Tuesday 16 August

	KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Chair: Sandra Harding Deputy Vice Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH1&2/Door 7
9.00am	Communities as Commonwealth Mr Tim Costello Chief Executive Officer, World Vision Australia
9.35am	Respondent Ms Jude Munro Chief Executive Officer, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia
9.40am	Engagement and the MDGs/role of Civil Society Ms Erna Witoelar United Nations Special Ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals for Asia and Pacific, Jakarta, Indonesia
10.15am	Respondent Ms Beris Gwynne Executive Director, The Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia
10.20am	Engagement & Participation: The South African Experience The Hon. Ms Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi Minister of Public Service & Administration, Government of Republic of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
10.55am	Respondent Mr George O’Farrell Public Service Commissioner, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia

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	Tuesday 11.30am - 12.40pm
S45	MAJOR PANEL – ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER POLICY Chair: Penny Tripcony Brisbane, Australia Room: GH1&2/Door 7
	The Hon. John Mickel MP Minister for Energy & Minister for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia
	Darryl Pearce South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Corporation, Perth, Australia
	Vince Mundraby Yarrabah Shire Council, Yarrabah, Australia
	Shane Williams Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, Brisbane, Australia
	Elissavet Stamatopoulou-Robbins Secretariat for the UN Permanent Forum, New York, USA

S46	MAJOR PANEL – LAWYERS REACHING OUT TO THE MARGINS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY CLAYTON UTZ Chair: John Corker Director, National Pro Bono Resource Centre, Sydney, Australia Room: GH3/Door 9
	Julian Porter Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Brisbane, Australia
	The Hon. Justice Martin P Moynihan Supreme Court of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
	Robert Reed Minter Ellison Lawyers, Brisbane, Australia
	David Hillard Clayton Utz, Sydney, Australia
	Zoe Rathus Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

S47	ENGAGING WITH CULTURALLY DIVERSE COMMUNITIES II Chair: Desley Renton Local Government Association of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH4/Door 5
11.30am	Engaging Culturally Diverse Communities by Engaging Local Government: The LAMP Model Warren McMillan Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Brisbane City East, Australia
11.50am	Social Capital and Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain Yaojun Li Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK
12.10pm	The Language of Community Engagement in a Regional and Indigenous Context Lynne De Weaver Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia

S48	ENGAGING COMMUNITIES: SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT III Chair: Paul Martyn Queensland Dept of Natural Resources & Mines, Brisbane, Australia Room: M1
11.30am	A Case Study in Effective Public Participation in the Development of Public Sector Policy: The Quinninup Water Source Protection Plan Marion Burchell Water and Rivers Commission, East Perth, Australia
11.50am	A ThinkTank for Capacity Learnings: Motivating Continued Engagement for Long-Term Natural Resource Management Annie Bolitho Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne, Australia
12.10pm	Public Values and Government Decision-Making: An Investigation of Stakeholder Perceptions of Public Participation in Natural Resource Management Planning Simon Hill Land Use Research Centre, USQ, Darling Heights, Australia

S49	ENGAGING COMMUNITIES: SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IV Chair: Alison Moore Queensland Dept of Natural Resources & Mines, Brisbane, Australia Room: M2
11.30am	Talk Until the Talking Starts – Resolving Conflict Through Dialogue Greg Claydon Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Brisbane, Australia & Leith Boully Lower Balonne Ministerial Water Resources Advisory Council, Dirranbandi, Australia & Bruce McCollum Border Rivers Food & Fibre, Goondiwindi, Australia & Tom Vanderbyl SunWater, Brisbane, Australia
11.50am	Six Reasons not to Engage: Compromise, Confrontation and the Commons James Whelan Griffith University and Coastal CRC, Nathan, Australia
12.10pm	Working Hard for the Environment: When Will Citizens Engage in Environmental Activism? Kelly Fielding The University of Queensland, Ipswich Campus, Australia

S50	ENGAGING WOMEN II Chair: Kathy Mandla Queensland Office of Women, Brisbane, Australia Room: M3
11.30am	Human Rights of Women Prisoners Debbie Kilroy Sisters Inside, Brisbane, Australia
11.50am	Women’s Partnership Project Gail Whiteford Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
12.10pm	Shaping Our Futures Together – Engaging Women in Leadership Development Sonia Muir Rural Women’s Network, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, Australia

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S51	ENGAGING VULNERABLE FAMILIES Chair: Nick Ryan Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: M4
11.30am	Families In Crisis – Implications of Change for Yolgnu living in East Arnhemland Simone O’Mealley Crisis Accommodation Gove, Nhulunbuy, Australia & Ann Barr Northern Territory Department of Family and Community Services, Darwin, Australia
11.50am	Pondering Policy and Parental Perspectives: How Parents View their Role in Shaping Early Childhood Public Policy Susan Irvine Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
12.10pm	The Strong Family Project – An Indigenous Designed, Indigenous Driven Approach to Working with Indigenous Communities Ted Dean & Eileen Cummings Dept of Chief Minister, Northern Territory Government, Darwin, Australia

S52	ENGAGED PEOPLE: LEARNING COMMUNITIES I Chair: David Brennan Institute of Public Administration Australia, Brisbane, Australia Room: M5&6
11.30am	It May Take a Village to Educate a Community Vanessa Little Hume City Council, Dallas, Australia
11.50am	Brisbane – Towards a Learning City and a City of Learning Communities Sue Campin Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia
12.10pm	Realising Sustainable Communities Through Robust Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Penelope Coombes The People For Places and Spaces, Sydney, Australia

S53	STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES Chair: Geoff Lawrence The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: P1
11.30am	Local Heroes? Learning from Recent Community Strengthening Initiatives in Victoria John Wiseman Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
11.50am	Fundraising Success is not Accidental – It’s about Engaging Communities David Zerman & Sarah Barzel Possibility Australia, Elsternwick, Australia
12.10pm	Pohangina Valley Landscape and Community Development Terry Parminter AgResearch Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand

S54	ENGAGED GOVERNANCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT III Chair: Gavin Paine Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia Room: P2
11.30am	Engaging Communities of Practice for Sustainability: The Case of Sutherland Council, NSW Gary Smith University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
11.50am	Promoting Communities Participation in Local Governance in Central and South Eastern Europe Claudia Pamfil & Serban Daniel Local Development Group, Bucharest, Romania
12.10pm	Enhancing the Capacity of Grassroots Groups to Engage: Practical Initiatives from a Community/Local Government Partnership Mark Creyton Volunteering Queensland, Brisbane, Australia & Maureen See & Patrick Bourke Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia

S55	ENGAGING PRACTICE: BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES Chair: Chris Clarke Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia Room: P3
11.30am	Addressing the ‘Wicked’ Problems Beyond the Silos: Examining the Relationship Between Joined up Integration and Community Localism Zara Lasater University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
11.50am	Building Partnerships to Promote Economic and Social Well-Being and Learning Bruce Wilson RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia & Michael Osbourne & Kate Sankey University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
12.10pm	The Engaged Government Project Malcolm Hellmuth Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Rockhampton, Australia & Tanya Liebrecht Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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S56	ENGAGING SYSTEMS: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Chair: TBC Room: P4
11.30am	National Capacity, Local Expertise – Building the Job Futures Network Sheridan Dudley Job Futures, Sydney, Australia
11.50am	The Role of Social Enterprise and the Social Entrepreneur in Innovative and Effective Community Building, Especially for Disadvantaged Communities Cheryl Kernot Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford, London, UK
12.10pm	Smart City: Social Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement in a Rural Regional City Leo Bartlett Australasian Institute for Social Entrepreneurship, Brisbane, Australia

S57	ENGAGED INSITUTIONS: UNIVERSITIES I Chair: Michael Cuthill The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: P5
11.30am	AUCEA: An Emerging Collaborative and Strategic Approach Dedicated to University-Community Engagement in Australia Jan Temple Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA), Sydney, Australia & Alice Story Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia & Wayne Delaforce Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
11.50am	Beyond@ivory.tower – From Traditional University to Engaged University Lucius Botes University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
12.10pm	The Northern Corridor Education Precinct: A Space of Engagement for Mutual Benefit Wayne Delaforce Queensland University of Technology, Carseldine, Australia

S58	COMMUNITIES & ICT Chair: Patrick Bishop Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Room: PTR
11.30am	The Emerging Role of Civil Society in the Global Information Society – Australian Engagement in the WSIS Process Wallace Taylor Cape Peninsula University of Technolgy, Cape Town, South Africa & Don Schauder Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
11.50am	Communities Online: Next Generation Online Community Technologies and How They Can be Used to: Build Social Capital, Restore Natural Capital and Enable Sustainable Development Rolf Von Behrens Australian National Sustainability Initiative, Canberra, Australia
12.10pm	Community ICT Transformation: Next Steps Peter Huta & Danielle Farrow Commonwealth Department of Communications, IT and the Arts, Canberra, Australia

TW4	ENGAGING PRACTICE: TOOLS WORKSHOP IV Room: F1
11.30am– 12.30pm	Monitoring and Evaluating Community Projects – using Soft Systems Methodology to Define Requirements David Swete Kelly RDSM Consulting, Philippines & Paul Crawford Aid-It Solutions, Morriset, Australia

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UNW2 (cont)	INTERREGIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE ON POVERTY ENVIRONMENT NEXUS INITIATIVE IN CENTRAL ASIAN & SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGIONS Room: MB1
	Closed Session – Country Experiences – Progress Review and Strategy Set-up in Central Asia and Southeast Asia

UNW1 (cont)	DECENTRAL-IZATION: POVERTY REDUCTION, EMPOWERMENT & PARTICIPATION Chair: Ropate Qalo Head, School of Social and Economic Development, University of the South Pacific, Fiji Room: RH-B1
	Local Governance, Community Development and Conflict Management

UNW5	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN PUBLIC FINANCE AT THE SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS Chair: Jacinto de Vera Chief Policy Analysis & Coordination Unit, UN Division for Public Administration & Development Management, New York, USA Room: RH-B2
	Participatory Planning and Budgeting at the Sub-national Governments

UNW3	PLATFORM FOR E-PARTICIPATION Chair: Guido Bertucci Director, Division for Public Administration & Development Management, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, USA Room: RH-B3
	E-Participation in the World

	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Chair: Terry Hogan Divisional Manager, City Policy & Strategy, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH1&2/Door 7
1.40pm	Participatory Processes in Brazil Mr Olivio Dutra Former Minister of Cities, Brasilia, Brazil
2.15pm	Respondent Mr Adil Khan Chief, Socio-Economic Governance & Management Branch, Division of Public Administration & Development Management, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, USA

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	Tuesday 2.20pm - 3.30pm
S59	MAJOR PANEL- ENGAGING PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION Chair: Erna Witoelar UN Special Ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals for Asia and Pacific, Jakarta, Indonesia Room: GH1&2/Door 7
	Pera Wells World Federation of United Nations Associations, New York, USA
	Rehman Sobhan Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka, Bangladesh
	Jack de Groot Caritas Australia, Sydney, Australia

S60	MAJOR PANEL – HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OUTCOMES PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY BHP BILLITON – CANNINGTON MINE Chair: Minister for Natural Resources & Mines, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH3/Door 9
	Don Henry Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
	Ian Keirnan Clean up Australia, Glebe, Australia
	Speaker to be confirmed

S61	MAJOR PANEL – THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LINKING THE COMMUNITY TO OTHER SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL Chair: Greg Hoffman Director of Policy & Research, Local Government Association of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH4/Door 5
	Greg Hallam Local Government Association of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
	Paul Bell Australian Local Government Association, Sydney, Australia
	Jude Munro Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia
	Georgina Beyer MP Member for Wairarapa, Wellington, New Zealand
	Alex Brillantes National College of Public Administration & Governance, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
	Nathanon Thavisin Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand

S62	ENGAGING PLACES: NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL Chair: Cathy Taylor Queensland Dept of Communites, Brisbane, Australia Room: M1
2.20pm	Neighbourhood Renewal in Victoria: Transforming Places, Empowering People Harald Klein Victorian Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Australia
2.40pm	Hidden Treasure: Unearthing Aspirations and Mobilising Skills in a Neighbourhood Renewal Context Helen Thompson & Steve McEachern University of Ballarat, Mt Helen, Australia
3.00pm	Engaging Communities in Community Renewal: Challenges, Success Factors and Critical Questions Julie-Ann McCullough Queensland Department of Housing, Brisbane, Australia

S63	ENGAGED PEOPLE: LEARNING COMMUNITIES II Chair: Cathy Lilley Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: M2
2.20pm	Maroochy 2025 Community Visioning and the Learning Inspired Village Leadership Network: A Partnered Action-Learning Project to Accredit Village Leaders Steve Gould Maroochy 2025, Maroochydore, Australia
2.40pm	Encouraging, Educating and Engaging Individuals Across Communities: The Smith Family’s Strategy and Programs Rob Simons The Smith Family, Sydney, Australia
3.00pm	City and State: A Partnership for Building Community Capacity in ICTs and Promoting Lifelong Learning Bruce McDonald Education Queensland, Brisbane, Australia & Sue Campin Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia

S64	PANEL: BUILDING COMMUNITIES THROUGH ENGAGEMENT (WATER) Chair: Vicki Uhlmann International River Foundation, Brisbane, Australia Room: M3
2.20pm	Sutardi Sutardi Indonesia Water Partnership, Jakarta, Indonesia
2.50pm	Tauraki Raea International Waters Program, Apia, Cook Islands
3.10pm	Diane Tarte Moreton Bay Waterways and Catchments Partnership, Brisbane, Australia

S65	ENGAGING PEOPLE: BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL II Chair: Wil Brown Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: M4
2.20pm	Social Capital in Post-Conflict Communities Aileen Toohey The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2.40pm	Trust, Reciprocity and Institutional Design: Lessons from Behavioural Economics Vittorio Pelligra University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
3.00pm	Strengthening Decentralized Governance for Human Security Devyani Mani United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan

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S66	ENGAGING OLDER PEOPLE Chair: Nusch Herman Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: M5&6
2.20pm	Timehelp Program – Turning Spare Time into Community Resources Lisa Kingman Kingman Consulting Pty Ltd, Drumcondra, Australia
2.40pm	Building Community in a Master Planned Community: The Experience of Older Residents Peter Walters University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
3.00pm	From Being in their own Shadow, to Finding their Place in the Sun: First World Mature-Aged Unemployed Men Adrian Glamorgan Challenger TAFE, Beaconsfield, Australia

S67	ENGAGING COMMUNITIES THROUGH ICT III Chair: Valentina Lozano Brisbane, Australia Room: P1
2.20pm	Animating Communities and Bringing Learning to Life – The Multi-award Winning MARVIN System, DHCS & the MARVIN Consortium J Easterby-Wood & Jaysin Jones Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services, Casuarina, Australia
2.40pm	A Technological Framework to Support Digital Repatriation Programs Jane Hunter Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Brisbane, Australia
3.00pm	Technology and the Resurgence of the Australian Peace Movement Damian Trewhella International Conflict Resolution Centre, Melbourne, Australia

S68	ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE I Chair: Tony Dreise Queensland Dept of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia Room: P2
2.20pm	Creating Opportunities for Positive Engagement: Aboriginal People, Government and Resource Development in Australia Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
2.40pm	“you me – working together” – The Lockhart River Story (Government Champion’s Perspective) Jim Varghese Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia
3.00pm	Partners in Business: The Outback Spirit Supply Chain Model Lisa Robins Robins Environmental Consulting, Canberra, Australia

S69	ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE II Chair: Colin Dillon Queensland Dept of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia Room: P3
2.20pm	Engaging with Indigenous Communities in Natural Resource Management: Advice for Agencies Helen Ross University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia
2.40pm	CSIRO/ANU Indigenous Engagement Project Mick Dodson National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia & Steve Morton CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia
3.00pm	‘Having a Yarn’: Engaging Indigenous Communities in Natural Resource Management Melissa Nursey-Bray CRC Reef Research, Railway Estate, Australia

S70	ENGAGED GOVERNANCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT IV Chair: Lindy Drew Local Government Association of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: P4
2.20pm	Community Mentoring – Building Community Capacity Louise McGowan Launceston City Council/Department of Education, Launceston, Australia
2.40pm	‘Listening Sessions’: A Consultation Technique that Embraces Conflict to Address Issues of Social Justice and Assist Individuals to Re-Engage in the Life of their Community Aaron Fuller Carpentaria Shire Council, Normanton, Australia
3.00pm	The Shine Project Sandie Pitter Noosa Shire Council, Noosa, Australia

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S71	ENGAGED PLACES: REGIONAL COMMUNITIES Chair: Jenny Clark Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: P5
2.20pm	Regional Competitiveness, Enterprising Human Capital and Community Engagement Steve Garlick University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia
2.40pm	Engaging Rural and Remote Communities: A Practice Framework Jenny Moffatt University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
3.00pm	Building Capacity to Engage Local Communities in Comprehensive Planning: A Case Studies Approach Rebecca Roberts Center for Land Use Education, Stevens Point, USA

S72	ENGAGED GOVERNANCE: PRIVATE SECTOR AND MARKETS II Chair: Naida Tattersall Library Services & Cultural Development Branch, Gold Coast City Council, Bundall, Australia Room: PTR
2.20pm	Australian Gas Light Company Citizenship Case Study: Improving the Lives of those Touched by our Business Trevor Goddard Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
2.40pm	Engaging Communities in Public Private Partnerships in the Delivery of Basic Services to the Poor: Comparative Study of Inter-country Models and Outcomes Amitava Mukherjee United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
3.00pm	Community Partnering for Natural Resource Management Ken Keith University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia

S73	ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE II Chair: Anita Hicks Public Trust Office, Brisbane, Australia Room: F1
2.20pm	Young People in Decision Making Matthew Eckford The Foundation for Young Australians, Melbourne, Australia
2.40pm	Engagement to Develop Programs vs. Programs to Develop Engagement: Community Development with Young People Adam Strelein City of Swan, Midland, Australia
3.00pm	Community Engagement is Nothing Without Young People Emma De Tassanyi Alexandra Hills, Australia

UNW5	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN PUBLIC FINANCE AT THE SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS Chair: Jacinto de Vera Chief Policy Analysis & Coordination Unit, UN Division for Public Administration & Development Management, New York, USA Room: RH-B2
	Participatory Planning and Budgeting at the Sub-national Governments

UNW3 (cont)	PLATFORM FOR E-PARTICIPATION Chair: Guido Bertucci Director, Division for Public Administration & Development Management, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, USA Room: RH-B3
	E-Platform for Citizens’ Engagement: Rules

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	Tuesday 4pm - 5.30pm
S74	MAJOR PANEL – ENGAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND ITS IMPACT IN THE ASIA PACIFIC PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY NATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Chair: Sarah Lendon Program Coordinator, UNICEF Australia Room: GH1&2/Door 7
	Wing-Sie Cheng UNICEF Regional HIV/AIDS Advisor for Asia Pacific
	Julienne McKay HIV/AIDS Consultant, Australia
	Mike Kennedy Victorian Aids Council, Melbourne, Australia
	Cheryl Kelly ACIL, Papua New Guinea

S75	MAJOR PANEL – ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROUDLY SPONSORED BY PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF Chair: Malcolm Hellmuth Regional Executive Director (Central Queensland), Department of Main Roads, Rockhampton, Australia Room: GH3/Door 9
	The Hon. Paul Lucas MP Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia
	Paul McDonald Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Brisbane, Australia
	Janette Hartz-Karp Office of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Maylands, Australia
	Brian Stewart Urban Develoment Institute of Australia, Brisbane, Australia
	Michael Kerry Office of Urban Management
	Lyn Carson University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
	Roger Pattison Parsons Brinckerhoff, Brisbane, Australia

S76	ENGAGING PEOPLE: BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES V Chair: Louise Kummerow Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH4/Door 5
4.00pm	Enhancing Community Participation for Consumers of a Mental Health Service through Partnerships Peter Mowat Princess Alexandra Hospital Health Service District, Brisbane, Australia
4.20pm	Opening Doors in Mental Health Vrinda Edan Eastern Health, Ringwood East, Australia
4.40pm	Reciprocity in Education: A Model of Interactive Learning Between Migrant Communities and Mainstream Mental Health Services Nicholas Procter University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
5.00pm	From Desert to Oasis: Community Engagement and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Michele Kosky Health Consumers Council (WA) Inc., Perth, Australia

S77	ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE III Chair: Sharon Parkes Queensland Dept of Education & The Arts, Brisbane, Australia Room: M1
4.00pm	Which Literacy Practices and Pedagogies Engage and Empower at Risk Adolescent Students? An Ethnographic Case Study of Alternative Education Sites in Australia and a Comparison Site in the USA Cheryl Livock Queensland University of Technology, Maroochydore, Australia
4.20pm	Critical Success Factors for Improving Communities through Youth Engagement Gwen Willems University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
4.40pm	Talking Sexuality Within Community Where SEX is TABOO: A Rural Experience In North India Jayant Kumar MAMTA-Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi, India
5.00pm	Bridging from University to Community – An Evaluation of the Effect of Student Outreach Work in Communities in Australia, New Zealand, China and the United States John Thornton SIFE Australia, Adelaide, Australia

S78	ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE III Chair: Ainslie Waldron Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia Room: M2
4.00pm	Engaging Aboriginal People and Torres Strait Islanders Paul Elliott Department of Emergency Services, Cairns, Australia
4.20pm	Must be the Grog can’t be the Government: Relationships Between Government and Indigenous people in Australia John Tomlinson Queensland University of Technology, Carseldine, Australia
4.40pm	Institutionalising a Participatory Cross-Culture for Indigenous Sustainability: A Study of Housing in Western Australia Dora Marinova Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia
5.00pm	The South East Queensland Traditional Owner Consultative Committee: A Case Study for Effective and Sustainable Aboriginal Community Engagement Frameworks Madonna William Jagera Association Inc. & S.E.Q.T.O.C.C., Brisbane, Australia

S79	ENGAGING PRACTICE: COMMUNITY/BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS Chair: Paula Thomson Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: M3
4.00pm	Achieving Effective Inter Sector Alliances Wayne Willis Venture Group Ltd, Sydney, Australia
4.20pm	Community Business Engagement – Perspectives on Collaborative Approaches Louise Lee Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
4.40pm	Engaging with Communities Around the World: Values, Sustainability and the Arup Group Adam Beck ArupSustainability, Brisbane, Australia
5.00pm	Improving Australian Literacy Levels though Corporate Community Engagement Peter Slator Unilever Australasia, Epping, Australia

S80	ENGAGING SYSTEMS: MULTI-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS Chair: Beris Gwynne Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia Room: M4
4.00pm	Multi-Sector Partnerships for Inclusive Development: Examples from the Information Technology and Extractive Industries Sectors in Asia and the Pacific Paul Greener Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia
4.20pm	What is this Thing Called Community?: A Communication Perspective Bernard McKenna University of Queensland Business School, Ipswich, Australia
4.40pm	Engaging on the Ground: Site-level Community Engagement Practices in the Australian Minerals Industry David Brereton & Ruth Beach CSRM, University of Queensland, Australia
5.00pm	Rendezvous, Rhetoric and Reality: Industry – Government Engagement in Queensland’s Western Cape Communities Michele Ivanitz-Fulcher Queensland Department of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia & Alexis Fernandez Comalco Aluminium Limited, Brisbane, Australia

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S81	ENGAGING COMMUNITIES: SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT V Chair: Maria O’Leary Queensland Dept of Natural Resources & Mines, Brisbane, Australia Room: M5&6
4.00pm	Developing Multisectoral Capacity – Water as a Health Issue in Regional Australia Victoria Kearney Macquarie University, Greenacre, Australia
4.20pm	Queensland Rural Water Use Efficiency Initiative (RWUEI) and Its Demonstrated Role In Community Engagement with the Irrigation Industry John Okello-Okanya Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Brisbane, Australia
4.40pm	Talking Water Reform Anne Stuart Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Brisbane, Australia
5.00pm	Poverty Alleviation – a Push towards Unsustainability in Bangladesh? Amzad Hossain Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

S82	TOOLKIT FOR ENGAGING PRACTICE II Chair: Chris Smith Disability Services Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: P1
4.00pm	The Grameen Bank Approach to Community Engagement Sandy Paton Institute for Sustainable Development, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
4.20pm	Building Trust, Leadership, and Power for Action in Rural Communities Janet Ayres Dept. of Ag. Economics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, USA
4.40pm	The I Forum, A New Approach to Community Engagement Carla Rogers Evolve Facilitation and Coaching, Australia
5.00pm	80s, 90s and Now...Sustainable Core Values in Community Engagement from Blantyre to Brisbane Pamela Greet Queensland Ambulance Service, Brisbane, Australia

S83	ENGAGING PEOPLE: BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES VI Chair: Richard Hoolihan TTIPCEED AC, Townsville, Australia Room: P2
4.00pm	A Canadian Partnership of Patient/Citizen Groups and Government: Engagement in National Health Initiatives and Policy Discussions Katharina Kovacs Burns University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
4.20pm	Healing The Breach: Can a Government Health Board Re-Build Community Trust? Peter Glensor Hutt Valley District Health Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
4.40pm	The Distance from Marginalization to Rank and Privilege Katie Thomas Centre for International Health, Perth, Australia
5.00pm	Community Engagement – A Complete Package: Needs Assessment, Data Dissemination, and Beyond Maghboeba Mosavel Center for Reducing Health Disparities, MetroHealth Medical Center and Case West, Cleveland, USA

S84	ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS: POST CONFLICT CIRCUMSTANCES Chair: Kevin Clements The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: P3
4.00pm	Community Building in Post-Conflict Situations: A Comparative Analysis of the Work of Humanitarian Agencies in Cambodia and Vietnam Javier Barrera Australian Red Cross, Brisbane, Australia
4.20pm	Community Engagement in Post Conflict Situation: The Case of Solomon Islands Toswell Kaua & Rence Sore Solomon Islands Government, Solomon Islands
4.40pm	Community Building through Peace Education: Sierra Leone Jane Weston Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, Australia & Miriam Murray Plan Sierra Leone
5.00pm	Successful Community Support Activities – Lessons from Post-Conflict Melanesia Marjorie Sullivan & David Hegarty Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

S85	ENGAGED GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE III Chair: Vanessa Hughes Brisbane, Australia Room: P4
4.00pm	Looking Behind the Rhetoric – Addressing the Benefits, Costs & Risks of a Whole-of-Government Approach to Community Engagement with Rigorous Design & Review Tim Farland NSW Premier’s Department, Sydney, Australia
4.20pm	Active Learning for Active Citizenship – Lessons from Britain? Val Woodward Social Research and Regeneration Unit, Plymouth, United Kingdom
4.40pm	Engaging with Queensland Communities Majella Ryan Queensland Department of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
5.00pm	Making Meaning Together – New Approaches to Governance and Community in Modern Democracies Lisa Pollard Murdoch University, Melbourne, Australia

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S86	ENGAGING PEOPLE: BUILDING SAFER COMMUNITIES Chair: Paul Friedman Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: P5
4.00pm	Operation Weed and Seed: A Vision for Safe and Thriving Communities Nelson Hernandez U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, USA
4.20pm	Community Policing – Working Together to Prevent Crime Jessica Anderson Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, Australia
4.40pm	Engaging Community and Encouraging Participation for a Safer Community – Shellharbour City Council’s Safer Communities Campaign Linda Campbell & Nicky Sloan Shellharbour City Council, New South Wales, Australia
5.00pm	Engaging the Community in Ambulance Service Delivery Tracy Brown Queensland Ambulance Service, Brisbane, Australia & Desley Cunnington Queensland Local Ambulance Committee Advisory Council, Brisbane, Australia

S87	ENGAGED INSTITUTIONS: UNIVERSITIES II Chair: Rick Williams Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: PTR
4.00pm	Engaging Communities – Emerging University Government Business and Community Partnerships in South Africa Wallace Taylor, Geoff Erwin & Andy Bytheway Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
4.20pm	Engaging the Productive Aging: Enhancing Community & University Viability Through an Enterprising Aging Population Peter Waterman University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia
4.40pm	Engaging Communities through Lifelong Learning Bernard Ingle TAFENSW – New England Institute, Tamworth, Australia
5.00pm	Reconciling International Aspirations with Regional Responsibilities: The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) as a Case Study for a Regional Transnational University William Lovegrove University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

S88	ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE IV Chair: Deb Nelson Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia Room: F1
4.00pm	The Art of Making Places – Engaging Young People in Determining the Future of their Neighbourhoods Carmen Stewart FutureScapes Consultancy Services, Hastings Point, Australia
4.20pm	Creating a Sustainable Future: Youth and the Millennium Development Goals Kate Morioka Youth for a Sustainable Future (YSF) Pacifika, Maroochydore, Australia & Seletuta Visesio Women in Business, Samoa

S89	STORYTELLING SESSION III Chair: Narelle Heckendorf Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: PF
4.00pm	Who Changed Tara? A Case Study of Community Participation and Engagement Andrew Darbyshire Queensland Department of Communities, Toowoomba, Australia & Margaret Cruickshank Queensland Department of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
4.20pm	Lifelong Learning: stories from Leichhardt and Caboolture, Queensland Andree Stark Community Renewal, Queensland Department of Housing, Brisbane, Australia & Ros Resich Immaculate Heart Primary School, Brisbane, Australia & Marylou Goodall Deception Bay Lifelong Learning Project, Deception Bay, Australia
4.40pm	Sharing Learnings from the Engaged and Learnings from the Engaged – A Case Study Paul Harris Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Nambour, Australia & Owen Thompson Landholder, Gundiah, Australia

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UNW2 (cont)	INTERREGIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE ON POVERTY ENVIRONMENT NEXUS INITIATIVE IN CENTRAL ASIAN & SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGIONS Room: MB1
	Closed Session – Roundtable Discussions for Future & Summary

UNW1 (cont)	DECENTRAL-IZATION: POVERTY REDUCTION, EMPOWERMENT & PARTICIPATION Chair: Josefa S. Edralin International Consultant, Philippines Room: RH-B1
	Local Governance and Social Capital

UNW5 (cont)	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN PUBLIC FINANCE AT THE SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS Chair: Jacinto de Vera Chief Policy Analysis & Coordination Unit, UN Division for Public Administration & Development Management, New York, USA Room: RH-B2
	Participatory Planning and Budgeting at the Sub-national Governments

UNW3 (cont)	PLATFORM FOR E-PARTICIPATION Chair: Sandra Lynn Manager, Community Information, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia Room: Rh-B3
	E-Platform for Citizens’ Engagement: Tools

UNW6	PARTNERSHIPS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION (CSO) CAPACITY BUILDING FOR ACHIEVING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Chair: Jacinto de Vera Chief, Policy Analysis & Coordination Unit, Division for Public Administration & Development Management, UNDESA, New York, USA Room: QM-TH
	Partnerships, Civil Society Organization (CSO) Governance and Achieving the MDGs

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