Timor Leste

Baseline Report: Youth Radio for Peacebuilding

With support from USAID, Search for Common Ground in Timor-Leste recently began the implementation of a two year project entitled Youth Radio for Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste. The overarching goal of this project is to transform the way Timorese youth deal with conflict, from adversarial approaches towards cooperative solutions. This baseline study provides data and measurement of project indicators prior to start of activities, against which mid-term and final evaluation data can be measured against. To collect data, key informant interviews, community radio questionnaires, desk review, and focus group discussions were carried out. Ultimately, the report highlights the links between community radios, community representatives, and youth, noting that the link between community radio and youth is the weakest of the three; a relationship which this project aims to strengthen.

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