Join Dylan Mathews, CEO of PeaceDirect and Chair of CIVICUS, as he streams in LIVE from London with reflections from his work as an advocate for systems change, solidarity and shifting power.

Dylan has asked for an extended time for Q&A, so get your questions ready 

Harnessing technology for a strong sector into the future is rapidly becoming mission critical. This mission can often seem mired with huge hurdles requiring ever new and different capabilities, approaches and always more investment. Yet, when new technologies are applied to social change initiatives we are able to both see this impact and to imagine the possibilities. This panel has been curated to discuss both examples of what our sector has already done to leverage technology to the benefit of those in greatest need, and what our organisations should be thinking about into the future. The panel will unravel the growing importance of technology in helping sustain a strong sector into the future, and what it means for us all.

Globally, the Impact Investment sector represents a $2.5 trillion opportunity to: 

· unlock new, scalable, solutions. 

· access new sources of funding. 

· activate the corpus of Foundations and Charities to amplify purpose. 

Hear from iNGOs who have embraced investment opportunities, found new solutions and unlocked additional funding, all in pursuit of their charitable purpose. 

Save the Children Australia

Learn how to maximise the value of your donor funds when transferring them to projects and partners overseas. This session will explore how to leverage the power of local currency to ensure the most effective procurement of funds whilst minimal financial wastage. We will look at the hidden costs of transferring funds internationally and go over the best practices when it comes to the procurement of foreign currency. Featuring CBM Australia they will share their experiences from the field and details of their journey and learnings.
 
 StoneX Financial Ltd and CBM Australia will share insights about:
 * How money moves internationally and where the hidden costs are
 * Best practices from the field for procurement of currency such as competitively bidding out your flows to multiple providers
 * Strategies your finance team can apply to your fund's transfer processes to eliminate financial wastage 

What does a locally-owned and led response to the ecological crisis facing Pacific Island Nations look like? This session will explore Pacific Churches' answer to this question by introducing participants to Reweaving the Ecological Mat (REM), an alternative development framework based on socio-cultural, indigenous, and biblical-theological perspectives. 

Uniting World, Pacific Conference of Churches

This workshop explores how Australian-based NGOs can better consider and practice locally-led action. The workshop will provide an overview of what this means in the context of revisions to the ACFID code is provided and work over the last few years that has informed these changes. Within the workshop, tools being developed to support enable locally-led action will be trialled and feedback elicited. 

ACFID Development Practice Committee

Climate loss and damage has been boosted with the landmark decision to develop a new Loss and Damage Fund at COP27. Join us to discover more about loss and damage - How does it relate to humanitarian and climate adaptation? How can we help the fund reach climate affected communities? 

Action Aid and Caritas Australia

This learning lab shakes up norms and biases by exploring gender-based issues and climate justice as they overlap. These issues are complex and cannot be solved with singular thinking. Using an experiment framework, you’ll take part in context-based conversations, learning new problem-solving strategies to tackle this issue in your work. 

Australian Lutheran World Service

Hear from leading academics and humanitarians on new innovations and systems, ranging from harnessing technology for collective impact, the value of International Humanitarian Law training and palliative care in humanitarian contexts. This session will feature four unique presentations from Dr Rachel Coghlan, Dr Eyal Mahroz, Claire Cayzer and Dr David Hammond followed by an opportunity to ask questions. 

 

·         Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises - Dr Rachel Coghlan  

·         Creating a web-based collaborative public portal that would disseminate in real-time early warnings, risks analyses, and policy recommendations, produced by different human rights and humanitarian (I)NGOs, in relation to pending or ongoing conflicts - Dr Eyal Mayroz, Senior Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.  

·         The Value and Impact of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Knowledge and Training- Claire Cayzer, Australian Red Cross 

·         What technology is emerging that can be harnessed for collective impact? -Dr David Hammond, Institute for Economics & Peace 

ACFID

Through exploring International Justice Mission’s work in protecting children from sexual abuse in the Philippines, delegates will hear from survivor advocates and local program staff as they explore the value of survivor consultation in the design of research methodology, and the efficacy of strong civil society partnerships to drive long-term solutions. 


This session is a 50minutes session.

International Justice Mission

Despite a large and expanding economy, the benefits of Papua New Guinea's growth are not being distributed equitably, with traditionally marginalised communities left behind. Financial Literacy training is one tool challenging this development, and by joining this panel discussion you will hear from local educators who will examine the impacts of their training, the challenges involved, and why it’s important these communities are included in all discussions. 

This session is a 30minutes session.

Cufa

Join established and emerging disability leaders from the Indo-Pacific as they discuss progress in disability inclusion over the last decade, the shift from inclusion to equity, and what’s needed now to accelerate progress to equity for people with disabilities, including in light of the reality of increased crises and instability. 

This session is a 50minutes session.

CBM Australia

Poverty is closely affiliated with a place and its built environment. Most essentials of life are associated with the built environment. This presentation explores how building community capabilities to secure essential infrastructure and housing can lead ordinary people in PICs out of poverty and progress toward a better quality of life. 

This session is a 30minutes session.

ACFID Urban CoP (Community of Practice)

Australian INGOs operate across national and linguistic borders. In this session, we present key findings of a review of Caritas Australia’s translation and interpretation processes. We reflect on the need for more deliberate and inclusive intercultural communication practices and consider the positive implications of decolonising INGO outputs beyond English.  

Caritas Australia

This session explores how people affected by displacement have been marginalised, recent research on the contribution refugee led initiatives to protection and the restrictions they face, and how to create spaces leadership and participation in policy-making, programs and systems for protection and solutions.

Act for Peace, Asia Pacific Network of Refugees, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney

Australia’s new development policy includes a commitment to “an ambitious climate agenda and increasing environmental protection, both at home and with our partners, to achieve a net-zero and nature-positive world.’ 

Learn how nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change can support international development agencies to mainstream climate outcomes through their programming.  

This will be an inspiring session that explores the climate-development nexus, and how high-integrity NbS approaches can help communities “use the power of nature” to build their resilience and achieve their development aspirations. 

WWF Australia

This session will provide new insights into the scale of wealth concentration, inequality and their causes, along with the latest analysis on what policy solutions can mobilise funds for international development and climate change programs. We’ll challenge you to think about how we mobilise for an equal future. 

Oxfam Australia

Adara Development and Love Mercy Foundation are improving access to quality Maternal, Newborn and Child Health services in Uganda. Both are achieving positive health outcomes for women and newborns in low-resource settings. This session will share practical examples of how innovative partnerships and knowledge sharing can ignite community led programs to achieve outcomes. 

ADARA Development, Love Mercy Foundation

This session will provide an overview of Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) support to Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief (HADR) training and exercises conducted within the Pacific region over the past 18 months to build the civil-military coordination capacity of key agencies. ACMC is a Whole-of-Government initiative to support the development of national civil-military-police capabilities to prevent, prepare for and respond more effectively to conflict and disasters. This is achieved through a wide range of activities and exercises with our Partner Agencies, including the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID). 

Australian Civil-Military Centre

The undervaluing of work carried out essentially by women worldwide is a significant driver of poverty and inequality. Oxfam works in local partnerships to generate a context-specific knowledge base that influences governments and companies to actively recognise, value and invest in care work - for a fairer economy that works for everyone

Oxfam Australia

This session will introduce the Equality Insights data portal – a new platform that presents gender-sensitive data about multidimensional poverty in a user-friendly and accessible format. Presenters from an international non-government organisation, Government, and a grassroots women’s right organisation will demonstrate the strengths of a collaborative approach to the data cycle. 

IWDA

This session will discuss best practices, challenges and way forward on how agencies commissioning evaluations can maximise their M&E processes and improve the experiences of communities in shaping the use and outcomes of evaluation.

Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG)

Degraded landscapes and resource scarcity, worsened by climate change, are major drivers of conflict and fragility. But conflict-affected contexts are just too volatile for programming to reverse these trends – right?  In this session, hear from researchers and practitioners how community-led landscape restoration and climate adaptation projects are being implemented in challenging places, and what this might mean for the new international development policy’s focus on climate change. 

World Vision

Registration to vote in Nigeria required fingerprints, a condition that disenfranchised many people with leprosy and disability. A coalition of disability organisations lobbied the government for alternative requirements. Although this was successful, electoral officials feared going near people with leprosy so more steps were needed. This is the story of that change. 

Join the Hon. Michael McCormack MP, Shadow Minister for International Development and Pacific, as he outlines the coalitions approach to aid and development in the region and engagement with NGOs and CSOs

Our shared mission to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is increasingly under threat requiring a re- think in how we achieve change.

Join a leading panel of activists from Global Citizen, Common Grace,  Oxfam and The Asia Foundation calling for a bold new vision for aid that aims to shift the structures that keep people in poverty.  With examples of people powered movements from around the world, panellists will inspire us not only to think big and think bold but also to work collectively to achieve our shared mission. 

Hosted by Results International (Australia)