Following on from last year's theme of 'Communities and Development', the 2008 conference will focus on citizenship and accountability in more depth. World Vision Australia is organising the conference in partnership with the Australian National University. The conference will explore the themes(PDF: 34 KB) of 'Participation, Empowerment and Downward Accountability'.
The 2008 conference will be held in Melbourne, at the Angliss Conference Centre, on Thursday 25th & Friday 26th September, 2008. A particular focus of the conference is to look at how agencies express their accountability to communities or more importantly, how do they empower communities to hold development partners to account. The 2-day sessions will include case studies and panel discussions on these themes as well as looking at geographical activities in Asia, South Asian, the Pacific and Latin America/Caribbean.
Conference Speakers
Keynote Speaker , Dr Joy Moncrieffe is a political sociologist and Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, UK. Part of the Participation, Power and Social Change team, she works on the themes of accountability, citizenship, power relations, race and ethnicity; relationships of poverty and inequality, including the power of stigma, gender relations and disability; and culture, religion and development.
Professor Francesca Merlan is the Professor of Anthropology at The Australian National University, Canberra. She has conducted research over many years with Aboriginal people in northern Australia. During that time she was involved in the processes (land and native title claims) by which the state has sought to regulate and restore indigenous associations with land.
Dr Patrick Kilby is the Coordinator/lecturer of the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD) program at The Australian National University, Canberra. Patrick has extensive evaluation and development experience with NGOs, AusAID and developing country governments. His experience includes direct community based program management and evaluation, as well as policy development, and government liaison in aid policy development.
Full conference program, with further details on the speakers, presenters and sessions, will be available online by late August 2008. Conference updates will be posted regularly on this website.
Submit your registration online or via direct mail(PDF: 292 KB) to participate in the Measuring Effectiveness Conference 2008. Registration closes on 19 September 2008.
We encourage you to advertise the conference amongst your colleagues and networks who may be interested in participating.
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