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Humanity & Humanitarian Aid

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Kirsten Sayers
RedR Australia CEO

Speakers

Barnaby Caddy
Australia Assists Deployee – RedR Australia

Natascha Hrychow
Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia & GCSP Global Fellow

Anggie Burchill
Australia Assist Deployee – RedR Australia,
Rotary Peace Fellow

How do humanitarians build trust and sustain peace? Three humanitarian experts give their advice from crises around the world.

In times of crisis or disaster, coordinated humanitarian action is crucial to an effective response. But, with so many actors and individual agendas at play, how do you rapidly build trust across different levels of influence to ensure people receive the help they need quickly, efficiently and inclusively.

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Kirsten Sayers

RedR Australia CEO and RedR US Administrative Director

Former lawyer and diplomat, Kirsten Sayers, is CEO of international humanitarian response agency, RedR Australia. RedR Australia is the only United Nations Standby Partner in the Southern Hemisphere and Asia Pacific and is the sole delivery partner of the Australia Government’s civilian humanitarian deployment program, Australia Assists.

Kirsten has previously held senior diplomatic and commercial appointments in Paris, Bangkok and Taipei. She was Australia’s Chief Negotiator and Delegation Leader to the Asia Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) Women Leaders’ Network meeting and APEC Gender Focal Point Network in 2009, and managed Australia’s delegation to the APEC CEO Summit the same year.

Kirsten has successfully established RedR Australia as the preferred deployment partner and mechanism before, during, and after crises and conflict. Kirsten leverages international business leadership and humanitarian diplomacy to put Australia’s people and skills at the forefront of international response to build national and community resilience.

Barnaby Caddy

Barnaby is an international development and humanitarian aid specialist who has worked for more than a decade as an advisor and manager of projects in the Pacific, Asia and Africa.

He is a RedR Roster member, and has also managed projects on behalf of the Australian Government, the United Nations, Oxfam, The Fred Hollows Foundation and other international NGOs.

Barnaby recently returned from a RedR deployment in Bougainville, PNG, which was supported by the Australian Government’s Australia Assists program. He provided operations and logistics advice to the Office of the Bougainville Electoral Commissioner for the 2020 Bougainville General election.

Natascha Hryckow

Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia and GCSP Global Fellow.

Ms. Hryckow is an experienced leader of multilateral interventions with a particular interest in conflict and post conflict environments.

Senior management roles include Regional Conflict Advisor for the World Health Organisation (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen), Political Director and Head of country for Somalia and Kenya for the European Maritime Capacity Building mission EUCAP Nestor, Political Director and Deputy for the Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan with the NATO.

She has dealt with crises in Syria 2016/17, Guinee (Ebola response) 2013/14, Darfur 2008, Timor Leste 2007, and Pakistan 2006. At the GCSP, she serves as the Inaugural Chair of the Conflict Analysis Network, (CAN). She is the treasurer for The International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP).

Ms. Hryckow holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Science from La Trobe University (Australia) and was awarded a Rotary Peace-Building Fellowship to attend Chulalongkorn University (Thailand).

https://youtu.be/vD0hoZ1CuFM

Anggia Burchill

Anggia Burchill, Gender and Social Inclusion Expert and RedR Australia deployee.

Anggie is a technical specialist in gender and protection and an active humanitarian roster member of RedR Australia. Through her recent RedR deployments to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Anggie supported multi-sectoral effort led by in-country teams of the United Nations to integrate gender perspectives into humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery activities.

With 17 years of experience working in South East Asia and the Pacific region, Anggie has worked to contribute to strengthening collaboration and capacity in the integrating gender equality programming in ways that strengthen effectiveness and inclusiveness of humanitarian outcomes.

Anggie is also a recipient of Rotary Peace Fellowship to Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 2019.