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USAID Environment Officers Workshop

8:00am EST

Coffee and Registration Foyer

9:00am EST

Welcome Remarks from Charles North, E3/Senior DAA Academy Hall

9:30am EST

State of the World 2016 with Guest Speaker Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute Academy Hall

10:30am EST

11:00am EST

UNFCCC: The Post Paris World with Guest Speaker Christina Chan, Dept. of State Academy Hall

12:30pm EST

1:30pm EST

Biodiversity Integration at USAID Balcony DHadas Kushnir Resilience and Environment Programming at USAID Balcony EAndre Mershon Climate Risk Management Facilitators Workshop Part 1 Vista B/CBecky Chacko

2:30pm EST

Integration of Environment, Population, and Health: Policy and Programming Balcony CClive Mutunga Many Faces of Climate Smart Agriculture: Which Ones Fit You? Balcony DNoel Gurwick • Moffatt Ngugi

3:30pm EST

4:00pm EST

Sharing Solutions for Working Across USAID Sectors to Achieve Development Goals Academy HallHadas Kushnir

5:30pm EST

Optional No-Host Happy Hour at Blaguard Offisite at Blaguard

8:00am EST

Optional Breakfast Session: Improving the 118/119 Process Balcony BHadas Kushnir

9:00am EST

Systems Thinking and Climate Change with Guest Speaker Dennis Meadows Academy HallDennis Meadows

10:00am EST

10:30am EST

Climate Interactive: World Climate Simulation - Can You Limit Global Warming to 2 degrees C? Academy HallAndrew Jones

12:30pm EST

Lunch Foyer Optional Lunch: Climate Integration Leads Angle B/CBecky Chacko Optional Lunch: GHG Reporting Help Desk: CLEER Web Tool Vista A Optional Lunch: Local Sustainability Conversation Balcony CArjun Tasker

1:30pm EST

Climate Vulnerability Assessment Demystified Balcony EJenny Frankel-Reed Effective Environmental Programming under Challenging Conditions: Navigating Conflict and Fragility Balcony BMary Ackley Hands-on Learning on How to Use Games to Communicate Environment Concepts Vista B/CDennis Meadows • Gillian Martin Mehers Using Situation Models and Results Chain-based Theories of Change in USAID Biodiversity Programming Balcony DMarco Flores

2:30pm EST

Reducing Risks and Safeguarding People: Guidelines for Involuntary Displacement and Resettlement in USAID Programming Angle B/CCaleb Stevens The IEE Buddy, an Online Tool to Assist USAID Team Members in Drafting an IEE and Request for CE, and Monitor+ Demo for EMMPs Balcony CAaron Brownell

4:00pm EST

Climate Risk Management Facilitators Workshop Part 2 - Hands-on Practice with the Climate Risk Screening Tool Balcony CBecky Chacko Using Mobile Technology for Land and Resource Management Balcony BIoana Bouvier The Latest and Greatest on GCC Monitoring and Evaluation Vista B/CKate Faulhaber • Rebecca Nicodemus • Kathryn Stratos The SilvaCarbon Program: Understanding MRV Balcony EEvan Notman Integrating Biodiversity and Climate Change in Activity Design Balcony DHadas Kushnir

5:00pm EST

Leveraging DOE Tools Angle B/C Networking/Poster Optional Session and Happy Hour Academy Hall

8:00am EST

Optional Breakfast Meeting: Using BAAs (BFS, FAB, and Bangladesh) Balcony DCurt Reintsma • Ed Salt

9:00am EST

Implementing the Executive Order on Climate-Resilient Development and the Executive Directive on Ecosystems Services Academy HallBecky Chacko • Hadas Kushnir

10:00am EST

10:30am EST

Assessing the Adverse Environmental Impact of Infrastructure Academy HallTeresa Bernhard

11:30am EST

USAID Leadership Talk with Guest Speaker Susan Riechle Academy HallSusan Reichle

12:30pm EST

Lunch Foyer Optional Lunch: Executive Memorandum on Ecosystem Services Balcony CHadas Kushnir Optional Lunch: Learn about Monitor+ Balcony DVictor Bullen Optional Lunch: TFA 2020 Angle B/CLexine Hansen

1:30pm EST

SERVIR: Connecting Space to Village Balcony BAlbert Anoubon-Momo Tenure and Climate Change: Rights to Land, Carbon, and Trees Balcony DJuliann Aukema Water Security in a Changing World Angle B/CRichard Volk Leading on Low Emission Development: Part I Vista B/CJen Leisch Building Capacity of Law Enforcement for Conservation: What Works? Balcony EAndrew Tobiason

2:30pm EST

BS-40 Competency Review Angle B/CVictor Bullen Frontiers in High-Impact Climate Service Application Balcony CPete Epanchin Looking to the Sea: A Focus on Marine and Coastal Tenure in USAID Programming Balcony DStephen Brooks

3:30pm EST

4:00pm EST

Engaging with the Private Sector Balcony ELexine Hansen Global Climate Change Integration Pilot Projects: What Have We learned? Balcony DRebecca Nicodemus Leading on Low Emission Development: Part II Vista B/CJen Leisch Leveraging Geospatial Analysis Balcony BIoana Bouvier Stopping Fish Poachers: Presidential Task Force on Illegal, Unrecorded, and Unregulated Fisheries Balcony CBarbara Best • Heidi Schuttenberg

9:00am EST

Synthesizing Environmental Evidence to Inform Practice and Policy with Guest Speaker Andrew Pullin Academy Hall

10:00am EST

10:30am EST

Where's the Evidence? Academy HallDiane Russell • Mercedes Stickler

12:00pm EST

Lunch Foyer Optional Lunch: Listening Session with Carrie Thompson and Victor Bullen Balcony CVictor Bullen Optional Lunch: Wildlife Trafficking in Asia and Africa Balcony EJuniper Neil Optional Lunch: Discussion with Andrew Pullin Balcony B Optional Lunch: Biodiversity Integration Champions Angle B/CHadas Kushnir

1:00pm EST

Putting the Conservation Enterprise Learning Agenda into Practice Balcony CMegan Hill REDD+ and Beyond: Current State of REDD+ Balcony EEvan Notman Revising ADS Chapter 204 and How the User Community Believes It Could Be Strengthened Balcony BTeresa Bernhard Scaling Up Renewable Energy: A Building Blocks Approach Balcony DJen Leisch

2:00pm EST

Climate Change and Development Strategy 2.0 Discussion: Part I Vista B/CTegan Blaine • Liza Cushion • Jamie Montgomery • Kathryn Stratos Demystifying Water Policy: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? Angle B/CJeff Goldberg • Chris Holmes • Patricia Mantey Feedback on the Wildlife Law Enforcement Capacity Building Learning Agenda Balcony CMegan Hill Integrating Climate Change Into Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Balcony BTeresa Bernhard • Erika Clesceri

3:00pm EST

3:30pm EST

A Conversation on Indigenous People and the Environment Balcony CBrian Keane Climate Change and Development Strategy 2.0 Discussion: Part II Vista B/CBecky Chacko • Kathryn Stratos Lessons Learned in Using the Open Standards Balcony DRebecca Butterfield Saving Lives, While Protecting the Environment: Lessons Learned from the Crisis Context Balcony BAnita van Breda • Erika Clesceri

4:30pm EST

Fail Fest: What We Learned When Things Didn't Go as Planned Academy HallMegan Hill

8:00am EST

Optional Breakfast Session: FS Career Mentoring Balcony BJuniper Neil

9:00am EST

Designing Cities that Love Nature: Promise and Potential of the Global Biophilic Cities Movement with Guest Speaker Timothy Beatley, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Academy HallTimothy Beatley

10:00am EST

Agency KM Tools for Environment Officers Balcony DAnthony Piaskowy Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Settings Balcony EMontserrat Acosta • Darren Manning • Danielle Miley Current Trends in Conservation Finance Vista B/CJP Gibbons • Scott Lampman Implementing a Cradle-to-Grave FSM (fecal sludge management) Approach to Our Sanitation Programs Balcony CKaty Sill

11:00am EST

11:30am EST

Communications, Messaging, and LPA Balcony DJoe Foltz How the US Global Development Lab Can Accelerate and Scale Achievement of USAID Priorities Balcony EAdam Tomasek Sustainable WASH Systems Balcony CKathy Rostkowski • Nathaniel Scott • Ghufran Shafi • Katy Sill USAID and National Adaptation Plans Vista B/CJonathan Cook • John Furlow

12:30pm EST

Lunch Foyer Optional Lunch: Foreign Service BS-40 Lunch with HR Balcony B

1:30pm EST

Regional Break Out Groups: AFR Balcony DTegan Blaine Regional Break Out Groups: Asia Balcony BMatthew Ogonowski • Hari Swaminathan Regional Break Out Groups: Europe and Eurasia Angle B/CMark Kamiya Regional Break Out Groups: LAC Balcony EChristy Johnson • Jessica Rosen Regional Break Out Groups: Middle East Balcony CAlexandra Hadzi-Vidanovic

3:00pm EST

4:00pm EST

Closing Plenary Academy Hall