This report presents the findings of the final summative evaluation of the three year project “Youth Engagement to Promote Stability”, implemented by SFCG Timor-Leste and its partners. Funded by USAID, the project aimed at transforming the way in which youth engage with government and community leaders to promote peace and reconciliation and prevent election-related violence. The findings of the evaluation show that despite shortcomings and challenges, the project has been highly successful in building relationships between youth and government authorities, as well as local political and civil society leaders. It has provided a platform for youth to organize and express themselves and collaborate with authorities to ensure youth participation in peacebuilding and democratization process in Timor-Leste. The project provided youth with positive alternatives and engaged them in extra-curricular activities and recognized that most Timorese youth have extremely limited opportunities for skill building and self-betterment. Having them coordinate joint activities with government leaders and engage meaningfully in civic dialogue is desirable but likely to occur further down the line. It also recognized the extremely low capacity of Timorese community radio stations and focused more on providing them with high quality radio programs to broadcast and on improving their skill level in basic journalism, and somewhat less on how the radio programs that result are changing the community. The project has been a stepping stone in building the capacity of Timorese youth and media professionals and contribute towards promoting constructive engagement of youth in peace and development of Timor-Leste.
This report presents the results of the Final Evaluation of the ‘Democracy and Development in Action through Media and Empowerment (DAME)’ project implemented by Search for Common Ground-Timor-Leste in collaboration with partners Belun, FONGTIL, CNJTL and FTM in the period 2012-2014, with funding from the European Commission – Contracting Authority: the National Authorizing Office (NAO) of Timor-Leste. The evaluation found that the project has been successful in contributing in mobilizing media, youth and civil society actors to promote the culture of peace and democratic values in Timorese society, especially among youth.
Today I listen, tomorrow I write, the day after tomorrow I read, and the next day I practice. Lece Aparicio Ramos is a 21 year-old student at the Instituto Superior Cristal in Aileu. She was the youngest of 24 participants in our Training of Trainers, part of the […]
Women are protagonists of our work to build peace all around the world. On occasion of International Women’s Day, our office in Timor-Leste decided to celebrate their immense contribution to our efforts, and spur the debate on gender equality in the country, with a huge march through the […]
Welcome to the second edition of SFCG-Timor-Leste’s Quarterly M&E Bulletin for February 2015! This bulletin has been prepared by the Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation (DM&E) Team at SFCG-TL to provide a summary of our radio program’s listenership survey results.
The listenership survey report is captures the reach, resonance and response of radio listeners four radio programmes Babadok Rebenta, Karau Di Kurba Dame, Her Story and Public Service announcements ( PSAs) produced and broadcast by SFCG in partnership with various media partners including local FM Stations.The programmes were broadcast in 12 out of 13 districts of Timor-Leste as part of the USAID funded Youth Empowerment for Political Stability (YEPS) project and EC funded ‘Democracy and Development in Action through Media and Empowerment (DAME) project.
Welcome to the first edition of SFCG Timor-Leste’s Quarterly DM&E bulletin for 2014! This bulletin has been prepared by the Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DM&E) team at SFCG TL to provide a summary of the District Youth Forum’s results.
