Hivos, in partnership with Fokupers and Assosiasaun Chega Ba Ita, is strengthening local NGOs and community organisations in the provision of support for women survivors and victims of violence in order to promote reintegration and access to economic development in Ainaro, Baucau, Dili, Ermera, Liquicia, Manufahi and Oecusse. The project has a budget of EUR 526,999.58 (funded by the EU and co-financed by the Norwegian Embassy Jakarta) and its duration is from 01/02/2020 to 31/07/2022.

ADRA Austria, in partnership with ADRA Timor-Leste, Rede Feto and ADRA Portugal, is strengthening CSOs to serve as vehicles for the economic and social empowerment of Timorese women, addressing gender-based violence, as well as promoting women’s capacities as agents for development and change through economic development initiatives in Ainaro, Baucau, Bobonaro, Dili. The project has a budget of EUR 888,888.70 (funded by the EU and co-financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation) and its duration is from 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2025.

Fundação São Paulo Diocese de Dili is addressing the impact of global climate change in Timor-Leste, using natural resources sustainably and reducing forest fires, creating a natural environment through reforestation, and the creation of an ecological farm in Dili, Dare Suco. The project has a budget of EUR 562,500 and its duration is from 27/12/2018 to 31/01/2022.

The Portuguese Consumer Protection Association (DECO) is working to empower Timorese consumers to their rights; encourage consumer participation, autonomy and critical attitude; strengthen with national, local and private public authorities the importance of consumer protection; and empower the Timorese Consumer Protection Association TANE, as a CSO. The project has a budget of EUR 620,000 and its duration is from 02/01/2019 to 01/01/2023.

UNDP is working to support the deconcentration and decentralisation process, by bringing governance, public administration and services closer to people, for both women and men, giving special attention to the needs and priorities of people living in vulnerable situation in Timor-Leste. The project has a budget of EUR 3,250,000 and its duration is from 29/04/2020 to 19/03/2023.

Plan Ireland is working in Dili, Aileu and Ainaro so CSOs actively promote activities and policies to prepare and respond to the impacts of climate change in Timor-Leste. The project has a budget of EUR 625,000 and its duration is from 27/12/2018 to 31/01/2022.

Global Campus of Human Rights is working to improve the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy and development by consolidating the newly established UNTL Human Rights Centre in Dili, based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, in its full integration within the UNTL structure, and in the consolidation of its new training, international networking and research activities. The project has a budget of EUR 300,000 and its duration is from 01/01/2021 to 30/06/2022.

Empreza Diak is supporting a cultural entrepreneurship movement in Timor-Leste while partnering with rural women, men and youth to strengthen the handicraft sector and promote it as an employment and income mechanism for rural communities in Dili, including Atauro Island. The project has a budget of EUR 419,556.84 and its duration is from 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2022.

CEPAD, in partnership with Lao Hamutuk, Rede Feto, Arco Iris, and JSMP, is promoting and empowering citizens in all municipalities of Timor-Leste to access their right to information while guaranteeing the necessary enabling conditions through legislative reform and institutional strengthening. The project has a budget of EUR 598,184 and its duration is from 01/11/2020 to 31/10/2022.

Mercy Corps is working in Dili to limit the generation of plastic waste and create a civil society organisation-inclusive circular economy for plastic waste, resulting in a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous Timor-Leste. The project has a budget of EUR 799,943 and its duration is from 01/12/2019 to 30/11/2022.

ECHO is supporting CARE Austria to directly assist 1140 people affected by flooding and landslides in April 2021 through provision of cash and technical support for improved shelter for the most severely affected households in Dili municipality; also emphasizing the participation and inclusion of women, girls and other marginalised groups in emergencies, with a focus on identifying and increasing their meaningful participation in humanitarian decision-making, and working in awareness in the other 12 municipalities. The project has a budget of EUR 100,000 and its duration is from 01/05/2021 to 31/10/2021.

Mercy Corps is working to improve climate resilience of the Maloa watershed in Dili through landscape and ecosystem management to support environmental, economic, and social development. The project has a budget of EUR 2,100,000 and its duration is from 30/09/2020 to 30/09/2023.

Oxfam Australia, in partnership with Foundation Ho Musan Ida and xpand Foundation, is improving climate resilience of subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste, increasing application of rural climate-smart practices such as community-based reforestation, agroforestry and carbon farming, access to financial services and improve gender equality in the short to mid-term in target locations and, in the long term, nationally and possibly internationally by setting the scene for scale-up. It will deliver an economic return to women and men farmers and promote self-managed social enterprises. This will contribute to environmental sustainability, reducing poverty and hunger, increasing awareness of climate change action through practical climate education and creating local-to-regional partnerships. The project has a budget of EUR 2,700,000 and its duration is from 3/11/2020 to 2/11/2024.

Plan International Finland is contributing to the creation of an enabling environment for women and girls in Aileu to claim and access their rights for a life free from gender-based violence. Its specific objective is to develop a replicable model to prevent and fight against gender-based violence in Timor-Leste. The project has a budget of EUR 422,496 and its duration is from 01/07/2018 to 30/09/2021.

The Spotlight Initiative is a multi-year partnership between the European Union and the United Nations, with a global investment of EUR 500 million, to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls by 2030. It is one of the world's largest programmes for women and girls. In Timor-Leste the Initiative will especially be focusing on the elimination of domestic violence and intimate partner violence. The Initiative aims at supporting measures of the Government to eliminate all kinds of harmful practices around violence against women and girls. The three-year investment in Timor-Leste for 2020-2022 amounts to EUR12 million. It aims to strengthen country’s legal frameworks and institutions, promote positive social norms, increase quality and access to support services for survivors of violence, improve the collection and use of data for better policy making, and strengthen partnerships with civil society organisations, grassroots and marginalized groups. The Initiative is jointly led by the Government and United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in Timor-Leste and will be implemented by UN Women, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and ILO.

PROCULTURA project, managed by Camões, I.P., is contributing to employment promotion in income-generating activities in the Portuguese speaking African countries (PALOP) and in Timor-Leste. Budget: EUR 19 040 000: EUR 17 750 000 financed by the EU, EUR 1 200 000 co-financed by Camões and EUR 90,000 by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Duration: 01/04/2019 to 30/06/2024. Project to Support the Consolidation of the Rule of Law (PACED) in the PALOP-TL, also managed by Camões, is improving its capacity to prevent and fight effectively against corruption, money laundering and organized crime, especially trafficking of narcotic drugs. Budget: EUR 8,050,000: EUR 6,650,000 financed by the EU, and EUR 1,400,000 co-financed by Camões. Duration: October 2015 to December 2021. The Program for the Consolidation of Economic Governance and Public Financial Management Systems in Portuguese-speaking African Countries and Timor-Leste (Pro PALOP-TL ISC Phase II) is working to improve economic governance, and managed by the UNDP. Budget: EUR 7,843,700.00: EUR 7,750,000.00 financed by the EU, and EUR 93,700.00 co-financed by UNDP. Duration: November 2019 to December 2021. 

The Asia Development Bank (ADB) is working to improve the livelihoods of rural communities through better access to public infrastructure and service by rehabilitate three district roads in Ermera and Liquiça municipalities and to contribute to building the local road construction and maintenance capacity. The project has a budget of EUR 20,450,000 and its duration is from 22/11/2016 to 31/12/2023.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is implementing a capacity building and labour-based programme to rehabilitate and maintain rural roads in Baucau, Lautem, Manatuto and Viqueque municipalities in order to improve access to agro-forestry areas, employment and economic opportunities for local population. The project has a budget of EUR 12 million and its duration is from 01/06/2017 to 31/03/2022.

GIZ Timor-Leste is implementing ‘Trees for the Future Partnership for Sustainable Agroforestry’, a programme financed by the European Union with EUR 14.2 million and co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is working with the Timorese authorities and small holder farmers to help preserve forests, to strengthen the economy and to improve rural communities’ livelihoods. It targets marginalised families in 40 selected villages in the municipalities of Manatuto, Baucau, Viqueque and Lautem. Ai ba Futuru is enabling farmers and communities to planting trees that will have commercial value, is helping to improve wood processing, and is encouraging the Timorese private sector to invest and become actively involved in establishing, harvesting and processing domestically-grown forest trees for local use and for export.  This enhanced value chain is providing both a major boost for economic diversification and make a huge different to farmers’ livelihoods. It will also secure jobs for future generations. The project duration is from September 2017 to November 2022.

Camões, Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, is working to improve sustainable development in Timor-Leste through a more effective, healthy, transparent, responsible and citizen-oriented public service delivery, in line with the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030, enhancing capacity of state and non-state actors performing checks and balances to participate fully in the decision making and oversight of the use of public finances for a better delivery of public services. Budget: EUR 12,600,000, which EUR 12 million financed by the EU and EUR 600,000 co-financed by Camões. Its foreseen duration is from 01/09/2017 to 28/02/2022.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to mitigate the health impact of communicable diseases, and particularly of COVID-19, and contribute to building strong, effective, and resilient health systems in Timor-Leste at national, municipality, and peripheral administrative (village) level. Objective 1: To mount effective COVID-19 response operations that are gender responsive and inclusive of all, participatory, transparent, and accountable. Objective 2: To strengthen the capacity of testing, detecting and monitoring COVID-19 cases. Objective 3: To reduce the risks of adverse impacts on morbidity and mortality including from other health issues. Objective 4: To access timely availability of technical experts, PPE, diagnostics equipment, other medical and non-medical items required for the prevention and mitigation of COVID-19. Budget: EUR 2,371,600 which EUR 1,971,600 financed by the EU and EUR 400,000 from WHO. Duration: 20 months

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a technical assistance action, which is intended to support the preparation and implementation of technically, financially, economically, environmentally, and socially sound investment project in Timor-Leste eligible selected sector (transport, water and sanitation, urban development and other potential sectors) in accordance with the Timor-Leste Strategic Development Plan and EU priorities, supporting and extending existing donors programme as appropriate. This action duration is from 13/11/2015 to 13/08/2024 with a budget of EUR 5,190,000.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is implementing the second phase of the current EU funded Pro-Resilience Timor-Leste – Strengthening Resilience in Communities Most Affected by Drought project. The expected outcome of the project is enhanced food security and livelihood resilience of vulnerable farm families (3 000 farmers organised in 100+ farmers’ groups) in El Niño drought-prone areas through the promotion and scaling up of knowledge-based products with demonstrated results in Timor-Leste, namely, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CA, agroforestry, post-harvest management, climate smart livestock management, off-farm water harvesting/management), CBDRM, climate risk monitoring and related early warning and inclusive CSA value-chain development. This project duration is from February 2020 to December 2022 with a budget of EUR 3 million.

The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Building (PACRES) is under the Intra-African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+) Programme funded by the 11th European Development Fund's (EDF). The PACRES programme will scale-up adaptation pilots in five Pacific ACP countries including Papua New Guinee, Samoa, Salomon Island, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu. In Timor Leste, PACRES will Scale up Integrated Vulnerability Assessments. The implementing partners in Timor-Leste is the State Secretary for the Environment (SSE) that has previously implemented successfully ACSE – regional climate change action. The SSE with PACRES will enhance water security in the communities of Larisula and Haupu. PACRES has committed EUR 350,000 for Timor-Leste out of an overall cost of EUR 12 million, and its duration is from July 2018 to January 2023.