Timor-Leste Projects

Youth Engagement to Promote Stability (YEPS)

The Youth Engagement to Promote Stability (YEPS) project aims to transform the way Timorese youth engage with government and community leaders, promote peace and reconciliation, and prevent election-related violence by bridging the gap between youth and socio-political structures. YEPS also seeks to prevent conflict through the innovative usage […]

Her Story (Feto nia Istoria): Empowering Women and Increasing Their Access to Justice

In October 2012, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded us a two year project entitled “Women Empowerment and Increasing Access to Justice” (WEA2J). This yearlong project targeted women and youth from across all thirteen districts of Timor-Leste to address the entwined problems of the cultural subjugation of […]

Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment (DAME)

Our “Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment” (DAME) program, which started in 2012, strengthens the democratization process and stabilizes the country by improving the capacities of non-state actors and strengthening the channels of communication between citizens and decision-makers. Through the DAME project, we are working […]