educational Research and Jo Doyle, Deputy Facility Manager, Australia Awards Global Tracer Facility, Australian Council for Educational Research
Building students’ ownership: a case for the necessity of youth participation in effective education programming
Reyna Selga-Eaton, Timor-Leste Programs Director, Oaktree
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Big data for better education spending in Indonesia
Astrid Dita, Budget Policy Adviser, PROSPERA and Dr Gary Deng, Senior Data Analytics Adviser, PROSPERA
Panel 1f – Identity, poverty and development
Chair: Therese Faulkner, Senior Development Specialist, Coffey International Limited
Presenters:
Sustainable development, legal identity and statelessness: convergence or divergence?
Dr Christoph Sperfeldt, Senior Research Fellow, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne
Poverty as deprivation of wellbeing or as deprivation of material means to wellbeing?
Trang Pham, PhD Candidate, ANU
Thicker diagnostics
Stevan Lee, Principal Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, Oxford Policy Management Limited
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Re-examining the terms of aid
Jessica Mackenzie, Director of Country Programs, Institute for State Effectiveness and
Nelly Mecklenburg, Program Officer, Institute for State Effectiveness
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Panel 1g – Gender case studies
Chair: Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Presenters:
Utilising a gender-responsive approach to more effectively prevent non-communicable disease in the Pacific region
Daiana Buresova, Regional Coordinator – Pacific Region, McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer
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Add women and stir is not enough: learnings about promoting gender equality from a review of DFAT program evaluations
Jo Hall, PhD student, ANU
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Economic development, women’s employment and empowerment: how these terms interrelated in the life of ready-made garment workers in Bangladesh?
Dr Sadika Haque, Bangladesh Agricultural University
Shifting gender norms through integrated gender and WASH programming: lessons from Timor-Leste
Chelsea Huggett, Technical Lead – Equality & Inclusion, WaterAid and Livia da Costa, Program Effectiveness Manager, WaterAid Timor-Leste
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Panel 1h – Inclusive WASH
Chair: Jo Spratt, Advocacy and Campaigns Director, Oxfam New Zealand
Presenters:
Participatory Action Research in Practice - WASH for women and people with disabilities
Lana Woolf, International Programs Director, Edge Effect
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Why and how to ‘do no harm’ in development policy and practice: insights from the Water for Women Fund
Joanna Mott, Gender and Social Inclusion Adviser, Water for Women Fund and Gabrielle Halcrow, Multi-Country Project Manager, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
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Gender dynamics of WASH under political restructuring in Nepal: the need to move beyond ‘engineering fixes’
Manita Raut, Research Officer, International Water Management Institute
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Who understands systems? Civil society, the WASH sector and social transformation
Dr Alison Baker, Fund Manager, Water for Women Fund
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Panel 1i – NGOs and civil society
Chair: Cheryl Johnson, Assistant Secretary, Humanitarian, NGOs and Partnerships Division, DFAT
Presenters:
Post development practice in action and the future of international non-government organisations
Caitlin Finlayson, PhD Student, La Trobe University and Professor Chris Roche, Development Practice, La Trobe University
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Negotiating between program design and local implementation: an ethnographic study of Save the Children and Wahana in Sumba, Indonesia
Bizhao Zhang, Master Candidate, ANU, Jessica Stone, Master Candidate, ANU and Rambu Asana, Project Assistant, Yayasan Wahana Komunikasi Wanita
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Building together: civil society engagement and infrastructure in the Pacific islands
Rebecca McNaught, Research for Development Impact Network and Partner, Pacific Connections (Australia) and Sally Baker, Disability Inclusion Adviser
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Keynote address – ‘The future of aid in the 21st century: five paradigm shifts’
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Chair: Elizabeth Peak, First Assistant Secretary, Human Development and Governance Division, DFAT
Speaker: Jonathan Glennie, Principal Associate, Joep Lange Institute
Panel 2a – Navigating new dynamics
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Chair: Dr Mark Henstridge, Chief Economist, Oxford Policy Management
Panellists:
Dr Selim Raihan, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saku Akmeemana, Principal Specialist – Governance, Development Policy Division, DFAT
Sandra Naranjo, Former Vice President, Ecuador
Ben French, Portfolio Manager, Public Management & Accountability, Oxford Policy Management
Panel 2b –One Health and regional health security
Session Introduction
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Chair: Emma Zalcman, Consultant, Ausvet
Panellists:
Dr Francette Geraghty-Dusan, Associate Research Program Manager – One Health, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Dr Ben Coghlan, Program Director, Health Security (Expansion Program), Burnet Institute
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Jonathan Happold, Senior Consultant, Ausvet
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Erin Nunan, Director, Regional Health Security, Beyond Essential Systems
Panel 2c – Aid effectiveness case studies
Chair: Dr Bernadette Whitelum, CEO, Whitelum Group
Presenters:
Australian aid project effectiveness – what shapes it, and why is it worse in the Pacific?
Dr Terence Wood, Research Fellow, The Development Policy Centre and Sabit Otor, Associate, The Development Policy Centre
Impacts of a rice production project’s intervention in Nicaragua: an ex-post evaluation of the effectiveness of the TaiwanICDF Rice Production Project
Yan-Tzong Cheng, Division Chief, Research and Evaluation Division, Research, Development and Evaluation Department, International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) and
Yun-Ching Tseng, Director,Development and Evaluation Department, International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF)
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Using lab studies to estimate the causal impact of development programs
Mark Millrine, Technical Lead, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, and Aya Vang, Associate, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Branching out – building evidence for the farmer managed natural regeneration approach for land restoration
Anne Crawford, Senior Evidence & Learning Adviser, World Vision Australia
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Panel 2d – Workplace gender equality in Southeast Asia and Australia
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Chair: Dr Julia Newton-Howes, Chief Executive Officer, Investing in Women
Panellists:
Andrew Rowell, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Investing in Women
Dr Janin Bredehoeft, Research and Analytics Executive Manager, Workplace Gender Equality Agency
Julia A. Abad, Executive Director, Philippines Business Coalition for Women Empowerment
Sandi Witomo, General Head of Human Resources, Adis Dimension Footwear, Jakarta
Panel 2e – The global learning crisis
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Chair: Dr Robert Christie, Head, Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT
Panellists:
Dr Lant Pritchett, Research Director, RISE Programme; Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
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Dr Elizabeth Cassity, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research
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Dr David Coleman, Senior Adviser, Education, DFAT
Dr Wendy Jarvie, Adjunct Professor, Public Service Research Group, School of Business, UNSW Canberra
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Panel 2f – Social and indigenous procurement
Chair: Alessia Anibaldi, Manager, Africa and South and West Asia, International Development, The University of Queensland
Panellists:
Nina Yousefpour, Manager, Social Impact and Standards, Social Traders
Darren Godwell, President and CEO, i2i Global Development
Joel Bird, Senior Development Coordinator and Founder and Senior Consultant, Keprah
Simon Cann-Evans, Director, Aid Business Engagement, DFAT
Panel 2g – Technology in development practice
Chair: Mel Dunn, Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, DT Global
Presenters:
Technology for behavior change: moving beyond information management to technology that persuades
David Roach, Director & Co-Founder, Catalpa International
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Improving women’s access to & persistence in technology jobs across sectors: a case study in Fiji
Kara Chesal, Head of Gender & Education, Catalpa International
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The benefits of cloud-computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) to WASH and DRR in Timor-Leste
Craig McVeigh, Chief Executive Officer, Similie
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Panel 2h – Child-focused aid
Chair: Graham Strong, Chief Field Impact Officer, World Vision
Panellists:
Jahin Tanvir, Youth Advocate, Vision Youth
Mercy Jumo, Senior Policy Adviser, Child Rights, World Vision Australia
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Dr Ani Wierenga, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Social & Political Science, University of Melbourne and Academic Coordinator, Post Graduate Studies, Adolescent Health & Wellbeing, Melbourne Medical School
Courtney Innes, Senior Adviser, Child Rights and Protection, Plan International Australia
Panel 2i – Peacebuilding and justice
Chair: Associate Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer, Deputy Head of School (Research), Griffith Law School, and Associate Fellow of the Development Policy Centre, ANU
Presenters:
Geographies of aid: security zones, colour codes and everyday life in intervention spaces
Dr Jonathan Fisher, Reader, University of Birmingham
The link between development and prevention of violent extremism: lessons learned from PVE programing in Southeast Asia
Malcom Brailey, Regional Director Indo-Pacific, The Stabilisation Network
Lessons learned: preventing violent extremism in Southeast Asia
Dr Adam Burke, Director, Conflict and Fragility, The Asia Foundation
Practicing law and justice development: can we adapt?
Professor Veronica Taylor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU
Keynote Panel – Australian aid to Indonesia: a high-level conversation
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Chair: Allaster Cox, Deputy Ambassador, Australian Embassy, Jakarta
Panellists:
Pungky Sumadi, Deputy Minister for Population and Labor Affairs, Indonesia’s Development Planning Ministry (Bappenas)
Dr Elan Satriawan, Chief of Policy Working Group, The Secretariat of National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), Indonesia’s Vice President’s Office
Astrid Kartika, Unit Manager, Governance and Human Development, DFAT, Australian Embassy Jakarta
Dr Della Temenggung, Deputy Director for Policy and Adviser, PROSPERA
Keynote Panel – Debating RCTs, and other topics in impact evaluation
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Chair: Professor Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre, ANU
Panellists:
Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Member for Fenner, ACT
Dr Lant Pritchett, Research Director, RISE Programme; Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
Dr Jyotsna Puri, Head, Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Keynote Panel – Views from the frontlines: advancing the women, peace and security agenda in Asia and the Pacific
Chair: Jane Sloane, Senior Director, Women’s Empowerment Program, The Asia Foundation
Panellists:
Noraida Chio, Senior Program Officer, The Asia Foundation Philippines
Dr Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Chairperson and Gender Liaison of the Board of Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)
Associate Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer, Deputy Head of School (Research), Griffith Law School, and Associate Fellow of the Development Policy Centre, ANU
Day two
Day two
Panel 3a – What drives learning in Indonesia and beyond? Insights from INOVASI and RISE
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Chair: Dr Lant Pritchett, Research Director, RISE Programme; Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
Panellists:
Niken Rarasati, Researcher, RISE Indonesia, SMERU
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Dr Shintia Revina, Researcher, RISE Indonesia, SMERU
Dr Mark Heyward, Program Director, INOVASI
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Dr David Coleman, Senior Strategic Education Adviser, DFAT
Panel 3b – Women’s economic empowerment
Chair: Annemarie Reerink, Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Sector Specialist, Gender Equality Branch, DFAT
Panellists:
Ellie Wong, Senior Women’s Economic Empowerment Adviser, World Vision Australia
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Maryam Piracha, Head of Portfolio, Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Incomes through Support for Markets in Agriculture (PRISMA)
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Tara Chetty, Gender Adviser, Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development, Support Unit
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Dr Alice Pollard, Founder, West ‘Are’Are Rokotanikeni Association (WARA)
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Panel 3c – Frontier global aid issues
Chair: Dr Fiona Yap, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Presenters:
The state of ODA funding for gender equality
Raimund Zuhr, Project Manager, SEEK Development, Berlin
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Human rights violations, political conditionality, and public support for foreign aid
Professor David Hudson, Professorial Research Fellow, Politics and Development, University of Birmingham
What are we learning about paradigm shift and measuring it, in climate change
Dr Jyotsna Puri, Head Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Panel 3d – Labour mobility and the diaspora
Chair: Rachel Jolly, Acting Assistant Secretary, Pacific Labour Mobility and Economic Growth Branch, DFAT
Presenters:
Development with care: migrant families and Australia’s Pacific Labour Scheme
Dr Matt Withers, Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Crossing the divide: Pacific diaspora in humanitarian response to natural disasters
Jeevika Vivekananthan, Research Assistant (Lead Researcher), Centre for Humanitarian Leadership
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Clean energy and household remittances in Bangladesh: evidence from a natural experiment
Dr Gazi Hassan, Senior Lecturer, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
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Panel 3e – Partnering with business for the SDGs
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Chair: Ariane Gauchat, Team Leader, Business Partnerships Platform (Palladium)
Panellists:
Jamie Isbister, Ambassador for the Environment and First Assistant Secretary, Economic Growth and Sustainability Division, DFAT
Molly Harriss Olson, CEO, Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand
Perise Toala, Secretary, Savai’i Coconut Farmers Association
Wayne Liubinskas, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Village Energy
Panel 3f – Health
Chair: Stephanie Williams, Principal Specialist Health, Human Development and Governance Division, DFAT
Presenters:
Building consortium to increase private sector access to GeneXpert in the Philippines
Soliman Guirgis, Project Director, TB Innovations and HSS Project, Family Health International (FHI 360)
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Transformation of Interventions to address barriers to women’s group participation and improve coverage and quality of nutritional services
Ajay Acharya, Ward Cates Research fellow- FHI 360
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Beyond the champions. Fiji’s post-military regime, the tobacco industry, and the unlikely triumph of public interests in tobacco control
Dori Patay, PhD Scholar, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU
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Private sector models of partnership with government are not all about money
Ingrid Glastonbury, Head of Health, Oil Search Foundation
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Panel 3g – Agriculture and rural development
Chair: Dr Peter Horne, General Manager, Country Programs, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Presenters:
Gender relations and the management of agricultural water and land in the farming collectives at Saptari, Nepal
Manita Raut, Research Officer, International Water Management Institute
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Landscape restoration in drylands: what drives the transition from subsistence to sustainable economic development?
Rob Kelly, Food Security and Resilience Adviser, World Vision Australia
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Poverty dynamics, food security and rural change in Indonesia
Dr John McCarthy, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
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Panel 3h – Aid effectiveness methods
Chair: Beth Delaney, First Assistant Secretary, Contracting and Aid Management Division, DFAT
Presenters:
Evaluation and value for money - a practical approach
Julian King, Director, Julian King & Associates Limited
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Evidence-based approach to delivering better development outcomes
Sloan Mann, President, DT Global US, and Orion Wilcox, Research Analyst, DT Global
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Participation, power and politics in evaluation
Dr Linda Kelly, Co-Director, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Treating obsessive measurement disorder
Dave Green, Principal Consultant, Clear Horizon and Damien Sweeney, Principal Consultant and Team Lead, Clear Horizon
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Applying developmental evaluation to catalyze better results on innovative programming in complex or changing environments
Courtney Roberts, Principal, Moonshot Global
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Panel 3i – Humanitarian challenges
Chair: Jennifer Clancy, Humanitarian and Advocacy Advisor, Australian Council for International Development
Presenters:
How inclusive disaster legislation is strengthening locally led humanitarian action: lessons from Asia and the Pacific
Fiona Tarpey, Head, International Advocacy, Australian Red Cross
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Responding to menstrual hygiene management needs in disaster settings, in Vanuatu
Sandra Downing, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University and Sandrine Benjimen, Health Coordinator, Vanuatu Red Cross National Society
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Making cash inclusive in humanitarian responses
David Brown, Senior Adviser, Program Development, CBM Australia, and Dr Manuel Roethe, Visiting Lecturer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Keynote address
Hon Alex Hawke MP, Minister for International Development and the Pacific
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Panel 4a – Climate change and social inclusion
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Chair: Jamie Isbister, Ambassador for the Environment and First Assistant Secretary, Economic Growth and Sustainability Division, DFAT
Panellists:
Dr Veronica Doerr, Research Director, Sustainable Pathways, CSIRO
Joe Morrison, Managing Director, Six Seasons
Jahidul Islam, Australia Award recipient for Bangladesh, Masters of Climate Change, ANU
Elizabeth Cowan, Global Gender Cohort Coordinator, CARE
Panel 4b – Still broken: Global humanitarian reform and the Asia Pacific
Chair: Beth Eggleston, Director, Humanitarian Advisory Group
Panellists:
Rachael Moore, Director Protracted Crises Section, DFAT
Dr Puji Pujiono, Founder and Director, Pujiono Centre
Louise McCosker, Humanitarian Diplomacy Lead, International Programs, Australian Red Cross
Panel 4c – Food system crises – or not: how we choose to eat
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Chair: Professor Robyn Alders, Development Policy Centre, ANU and Senior Scientific Adviser, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, London, UK
Panellists:
Julian Cribb FRSA FTSE, Science author, Julian Cribb and Associates
Dr Emily Schmidt, Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
Dr Anna Okello, Research Program Manager, Livestock Systems, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Dr Jim Woodhill, Lead, Global Foresight4Food Initiative, Oxford University, UK, Food Security Adviser to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio in South Asia
Panel 4d – Measuring deprivation with an individual and gendered lens
Chair: Dr Helen Suich, Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Panellists:
Dr Janet Hunt, Associate Professor, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
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Trang Pham, Researcher, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
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Dr Joyce Wu, Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
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Panel 4e – Private sector
Chair: Tanya McQueen, Senior Manager, Strategic Engagement and Partnerships, Cardno
Presenters:
Private sector delivery of multisectoral nutrition interventions – exploring possibilities through implementation research
Jennifer Crum, Project Director, Multisectoral Nutrition Project, Family Health International (FHI 360)
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Viability gap funding – tapping up the private sector to extend infrastructure services
Dr Alwyn Chilver, Director Economic Growth, Palladium
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Harnessing the power of local business advice
Steve Knapp, Managing Director DT-Global New Zealand, and Sandra Mendez, Communications and Impact Manager, Business Link Pacific
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Does market systems development impact the ultra-poor: an examination of the evidence
Timothy Stewart, Senior Manager, Economic Growth, Palladium
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Panel 4f – The Developmental Leadership escape room
Chair: Dr Chris Roche, Professor of Development Practice, La Trobe University
Panellists:
David Hudson, Director, Developmental Leadership Program
Claire Mcloughlin, Deputy Director, Developmental Leadership Program
Panel 4g – RCTs in PNG and the Pacific
Chair: Cate Rogers, Assistant Secretary, Human Development and Governance Division, DFAT
Panellists:
Professor Pauline Grosjean, Department of Economics, University of New South Wales
Dr Russell Toth, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Christopher Hoy, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, ANU
Panel 4h – Increasing the diversity of Australian aid professionals
Chair: Zoe Mander-Jones, Program Director, Australian Volunteers Program
Panellists:
Emily Dwyer, Managing Director, Edge Effect
Jen Blyth, Disability Inclusion Adviser, CBM Australia
Laura Taylor, Assistant Director, Volunteers Section, DFAT
Alice Tamang, Indigenous Programs Coordinator, Australian Volunteers Program
Panel 4i – Rethinking civic space in Southeast Asia
Chair: Saku Akmeemana, Principal Specialist – Governance, Development Policy Division, DFAT
Panellists:
Cameron Hill, Senior Consultant, Whitelum Group
Pauline Tweedie, Country Representative for Timor-Leste, The Asia Foundation
Emily Rudland, Assistant Director, DFAT
Nicola Nixon, Governance Director, The Asia Foundation
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Panel 4j – Development challenges in Indonesia
Chair: Jacqui De Lacy, Managing Director, Abt Associates
Presenters:
Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy: long-term evidence from Indonesia
Dr Daniel Suryadarma, Senior Researcher, SMERU Research Institute
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How should Indonesia government promote competitiveness of Indonesia’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the borderless trade era?
Nika Pranata, Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Village deliberation and community involvement in village development planning in Indonesia: Transformation of the CDD approach in the New Village Law implementation
Katiman Kartowinomo, PhD Student, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
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Panel 5a – Working with men and boys to end violence against women
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Chair: Glenn Davies, Director, Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion Asia and Pacific, Coffey International Development
Panellists:
Melkie Anton, Male advocate for ending violence against women and Development Project development adviser
Amy Gildea, Managing Director Asia and Pacific, Coffey International Development
Abigail Erikson, Program Specialist, UN Women
John Kali, PNG High Commissioner to Australia
Panel 5b – Australian aid and foreign policy
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Chair: Professor Caitlin Byrne, Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Presenters:
Security through sustainable peace
Professor John Langmore AM, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, and Dr Tania Miletic, Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne
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Feminist foreign policy: a new approach for a new era
Joanna Pradela, Director, Knowledge Translation, IWDA, and Alice Ridge, Research Policy and Advocacy Adviser, IWDA
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‘Send them a shipload of rice’: food aid and Australia-Indonesia bilateral relations, 1960s-70s
Dr Pierre van der Eng, Associate Professor, Research School of Management, ANU
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Where’s the dirty laundry? DFAT APPRs and the public diplomacy imperative
Dave Green, Principal Consultant, Clear Horizon and Kaisha Crupi, Consultant, Clear Horizon
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Panel 5c – Disability and inclusive design, monitoring and evaluation
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Chair: Sarah Leslie, Senior Consultant, Clear Horizon
Panellists:
Asahel Bush, Disability and Inclusion Adviser, CBM
Dr Manjula Marella, Research Fellow, Nossal Institute
Malik Munir, Master of Public Policy Student
Livia da Costa, Program Effectiveness Manager, WaterAid Timor-Leste
Panel 5d – Using innovative financing for impact
Co-chairs: Stephanie Marienau Turpin, Director, Strategic Partnerships, FHI 360 and Stephanie Kimber, Assistant Director, DFAT InnovationXchange
Panellists:
Sandra Carvajal, Adviser, Tri-Sector Partnering, World Vision Australia
Cassian Drew, Managing Partner, Palladium
Dr John Marsh, CEO, Inclusiv Ventures
Panel 5e – The changing world order
Chair: Bridi Rice, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Australian Council for International Development
Presenters:
Ocean of debt? Belt and Road and debt diplomacy in the Pacific
Roland Rajah, Director, International Economy Program, Lowy Institute
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Positive disruption? China’s humanitarian aid
Dr Denghua Zhang, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU and Beth Eggleston, Director, Humanitarian Advisory Group
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The role of philanthropic foundations in international development: Rockefeller, Ford and Gates
Dr Patrick Kilby, Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU
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Panel 5f – Financial inclusion
Chair: Dr Hoa Nguyen, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
Presenters:
How do economically active people with disabilities access microfinance?
Debashis Sarker, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland, Australia
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Does political ideology matter for financial inclusion?
Farhan Shazia, PhD Candidate, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University
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Does group lending matter? The role of microcredit in improving the wellbeing of women borrowers
Prof Brett Inder, Professor of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University
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Empowering women through microfinance based self-help groups in India: who becomes a member and for how long
Danish Ahmad, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra
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Panel 5g – Engaging civil society for development in Indonesia
Chair: Saku Akmeemana, Principal Specialist – Governance, Development Policy Division, DFAT
Panellists:
Making hidden populations visible: Lessons from combining governance and social approaches for poverty alleviation
Abdi Suryaningati, Team Leader, Peduli, Australia’s social inclusion program, The Asia Foundation
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Women’s Collective Action - influencing policy at the grassroots and national levels
Misiyah, Director, Kapal Perempuan, a CSO partner supported by the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (MAMPU)
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Triangular collaboration to achieve better outcomes for women and girls
Dio Ashar Wicaksana, Executive Director, Indonesia Judicial Monitoring Society (Mappi-FHUI), a CSO partner supported by the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice Phase 2 (AIPJ2)
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Panel 5h – Evaluating skills development programs
Chair: Anthony Bailey, Facilitator, Program Director, Kiribati Facility
Panellists:
Jamine Makinon, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator, Vanuatu Skills Partnership
Eroshan Alagaretnam, Senior Manager, Results Hub, Sri Lanka Skills for Inclusive Growth
Stuart Kinsella, Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser, Kiribati Facility
Sisilia Takapautolo, Skills Coordinator, Tonga Skills for Inclusive Economic Growth
Panel 5i – Climate change
Chair: Professor Meg Keen, Director, Australia Pacific Security College, ANU
Presenters:
Public perception of climate change and disaster preparedness: evidence from the Philippines
Vincenzo Bollettino, Director, Program on Resilient Communities, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Humanitarian health leadership for a climate change world
Stephen McDonald, Associate Director for Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Elizabeth Irvine, Research Fellow, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, and Sonia Brockington, Lecturer in Humanitarian Health, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership
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Confronting the climate emergency in development policy and programming: experience in water and sanitation service delivery in Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Nepal
Anna Gero, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS
Governance for climate change in the Pacific
Dr Linda Kelly, Co-Director, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University, Moortaza Jiwanji, Program Manager, UNDP, Aminisitai Delaisainiai, Deputy Program Manager, UNDP and Nicola Glendining, CCDRM Advisor, UNDP
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Panel 5j – Humanitarian aid and technology
Chair: Paul Kelly, Assistant Secretary, Humanitarian Response, Risk and Recovery Branch, DFAT
Presenters:
Data analytic platform for logistics planning and information management following natural disasters
Anissa Zahara, Data Engineer, Pulse Lab Jakarta
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Unblocked cash: harnessing the power of Blockhain technology to revolutionise humanitarian cash transfers
Joshua Hallwright, Humanitarian Lead, Oxfam Australia, Elsa Carnaby, Disaster Risk Reduction, Oxfam Australia and Bjorn Rust, Research Consultant
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Making sense of sense-maker – trial of the sense maker research tool to evaluate earthquake recovery
Jessica Kenway, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, Australian Humanitarian Partnership and Jordan Hoffmann, Senior Project Officer, CARE Australia Managed Country Presences, CARE Australia
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Keynote Panel – Australian aid: PNG and transparency
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Chair: Anthea Mulakala, Senior Director for International Development Cooperation, The Asia Foundation
Panellists:
Jonathan Pryke, Director, Pacific Islands Program, Lowy Institute
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Dr Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre
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John Kali, PNG High Commissioner to Australia
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Stephanie Copus Campbell, CEO, Oil Search Foundation
Keynote Panel – Labour mobility
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Chair: Dr Ryan Edwards, Senior Policy Fellow, Development Policy Centre, ANU
Panellists:
Let their people come: a case for international labour mobility
Farah Hani, Senior Policy Analyst, Labor Mobility Partnerships team, Centre for Global Development
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Pacific Labour Scheme: progress and looking to the future
Danielle Heinecke, First Assistant Secretary, Pacific Operations and Development, DFAT
At a crossroads? Increasing labor mobility from PNG
Dr Matthew Dornan, Senior Economist, World Bank
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Keynote Panel – Aid and the national interest in the Indo-Pacific
Chair: Dr William Cole, Senior Adviser for Program Strategy, The Asia Foundation
Panellists:
Professor Caitlin Byrne, Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Richard Moore, Principal Strategist, Positive Influence, Manila
Thomas Parks, Country Representative (Thailand), The Asia Foundation
Dr Selina Ho, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
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