Local NGOs in national development: The case of East Timor

Appendix C Questions which guided the Case Study Research
For every interviewee:
• Explain details of the research (Plain Language Statement)
• Confidentiality statement
• Name/position of interviewee
Then select appropriate questions for each interviewee:
Clarify roles over the period before 1999-2004 with NGO
Pre 1999
1. How did the organisation begin and what was its original vision?
2. Who was involved in its early period? Where were they from? What was their
background?
3. How did it pursue that vision before September 1999?
4. What sorts of programs did it run?
5. Where did it get funds to do the work?
6. How was it structured/how did it function? (Internal and board?)
7. What relationship (if any) did the NGO have to the independence movement before
September 1999?
8. How did it relate to, negotiate space with, the Indonesian authorities?
9. What relations did it have with other NGOs/CBOs? How did it relate to
communities?
10. What relations did it have with international organisations?
11. What role was it playing in lead up to ballot? (i.e. from about April/May 1999 or
whenever it stopped its ‘normal’ programming?)
1999-2004: How has the whole transition process affected what the NGO
did/does?
12. What happened to the NGO? Staff, facilities?
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