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Timor-Leste
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National Youth Forum – Dili
On November 9-12th, SFCG Timor-Leste, in partnership with the Timor Leste National Youth Council, hosted the National Youth Forum in Dili. The Forum brought together 92 youths (between the ages of 17-29) from all 13 districts and from a diverse array of backgrounds and communities to discuss issues relevant to them in the aftermath of the elections and the lead up to the withdrawal of the UN mission.
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Opening ceremony of the National Youth Forum 2012 by Secretary of State for Youth and Sport, along with EC and USAID representatives
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Rumor Management Training
From October 29-31, 2012, 24 young media professionals from all over Timor-Leste came together in Dili for the SFCG -TL Rumor Management Training. Lively sessions helped burgeoning journalists deepen their understanding of ways to handle the spread of harmful rumors, encouraging them to play an active role in strengthening democracy in Timor-Leste.
Click here to learn more.
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Yubakar Rajkarnikar (right), a media trainer from SFCG Nepal, with Media practitioners and young journalists
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Democracy and Development in Action through Media and Empowerment (DAME)
On the 23rd of August 2012, SFCG signed a contract for a new project funded by the European Commission and the Ministry of Finance of Timor-Leste. The project aims to strengthen the democratization process in Timor-Leste and further stabilize the country by building non-state actor (NSA) capacities while improving channels of communication between citizens and decision-makers.
To learn about the activities we’ve designed for this project, click here.
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SFCG-TL Country Director at the signing ceremony of the new EU contract
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Youth Engagement to Promote Stability This 3-year project, funded by USAID, aims to transform the way in which youth engage with government and community leaders to promote peace and reconciliation and prevent election-related violence. Overall, it seeks to bridge the gap between Timorese youth and social and political structures at the local and national level and contribute to conflict prevention through the innovative use of media. The project is an extension the previously implemented Youth Radio for Peace Building Project (YR4PB) project.
The program’s activities will build off the successes and lessons learned from past work, and incorporate new and complementary activities to reach the aforementioned objectives. More specifically, the project will be implemented using two interwoven activity streams: Civic Education and LeadershipTraining and Media Programming.
Learn more about Youth Engagement...
Women Empowerment & Access to Justice Project
Search For Common Ground (SFCG) works to empower women and provide improved access to the justice system. This includes implementing a media campaign for marginalised groups with objectives:
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To increase public awareness of basic rights to seek legal remedies to legitimate grievances; that is, to increase public knowledge and change public perceptions and attitudes regarding the workings of the Timorese judicial system;
To support the creation of referral pathways for Timorese women to access legal advice; and To enhance the capacity and sustainability of Timorese civil society organizations to play a more active role in peacebuilding processes.
This 2-year project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, seeks to promote legal awareness and responsiveness for marginalised groups, principally young women, and strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) and the media in Timor-Leste. The main activities planned for this project included:
Training in Justice and Conflict Transformation Skill Sets: SFCG will develop a training curriculum and deliver training for the legal aid organisation in key justice and conflict transformation competencies, including facilitation, negotiation, and mediation. -
Production of Radio Oral “Herstory” Series “Hatoo Historia Justisa” : SFCG and partner Timor Leste Media Development Centre (TLMDC) are producing a 15-episode radio oral “herstory” series (30-minutes each), which will cover a wide range of access to justice issues facing marginalised groups in Timor-Leste. The series will focus on priority thematic areas including: land rights, labour rights, combating violence against women and children, abortion, juvenile justice, and property and inheritance rights. SFCG will also work with community radio partners to develop interactive talk shows, which will create a public platform to facilitate outreach and advocacy efforts, boost efforts to increase public knowledge of the justice sector, and change attitudes and behaviour.
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