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Gender - East Timorese Organizations
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 Alola Foundation
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
The Alola Foundation is a large, high-profile East Timorese NGO based in Dili. It was founded by the First Lady of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (RDTL), Kirsty Sword Gusmão, in 2001. Its overarching concern is with the needs, participation and status of women and children in the development of the East Timorese nation, as expressed in its motto, ‘strong women, strong nation’.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 3, Dili, Timor-Leste (via Darwin, Australia)
Tel: (670) 3323855
Email: info@alolafoundation.org
Website: www.alolafoundation.org
Address: near Mercado Lama, Dili
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Asosiasaun Mane Kontra Violensia (AMKV)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Asosiasaun Mane Kontra Violensia (the Association of Men Against Violence, commonly referred to as AMKV) is an East Timorese NGO that focuses on encouraging men’s participation in the struggle for gender equality. In particular the organization attempts to urge men to take responsibility for reducing the incidence of gender-based violence.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 726 4240; (670) 732 8368
Email: kontraviolensia2002@yahoo.com
Address: Rua Gov. Celestino da Silva, Farol, Dili (next to Luta Hamutuk’s office)
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Caucus Feto iha Politika
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Caucus Feto iha Politika (Women’s Political Caucus) is the only East Timorese NGO that focuses predominantly on promoting women’s participation in formal politics. Caucus’s overarching vision is for equality between women and men in political decision-making arenas. Given this, Caucus encourages a gender balance between women and men in decision-making positions as well as quality of women’s political participation. Non-partisan support for women’s political participation is a principle governing Caucus’s work; thus the organization works with a wide range of political parties and affiliations.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 728 3786 (Director Terezinha Maria Noronha Cardoso)
Email: caucuset@yahoo.com
Address: Rua Avenide Cidade de Beza, Vila Verde, Dili
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Centro Baucau Buka Hatene
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Centro Baucau Buka Hatene, commonly referred to in English as the ‘Baucau Friendship and Knowledge Centre’, opened in 2004. Centro Baucau Buka Hatene aims to serve the entire Baucau district and is envisaged as a welcoming space where community members can come together to learn new skills, meet, organize, and obtain information and assistance. In particular Centro Baucau Buka Hatene seeks to attract the participation of young people and women. Centro Baucau Buka Hatene operates with significant support from its key partner, Friends of Baucau. The substantial ‘Programa Feto no Desenvolvimentu’ (Women’s Development Program) is guided by the principle of empowering women to improve their own lives and the lives of their local communities.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 725 4072 (Co-ordinator Women and Development Program)
Email: rodriguesbenvinda@yahoo.com.au
Website: www.friendsofbaucau.org
Address: Estrada Watu-lete, Tirilolo, Baucau
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Feto Kiik Servisu Hamutuk (FKSH)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Feto Kiik Servisu Hamutuk (FKSH or Young Women Working Together) is an NGO staffed by five women based in Dili and one male field officer in Same district. The organization was established in 2002 and was voluntarily run until it received its first funding in 2004. FKSH’s activities chiefly focus on developing the organizational capacity of small enterprise groups—including women’s groups—concentrating on areas beyond Dili (specifically Same and Aileu). Small enterprise groups are assisted to build proficiency in the following areas: financial management, small business administration, leadership, organizational management and particular types of skills pertinent to particular business activity, such as sewing, baking and literacy.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 724 1583 (Executive Director Gizela de Carvalho)
Email: fksh_timor@yahoo.com.au
Address: 6 Rua Combatantes, Vila Verde, Dili
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FOKUPERS (Forum Komunikasi Untuk Perempuan Timor Lorosa'e)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
FOKUPERS (Forum Komunikasi Untuk Perempuan Timor Lorosa’e, or East Timor Women’s Communication Forum) is a high-profile East Timorese NGO, one of a small group of women’s national organizations that began prior to 1999. The organization primarily concentrates its efforts supporting women who have suffered forms of violence, particularly domestic and sexual violence. FOKUPERS views its focus on violence against women as part of a broader struggle for women’s liberation from patriarchal structures and for women’s rights. For FOKUPERS there is a great need to ensure that East Timorese communities understand that the pursuit of gender equality necessitates the involvement of and changes in both women and men.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 332 1534
Email: fokupers2003@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.fokupers.org/
Address: Rua Gov. Celestino da Silva 27, Farol, Dili
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FONGTIL (Forum ONG Timor-Leste)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
FONGTIL (Forum ONG Timor Leste, or the East Timor NGO Forum) is the peak East Timorese umbrella body for NGOs. FONGTIL’s major activities include facilitating monitoring and evaluation, training in various skill sets, and technical assistance for member NGOs. Previously, gender has not been a major focus for FONGTIL. However, the organization is committed to giving gender more attention in the next stage of its development from 2007. In particular the organization will focus on supporting gender equity within organizations, through staff gender balance and encouraging women’s participation and leadership in all facets of NGO work.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 733 0120
Email: info@fongtil.info
Address: Estrada de Caicoli, Caicoli, Dili
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GFFTL (Grupo Feto Foinsa'e Timor Lorosa'e)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
GFFTL (Grupo Feto Foinsa’e Timor Lorosa’e, or East Timor Young Women’s Group) originated in 1998 as a student organization to support the independence movement. The vision of GFFTL is for an independent Timor-Leste, which in turn necessitates the liberty of women. The hope of GFFTL is that, if many organizations and communities work together, in 50 years’ time women will be able to experience freedom in a range of ways. For example, all women will be literate, have access to quality education and will experience good health. For GFFTL, factors hindering women’s liberation are exacerbated by the distance of many communities from Dili, where many services, organizational programs and information dissemination processes are concentrated. Thus there is a persistent organizational commitment to the advancement of women in rural areas.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 726 1671 (Executive Director Rosa Xavier)
Email: rosa_xavier@hotmail.com; naro_xavier2000@yahoo.com
Address: Knua Buka Hatene Centre, Estrada Comoro, Dili
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Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP)
Women's Justice Unit and the Victim Support Service (VSS)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
The Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP) is an East Timorese NGO with a high public profile. Founded in 2001, JSMP initially focused on monitoring the processes established to deal with perpetrators of war crimes and human rights abuses committed during the Indonesian military occupation. JSMP soon extended its mission to monitoring and aiding the progress of Timor-Leste’s fledgling judicial system and legislative development processes.
The Women’s Justice Unit was formed to look specifically at the needs and treatment of women within the formal justice system, especially related to sexual assault and domestic violence. Another aspect of the work of the Women’s Justice Unit is to undertake advocacy and training to improve the justice sector’s understanding and treatment of cases involving gender issues. The Unit’s primary concern is to improve women’s access to the formal justice system and to ensure that actors within the system, for example police, are equipped with the knowledge, skills and sensitivity necessary to ensure protection of women’s rights.
The Victim Support Service (VSS) was established as a unit within JSMP in 2005 and has four staff members (a co-ordinator and three lawyers). The VSS’s major objective is to provide quality legal support services to women and children who are victims of gender-based violence, so as to improve their access to and understanding of the justice system.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 275, Dili, Timor-Leste (via Darwin)
Email: info@jsmp.minihub.org
Website: www.jsmp.minihub.org/
Address: Rua Setubal, Kolmera, Dili
Tel: (670) 723 3723 (Co-ordinator Women’s Justice
Unit Maria Agnes Bere); (670) 729 7696 (VSS)
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Juristas
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Juristas (Jurists) is a Dili-based organization consisting of lawyers. Currently the organization, a member of Rede Feto, operates as an informal voluntary association. Juristas’ mission is to educate women about their legal rights, as well as to undertake advocacy to strengthen the legal system’s recognition of women’s rights. The organization argues that women are still largely unaware of their legal rights, which Juristas believes are protected by some vigorous legal instruments (for example the Constitution or CEDAW). At the present time, Juristas’ greatest concern is to consider how to give adequate protection to women against gender-based violence (GBV) within the formal justice system.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 725 2586 (Zelia Trindade)
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La'o Hamutuk: East Timorese Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
La’o Hamutuk: East Timorese Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis is a joint East Timorese-international NGO. La’o Hamutuk (meaning ‘walk together’) is primarily concerned with the East Timorese people’s opportunity to participate in decision-making processes, make informed decisions about and direct the development and reconstruction process and provide alternatives to decision-makers. The beginning point of analysis for the organization is that it is largely international organizations that are shaping the reconstruction process in Timor-Leste. As such, La’o Hamutuk argues that such organizations’ activities need to be monitored, critically analysed and reported to ensure accountability and transparency to the East Timorese people.
Attempting to utilise gender analysis across all its activities, La’o Hamutuk is aware that East Timorese people’s opportunity to participate in reconstruction and development processes may be gender differentiated due to a legacy of patriarchy and militarism. Thus La’o Hamutuk is conscious to pay particular attention to women’s participation in the process.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 340, Dili, Timor-Leste
Tel: (670) 332 5013
Email: info@laohamutuk.org
Website: www.laohamutuk.org
Address: 1/1a Rua Mozambique, Farol, Dili
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Oan Kiak
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Oan Kiak is a community-based small enterprise collective based in one of the most isolated rural communities in Timor-Leste, Barikafa, an aldeia in the subdistrict of Luro in Lautem district. Oan Kiak was established in 2003 and now has 24 female members and 5 male members. Oan Kiak was able to adapt its practices and formalize its structures significantly due to contact with Concern Worldwide. Oan Kiak undertakes a variety of activities, including running a kiosk, literacy and numeracy development and agricultural production.
Contact Details
Visit Barikafa, Luro, in Lautem district or contact via Concern Worldwide.
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Organização da Mulher Timorense (OMT)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Organização da Mulher Timorense (known by its acronym OMT or in English the Timorese Women’s Organization) was formed in 1998 as the women’s wing of the united resistance front, Conselho Nacional da Resistência Timorense (CNRT or the National Council of Timorese Resistance). In many ways, OMT’s original structure and design mirrored that of OPMT, the women’s wing of Fretilin. However the key difference was that OMT was designed to represent and provide a focus for all women supportive of the struggle for independence, rather than women associated with a particular party. As such, an inclusive and non-partisan approach underpinned the formation of OMT, and this was seen as important in terms of strengthening the unity of the independence movement as a whole.
With the success of the referendum in 1999 and the transition towards full national independence, OMT began to reconsider its role and mission. Rather than disbanding it was considered vital that OMT continue, given that the need for women to forge a place in the nation-building process remained so great.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 724 4739 (Florentina Smith)
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Organização Popular da Mulher Timorense (OPMT)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Organização Popular da Mulher Timorense (known by its acronym OPMT or in English as the Popular Organization of East Timorese Women) was the first East Timorese mass women’s movement. It was established as the women’s arm of the Fretilin political party on 28 August 1975, directly following the civil war between Fretilin and UDT. After the Indonesian invasion OPMT worked closely with Fretilin and its armed wing Falintil.
With the dissolution of CNRT prior to the Constituent Assembly elections held in 2001, OPMT reformed as part of Fretilin. Subsequently, many former members left OMT to return to OPMT. OPMT’s current mission is similar to its original position—the emancipation of women in all aspects of life, achieved particularly through education and community organizing.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 731 4141 (Secretary General Lourdes Maria Alves Araujo)
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PRADET Timor-Leste
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
PRADET Timor-Leste (Psychosocial Recovery and Development East Timor, or Recuperação no Desenvolvimento ba Trauma no Psisosocial iha Timor-Leste) works to deliver services to community members experiencing mental illness and trauma, often arising from violence. The organization embraces the term ‘psychosocial’ as a comprehensive way to describe its approach to service delivery. PRADET recognises that its clients’ needs are multifaceted and cannot be considered in isolation from their daily social circumstances. Consequently PRADET’s support practices extend beyond the organization’s core healthcare activities of counselling and medical services. Other forms of support offered include: resource distribution; engagement and follow-up with the client, family and local community; and actively liaising with a range of relevant organizations, including police, legal institutions and other NGOs.
It is within the Fatin Hakmatek program that gender plays a central role. Fatin Hakmatek has been developed to respond to forms of violence that are typically, though not exclusively, perpetrated by men against women and children: domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse (usually sexual in nature).
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 332 1562 (PRADET office); (670) 725 4597 (Fatin Hakmatek);
(670) 726 2744 (International Mentor Susan Kendall)
Email: pradet_timorlorosae@yahoo.com
Address: Rua Mercado, Taibessi, Dili
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Prontu Atu Serbi (PAS)
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Prontu Atu Serbi (PAS, or Ready to Serve) is a small East Timorese NGO based in Becora, Dili. It was founded in 1997 by Maria Dias, who has served as the board director for Rede Feto for several years. Underpinned by Catholic teachings, PAS works to strengthen the local Becora community’s future prospects, wellbeing and self-sufficiency. PAS holds that Timor-Leste’s governance bodies are currently unable to adequately support local communities, particularly in the areas of health and education, and therefore local communities must do what they can on their own terms. In this sense PAS envisages national development for Timor-Leste being driven from the local community level up, rather than from the central government down. The organization is geared to be responsive to the community’s most pressing needs at particular points in time. Across adaptations to programs and activities, the organization places a strong emphasis on empowering women, children and youth.
PAS undertakes various activities, and many of these can be broadly classed into the areas of community health, training and education, and community activities.
Contact Details
Tel: (670) 723 3035 (Director Maria Dias)
Address: Klinika PAS, Becora
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Rede Feto Timor-Leste
Please see here for a full organizational gender profile in English and Tetun.
Rede Feto Timor-Leste (the Women’s Network of Timor-Leste) is an umbrella network body encompassing national and local organizations for whom women or gender is a significant focus. Rede Feto’s current 17-organization membership is made up both of NGOs and community organizations, though Rede Feto has encouraged organizations to consolidate their structures according to legal NGO requirements. The membership is diverse.
Rede Feto defines its mission as struggling for and defending women’s interests, supporting women to work for equality and to contribute to national and global development processes, and promoting gender equality and women’s rights.
Contact Details
Post: PO Box 339, Dili
Tel: (670) 331 7405
Email: redefeto@yahoo.com
Address: Mouzinho de Alburqueque, Colmera, Dili
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