Project and Programme Design, Preparation, Implementation and Evaluation
Capacity Building, including training, institutional strengthening and policy development and planning
Disaster and Climate Risk Assessments and Management - nationally as well as for specific sectors, islands and communities
Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Financing
Eighty Options Pty Ltd is website development agency that specialises in the open source Drupal content management framework. Eighty Options can offer support and assistance for online communication needs, including rapid development of websites, online databases and portals. Eighty Options has worked with clients such as SPREP, WCPFC, CCAMLR, Tasmanian Fire Service and the Enhancing Pacific Ocean Governance (EPOG) project.
Gillian has extensive experience in understanding climate change impacts and undertaking vulnerability assessments; adaptation planning; and developing climate change policy in the Pacific including in Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea as well as in Indonesia the Philippines and Australia. Gillian's experience is often largely focused on ecosystem adaptation, and food security As well as working with National Governments to develop and implement Climate Change Policy, Gillian has also worked closely with NGOs and community groups to focus on community- based climate change adaptation. Gillian uses community capacity building skills to strengthen the competencies and abilities of people and communities so they can overcome the challenges they face (vulnerabilities) like those associated with climate change. Gillian also has understanding about costal defences for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.
25 years experience in environmental management with a particular emphasis on climate change, biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. I have spent more than ten years working on climate change adaptation programs and for most of the last decade I was the Manager Climate Change Science for the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Australia. In early 2013 I decided to look at opportunities outside of Australia. Over the last two years I have worked as the Climate Change Expert for the update of the Seychelles National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), lead consultant for two projects on Mainstreaming Climate Change into Key National Natural Resource Management Policies in Swaziland, International Adviser Jamaica 2nd NBSAP, Ecosystem Ecologist for SPREP EbA project on Choiseul Province -Solomon Islands and the consultant to synthesise the Eastern Seaboard Climate Change Initiative Research Program and an Honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University
For fifteen years Julie has supported governments, communities, NGOs, and humanitarian organisations across the Pacific, Asia and Australia to address climate change through their policy, project and program work. Her specialties are adaptation, resilience and gender. She has expertise in research, writing and analysis. She also has substantial expertise in developing and delivering tailored training packages and developing targeted and practical communication materials, guidelines and toolkits for diverse audiences. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills and substantial experience in mentoring, capacity building and leadership. She has a Masters in Sustainability from Murdoch University and is completing a Master of Climate Change from the Australian National University.
My area of expertise is in the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering specializing in;
• water resources engineering and integrated management,
• civil and environmental engineering design of infrastructures,
• environmental risk assessment and minimization, climate change analysis,
• urban hydrology, water demand forecasting and allocation framework,
• hydrological, hydraulic and watershed modelling,
• system dynamic and model development.
Qualifications: Ph.D (Env Eng). University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia, ME. The University of Auckland, BE. Unitec Institute of Tech
Employment History:
HARC, Melbourne
Senior Water Resources Engineer – Candor3 Ltd, NZ, 2014 – Present.
Quest Lecturer – Unitec Institute of Technology, NZ, 2014 – Present.
Research Fellow: UoM, Australia, 2014.
Fellow/Lecturer: BYU, USA, 2012 – 2013.
Water Resources Engineer: Division of Water Resources, Utah, USA, 2013 – 2014.
Tutor: UoM, 2008 - 2010.
Env Engineer: Wood & Partners Consultants Ltd, 2007.
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Education
2009 – 2013: PhD, UWA, School of Environmental Systems Engineering (SESE). Hydrodynamics and Sand Transport on Perched Beaches in Western Australia.
• Analysis of the variability and longer term changes of the wave climate in the southern Indian Ocean.
• Assessment of the dissipation of extreme wave events on the continental shelf.
• Development of a GPU based morphodynamics model (XBeach_GPU)
• Assessment of the role of the variability in rock topography on the dynamics of perched beaches.
• Modelling the sand transport on a submerged seawall using SPH hydrodynamics.
2004 - 2006: MSc (Integrated Approach to Geological Hazards), University of Sciences and Technology, Montpellier (France) – Grade A-.
• Development of methodology to map inundation from storm surge.
• Mapping tsunami hazards for 8 locations in the Mentawai archipelago using numerical models.
2003 - 2004: License’s Degree, Earth Sciences, University of Sciences and Technology, Montpellier (France).
2001 - 2003: D
Paul Mitchell has over a decade of international development experience in more than 20 countries across five regions. Paul is an expert in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. He has led adaptation programs for the Australian aid program and international NGO Save the Children. He has also provided consultancy services for government, non-government and international organisations. Paul focuses on helping organisations integrate climate change risk and adaptation into development programs at all levels and throughout the project cycle, as well as developing and implementing capacity building programs. He holds a BA (Hons) in Cultural Studies and Sociology and a Masters in International Development from UNSW. Paul has completed consultancies in the Pacific for a range of organisations, including: DFAT, the World Bank, Save the Children, CARE and Oxfam. More information is available at www.adapt-develop.com
Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke has a broad range of experience related to human rights, climate change and sustainable development. She has advised governments and NGOs on questions of international law at climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and in relation to potential legal claims related to loss and damage caused by climate change. She designed and taught a 10-day capacity building workshop on the added value of a human rights approach to climate change for Pacific Island states at the University of the South Pacific's PaCE-SD in Suva, Fiji in 2011 and is now teaching International Climate Change Law and Regional Environmental Law at the Emalus Campus of USP in Vanuatu. Her consultancy and capacity building work has focused on using domestic courts as well as international mechanisms - such as the UN Human Rights Council - to raise concerns related to climate change and its adverse effects on the enjoyment of human rights.
Over 30 years experience financial & contract management, budgeting, established financial systems in Samoa, Tokelau, SPREP & PIFS. Now, Financial Management Specialist, Samoa's Pilot Project Climate Resilience (PPCR-ECR) and Adaptation Fund-ERCC. Ability to meet funders' accountability criteria to drawdown upto US$3M in 3mnths intervals. Wealth of project experience in PPCR, AF,GEF, ADB & EU writing proposals, manage, monitor, report financial, contract progress & project results across sectors i.e regional economic integration, communities resilience to climate change & disaster risk management. Over 20 years experience in organisational development, institutional strengthening & governance, established performance management, monitoring & evaluation frameworks at regional & national levels. Extensive experience in results-based planning & management,capacity building and institutional reviews. SPREP Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) capacity building management planner.
Dr Mead’s background in coastal oceanography and marine ecology, specialising in hydrodynamic and sediment transport numerical modelling, coastal processes, climate change adaptation, coastal protection, offshore submerged reefs and amenity enhancement, and ecological assessment, allows him to effectively bridge the multi-disciplinary gap between physical processes and marine ecological impacts, which he has successfully for the past 20 years. Countries of Work Experience: Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Marshall Is, Mauritius, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England, USA, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Wales, Vietnam, Chile, Bahrain.
May 2015 to Present: Hazard Analyst, NIWA, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Mar-2015 to May-2015: Individual Consultant, UNDP Adaptation Fund Assignment – Status Review of the National Coastal Infrastructure Management Plans in Samoa.
Nov-2014 to Jan-2015: Samoa National Coordinator, ADB funded Strengthening Disaster and Climate Risk Resilience in Urban Development in the Pacific Project, Phase II – Samoa Case Study.
June 2014: Field Collaborator, Archaeo-Environmental Investigations along the mid-Holocene shoreline near Aitape, PNG.
Jan to Dec-2011: NZ MoRST-Fulbright Visiting Graduate Researcher, Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Aug-2004 to Jan-2007: Senior Scientific Officer, Geophysics Section, Meteorology Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Samoa.
Dec-2003 to Aug-2004: Scientific Officer, Climate Applications Section, Meteorology Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Samoa.