Local NGOs in national development: The case of East Timor

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks are due p
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements
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5.1.4 Return to development program
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8.2.4 The School for Activists (Esc
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GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ACFOA Australi
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FRETILIN Revolutionary Front for an
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OMT Organizacao Mulheres Timor (Org
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WORDS IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLI
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SUMMARY This thesis explores the ro
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NGOs’ survival and development, a
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Earlier development theory has also
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interested in those organisations w
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provided by the Commonwealth Founda
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Phase 2: Community development: in
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interviews to identify what had hap
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The key questions this thesis addre
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Timorese, and to this end, the defi
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HAK, FOKUPERS, ETADEP, and Caritas
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Table 1 NGOs selected for case stud
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accounts of the roles of the releva
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have not identified individuals in
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many stakeholders, and how they dev
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CHAPTER TWO POST-CONFLICT AND TRANS
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ut added a different third rational
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As Fowler (1997:30-33) recognises,
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(Clark 2003). Najam (1996) lays out
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more than skills training for indiv
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Pearce suggests that CPEs of the 19
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undermined. Further he found that g
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The above studies illustrate the si
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‘the control of violence is a maj
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As Mercer (2002) points out, civil
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influence on state policies, they s
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ather top-down approach of NGOs and
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‘consent’ (meaning learning tol
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2.6 Civil society and donors A sign
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donors supported in Latin America t
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Goodhand and Chamberlain (1996) als
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Thirdly, the role of the internatio
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CHAPTER THREE HISTORY OF GOVERNANCE
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cosmological perspective, Portugues
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Catholic schools educated 60 per ce
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3.3 Civil society in the Portuguese
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decolonisation talks had begun, a b
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Overall recovery of the economy fro
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movement as a whole, and this arran
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others he described as ‘semi-corp
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(2) High level politics-grassroots
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sponsored radio, began broadcasting
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However, a major turning point in t
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was barely able to function before
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CHAPTER FOUR THE STORMY TRANSITION
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Agreement and distributed it clande
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The only bilateral donor with a phy
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eflected in donor assessments and p
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(Brunnstrom 2000: 9). Timorese also
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‘representative, community based
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NGOs were reluctant to allow the UN
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were created, and East Timor was fi
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The CNRT Congress In August 2000 th
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The Constitutional Commission and t
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justice in Indonesia; the need for
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4.5 NGOs and the new government Onc
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law still applied. In June 2005 the
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CHAPTER FIVE THE CASE STUDY NGOS: C
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Caritas East Timor’s Rural Develo
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It is probably fair to say that the
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Additionally Caritas East Timor was
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clinics were run by various religio
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knowledge of the local context and
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training in general analysis. Howev
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staff also participated in one exch
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Diocese comprises 26 parishes. Cari
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ways in which a Catholic organisati
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fluctuations in its staff size from
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Government was through its service
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work soon expanded to areas around
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closely monitored by a nearby Indon
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CRS period. 136 As the situation wo
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only able to grow things on small a
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provided international training opp
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way of working with communities and
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use of tractors, and shifting towar
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people in key roles who were broade
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CHAPTER SIX HAK ASSOCIATION (PERKUM
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6.1 HAK in the late 1990s: its earl
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international NGOs: HIVOS (Netherla
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Jakarta. 196 While in Jakarta they
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6.4 Beyond the emergency: HAK’s n
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HAK 2001a:8). Throughout this perio
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Pursue justice for the victims HAK
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Liquica. HAK’s Branch offices wor
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The association started with around
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(Yayasan HAK 2001a, 2002). 228 But
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There were also a number of HAK’s
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At the same time HAK was involved i
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Empowerment, Policy/Advocacy, Inves
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challenges, the organisation had to
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Assistance Coordination (NDPEAC) in
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from over 120 members, and an agree
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Rights Office and related bodies, a
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HAK 266 (FOKUPERS 1999). Their init
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NGOs, Amnesty International, and th
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Timor Japan Coalition. After UNAMET
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provide training and education to w
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1. To ensure that women can live fr
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women candidates, among them its ow
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Domestic Violence legislation. The
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nation’s overarching Penal Code,
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7.6 Strengthening FOKUPERS’ own c
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assistance model to strengthen wome
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uild their organisational and staff
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CHAPTER EIGHT TIMOR AID AND SAHE Th
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groups in Australia, North America
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Timor Aid also played a role in hea
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problem. 331 This growth also cause
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The change of Director and implemen
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In early 2002, with support from Ge
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Civic education and youth civic edu
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traditional cloth, woven on a porta
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(EC). From mid-2001, Timor Aid bega
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language, enabling a number of trai
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continued the focus on capacity bui
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learned the lesson to not accept al
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HAK went to a workshop organised by
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groups and university students on t
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these sectors together. Other organ
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SAHE continued its original ideas o
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were not always asking for immediat
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This capacity to access resources w
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CHAPTER NINE CHANGING NGO ROLES AND
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Table 2 Phases in the study period
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5. Independence—the initial 12-18
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already had relationships, and foun
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Ministries, both as individual NGOs
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9.2 Overview of LNGO roles It is no
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It is also evident that since many
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weakened NGOs, at least temporarily
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workshops on development issues (su
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time and develop new strategies. Ex
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international NGO partners. Helping
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assess and reassess the context in
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FOKUPERS, were formed to protect po
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Their experience suggested that two
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disputes. Similarly KSI, a research
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that the national leadership tended
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some scepticism about, and distrust
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10.2 Local NGOs in development Deve
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development, providing early and co
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10.3 NGO roles in post-conflict pea
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also became active (de Araujo 2004)
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and UN Volunteers. 2006). UNDP was
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promotion than others. For other of
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of clean water and sanitation, lack
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hard to come by, and government res
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Appendix A Preliminary Lists of NGO
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PAS PAS Dili, Baucau, Lautem Satilo
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Lorosae Rumah Raykat I (Baucau) YCD
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sector, official donors were only p
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Grupo Feto Foinsa’e Timor-Lorosa
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Yayasan Halarae (means ‘Land Care
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Roman Luan Roman Luan is a local NG
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had been very evident after the Asi
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new director again in mid-2005 it s
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13. How did the organisation get re
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Since May 2002 35. What changes in
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Christian Children’s Fund Lola do
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Joachim da Costa 15 June and 1 Octo
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CIDA Afonso Aleixo 5 July 2004 Afon
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Peter Zwart Caritas NZ Clare Danby
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• HAK Foundation: HIVOS Counterpa
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