URAP2018 conference program, Wednesday November 7

Track 1 Track 2 Track 3

8.45-9.15 Registration and coffee

9.30- Welcome and opening remarks

10.30 Plenary. Jemilah Mahmood, Under-Secretary General, IFRC; David Dodman, Director, Human Settlements Group, IIED; Anna Naupa, Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCAP

10.30- The risks interplay: disaster displacement in Climate resilient, environmentally sustainable and Urban partnerships: the complexities of partnering in
11.30 cities. Bina Desai, Internal Displacement Monitoring affordable housing. Darryn McEvoy, RMIT with cities. Peter Walton, Australian Red Cross with panellists
Centre, with panellists from UN-Habitat and UNDP panellists from Compass Housing

11.30-12 Break
12-1 Child-centred urban resilience. Luke Miller, ARUP, Disaster response and recovery in the urban Resilience at scale: what’s important at the local, city and
with panellists from Plan International Pacific: outlining an agenda for change. Tom regional levels? Deo Prasad, CRC for Low Carbon Living with
Bamforth, IFRC with panellists from APCUS-SP and panellists from the City of Sydney and UNSW
Melbourne University

1-2 Lunch
2-3 Climate change doesn’t have to be ugly: urban
blue-green solutions to increase water and energy
resilience in cities. Ana Deletic, Global Water
Institute, UNSW with panellists from Blacktown City
Council, Sydney
The national cluster system and disaster Urbanisation and island nations: friend or foe?
preparedness in Indonesia. Alice Godycki, Discussion and questions with Jemilah Mahmood, IFRC, David
Humanitarian Benchmark Consulting with panellists Dodman, IIED and Anna Naupa, UNESCAP
from CARE and the Ministry of Social Affairs, Indonesia

3-4 What does aid as investment mean when building
urban resilience? Pamela Sitko, Independent
Consultant
Resilience and humanitarian response in the
complex city. Leah Campbell, ALNAP
Towards reducing the risks of disasters for urban
poor in Chandigarh. Manoj Kumar Teoti, Centre for
Research in Rural and Industrial Development
(CRRID)
Context-rooted design of alternative temporary
shelters: towards a community-based approach in
disaster evacuation. Geomilie Tumamao-Guittap,
United Architects of the Philippines
Gathering pieces. Putting people at the heart of
design in development processes. Renate Carius,
Architect
The importance of neighbourhood satisfaction in
building community resilience in low-income
settlements. Samaneh Arasteh and Shirley Shirleyana,
UNSW
Planning Vientiane: disconnects in policy, practice and
development narratives. Daniel Hayward, Chiang Mai
University
Two roads diverged: resilient infrastructure and inclusion
in Phnom Penh. Laura Beckwith, University of Ottowa
Transdisciplinary partnerships as a means to improve
urban population health: addressing the nexus between
urban environmental change and human health. Umar
Ibrahim, University of Technology Sydney

4-4.15 Break
4.15-5.15 Urban resilience through people-centred design. Climate security and community resilience: Community knowledge, digital technologies and spatial
Eva Lloyd, UNSW with panellists debating institutional innovation from the strategies: quick wins to disaster resilience. Jem Escatron,
grassroots. Minako Sakai, UNSW with panellists Norwegian Red Cross and Philippines Red Cross

5.15-6.15 Plenary. Anshu Sharma, co-founder, SEEDS India; Paul Jones, Urban and Regional Planning Program, University of Sydney; Helen Lochhead, Dean, Built Environment, UNSW

Please note: Sessions may be subject to change or amendment

 URAP2018 conference program, Thursday November 8
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3

9-9.30 Coffee
9.30- Plenary. Ronak Patel, Director Urbanisation and Resilience, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Barbara Norman, Director Canberra Urban and Regional Futures, University of
10.30 Canberra; Meg Keen, Senior Policy Fellow, Australia National University

10.30- How can resilience efforts be applied in Asian
11.30 Pacific cities? UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling
Tool: building opportunities in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Amaia Celaya and Olivia Johnson, UN-Habitat with
panellists
Action for resilience in cities and towns. Chaos, failures and pivots in the community innovation
ACFID, with panellists from Australian Red Cross, process. Anshu Sharma, SEEDS with panellists from Dhaka
Newcastle University and UNSW Community Health Trust

11.30-12 Break
12-1 Humanitarian response for development in Fiji:
lessons from Tropical Cyclone Winston.
Anna Gero, University Technology Sydney
Community development, Fiji. Kevin Barr, People’s
Community Network (PCN), Fiji
Seen and not heard – children’s participation in
post-disaster reconstruction. Robyn Mansfield,
Yarra Ranges Council of Melbourne
Donor driven approach to water and sanitation
service provision in Pacific towns and cities: a
review and synthesis of upscaling literature.
Mahsa Agha Ali Mesgar, Monash University, Melbourne
Lessons learned from implementing WaSH
interventions in an indigenous urban community –
Hanuabada. Jeanette Selep, World Vision PNG
Hydrological urban cities. Alessandra Fabbri, UNSW
Housing – a critical infrastructure element for building
urban resilience. Vikram Saraph, Science and Technology
Park, Pune
Community resilience through self-help housing
adaptations: examples from Nepal and the Philippines.
Sandra Carrasco Mansilla and Neeraj Dangol, University of
Melbourne
The role of Buddhist pagodas in Auckland’s disaster
preparedness, response and recovery. Chanrith Ngin,
University of Auckland

1-2 Lunch
2-3 3D geoinformation for humanitarian help. Social and environmental challenges in urban What does real resilience look like?
Jack Barton, UNSW, with panellists from the Australian China: issues, coping strategies and policies. Discussion and questions with Meg Keen, ANU, Ronak
Military and NSW Health Bingqin Li and Zhiming Cheng, UNSW with panellists Patel, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Barbara Norman,
from Macquarie University and Western Sydney University of Canberra
University

3-4 A multi-stakeholder platform for urban resilience. Energy poverty in the Asia Pacific. Komali Yenneti, Capacity Building in Green Infrastructure and Housing
Kim Ogonda, Cordaid with panellists from Partners for UNSW, with panellists from Melbourne University and for Poverty Reduction in the Pacific Region. Sarath
Resilience CSO Network RMIT Mataraarchchi, UNSW with panellists from NSW Department
for Planning and Environment and Healthhabitat

4-4.15 Break
4.15-5.15 Unsettled cities and crisis creating ‘cities’, how do Moving beyond resilience rhetoric: urban Building resilient communities in Indonesia through
we move away from response to resilience? infrastructure and rethinking the disaster cycle. innovative water sensitive pathways. Jane Holden,
Heather Fehr, IFRC, with panellists Aaron Opdyke, University of Sydney with panellists Monash with panellists from Universitas Indonesia and
Hassanudin University

5.15-6.15 Plenary. Jo Da Silva, Founder and Leader of International Development, ARUP; Mike Lindfield, Director, Urban Infrastructure Services; Esther Charlesworth, School of
Architecture and Design, RMIT