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Monday 15 August

S19 ENGAGING PEOPLE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Chair: Cathy Boorman Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia Room: M2 2.10pm Building Sustainable Farmer Cooperatives in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Is Social Capital the Key? Marlo Rankin The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia 2.30pm New Ways of Engaging with Regional and Rural Communities: Strengths Based and Inclusive Anne Hampshire Mission Australia, Sydney, Australia 2.50pm Pro-Poor Participative Practices in Pakistan: An Analysis of Typology of Community Participation in Social Action Program (1992-2002) Mazhar Siraj Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP), Islamabad, Pakistan

S21 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPMENT Chair: Michael Cuthill The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Room: M4 2.10pm The Urban Poor, the Informal City and Environmental Health Policy in Nigeria Geoffrey Nwaka Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria 2.30pm Engaging Communities in National Development: The Experience of Nepal Khim Kabi Sharma Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Mandikhatar, Nepal 2.50pm Building Farmers Owned Company and Linking it to International Fashion Houses Under Fair Trade Arrangements Arun Chandra Ambatipude ETC International Group, India

S41 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Chair: Jim Cavaye Cavaye Community Development, Toowoomba, Australia Room: P4 4.30pm Engaging Communities for Local Economic Development: Lessons from the Philippines Amanda Cahill Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 4.50pm Tao Yuan Ju – A Wonderful Engaging Community in China Li Aijun Shenzhen Airtown/Megaharvest International, China 5.10pm Nurturing Community Capacity to Manage Local Conflict: Lessons from Indonesia Michael Woolcock The World Bank & Harvard University, Washington, USA

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Tuesday 16 August

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

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

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

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

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Wednesday 17 August

S93 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS Chair: Phil Clarke Queensland Dept of Emergency Services, Brisbane, Australia Room: GH4/Door 5 11.00am Disaster Management and Community Engagement Pauline Peel Pauline Peel Consulting, Fairfield, Australia 11.20am The Role of Community Knowledge in Disaster Management: The Bam Earthquake Lesson in Iran Nasser Bamdad Institute of Management and Planning Studies, Tehran, Iran 11.40am Companies as Peacebuilders: Engaging Communities through Conflict Resolution Natalie Ralph International Conflict Resolution Centre, Melbourne, Australia 12.00pm Rehabilitating Communities, Rebuilding Aceh: IOM’s Humanitarian and Recovery Program for the December 26 Tsunami and Earthquake Anita Sharma International Organization for Migration, Jakarta, Indonesia

S109 PANEL: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS: POST TSUNAMI Chair: tbc Room: GH4/Door 5 1.30pm Bottom-up Accountability and the Tsunami Response Chris Roche Oxfam, Melbourne, Australia 1.40pm Engaging Communities: Post-Tsunami – The Case of Sri Lanka D Wijesinghe Cabinet Office, Sri Lankan Government, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1.50pm Rapid Assessment of Primary Schools in Aceh Sarah Lendon UNICEF Australia 2.00pm After the Tsunami: Restoring Community Livelihoods Nani Zulminarni PPSW, Indonesia 2.10pm Rebuilding Communities-East Timor Case Study Naomi Steer Australia for UNHCR, Sydney, Australia 2.20pm Discussion

S121 ENGAGING MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES: AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP ON EMPOWERMENT, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE WORLD BANK Room: F1   Michael Woolcock The World Bank & Harvard University, Washington, USA   Deepa Narayan The World Bank, Washington, USA   Robert Chase The World Bank, Washington, USA

S122 PANEL – BUILDING COMMUNITIES: MICROFINANCE Chair: Stuart Mathison The Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia Room: RH-B1   Lucy Kinivuwai National Center for Small & Micro-Enterprise Development, Suva, Fiji   Barclay O’Brien Opportunity International, Sydney, Australia   Rommel Caringal World Vision, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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