Women, Equity and Land and Natural Resource Governance: The South-West Pacific in Comparative Context Workshop, December 6-7, 2012 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Short Biographies Ali Tuhanuku is the World Bank Justice for the Poor s Political and Institutional Specialist based in Honiara and the Team Leader of the Justice Delivered Locally project in Solomon Islands, a project of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs which is being supported by the World Bank. As part of this role Ali has been leading a team of Solomon Islanders and international researchers in undertaking an assessment of what justice systems are operating at the local level across Solomon Islands as well as their legitimacy and effectiveness. Ali has previously worked for Oxfam New Zealand where he was the Pacific Program Manager and for the UNDP in Fiji where he was responsible for the oversight of UNDP Programs in Solomon Islands, Fiji and Nauru. The latter role involved leading a project on the demobilisation of exmilitants in Solomon Islands. Ali has also previously worked in both national and provincial government in Solomon Islands. Brigitte Naomie Olul has been working as a research officer for the Justice for the Poor program in Vanuatu, known locally as Jastis Blong Evriwan. She first joined JBE as a researcher for the land leasing locality studies and recently completed fieldwork on a case study looking at where there has been interest or successful examples of land and natural resource governance in Vanuatu. Christopher Nelson is the Justice for the Poor Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. Chris is a development economist and evaluator who previously worked as the Director of the Performance Policy and Systems Branch at AusAID where he was responsible for the formulation of the Agency Results Framework, the quality reporting system, annual program reviews and evaluation support and guidance. He has held various M&E positions in private, public and academic fields including time with the OECD in Paris, the University of Mozambique and the Institute for Sustainable Futures in Sydney. In each of these roles, Chris has maintained a particular interest in how new evaluative methodologies can inform the design of development interventions. He has a PhD in evaluation and a Masters Degree in development economics. Ciaran O Faircheallaigh is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Brisbane. His research and professional practice focus on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and large-scale resource development. For over 20 years he has worked with Indigenous organizations in Australia and Canada on social impact assessments and on negotiation of agreements with mining and oil and gas companies. Colin Filer is an anthropologist who current convenes the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program (now in the Crawford School of Public Policy) at the Australian National University. Colin has been undertaking research on the social context and impact of the mining industry in Melanesia since 1983. He has been involved, in one way or another, in the assessment, monitoring or evaluation of the social impact of every major mining project which has been developed in PNG since 1970. He has also played an active role in numerous committees and other bodies established by government and other stakeholders to formulate policies for the mining sector and other resource sectors in PNG. Daniel Fitzpatrick has written widely on land law and policy in the Asian region, with a particular focus on recovery from disaster or conflict. He has been a Global Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law (2011), a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-2009); a Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster (2002); and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007). Fitzpatrick was the UN s land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post tsunami Aceh 1
(2005-2006). He is the primary author of the UN s Land and Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners (2010). He has undertaken professional consultancies with the World Bank; AusAID; the Asian Development Bank; Oxfam International; the OECD; UNDP and UN-Habitat. Deanna Kemp is the Deputy Director at CSRM, where she leads a program of research focusing on social justice issues in the global mining industry. She has a particular interest in industry and organizational responses to mining s development dilemmas. As part of her work and research, Deanna engages with industry, government, civil society groups and mine-affected communities through research (commissioned and independent), advisory work, training and education, and participation on a range of international advisory panels. Deanna holds a PhD from the University of Queensland where she studied at the School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences and a Masters of Social Science in development studies from RMIT University. She has published a range of journal articles, book chapters and discussion papers. Deborah Isser joined the World Bank in January 2011, where she is Global Program Manager for the Justice for the Poor program and leads the Bank s work on justice in fragile and conflict-affected states. Her work focuses on justice reform as a socially embedded process, with emphasis on both socio-legal analysis and the linkages between justice institutions and political settlements. From 2004 through 2010, she served as Senior Rule of Law Adviser at the United States Institute of Peace, where she directed projects on legal pluralism, and on land and conflict. Previously, Deborah served as senior policy adviser at the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and special adviser on peacekeeping at the United States Mission to the United Nations. She is the editor of Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies (USIP Press 2011), and author of several reports, articles and book chapters on justice in fragile and conflict affected states. She has served as adjunct faculty at Georgetown and George Washington Law Schools. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School, MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and BA from Columbia University. Elisa Scalise* is a land law and policy attorney specializing in women s access to and control over land. Her work has covered analyzing formal and customary law on property rights, inheritance, and marital property regimes; evaluating formal and informal dispute resolution mechanisms; and drafting practical plans to ensure that the most vulnerable members of society benefit from land tenure reform efforts. She has experience in international and comparative law and both civil code and common law systems and has extensive project management, research, drafting and editing experience. Her geographic experience includes Australia, Burundi, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Rwanda, and Uganda. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Seattle University and a graduate diploma in public policy and management from Melbourne University. Gary Tavoa got involved with gender after attending the BRIDGE Project Trainers workshop for the Gender Equality in Political Governance Program (GEPG) under UNIFEM (UNWOMEN) in 2009. After the workshop, he was accredited as a BRIDGE workshop facilitator. He facilitated Gender and Election workshops throughout Vanuatu for the GEPG program. Gary commenced work as the Gender Focal Point for the Mama Graon Vanuatu Land Program June this year 2012. Jamila Abassi has a BA in anthropology and First Nations studies and an MA in anthropology and international development with a focus on mining (gender, empowerment, engagement and Impact Benefit Agreements in particular). Jamila has held senior management positions in junior and mid-tier copper and gold exploration and exploitation companies and has spent a considerable of time in rural and remote areas leading social development and environmental management teams in Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Turkey, the Philippines, Fiji, Samoa, Canada and PNG. Jen Scott is a gender and extractive industries consultant based in Fiji. She works with the World Bank on gender, community and sustainable development issues in projects based in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. 2
Julia Keenan s work, since joining CSRM in 2007, has spanned a range of social sustainability issues related to the extractive industries in Australia and internationally. She specialises in researching the relationship between mining and local communities, with particular focus on agreement-making with Indigenous Peoples, gender and community development, and methodologies for analysing and improving resource companies social performance. Julia has co-authored industry guidance documents on Indigenous Peoples and Mining (for the International Council on Mining and Metals) and Integrating Gender into Communities Work (for Rio Tinto). In 2010-11, Julia spent a year in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, with Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta (YTS) where her work focussed on monitoring and evaluation of the foundation s community development and governance strengthening programs, integrating gender into organisation systems and capacity building with local staff. Katherine Heller is the World Bank s social development specialist for the oil, gas, and mining sectors. She currently manages activities on social and gender dimensions of the extractive industries in Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and Mongolia. Krista Janine Jacob-Tatapu graduated in April 2005 with a BSc in Environmental Science and in May of the same year, began working for my government in the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification. In the course of her work, she had the opportunity to be involved in some awareness programs organized by prospecting companies in various communities as well as have sat in on committees that look at issues that arise between prospecting companies and communities in attempting to reach prospecting and mining agreements. In this little time, she heard the complaints and concerns that women in communities share which are equal in importance, but never goes beyond their circle to be addressed properly. Recently, she got involved in a project funded by the World Bank, reviewing existing policy documents, laws, regulations, standards, guidelines, and other materials relating to mining sector which at the time of consultations also looked at the idea of women being involved in decision making at established community mining/prospecting councils. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is a researcher of women and men s livelihood issues in South and Southeast Asian countries. In particular, she has contributed towards improving the visibility of complex challenges around gender in the mining and water sectors. Kuntala s books include Fluid Bonds: Views on Gender and Water (edited, Stree, Kolkata, 2006); Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others (edited jointly with Martha Macintyre, Ashgate, 2006); Water First: Issues and Challenges in South Asia (edited jointly with Robert Wasson, Sage, 2008); and Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods in Mining Regions (edited, ANU E Press, 2011). Watch out for her new book, written jointly with Gopa Samanta, challenging the land-water binary; it is titled Dancing with the River: People and Lives on the Chars in South Asia (forthcoming in May 2013 from Yale University Press). Martha Macintyre is an anthropologist who is currently an honorary Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne and editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Her academic research has focused particularly on gender and the broad social changes associated with resource extractive industries in Melanesia. She has published on land tenure and resource management, human rights and the status of women, and local responses to environmental change and degradation. She is currently engaged in research into the lives of educated, employed women in Papua New Guinea. She has worked also as a consultant since 1986, preparing social impact reports over several years on two major PNG gold mining projects Misima and Lihir. She was a member of the Porgera Environmental Assessment Committee 2006-2011. Her academic and applied research interests are all concerned with the effects of economic change on local communities. Her publications include: Hildson, A, M. Macintyre, V. Mackie, and M. Stivens, eds (2000). Human Rights and Gender Politics: Perspectives on the Asia Pacific Region. Routledge, London. Lahiri-Dutt, K. and M. Macintyre, eds (2006). Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others. Ashgate, Abington UK.; Patterson, M. and M. Macintyre, eds (2011) Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia. 3
Milena Stefanova manages the Justice for the Poor program in Vanuatu, Jastis Blong Evrivan, where she works on issues of legal pluralism related to land and natural resource governance, access to justice and service delivery. Prior to her posting in Vanuatu she worked across the East Asia Pacific and Africa Justice for the Poor programs and coordinated the World Bank's input into the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor's work. Before the World Bank she worked on conflict, development and access to justice issues for UNMIT in Timor-Leste, crisis prevention for Amnesty International USA, and minority rights in Bulgaria. Nicholas Menzies is a Justice Reform Specialist in the Justice Reform Practice Group of the World Bank's Legal Vice Presidency. He has worked at the intersections of plural legal systems as a land and natural resources lawyer for indigenous communities in Australia, on legal empowerment and access to justice issues in Cambodia and in providing policy advice to the Papua New Guinean cabinet. At the World Bank, he works on institutional reform of the formal justice sector and on mainstreaming justice into development programming with the Justice for the Poor program, with particular interests in impact evaluation, indicators and gender. Nicole Haley is the convenor of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, which is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research on contemporary Melanesia and Timor Leste. For the past 20 years, she has conducted deep long-term empirical and applied policy-relevant research (totalling more than 66 months fieldwork) in the Pacific, most notably Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and has published extensively on aspects of political and social conflict. Her PhD entitled Ipakana Yakaiya: Mapping Landscapes, Mapping Lives Contemporary Land Politics among the Duna, was an innovative and landmark study, which was awarded the 2003 ANU Crawford Prize for Academic Excellence. Dr Haley is co-editor (with Ron May) of a book entitled Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (2007) and of the recently published (2011) collection entitled Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea. She is currently writing about electoral politics and political culture in PNG. Rachael Knight is an attorney with expertise in the areas of land tenure security, access to justice, and legal empowerment of the poor. She previously served as Director of the International Development Law Organization s (IDLO) Community Land Titling Initiative, working to document and protect the customary land rights of indigenous groups in Uganda, Liberia and Mozambique. Rachael also worked as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 2004 until 2009. From 2002 until 2007, she founded and ran medical-legal partnership programs in Northern California that located legal services in primary care medical clinics to increase access to justice for low-income urban communities. Rachael recently completed a book for the FAO entitled Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights in Africa. Rea Abada Chiongson* is the Gender and Justice Advisor of the World Bank s Justice for the Poor Program. She is a lawyer and has over 15 years of experience working on gender, access to justice, law and development issues. Prior to the World Bank, Rea worked for the Asian Development Bank, UNIFEM (UNIFEM), UNDP, UNFPA, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and advised governments, legislatures and judicial authorities in Indonesia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Philippines and Viet Nam on integrating gender into a broad range of thematic and development issues. From 2002-2005, Rea worked on building capacities in more than 25 countries in Asia Pacific, Africa, Americas and Europe to engage in CEDAW and other treaty processes. Earlier, she worked with alternative law groups in the Philippines and was one of the initial catalysts for the setting up of the ASEAN human rights commission and ASEAN women and children s commission in Southeast Asia. She earned her B.A. and J.D. from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and an LL.M. from Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. 4
Rebecca Monson convenes the ANU Law, Governance and Development Initiative and the ANU College of Law Masters program in Law, Governance and Development. She has a background in both research and practice in the fields of environmental law, disaster and emergency management, and law and development. Rebecca's research is transdisciplinary, drawing on critical approaches in law, geography and anthropology. Her doctoral thesis, Hu nao save tok? Women, men and land: the negotiation of property and authority in Solomon Islands (2012) examines transformations in systems of land tenure and leadership in Solomon Islands occurring as a result of missionisation, colonisation, and the commodification of natural resources. Rebecca currently leads a collaborative research project involving Solomon Islander and Australian researchers which examines the capacity of customary tenure systems to climate-induced displacement. Rebecca has also conducted fieldwork in Fiji, and in both urban and rural contexts in Vanuatu. She regularly undertakes professional consultancies relating to gender, justice systems, and natural resource governance for both donors and NGOs. Renée Giovarelli* has more than fifteen years of experience in the legal and sociological issues concerning land tenure reform, land market development, land titling and registration, farm reorganization, rural development, pasture management, and land conflicts. Her areas of specialization are intra-household and gender issues related to land tenure and customary and legal property rights. She has designed and conducted fieldwork on women and their access and rights to land in the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Russia, India, China, Uganda, Ghana, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. She was the team leader for a year-long study evaluating the impact of World Bank land projects on women in four key geographic regions (represented by Bolivia, Azerbaijan, Laos, and Ghana). Renee earned her J.D. with honors from Seattle University and an L.L.M. with honors in law of international development from the University of Washington. Roselyn Tor retired in 2000 after serving the Government for over 37 years in various fields ranging from teaching primary schools to training practicing teachers, public servants in administration and management. In 1990 Roselyn completed a post graduate diploma in business administration with the International Management Center of Buckingham, United Kingdom, and in 1993 started the Department of Culture, Religion, Women s Affairs and Archives and worked with women and communities. In 1996, she initiated the Vanwods, and launched it on February 14 th 1997 with 20 members. Today it has over 3000 members. Roselyn travelled all over the Pacific and to Asia and Europe giving talks on women s issues and microfinance for the disadvantaged people. After retirement, she works mainly as a private consultant. As of November 2006 to 2012, Roselyn has been working with the Chiefs and assisting UQ Researchers on various topics including land and gender throughout the 6 provinces. Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Washington DC. She leads the IFPRI Gender Task Force and is Theme Leader on Inclusive Governance and Institutions in the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Much of her work has been interdisciplinary research on water policy, local organizations, property rights, gender analysis, and the impact of agricultural research on poverty. She has conducted field work in Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and India, where she was born and raised. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications, including Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia and the forthcoming volume Gender in Agriculture and Food Security: Closing the Knowledge Gap. Saku Akmeemana is a Senior Governance Specialist in the World Bank and coordinates the Justice for the Poor program in Timor-Leste. Her focus is on the political economy of institutional change, understanding the dynamics of existing patronage and governance systems in both post-conflict contexts in East and South Asia as well as the entrenched bureaucracies of South Asia. She has worked on empirical approaches to issues of disputation and conflict (Disputes, Crimes and Pathways of Redress, 2011) and the broader governance and anti-corruption agenda including institutions of accountability, the state-citizen interface and the right to information. Prior to joining the Bank, Saku worked for various agencies in the 5
United Nations between 1999-2005 (DPKO, UNHCR, UNOHCHR). In Timor-Leste, she worked in the UN Special Representative s office on the constitutional process and transition to independence and then led the legal and land programs in the UN human rights office in Cambodia from 2003-2005. In a brief career in Australia, Saku served in legal and policy roles on human rights and public law before being appointed a member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. Shaun Williams is Justice for the Poor s Regional Land and Natural Resource Governance Advisor. Shaun is a development practitioner with 25 years of experience in providing land and natural resource governance advice to multilateral agencies, governments and non-government organisations in a range of countries. He spent more than a decade as a land rights advocate for Indigenous Australians. He has managed a comprehensive, long term research project into judicial and administrative institutional responses to property-related conflicts for Oxfam GB in Cambodia and also provided the social assessment for the design of a World Bank land administration and management project in Cambodia. Shaun also carried out a completion assessment of the joint World Bank, FAO, and AusAID Thailand Land Titling Program. Shaun has worked extensively in Africa on land sector reform and customary land issues including in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda, Sierra Leone and the Sudan. Siobhan McDonnell is a legal anthropologist specializing on land and governance issues in Vanuatu. She is currently completing a Phd on land issues in Vanuatu. She has been the Land Law Advisor to the Attorney General of Vanuatu and Legal Advisor in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre. Prior to working in Melanesia, she spent 10 years working on land and governance issues in Indigenous Australia. Stella Brere is currently employed by the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) of Papua New Guinea as the Acting Manager Sustainability Planning & Gender Coordinator. She served with MRA since June 2007. Prior to employment with MRA, she served as a PNG In-Country Program Officer to the AusAID s Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Program (AYAD) from 2003-2006 coordinating placements of volunteers with organizations serving in PNG Government s development priority areas. She also served with Conservation Melanesia Inc. a local NGO as an Environmental Education Officer providing environmental awareness and trainings to the local communities at Maisin, Collingwood from 2000 to 2003. Stella graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Science. Waafas Ofosu-Amaah, a Ghanaian national, currently serves as the World Bank Institute s (WBI) Regional Coordinator for Africa. Prior to this assignment, she was a Senior Operations Officer with WBI s Fragile and Conflict-Affected States unit, where she worked on knowledge and capacity issues in fragile states. Before joining WBI, she was a Senior Gender Specialist with the Gender and Development unit of the World Bank for ten years. Her responsibilities covered the policy, legal, gender, and social dimensions of development. Her thematic areas of expertise include gender equality; legal rights and broad vulnerability issues; fragility and conflict; and mainstreaming these issues into World Bank policies and operational and analytical work. Waafas has a Master s degree in law from London University (Queen Mary College) and an MBA from the University of Maryland. *Participating via Video Conference Facilities 6