| 8:30: |
Registration, coffee & networking |
| 9:00: |
Welcoming remarks from the Chair
Ross O’Shea, Regional Co-ordinator, Western Region,
Department of Premier & Cabinet, NSW
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| 9:10: |
Building the foundations of community engagement: A Public Sector journey
- Challenges for large organisations; pitfalls for public sector implementation
- Developing an ‘engaging’ framework, learning to be noisy
- Embedding in practice, promoting engagement; what worked and what didn’t
- Early success stories, what next?
Lynette Pugh, Director, Community Connect
Strategic Policy and Intervention Division,
Department for Families and Communities, SA |
| 9:50: |
Building community resilience to disasters:
An emergency management perspective
- What is disaster resilience and why is it important?
- How community engagement shapes the development of policy
- Building safer sustainable communities through:
- land use planning for risk reduction
- adaptation to climate change
- community education & preparedness
- building community capacity in response and recovery
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| 10:30: |
Morning tea, refreshments & networking |
| 11:00: |
Community engagement & bushfire recovery
- The approach to community engagement as part of a community recovery process
- The interface between community engagement and government following a disaster event
- Working across all levels of government in community engagement
Penny Croser, Head of Policy & Business Services,
Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority |
| 11:40: |
Identifying-developing-implementing policy:
An Aboriginal Perspective
- Is policy, policy, without community engagement?
- Stakeholder negotiation vs ‘tick the box’ consultation
- Ownership of planning and policy development
Sam Jeffries, Chairperson,
Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly and Deputy Chairperson
Indigenous Land Corporation |
| 12:20: |
Lunch |
| 1:30: |
The role of community engagement in policy development for water resource planning
- Balancing the value of technical planning vs community participation in planning
- How to achieve best practice within political timelines
- How to overcome community perceptions during public consultation
Lynda Pollock, Director of Community & Environment,
Stakeholder Engagement Branch,
Murray Darling Basin Authority |
| 2.10: |
Deliberative democracy as a community engagement approach
- A community engagement approach which enables representative groups of everyday citizens to contribute to policy and program development
- A successful case study: The broader NSW community influences climate change policy and program development at a local government level
- Creating pathways to influence within all levels of government
Marnie Kikken, Team Leader – Community Engagement,
Nature Conservation Council of NSW |
| 2:50: |
Afternoon tea & networking |
| 3:20: |
Managing the engagement process to enhance policy development
- From discussion to implementation: Tools and techniques for integrating community feedback into the policy making process
- Achieving confidence in your process: Ensuring policy development is accommodating of recommendations
- Developing an engagement model with visibility for governments and stakeholders
John Hennessy, Sector Development Manager,
Municipal Association of Victoria |
| 4:00: |
Community engagement at local government level
- Citizens’ Jury – linking community and decision makers in a new way
- Engaging a wide cross section of community to ensure policy development is representative of the whole
Dr Annie Bolitho,
University of Melbourne;
Chad Foulkes, Community Planning Co-ordinator,
Surf Shire Council |
| 4.40: |
Closing remarks from the Chair |
| 4.50: |
Close of conference |
