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.
Charlotte is a highly accomplished, skilled and talented development professional with over a decade of experience in international development in 20 countries worldwide. She has a proven track record of providing strategic and programming direction to organisations to develop, implement and monitor policies, strategies, campaigns and programs to build gender-sensitive community resilience. She is an excellent educator and communicator of development theory and practice to a variety of stakeholders including government officials, non-governmental staff and partners, communities, academics, and other groups. She is co-author of Toward Resilience (Practical Action, 2013), a practitioner’s guide to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation programming and advocacy, which integrates gender throughout; and has developed a range of participatory risk assessment tools and guidance for working with poverty-affected and vulnerable communities.
I am a disaster risk management practitioner with 17 years experience in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Sudan, Afghanistan and the south Pacific;
My strengths are
• Field experience in disaster preparedness planning, humanitarian assistance, post disaster recovery and contingency planning.
• Experience in conducting and organizing strategies and mainstreaming disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation into development.
• Experience working with governments in raising the profile of disaster risk reduction, integrating disaster risk reduction before, during and after disaster.
• Preparation of consolidated appeals documents, disaster response and disaster recovery frameworks and plans and conducting rapid disaster needs assessments and post disaster lessons learned;
• Experience in disaster management capacity development;
• Experience working with government, non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies involved in development work and disaster management.
With an extensive career in Agriculture, Conservation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Project Management and Strategic Planning I am keen to work in a role that would utilise my skills and accumulated knowledge to provide constructive solutions to communities and positively impact on people’s livelihoods.
MLS consultancy Ltd provides a unique combination of scientific expertise and project management skills to support your business and primary industry economic growth in general.
- Advisory role in Conservation, Environment, Agriculture, Animal Nutrition, Adaptation to Climate
Change and Policy Development.
- Tool development for mass screening of plants for key phenotypic traits. Expertise in GIS and image analysis tool development.
- Project management / Program review. Contributed to statistical analysis, documents review,
meetings with stakeholders, final reports (e.i. FAO Pacific Country Programming Framework
Mid Term Review, Samoan Agriculture Sect
Environment & development consultant with 10 years’ experience in 7 sectors in 16 countries, including 10 Caribbean & Pacific SIDS. Key highlights:
2014 Climate Change Project Officer, The Australian National University
2013-2014 Sustainable Financing Consultant, Cuso International
2013 Marine Protected Areas Expert, GOPA Consultants
2012-2013 Policy Research Manager, Caribbean Policy Research Institute
2012 Executive Director/Park Manager (World Heritage Site), Jamaica Conservation & Development Trust
2011 Climate Change Consultant, Environmental Solutions Ltd
2011-2012 Environmental Project Manager, Conrad Douglas & Associates Ltd
2007-2009 Environment & Sustainable Development Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Currently self-directing PhD research into climate change adaptation in SIDS. Seeking to use my qualifications & skills to help limit human-induced climate change, & ensure that adaptation actions in SIDS meet their development & resilience needs & goals.
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.
- PhD in Marine Biology from the University of the South Pacific (1998)
- 1998 to 2000: Research Fellow in Marine Botanist and Taxonomy at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
- 1999: Consultant for WWF on the Marine Plant Biodiversity of the Cook Islands (Raroronga and Aitutaki)
- 2001 to 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti. Research on the marine plant biodiversity of the Society Islands, Tuamotu, Gambiers, Australs
- 2006 to 2009: Research Fellow, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Nouméa, New Caledonia. Research in taxonomy and the marine biodiversity of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Pitcairn, Clipperton, Fiji, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia.
- 2009-2011: Assistant Director, Alliance Française de Suva
- 2011-2015: Lecturer & Researcher in Climate Change, marine bio-fertilisers and food security, biofuels, Ocean Temperature and Ocean Acidification at PaCE-SD, USP, Fiji.
I am a strategic thinker and advocate for better environmental management including climate change and biodiversity conservation. I have over 18 years of experience working in both private sector, government and with civil society organizations in Vanuatu. This way of thinking has led to legislative amendments to existing laws governing environment in Vanuatu where from 2010 to 2015, over 10 bills were passed by the national parliament of Vanuatu to become law. These legislative changes has also the resulted in increased revenue (VT5m) for Government in 2013 compared to previous years where the average was VT500, 000.
I have devoted my last two years in Vanuatu Government on climate change, not only as a Climate Change Negotiator (2012 and 2013) but also as Acting Director General of the newly established Ministry of Climate Change from March 2014 to September 2014.
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
With an academic background in Water Resources Engineering (BS) and Urban and Regional Planning (PhD), I have always worked in multi-cultural environments and positions that involve research and extension programs on the critical issues of water, climate, and society. I have more than 20 years of successful working experience in some of the most climate sensitive countries in the Asia-Pacific region (Bangladesh, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands).
Since 2003, in my current position, I have been actively involved in the following: a) providing tailored, understandable ENSO-based climate information and products to support the planning and management of water resources, fisheries and aquaculture, agriculture, emergency management, utilities, and coastal zones; b) identifying impacts from and providing advisories for current and expected 1-year seasonal variability in rainfall, sea level and tropical cyclone activity; and c) providing periodic educational and event warning outreach.
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.
Matt is a Sustainability Planner with 30 years of experience in local governance, environmental planning, development planning, climate change and sustainable development programmes and development management projects. His experience in all levels of government has centred on community development frameworks, the integrating of environment and development (decision-making), participatory land use planning and governance. He has a wealth of experience and knowledge in: vulnerability assessments, risk management, adaptation approaches and methods, capacity needs assessments (CNAs) and NRM Policy development, as well as technical skills in impact assessment, coastal management, GIS/Remote sensing, soil and water management, and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) of programmes and projects. Matt has lead teams in rural development, climate change adaptation, integrated coastal management, disaster risk reduction, poverty alleviation, sustainable tourism, urban development and land use planning