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2007 Speakers
Ms. Sue Soal
Dr. Rick Davies
Professor Dennis Altman
Associate Professor Brett Inder
Mr. Chris Roche
Mr. Nic Notarpietro
Ms. Rhonda Chapman
Ms. Elizabeth Cham
Ms. Sue Soal
Keynote speaker is Sue Soal, a development practitioner and writer on development practice from South Africa and staff member of the Community Development Research Association (CDRA).
CDRA offers an integrated service comprising action research through collaborative inquiry, a range of courses for development practitioners, organisational development accompaniment,
and the production and dissemination of perspectives and lessons learnt. Sue has written important articles for more than 10 years including:
- Measurement in Developmental Practice from the mundane to the transformational (with James Taylor),
- How do we know what difference we are making? Reflections on measuring development in South Africa.
- Measuring development - holding infinity.
A key part of Sue's practice is the facilitation of her own organisation's regular action research and learning processes.
Aimed at creating the conditions for rigorous peer learning from experience and designed to surface, share and improve practice,
these processes constitute the heart of CDRA. Here, the organisation learns, holds itself to account, manages its practice, builds and sustains its team,
renews strategy, develops perspectives and hones methodology for work with clients and colleagues.
Dr. Rick Davies
Dr. Rick Davies is an independent consultant specialising in monitoring and evaluation, based in Cambridge,
U.K. Rick developed the now widely-used tool, known as "Most Significant Change" (MSC). He also manages the MandE NEWS website and its associated email lists.
His recent work has involved adapting network analysis tools to provide a better means of describing and evaluating development projects, in contrast to linear logic models.
He has also developed a simple tool for measuring poverty, that is democratic and focused on entitlements.
Professor Dennis Altman
Professor Dennis Altman is a Professor of Politics
at La Trobe University, and his major areas of research
interest encompass the politics of sexuality and
HIV/AIDS; and the contemporary politics of the
United States. He is the author of 11 books, most
recently "Fifty First State?". He has written extensively
on the politics of AIDS over the past 20 years.
Associate Professor Brett Inder
Dr. Brett Inder (Monash University) is Associate
Professor and Head of the Department of Econometrics
and Business Statistics. His current research interests
include studies into markets migration as well as the
effect of the 2004 Asian Tsunami on children in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Chris Roche
Mr. Chris Roche (Oxfam) is Director of Development
Effectiveness at Oxfam Australia. He has worked on
monitoring and evaluation issues for many years and is
author of "Impact Assessment for Development
Agencies: Learning to value change."
Mr. Nic Notarpietro
Mr. Nic Notarpietro is Director of AusAID’s Operations Policy and Management Unit, set up earlier this year to implement AusAID’s new performance assessment systems.
Nic is a program manager with over 20 years’ experience in aid management. He has worked on the ground in Indonesia and PNG (most recently on design and implementation
of major electoral reform and transport sector programs) and has worked across policy, design and sectoral areas of AusAID over his career.
Ms. Rhonda Chapman
Ms. Rhonda Chapman PhD Candidate, RMIT University,
is a consultant in community development and monitoring
and evaluation. Rhonda is exploring the experience and
understanding of development effectiveness amongst
the NGO community in Cambodia. Rhonda was
previously the Director of Standards and Practice at the
Australian Council for International Development.
Ms. Elizabeth Cham
Ms. Elizabeth Cham is a Research Fellow in Philanthropy at the University of Melbourne. Over the last 10 years she has become well known as the National Director,
Philanthropy Australia, taking that organisation from a total budget of under $100,000 to a budget over $1.2 million. A major achievement was to work with the
Prime Minister through the Community Business Partnership to change the Australian Taxation Act which now has incentives for giving.
She was a research assistant for both Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Professor Manning Clark and she serves on several boards including as Chair of the Australian Nonprofit Roundtable Council.
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