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Gender - International Organizations in Timor-Leste
Below you will find details of those international organizations working in the area of gender in Timor-Leste that have submitted details to this site or that have been profiled by Globalism Institute researchers Anna Trembath and Damian Grenfell in the bilingual report, Mapping the Pursuit of Gender Equality in Timor-Leste: Non-Government and International Agency Activity in Timor-Leste, 2007 (English and Tetun).
If you would like to have an organization you work with added to this list, please consult the question format here and send details or enquiries to damian.grenfell@rmit.edu.au.
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The Asia Foundation
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Founded in 1954, the international agency the Asia Foundation is concerned to support the development of those institutions and processes across the Asia-Pacific region that it identifies as integral to democratic, functioning nation-states. In Timor-Leste this has resulted in an emphasis on legal, legislative, economic and conflict-management program areas, as well as women’s empowerment.
Much of the Asia Foundation’s work in the area of gender has focused on ensuring that women have access to gender-sensitive legal processes. Violence against women, and particularly the legal issues that accompany this—such as ensuring that women are supported by lawyers who are knowledgeable of women’s rights and sensitive to the social needs of women subject to violence—are key concerns for the Asia Foundation.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 331 3457
Fax: (670) 332 4245
Email: general@tafet.org
Website: www.asiafoundation.org
Address: Rua Jacinto Candido, Audian, Dili
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Blue Mountains East Timor Sisters Project (BMETS), Sydney, Australia
Please click here for a full organizational gender profile in English.
The Blue Mountains East Timor Sisters have several projects. Our main work over in East Timor is building friendship, leadership and connection with women in East Timor and we work closely with the Asia-Pacific Supportive Collective Timor-Leste (APSC-TL).
Contact Details
Individual contact details
Mary Waterford, +61 2 4759 3599
Suzie van Opdorp, +61 2 4784 1718
Judy Finch, +61 2 4757 4478
Organizational contact details
Mail: The Blue Mountains East Timor Sisters Project, MCRN PO Box 152, Lawson, NSW, Australia, 2783.
Phone: +61 2 4759 3599
Fax: +61 2 4759 3299
Email: mary.mcrn@bigpond.com
Website: www.bmets.org.au/
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Caritas Australia
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Caritas Australia (the Catholic Agency for Overseas Aid and Development) is an Australian-based international NGO with a foundation in the Catholic faith. Caritas Australia’s main activities in the area of gender are undertaken within its Human Rights, Law and Justice program. Through a human rights lens, the program focuses on sexual and domestic violence. Program activities vary from awareness-raising work to support for survivors and implementing violence prevention strategies. The organization regards the role of men in gender-based violence (GBV) prevention as both particular and crucial and thus has worked to ensure the active involvement of men at staff and community levels.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 186, Dili, Timor Leste
Website: http://www.caritas.org.au/
Contact Information for Gender Focal Point Fernando Pires:
Tel: (670) 724 7103
Email: fernandop@caritas.minihub.org
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Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is a multinational, faith-based humanitarian and relief organization that focuses on reaching the ‘poor and disadvantaged’ (CRS Timor Leste Annual Program Summary October 2004 – September 2005, p. 2). The advancement of gender equality, as well as peace and reconciliation, is mainstreamed across the Timor-Leste country program. CRS’s approach to gender is influenced by a view that ensuring the inclusion of women in development programs will diversify and increase the benefits. This is especially the case as women are identified as an integral part of ensuring the livelihoods of families and communities. Women, alongside youth, have been identified as a key target group for 2005 to 2009, particularly on the basis of their ongoing disadvantage in social and economic arenas.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 45, Dili, Timor Leste
Tel: (670) 332 4641
Fax: (670) 332 4640
Email: crsrep@tl.seapro.crs.org
Address: Rua Dom Aleixo Corte Real, Fomento, Dili
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Concern Worldwide
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
With headquarters in Ireland, Concern Worldwide is an international NGO that has been working in Timor-Leste since 1999. Broad organizational objectives include the combating of poverty and the promotion of ‘livelihoods security’. Concern’s work in Timor-Leste has moved from emergency programming (1999 to 2002) to longer-term development programs (2003 to present). The focus for these programs has been two subdistricts, Turiscai in Manufahi and Luro in Lautem, as these areas were considered to be experiencing very high levels of poverty. Concern has already mainstreamed gender analysis across program design, implementation and monitoring. Further, it encourages meaningful participation of women in community-based projects. Concern has already mainstreamed gender analysis across program design, implementation and monitoring. Further, it encourages meaningful participation of women in community-based projects.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 211, Post Restante, Correlos de Dili
Tel: (670) 331 2035
Fax: (670) 331 2039
Email: clare.danby@concern.net (Country Director)
Website: www.concern.net
Address: Rua Governador Lacerda de Maia, Vila Verde, Dili
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East Timor Women Australia (ETWA)
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Weaving traditional cloth ('Tais') is an integral part of many women's lives and plays a key role in East Timorese culture and identity. ETWA is a membership based, grass-roots Australian NGO working to help East Timorese women weave sustainable communities for their families and future generations. Through the richness of weaving, ETWA aims to help our partner organisations, the Taibesi Cooperative and Cooperativa Tais Timor, to maintain cultural integrity while also helping women to improve their life chances.
Contact Details
Website: www.timorwomen.org
Email: office@etwa.org.au
Office Address: The Augustine Centre, 2 Minona St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 3122
Mailing Address: ETWA, PO Box 3079, Auburn, VIC, Australia 3123
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Friends of Baucau Women's Development Program
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Friends of Baucau is based in Melbourne, Australia, supported by the Cities of Yarra and Darebin. Friends of Baucau supports partners and programs in Baucau, Timor-Leste, in particular the Buka Hatene Centre, which coordinates the Friends of Baucau Women's Development Program.
Contact Details
Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~fobaucau
In Timor-Leste:
Benvinda Rodrigues, Women's Development Coordinator, Baucau.
Mobile: +670 725 4072.
Email: rodriguesbenvinda@yahoo.com.au.
Lorraine McBride, Australian Volunteer/Community Development, Friends of Baucau, Baucau.
Mobile: +670 724 1233.
Email: manalorensa@yahoo.com.au.
In Australia:
Clare Murrell, Friends of Baucau Timor-Leste Project Officer (Cities of Yarra and Darebin).
Tel: + 61 3 9205 5156 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays), +61 3 8470 8307 (Thursdays and Fridays).
Mobile: 0419 750 457.
Email: murrellc@yarracity.vic.gov.au; clare.murrell@darebin.vic.gov.au
Mail: PO Box 91 Preston VIC 3072, Melbourne, Australia.
George Bennett, Fundraising and Volunteers Coordinator (City of Darebin)
Tel: +61 3 8470 8307.
Email: gbennett@darebin.vic.gov.au
Mail: PO Box 91 Preston VIC 3072, Melbourne, Australia.
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The Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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The Globalism Institute has been undertaking research in Timor-Leste since 2003, particularly focusing upon investigating processes of redefining forms of identity in periods of considerable change, with an emphasis on the post-independence era. While national identity in Timor-Leste has been a key focus, gender is increasingly central to the Institute's work. Part of this work includes concentrating upon facilitating forms of innovative, critical dialogue about the practice of pursuing gender equality. The Globalism Institute encourages this dialogue to take place in a manner that is inter-organizational, international, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic.
Contact Details
Damian Grenfell, Timor-Leste Research Manager
Tel: +61 3 9925 3462 in Australia or Mob: +670 732 7481 in Timor-Leste
Email: damian.grenfell@rmit.edu.au
Website: http://globalism.rmit.edu.au/ and www.timor-leste.org
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Oxfam Australia
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Oxfam Australia, previously known as Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, is an Australian aid and development NGO. Its Timor-Leste program office is in Dili with sub-offices in Suai town and Oecusse. Oxfam Australia in Timor-Leste primarily works with local partner organizations rather than undertaking direct implementation.
Oxfam Australia in Timor-Leste places a high degree of emphasis on gender and seeks to mainstream gender issues across its programs, as well as to give gender a specific focus in its own right. Guiding the organization’s work in the area of gender is the notion that the nation building process in Timor-Leste has not sufficiently engaged various marginalized sectors of the population, including women, and that for women this is compounded by traditional systems of patriarchy. Thus Oxfam Australia attempts to work at various societal levels to ensure the participation and consideration of women in national development processes.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 152, Dili
Tel: (670) 331 2605
Fax: (670) 332 1792
Website: www.oxfam.org.au
Address: Estrada de Balide, Matadouro, Dili
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Progressio
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Established in 1940, Progressio (formerly CIIR or the Catholic Institute of International Relations) is an international faith-based NGO with headquarters in the United Kingdom and another major office in Ireland. The achievement of social justice and the elimination of poverty are Progressio’s primary objectives. Gender equity in relation to access to resources and power forms part of Progressio’s vision for social, economic and political transformation. While Progressio has various local partners in Timor-Leste, the bulk of Progressio’s gender-related work is undertaken through a partnership with Rede Feto Timor-Leste.
Contact Details
Website: http://www.ciir.org/
Contact Information for Edna S. Tesoro, Progressio Capacity Building Advisor to Rede Feto Timor-Leste:
Post Rede Feto: PO Box 339, Dili
Tel: (670) 331 7405 (Rede Feto); (670) 728 3795 (Edna Tesoro)
Email: progressiotl@googlemail.com; redefeto@yahoo.com; ednatesoro@yahoo.com
Address Rede Feto: Mouzinho de Alburqueque, Colmera, Dili
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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) established a presence in Timor-Leste with an initial needs assessment in 2000, and opened a country office in 2001. At a global level, UNIFEM approaches gender in two ways: first, to promote gender equality between women and men, and second, to advance women’s status through women’s empowerment. Within recent years the UNIFEM Timor-Leste country team have defined their defining program objectives as: to promote gender equality in democratic governance and to end violence against women.
UNIFEM staff in Timor-Leste collaborate closely with a range of organizational partners in order to implement programs. In doing so, UNIFEM places strong emphasis on developing the capacity of those implementing partners through technical assistance, funding provision, training and mentoring. UNIFEM also maintains a commitment to strengthening those organizations in Timor-Leste with key roles to play in the pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 331 2481
Fax: (670) 331 2408
Email: milena.pires@unifem.org (Timor-Leste Program Coordinator and Coordinator of Integrated Program of Women in Politics and Decision Making, Milena Pires);
dianne.unifem@undp.org (Project Co-ordinator, PERWL, Dianne D. Arboleda);
repelita.tambunan@unifem.org (National Coordinator of CEDAW SEAP);
vicenta.maria-correia@unifem.org (Coordinator of Women, Peacebuilding, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Program)
Address: UN Agency House, Estrada Caicoli, Caicoli, Dili
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is one of the largest United Nations agencies working in Timor-Leste. It has had a Timor-Leste Country Office since 1999, and is based at UN House in Caicoli, Dili. UNDP works with governance institutions, other agencies and CSOs, and communities. UNDP’s current priority is to promote sustainable development guided by a long-term perspective and taking account of Timor-Leste’s material conditions. The organization has consolidated its focus areas in Timor-Leste for the period 2003 to 2007 as follows: promoting democratic governance, poverty reduction and community development, managing energy and the environment, achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and HIV/AIDS.
UNDP’s objective of gender equality is considered an appropriate end in itself as well as essential to realising effective, long-term development. UNDP’s Corporate Gender Strategy outlines the agency’s gender policy in Timor-Leste and the strategies it believes are necessary to achieve this. The organization utilises the strategic approaches of gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment to pursue gender equality.
Contact Details
Tel: (670 390) 331 3535
Fax: (670 390) 331 3534
Website: www.tl.undp.org
Address: UN Agency House, Estrada Caicoli, Caicoli, Dili
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is a United Nations agency with a sizable country program in Timor-Leste. Across the world, UNFPA encourages national collection and use of population data so as to guide the formation of appropriate development policies and programs. In particular, UNFPA is concerned with development practice related to reproductive rights and health, the reduction of poverty by means of accessible reproductive choices, and gender equality. Gender-based violence is a key focus issue for the agency.
In Timor-Leste, UNFPA gives technical assistance to its primary partners, which are government ministries and offices. Secondary partners include NGOs and other United Nations and donor agencies. While UNFPA operates from UN House in Caicoli, UNFPA staff are also placed to work directly with government and NGO partners. For example, the UNFPA Gender-Based Violence Program Co-ordinator and Assistant, as well as a Training Officer, work with project staff in the Office for the Promotion of Equality, and UNFPA funds an organizational development advisor to work with PRADET Timor-Leste.
UNFPA approaches gender from a combined health, rights and development perspective.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 333 9807 (GBV Project)
Address: UN Agency House, Estrada Caicoli, Caicoli, Dili
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World Bank
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The World Bank has a large Timor-Leste country program. It works closely with the government, United Nations agencies, the Asian Development Bank (a World Bank subsidiary) and other large donors to support and monitor development programs and the government’s budgetary processes.
The World Bank’s work in Timor-Leste is guided by a tripartite framework of objectives: delivering sustainable services, creating productive employment and strengthening governance. Gender and youth are considered ‘cross-cutting issues’ to be mainstreamed across all World Bank projects. The World Bank identifies women and youth as two particular social demographics that need specific consideration due to the socio-economic pressures these groups face. Moreover the World Bank holds that economic development and reduction of poverty is achieved more quickly if women and men participate equally in the development process.
Primarily the World Bank looks to ensure a gender balance in participation in its projects, seeks to co-ordinate with UN agencies and other donor bodies on gender matters and provides some small grants to women’s organizations and gender initiatives.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 332 4649
Fax: (670) 332 1178
Website: www.worldbank.org/tl
Address: Rua Dos Direitos Humanos, Dili
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YWCA Australia
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The YWCA is a global membership organisation of 25 million women and girls in 122 countries. We work towards peace, diversity, freedom and human dignity by promoting and sustaining women's leadership.
In the world's newest nation, YWCA Australia's East Timor Committee has been working to support existing women's organisation in Timor-Leste since 2003. YWCA Australia has a specific interest in gender specific projects that would enhance leadership and skill development opportunities for young Timor-Leste women.
Contact Details
Street Address: Cnr Rutherford & Officer Court, Ainslie, ACT, Australia 2602
Postal Address: PO Box 1022, Dickson ACT 2602
Phone: +61 2 6230 5150
Fax: 02 6230 5156
Email: natoffice@ywca.org.au
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