ROCCIPI Analyses of Social Problems in East Timor

During the period 2002 through to 2004, the University of San Francisco School of Law Centre for Law and Global Justice, in partnership with and under the auspices of The Asia Foundation's Access to Justice Program in East Timor, conducted a Legislative Drafting Initiative comprised of both a civil society module and Parliamentary Committee module.

Workshops were conducted with members of civil society organisations to teach the ROCCIPI methodology which is based on the United States-originated Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change theory. The ROCCIPI acronym derives from the 8 basic elements of the theory that are the framework for analysing social problems and proposing draft legislation designed to address those problems; those elements being Role, Opportunity, Communication, Capacity, Process and Ideology.

There resulted from the workshops with civil society a number of reports containing the ROCCIPI analysis of serveral social problems in East Timor and, in some cases, draft legislation. These reports and drafts were then the subject of futher workshops with the relevant Parliamentary Committess whose members were also taught the methodology with the aim of improved the legislative drafting process in East Timor.

The reports from the civil society workshops are liste below as links to the content of the English translations of those reports.

The Legislative Drafting Initiative was directed by Mr Warren L. Wright, BA LLB, an Australian lawyer and former Property Rights Adviser to the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, assisted by Mr Alipio Baltazar, Program Manager, and Mr Ivo Santos, Program Assistant.

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Gambling in East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Serious Crimes and Amnesty in East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Communal Rights on Adat Land in East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Land Rights in East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Prostitution in East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Function and Role of F-FDTL in National Defence of East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Livestock Regulation in Urban Areas in East Timor

ROCCIPI Analysis of the Social Problem of Forest Preservation in East Timor

ROCIPPI Analysis of Diplomacy, Defence and National Security