Name: LiberDAD
Address: TL

The Double-Edged Sword: Forging Timor-Leste’s Sovereign Economic Path in the Age of WTO and ASEAN

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The Double-Edged Sword: Forging Timor-Leste’s Sovereign Economic Path in the Age of WTO and ASEAN

PRACTICE AREAS

PRACTICE
AREAS

Digital Commons and Justice

We encourage community internet network and digital rights. We promote democratic, and common management of data, trust and digital public infrastructure, workers-led and user participatory platform. Tech for changes and good.

Social, Environmental and Gender Justice

Promote and encourages social protections, regulations and policies on social-economic rights, community welfare, and climate justices. Expand initiatives to address precarious, parasites and extractive economic model.

Financing for Sustainable Development

We encourage abundance and wealth, and discourage austerity and scarcity. To mobilize and maximize national resources and global financial to address extreme poverty, inequality, unemployment, and ecological crisis. We need to promote an internal auto-centric development.

Tax Justice & Debt Cancellations

Taxing the rich and corporate and promote progressive tax policies for a just redistribution of national income and wealth. Address debt crisis and tax concession.

Participatory Democracy & Human Rights

Urban Alternatives & Rural Revitalizations

Democratizing public bodies, promoting people participation in collective planning and decision making process, and make it accountable and transparency in serving people needs, progress and human rights.

Community-led and centered urban planning and ecologically-friendly. Advance agro-ecological practices to protect and encourage food nutritious, and food sovereignty. It advocate the industrial and technological model that serves the rural, farmers and environment.

OUR VISION

OUR MISION AND VISION

LibDaD Consulting (Democracy, Digitalization, and Development) is a consultancy firm and research organization based in and registered under the laws of Timor-Leste. We focus on development and democracy in Timor-Leste and the wider Southeast Asia region.

Services and Thematic Focus

We provide consultancy services including research, writing, training, policy and legislative review, strategic planning, workshop and conference facilitation, capacity-building, advocacy, and campaign management. These services center on six thematic areas:

Digital Commons and Justice
Financing for Sustainable Development
Social, Environmental, and Gender Justice
Tax Justice and Debt Cancellation
Participatory Democracy and Good Governance
Urban Alternatives and Rural Revitalization

We aim to provide these services to achieve social and economic benefits in Timor-Leste. We write and publish on alternative voices, practices, and challenges regarding development, democracy, strategies, and policies facing Timor-Leste (as a Least Developed Country) and the people and states of Southeast Asia. Our ultimate goal is to promote genuine development, participatory democracy, and sovereignty in the region.