‘Building Social Enterprises in the Philippines:
Strategies for Local Development’

• What is a social enterprise?
• How can social enterprises help communities create wealth that circulates locally?
• Can social enterprises be built in rural Asia?

The film explores these questions through interviews with social entrepreneurs and community members who are spearheading social enterprise development that provides purposeful work, generates cash income, mobilizes local assets, services community needs, builds organizational capacity and strengthens the resilience of local economies.

The 50 minute DVD is written and narrated by Professor Katherine Gibson, a human geographer from the ANU and Maria Angela Villalba, Executive Director of the NGO Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation Inc. Professor Gibson led an action research project from 2003 to 2006 that initiated some of the social enterprises featured in the DVD. Social enterprises funded by migrant savings initiatives pioneered by Unlad Kabayan are also featured.

Professor Gibson and Maria Angela (May-an) Villalba, Philippines Social Entrepreneur of 2007 (awarded by the Schwab Foundation) will be available to discuss the film afterwards

Camera, Editing, Sound, Visual Effects: Paul Maclay, ANU
On-site Direction, Production Assistance: Ann Hill, Human Geography, RSPAS, ANU
Funding: Australian Research Council, AusAID, ANU, Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation Inc.

The Millennium Development Goals

Where are we up to?

In 2000, all 191 member countries of the United Nations - including Australia - committed to eight Millennium Development Goals to halve world poverty by 2015:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality by two thirds for children under five
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

We’re now halfway to 2015 and while progress is being made, there is still a long way to go if the global community is to fulfil its commitments. This session will update you on progress and what needs to be done if the lives of millions are to be transformed.

FEATURING
Tim Costello - Chief Executive of World Vision Australia, Tim is recognised as one of Australia’s leading voices on social justice issues, and has been instrumental in ensuring that global poverty is on the national agenda. He has been a Baptist Minister, National President of the Baptist Union of Australia, and Executive Director of Urban Seed, a not-for-profit Christian outreach service for the urban poor.  Other current roles include Chairman of the National Australia Bank Community Advisory Council and a member of the National Aid Advisory Council.

Ruangkhao Ryce Chanchai – Policy Analyst, Asia at the UN Millennium Campaign’s Asia Regional Office, Ms Chanchai has written extensively on the MDGs in Asia, with an emphasis on issues related to governance, inequality, gender and social inclusion.  She led the compilation of case studies on progress and challenges in Asia prepared for the UN High Level Events on the MDGs in New York in September 2008 and advocates for the MDGs within the UN system and with external partners.

Professor Ann Capling – From the School of Social and Political Sciences at Melbourne University, Professor Capling is an expert in trade policy, the multilateral trade system, and global economic governance.  She is a member of the Warwick Commission established in 2007 to examine the global trading system and make recommendations about its future shape and direction. Recent books include All the Way with the USA: Australia, the US and Free Trade and Australia and the Global Trade System: From Havana to Seattle.

Murray Proctor as forum host – Australia’s Ambassador for HIV and AIDS since December 2007 and Deputy Director General, Program Enabling Division, AusAID, Mr Proctor has over 25 years experience in aid and development.  Previous roles include managing AusAID’s Office of Review and Evaluation and Australia’s aid program to PNG.  From 1999 to 2001, he worked in the World Bank on East Timor reconstruction and public sector reform.

Dr Julianne Schultz as forum moderator - Dr Schultz is Professor at the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, author or editor of more than 20 books and the founding editor of Griffith Review, an award-winning topical literary and public affairs quarterly. A former journalist, Dr Schultz was General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Communications at the ABC, and prior to this the Perspectives Editor and columnist at The Courier Mail. Dr Schultz was part of the Independent Steering Committee and co-chair of the Creative Australia discussion area for the Australia 2020 Summit.

One Just World is a series of national after-work forums focusing on global poverty and development topics of high public interest and relevance. Our aim is to help Australians become informed and involved in helping the 800 million people worldwide who are fighting to escape the poverty spiral.

Media enquiries to Carol Wilson at Willow PR on 0407 064 164, carolwilson AT willowpr.com.au

Water and sanitation security for the developing world

As the global population grows and climate change affects rainfall and temperatures, it is more important than ever to focus on access to safe water and sanitation. In this International Year of Sanitation, safe drinking water and a toilet is something that most Australians take for granted. But globally, these are still life and death issues.

Some 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion who have no facilities at all. More than one billion people do not have access to safe, clean water. Water and sanitation are fundamental to health, to gender equity, to economic development and to security. So where should our priorities be? What investments will make most impact on child health? On reducing women’s workload? How should we share and manage water resources to ensure equitable access and prevent conflict? What can we learn from approaches in our
region? What are the links between land ownership, water management and food security? This forum will explore these issues and more.

VENUE:	BMW Edge, Federation Square	Forum Partner
DATE:	Wednesday 29 October 2008
TIME:	6.00 – 7.30pm (entry from 5.30pm)
	FREE ENTRY

HOST

Brian Dawson – Director, Adapt and Clean Development Section, AusAID as forum host.

SPEAKERS

Clarissa Brocklehurst – UNICEF’s Chief of Water, Environment and Sanitation, Ms Brocklehurst brings extensive experience in project design and management, and policy-level research and analysis. She has previously worked as a consultant, with the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program, and as WaterAid’s Country Representative for Bangladesh. With expertise in both urban and rural contexts, Ms Brocklehurst has a strong focus on issues of access for poor communities, particularly for women and children.

Andre Dzikus – Chief of Water and Sanitation at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT) and based in Kenya, Mr. Dzikus was instrumental in the development of UN-Habitat’s Community based Environmental Management Information System which is designed to build partnerships between communities and local governments in providing and managing local environmental infrastructure. He has a strong focus on inclusive and child-centred cities, and on affordable and appropriate technologies and approaches to providing sustainable sanitation solutions for the urban poor.

Pauline Komolong – a water engineer working for the Oxfam Highlands Program in Papua New Guinea, funded by WaterAid Australia, which is supporting community water security as part of a wider focus on eace-building. Currently based in Goroka, a main town in the Highlands, Pauline is originally from Madang on the Northern Coast of PNG and was trained at the University of Technology in Lae.

Jaehyang So – Manager of the Water and Sanitation Program, (WSP), World Bank. WSP is an international
partnership dedicated to helping poor people gain sustained access to improved water and sanitation services, funded by donors and administered by the World Bank. Ms So has a background in urban service delivery, utilities and corporate restructuring, and public private partnerships, with a focus on improving the performance of providers, utilities and local governments in the World Bank’s programs in Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia, and South Asia.

MODERATOR
Peter Mares – Journalist with the ABC for more than 20 years who currently presents The National Interest on ABC Radio National (Fridays at 6pm and Sundays at noon). Peter is also an author and an adjunct research fellow with the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology.

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New Partnerships for Development:

How do Australians work together to beat global poverty?

As the Australian Government commits to increase aid and work for the Millennium Development Goals, there will be new opportunities for wider engagement in reducing poverty and supporting equitable and sustainable outcomes in our region and beyond. Non-government organisations, business, the education sector, faith groups, local communities, media, volunteers and others all have a part to play. How can we best build new partnerships for development that reflect the commitment of the Australian community to act on poverty and development? How can we combine skills, ingenuity and resources here with those in developing countries to create new opportunities and generate solutions to the challenges ahead

MODERATOR

Professor Hilary Charlesworth as moderator - an internationally renowned thinker and commentator on international law and human rights with a strong interest in gender, Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the ANU. Professor Charlesworth is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and has held visiting appointments at Washington & Lee School of Law, as Manley O. Hudson Visiting Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School as Wayne Morse Professor at the University of Oregon, and at Université de Paris (Paris I). She was the winner (with Christine Chinkin) of the Goler T. Butcher Medal awarded by the American Society of International Law in 2006 for “Outstanding contributions to the development of international human rights law.”
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In February 1988, Bob was sworn in as Senator for the Australian Capital Territory. In 1990 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer and in 1991 became Manager of Government Business in the Senate. In 1993 Bob was appointed Minister for the Arts and Administrative Services and became a member of the Cabinet, the first time the Arts portfolio was represented in Cabinet. In January 1994, he was appointed Minister for Trade. Following a redistribution of Canberra’s House of Representative seats, Bob stood for the seat of Canberra in 1996, and was elected. Following a redistribution in 1998, Bob became Member for Fraser. Between 1996 and 2007 Bob held a number of Shadow Ministerial positions. After the election of the Rudd Government in November 2007 Bob was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance.
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Bruce Jenks - Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Partnerships Bureau, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), responsible for relationships with UNDP’s key constituencies and development partners including the International Financial Institutions, civil society, the private sector and foundations. Mr Jenks has worked with UNDP since 1981 in roles including Director of Budget, and UNDP Representative in Brussels. He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Oxford University, and M.A.s from Cambridge University and John Hopkins SAIS. He is in Australia for the Business for Millennium Development Summit 08.
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One Just World is a series of national after-work forums focusing on global poverty and development topics of high public interest and relevance. Our aim is to help Australians become informed and involved in helping the 800 million people worldwide who are fighting to escape the poverty spiral.

Media enquiries to Carol Wilson at Willow PR on 0407 064 164, carolwilson AT willowpr.com.au

Food security and the developing world

Poverty is at the root of why more than 800 million people are chronically hungry and up to two billion people lack food security. This forum will explore challenges and options in building a secure, equitable global food system that is sustainable for the long term. What is needed to overcome the current crisis and ensure global food security for future generations? What will be the impact of the looming energy crisis on food supply, especially in developing countries? How should we address the inequalities in land access that help perpetuate poverty? How can we best ensure space for traditional ecological farming and land management practices? How can we better support women’s role in food security, given they produce much of the world’s food?

VENUE:	Adelaide Town Hall auditorium 128 King William Street	Forum Partner
DATE:	Wednesday 10 September 2008
TIME:	5.15pm for 5.30pm start
	FREE ENTRY

SPEAKERS
		Farhad Mazhar – Managing Director of UBINIG, Bangladesh (Policy Research for Development Alternative) which created one of the biggest community seed banks in the world and is a leading player in South Asian bio-diverse and ecological agriculture movements
		Sophia Murphy – consultant and senior advisor to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Global Governance Program. Her work is focused on food security, agricultural trade rules, U.S. trade and agriculture policy and the interests of developing countries in the multilateral trade system.
		Tim Costello – Chief Executive of World Vision Australia. Tim is recognised as one of Australia’s leading voices on social justice issues, and has been instrumental in ensuring that the issues surrounding global poverty are placed on the national agenda.
		Jacqui De Lacy - Assistant Director General responsible for food security in the sustainable development group in AusAID. She has worked in development for 18 years. She has significant experience working on Australia’s aid programs to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.  She also represented AusAID at Australia’s mission to the UN where she was Vice-President of the UNICEF Executive Board
MODERATOR
		Professor Pal Ahluwalia – Pro Vice Chancellor, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia

Register at www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au or via RSVP phone line on 08 8302 0215

One Just World is a series of national after-work forums focusing on global poverty and development topics of high public interest and relevance. Our aim is to help Australians become informed and involved in helping the 800 million people worldwide who are fighting to escape the poverty spiral.

Media enquiries to Carol Wilson at Willow PR on 0407 064 164, carolwilson AT willowpr.com.au

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Incorporating human rights into development

‘Helping the needy’ was the charitable impulse that first inspired international aid in the 20th century. Now, concepts of participation, empowerment, accountability and rights are the foundation for many government, non-government and multilateral aid programs. Rights-based approaches integrate the norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the aims and processes of development. Some see such approaches as central to sustainable development. But rights-based approaches also raise important issues. How should we balance individual and social rights? To what extent should development focus on advancing rights compared with other goals such as promoting security or trade? How do we ensure real participation for the most marginalised? And what’s the report card to date – where are we on the charity-rights spectrum?

SPEAKERS

Dr Susu Thatun – World Vision Australia’s Senior Policy Advisor on Child Protection and Trafficking. Before taking on this role, Susu spent seven years as Program Manager at the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking. Susu’s work has taken her to Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, working with families whose lives are torn apart by child trafficking.  She is also responsible for informing the Australian Government about trafficking in Asia, and the impact and challenges of its approaches in the region.

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Professor Julian Disney – part-time Professor and Director of the Social Justice Project at the University of New South Wales. Professor Disney’s distinguished career in public law includes terms as Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at ANU, World President of the International Council on Social Welfare, Law Reform Commissioner in New South Wales, National Chair of Anti-Poverty Week, and Convenor of the Neighbours Program, which works to strengthen engagement between community leaders in Australia and neighbouring Asian countries.

Dr Carmen Lawrence – Professorial Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia. Over an outstanding political career spanning 21 years Dr Lawrence has been Premier of Western Australia and Australia’s first woman Premier; Minister for Human Services and Health and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women in the Keating Labor Government; and President of the Australian Labor Party. Dr Lawrence has been an active and vocal peace campaigner, speaking at rallies and forums around the country. She also speaks and writes regularly about refugee policy and democratic reform.

MODERATOR
Anna George – Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Murdoch University and a Murdoch graduate, Ms George has had a long and distinguished diplomatic career, mostly recently as Australian Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia.  Ms George served as Alternate Representative at the Australian Permanent Mission to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague; represented Australia at the Middle East Arms Control and Regional Security discussions; was First Secretary at Australia’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Vienna; and a member of the Australian Delegation to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York.

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One Just World is a series of national after-work forums focusing on global poverty and development topics of high public interest and relevance. Our aim is to help Australians become informed and involved in helping the 800 million people worldwide who are fighting to escape the poverty spiral.

Media enquiries to Carol Wilson at Willow PR on 0407 064 164, carolwilson AT willowpr.com.au

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Gender inequality and development

Achieving gender equality is critical to a sustainable future. While no country is there yet, including Australia, gender inequalities are greatest in developing countries, and the consequences are more immediate and dramatic. While there is virtually universal recognition that addressing gender inequality is a key development priority, translating this into action and resources has proved challenging.

How can we generate the political and institutional will for real change?

How can we better involve both women and men as decision makers, beneficiaries and leaders in building a more just world?

VENUE:	The Great Hall, UTS, Tower Building, Broadway	Forum Partner
DATE:	Wednesday 6 August 2008
TIME:	6.00 – 7.30pm (entry from 5.30pm)
	FREE ENTRY

SPEAKERS

Emele Duituturaga – A development specialist, academic, consultant and trainer, Emele has exceptional knowledge of gender and development issues in the Pacific region, having served in senior roles including CEO of the Fiji Ministry for Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation and Head of the Pacific Women’s Resource Bureau for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.

Jane Sloane – Executive Director, International Women’s Development Agency. Jane has previously held senior management roles with Marie Stopes International, Coffey International Development, AusAID, World Vision Australia, Austrade and as CEO of the Social Entrepreneurs Network.

Conny Lenneberg – Acting Director of Policy & Programs, World Vision Australia, Co-Chair of the Development Practice Committee of the Australian Council for International Development. Conny has over 25 years experience with a wide range of international non-government organisations in Australia and overseas.

MODERATOR
Jenny Brockie – Multi-award winning journalist and documentary maker with more than 20 years experience in quality broadcasting, Jenny is a recipient of the prestigious Gold Walkley Award for excellence in journalism. She currently hosts Insight on SBS TV.

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UTS Tower Building, Broadway between Jones Street and Harris Street

Opportunities and challenges for developing countries. What can we do?

On Wednesday the 30th July 2008 the Inaugural One Just World Forum was held.

This forum explored the impacts of climate change on the global community, especially in developing countries. It looked at the science, the role of governments, gender impacts, community collaboration and how we might together address the interests and needs of those at greatest risk.

HOST
The Hon Bob McMullan MP. Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance

In February 1988, Bob was sworn in as Senator for the Australian Capital Territory. In 1990 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer and in 1991 became Manager of Government Business in the Senate. In 1993 Bob was appointed Minister for the Arts and Administrative Services and became a member of the Cabinet, the first time the Arts portfolio was represented in Cabinet. In January 1994, he was appointed Minister for Trade. Following a redistribution of Canberra’s House of Representative seats, Bob stood for the seat of Canberra in 1996, and was elected. Following a redistribution in 1998, Bob became Member for Fraser. Between 1996 and 2007 Bob held a number of Shadow Ministerial positions. After the election of the Rudd Government in November 2007 Bob was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance.

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