Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014 6
Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014 6 Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014 Start Finish Session Speaker 09:00 09:10 Plenary Welcome to Country Aunty Di Kerr – Wurundjeri Elder 09:10 09:25 Plenary Framing the Conference Mr Robert Tickner – CEO, Australian Red Cross 09:25 09:45 Plenary Official Opening Mr Michael Legge – President, Australian Red Cross Observance of a moment’s silence and reflection for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement people who have lost their lives since our last national conference. The Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), to officially open the Centenary Summit by video. 09:45 10:00 Plenary Reading of the Fundamental Principles, & musical performance Mr Greg Vickery – Chair of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement Henry Dunant lecture Mr Elhadj As Sy – Secretary General, IFRC My vision for our Federation Introduction of the Fundamental Principles, supported by diverse Red Cross people, followed by a music performance. 10:00 10:30 Plenary 10:30 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 11:45 Plenary Keynote Address Ms Lucy Manne – Co-Director, Australian Youth Climate Coalition The trends and challenges in youth activism and climate action today and into the future 11:45 12:30 Plenary Keynote Address Ms Dawn O’Neil AM – Managing Director, Dawn O’Neil & Associates Collective Impact into the future 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 15:00 Workshops Session 1 Place-based approaches and Collective Impact What are these concepts? This Workshop will detail the progress of Australian Red Cross in implementing place-based approaches in a number of communities across Australia. This work is focusing on engagement within defined communities to tackle complex issues of deep intergenerational disadvantage. The emerging and related concept of Collective Impact will also be explored as a framework for collaboratively working in a targeted way towards a common goal. Australian Red Cross is undertaking some early thinking and work on this concept in several locations, including Logan (QLD) and Bridgewater/Gagebrook (TAS). Ballroom 1 Facilitator: Ms Sue Vardon – Board Member, Australian Red Cross. Panel: 1. Mr Matthew Cox – Group Manager QLD, Australian Red Cross 2. Dr Kat Faludi-Ball – Manager, Youth and Family Programs TAS, Australian Red Cross 3. Ms Dawn O’Neil AM – Managing Director, Dawn O’Neil & Associates 7 Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014 Start Finish Session 13:30 15:00 Workshops Session 1 Speaker Voluntary Service Is there room for volunteer leaders? Ballroom 3 We all agree that communities need leaders and leadership. What are the responsibilities of Not For Profit organisations to build leadership capabilities for the organisation and for the broader community? In implementing a renewed strategic vision for voluntary service, Australian Red Cross is seeking to empower volunteers to take key leadership roles. Who are our volunteer leaders and what is their community role? What pathways are there to build volunteer leaders? What are the cultural, systemic and structural challenges organisations face when engaging volunteers as leaders? Facilitator: Ms Patricia Pearson – Member of the National Voluntary Service Strategic Reference Group, Australian Red Cross Panel: 1. Ms Christine Kotur – Leader in Residence, Strategist, Facilitator, Leadership Victoria 2. Mr Chris Kwong – National Youth Advisory Board, Australian Red Cross 3. Mr Chris Steinfort – Director, Human Resources, Australian Red Cross 4. Mr Brett Williamson OAM – CEO, Volunteering Australia 13:30 15:00 Workshops Session 1 Supporter Engagement Our Supporters in 2020: Are we ready for them? Ballroom 2 Red Cross supporters include financial donors, blood donors, sponsors, members, retail customers, first aid students, campaign and social media advocates, young humanitarians, volunteers, businesses and providers of pro-bono services. They are our life-blood, our movement, and our soul. Every day, in every state and territory, we rely on thousands of humble and generous Australians to support our goals and objectives. Towards 2020, research is suggesting that supporters are likely to require a different kind of relationship; demanding a different kind of social contract with Red Cross. While we might continue to make huge investments acquiring new supporters, if we can’t meaningfully engage their interest and retain their support, we’ll lose their goodwill. In this Workshop, we’ll consider the demographic, technological, social and cultural challenges most likely to shape Australian society by 2020. We’ll explore how other organisations are transforming in response to these challenges and creating new forms of mutual value with their supporters and customers and consider the implications for Australian Red Cross. This Workshop will set the scene and then invite three presenters to explore the topic through three different themes. Facilitator: Mr Ross Pinney – Deputy President, Australian Red Cross Panel: 1. Mr Ali Faraj – Community Engagement Manager, Greater Western Sydney Football Club 2. Ms Ajanta Malhotra – Supporter Research Consultant, Australian Red Cross. 3. Mr Ash Rosshandler – CEO, Goodcompany & Karma Currency Foundation 8 Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014 Start Finish Session 13:30 15:00 Workshops Session 1 Speaker International Program Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Huntingfield Room The Workshop will focus on highlighting Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) as a significant health issue as we approach the post 2015 Millennium Development Goals period. It will present learning from the Australian Red Cross program, in terms of community driven approach and successful behaviour change strategies employed in Pacific Island countries, and outline some possible linkages with Australian domestic NCD agencies. The Workshop will also include a particular focus on the organisational development challenges faced by Pacific Island National Societies. Facilitator: Ms Margaret Piper – Board Member, Australian Red Cross Panel: 1. Professor Rob Moodie AM – Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne 2. Mr Filipe Nainoca – Secretary General, Fiji Red Cross 3. Mr Peter Walton – Head of International Program, Australian Red Cross 13:30 15:00 Workshops Session 1 Impact of Migration Detention monitoring Stradbroke Room Despite a number of facility closures in recent months, there are currently (as of 30 September) a total of 5,514 people in Australian and Australian-funded offshore immigration detention facilities, including 789 children. The average length of detention in Australia on the increase, currently at 413 days, and 57% of people are held in remote centres on Christmas Island, in Nauru, and Manus Island, PNG. Australian Red Cross has recently partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to ensure that the Movement’s broad expertise in monitoring detention is best harnessed for the benefit of people held in PNG and Nauru. As the only organisation regularly monitoring conditions and the humanitarian impact of detention across Australian and offshore facilities, our protection role becomes all the more relevant and necessary in the current changeable and challenging environment. As part of this partnership, Australian Red Cross has also negotiated to offer RFL and Tracing services to the detained populations in Nauru. In the absence of a Red Cross National Society, addressing these needs and defining the scope of our role is complex, and as Red Cross funded, independent programs, there are many questions to ask in the current context. How do we effect change in the current environment? How do we adapt to rapid policy change and its resultant impacts on the overall protection environment? How can partnerships with ICRC and other Movement actors result in a stronger response? Speakers will address these issues as well as discuss how Movement policies such as those on Migration and Humanitarian Diplomacy are essential to understanding our role to advocate, persuade and engage a range of authorities and actors in the pursuit of humanitarian action on issues of concern. Facilitator: Mr John MacLennan – Chair of the Migration Programs Advisory Committee, Australian Red Cross Panel: 1. Ms Megan Goodwin – National Program Coordinator, Tracing, Australian Red Cross 2. Mr Fred Grimm – Head of ICRC Regional Delegation for the Pacific 3. Ms Andreea Lachsz – Humanitarian Observer, Australian Red Cross 4. Ms Vicki Mau – Program Coordinator Immigration Detention, Australian Red Cross 9 Day 1: Friday, 21 November 2014 Start Finish Session 13:30 15:00 Workshops Session 1 Speaker IHL Women and War Delacombe Room Women have had special consideration in international humanitarian law since the first Geneva Convention. However, despite significant specific and improved protections for women in the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, as well as in Additional Protocol I, it was not until 1998, when the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was agreed, that rape was recognised as a war crime. This significant advance in the law, combined with an increased awareness of the affect of armed conflict on the lives of women more generally, led to a series of developments concerning women and war over the last 15 years. This session will explore the emergence of women at the centre of conflict studies in the last 15 years through law and through the Women Peace and Security agenda initiated by UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The session will give us insight as to the experience of women in war, the complexities, and provide a view to future action. Facilitator: Mr Geoff Skillen – Chair, Australian Red Cross National IHL Committee Panel: 1. Mr Yves Daccord – Director General, ICRC 2. Dr Alan Ryan – Executive Director, Australian Civil-Miltary Centre 3. Dr Nouria Salehi – Founder, Afghan Australian Development Organisation 15:00 15:30 Afternoon Tea 15:30 17:00 Plenary Panel Discussion: Youth Engagement: A Movement, Not a Moment: How do we maintain our engagement with young people? 19:00 23:00 In November 2013, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies adopted a strategic global framework providing the foundation upon which the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement could engage with young people, the IFRC Youth Engagement Strategy. The Strategy recognises the importance of harnessing the capacity of young people as leaders, volunteers and beneficiaries. This session will bring together thought provoking leaders to provide commentary on what Red Cross needs to do to bring youth engagement to life in Red Cross in Australia and maintain it. Facilitator: Ms Julie McCrossin – Respected broadcaster, journalist and former host of Life Matters (ABC Radio National) Panel: 1. Ms Georgie Ferrari – CEO, Victorian Youth Affairs Council 2. Mr Daniel Hamilton – Internal Review Officer, UN Youth 3. Ms Amanda McKenzie – CEO, Climate Council 4. Mr Benson Saulo – National Indigenous Youth Leadership Academy 5. Mr Chris Wallace – Incoming CEO, Oaktree Dinner Guest speaker – Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis Grand Ballroom, Hilton on the Park Former Iraqi refugee and world leading osseointegration specialist 10
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