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Connecting to Country: Lessons on relationships, resilience and hope
9:15 am 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Dr Anika Molesworth, Chrissy Warren, Ms Susanne LegenaIs Pacific debt constraining regional development?
10:00 am 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Denton Rarawa, Emma Veve, Roland Rajah, Satish ChandConcurrent Session 1.1 - Building Resilience through Food Security
11:20 am 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Ms LUCY AFANDI ESIPILA, Charles Oloka, Puspasari IndraConcurrent Session 1.2 - PSEAH in a climate crisis
11:20 am 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 1 - Mr Filipo Masaurua, Jocelyn Condon, Jody Kelly, Beth Delaney, Ms Tagan PaulConcurrent Session 1.3 - Addressing climate change through feminist foreign policy
11:20 am 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 2 - Professor Susan Harris Rimmer, Associate Professor Rowena Maguire, Esther Onyango, Sasha Purcell, Dr Bridget Lewis, Ms Joanna PradelaConcurrent Session 1.4 - Climate Change and Peacebuilding in our regions
11:20 am 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 3 - Ms Adi Litia Nailatikau, Dr Kate Higgins, Dr Siad Darwish, Dr Volker BoegeConcurrent Session 1.5 - Enabling resilient futures: supporting NGOs in climate change integration
11:20 am 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 4 - Mr Angelo Ximenes, Alice Muller, Ms Ruth Konia, Willy MissackConcurrent Session 2.1 - Kioa to Cairo: The Pacific Civil Society Pathway to COP27
1:20 pm 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Maina TaliaConcurrent Session 2.4 - Watershed Interventions for System Health Fiji (WISH Fiji) – achieving positive human and environmental impacts through a planetary health approach
1:20 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 1 - Dr Aaron Jenkins, Andrew Tukana, Dr Jacqueline Thomas, Mr Timoci NaivalulevuConcurrent Session 2.7 - Women with disabilities’ leading climate action in the Pacific
1:20 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 2 - Sainimili Tawake, Melvina Vua, Kerryn ClarkeConcurrent Session 2.10 - Finance for Climate Resilience, Response and Inclusion: Lessons from Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
1:20 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 3 - Mrs Meiseany Hortensia, Mr Rohas Pakkiyanathan, Clay O'brienConcurrent Session 2.13 Resilient Livelihoods – Lessons from Nepal
1:20 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 4 - Mr Andy Hunter, Michael FieldConcurrent Session 2.16 - PNG Voices – Listening to Australia’s closest neighbour – capacity building and development the Papua New Guinean way.
1:20 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 5 - Ms Leonie Baptiste, Dr Andrea Connor, Dr Londari YamarakConcurrent Session 2.2 - Minimising Financial Wastage: uncovering the hidden costs of international payments
2:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Mr Michael StachowiakConcurrent Session 2.5 - Empowering local actors to increase the climate resilience of WASH services: A presentation of case studies across Southeast Asia
2:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 1 - Miss Tanvi Oza, Mr Tith Nhim, Mr Angelo Ximenes, Joyce MaragasConcurrent Session 2.8 - Creatable: Adolescents harnessing creativity to solve climate change issues in Burundi
2:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 2 - Mr Rydr Tracy, Ms Vivien Harvey-WongConcurrent Session 2.11 - First Nations led Foreign Policy
2:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 3 - Ms Aarti Betigeri, James BlackwellConcurrent Session 2.14 - Reconceptualising international partnerships to tackle climate change and the SDGs
2:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 4 - Mrs Courtney Anderson, Dr Libby SwanepoelConcurrent Session 2.17 - Cascade of Crises: Civil-Military and Police Relations Today and Tomorrow
2:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 5 - Ms. Beth Eggleston, Mr David Tuck, Ms Jules Frost, Natasha ChabbraConcurrent Session 2.9 - The Experiences and Responses of Ni-Vanuatu Women with Disability to the Climate and Humanitarian Action.
2:39 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 2 - Ms Ellen Tamata, Ginette Morrison, Ms Michelle Higelin, Ms Nelly CalebConcurrent Session 2.3 - How sea-grapes saved a forest: a nature-based solution in Saeraghi Village, Solomon Islands
2:40 pm 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Dr Gregory Bennett, Henry Kaniki, Minnie Rafe Ifuto’o, Salome Topo, Ms Rachel JamesConcurrent Session 2.6 - Stocking global evidence and good practices: Mainstreaming climate and environment into agri-food systems
2:40 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 1 - Ms Clara García Parra, Diana JohannisConcurrent Session 2.12 - Frenemies? Gender Equality and Disability: What is lost and what is found
2:40 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 3 - Cashelle Dunn, Ms Ipul Powaseu, Ms Jasmine Kaur, Isabelle GurneyConcurrent Session 2.15 - Emerging Youth Responses to a Changing World: Our part to play in effecting change
2:40 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 4 - Mr. Joseph Kolapudi, Parika Verma, Mr Jahin Tanvir, Ms Vanessa BrettellConcurrent Session 2.18 - Rethinking power, sustaining collaboration: Australian NGOs in a changing world
2:40 pm 26 October 2022 - Zoom Room 5 - Dr Eleanor Gordon, Dr Samanthi J GunawardanaMichael McCormack MP
3:30 pm 26 October 2022 - PlenaryDr Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
3:40 pm 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Dr Jamaica Heolimeleikalani OsorioClimate Justice - what will it take?
4:00 pm 26 October 2022 - Plenary - Amy Gordon, Noelene Nabulivou, Pratima GurungPrayer Breakfast - Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet
8:00 am 27 October 2022 - Zoom Room 1 - Minnie Anne Calub, Archbishop Peter ChongACFID CEO Address
9:00 am 27 October 2022 - PlenaryHon Pat Conroy MP
9:10 am 27 October 2022 - Plenary - MP Pat ConroyKeynote: Dr Vandana Shiva
9:40 am 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Vandana ShivaConcurrent Session 3.1 - Twin Clouds on the horizon: avoiding a combined climate and debt crisis in the Pacific
10:20 am 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Dr Damian Spruce, Mr. Kanamon Reilly, Kositatino Tikomaibolatagane, Ms Fyfe StrachanConcurrent Session 3.2 - Building on positive environmental practice in the Tonga volcano response
10:20 am 27 October 2022 - Mr Peter McArdle, Ms Sesimani Lokotui, Ms Crystal Áke, Ms Ofa MafiConcurrent Session 3.3 - Financial and Economic Inclusion of People with Disabilities
10:20 am 27 October 2022 - Ms Alison Thornburn, Kerryn Clarke, Ms Fifi Rashando, Mr. Phaikdey UkConcurrent Session 3.4 - The intersection of sexual and reproductive health and rights and the climate crisis
10:20 am 27 October 2022 - Ms Phoebe Ryan, Ms Eva Hall, Ms Andrea Boudville, Ms Erin RyanConcurrent Session 3.5 Taking Back the Power: Stories of Climate Disasters, Survival and Local Resilience in Solomon Islands
10:20 am 27 October 2022 - Mr Ernest Ta'asi, Mr Ricky PanaConcurrent Session 3.6 - Decoloniality: Unlearning the drivers of planetary and community ill-health
10:20 am 27 October 2022 - Ms Joanna Pradela, Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Ms Saranel Benjamin, yin.paradies@deakin.edu.au Yin ParadiesSenator Mehreen Faruqi
11:25 am 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Dr Mehreen FaruqiAustralia Awards Papua New Guinea scholar networking
11:55 am 27 October 2022Nature Based Solutions – Securing Climate and Development Outcomes
1:00 pm 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Ariadne Gorring, Glarinda Andre, Peter Stephen, Polly Hemming, Richie MerzianConcurrent Session 4.1 - Australia’s role in fostering ambition on climate finance and loss and damage financing
2:10 pm 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Farah Kabir, (She/Her) Melissa Bungcaras, Ms Sophie Hardefeldt, George KoranConcurrent Session 4.2 - Global Problems; Local Solutions. Wins, learnings and opportunities from Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in the fight for climate justice.
2:10 pm 27 October 2022 - Ms. Kesaia Vasutoga, Rodrick Rollands, Romabeth SiriConcurrent Session 4.3 - Young and diverse Pacific women leading ambitious, innovative & climate just solutions
2:10 pm 27 October 2022 - Mx Jay Nasilasila, Ms Ramona Tugaga, Carolyn Kitione, Ms Katherine TuConcurrent Session 4.4 - Community-led water source restoration and catchment management; practical action and lessons learnt from the field in Timor-Leste.
2:10 pm 27 October 2022 - Executive Director Ego Lemos, Senior Technical Manager Lamberto Pinto, Nick BrownConcurrent Session 4.5 - How can development programs better scale-up Climate Smart Agriculture? Lessons from Asia and the Pacific
2:10 pm 27 October 2022 - Dr Federico Davila, Mr. Thano Im, Ms Ellie Wong, Mr Gibson SusumuConcurrent Session 4.6 - Blended Finance Approach in Triple-Impact Women's Economic Empowerment in West Java, Indonesia: Towards Zero Waste, Green Energy, and Inclusive Economy
2:10 pm 27 October 2022 - Ms Fifi Rashando, Mr Shane Nichols, Mrs. Fika RahimahDisplacement in the Context of Climate Change
3:30 pm 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Andrew Harper, Betty Barkha, Professor Jane McAdam AO, Zakia NazninKeynote: Dr Azzam Alwash: "Climate Change - A crisis or an opportunity for regional economic integration?"
4:40 pm 27 October 2022 - Plenary - Dr Azzam Alwash