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• Korea Provides $2.1 Million as New Project on Social Businesses is Launched.
  The newly established Korea-UNDP MDG Trust Fund has approved the financing of a new, three-year USD$2.1 million project to strengthen social businesses in Timor-Leste and help Government efforts in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (Read More)
• Training helps Members of Parliament to fight corruption.
  Members of Parliament and representatives from other state institutions are attending a two-day workshop. (Read More)
• Timor-Leste makes special efforts to help disabled people vote in Presidential Election.
  Car mechanic Joel Fernandes paid no attention to the two steps that he climbed as he entered the polling station for local elections in 2005. (Read More)
• UN-supported resource centres open to all presidential candidates
  March 2012
  The United Nations is hosting five resource centres where presidential candidates can access facilities to help plan their campaigns, hold meetings and get information on the election process.  (Read More)
• Vehicles provided by Japan will fuel Voter Education Campaign
  16 Feb 2012
  An official handover ceremony of 15 Four-Wheel Drive vehicles, provided by the Japanese Government’s grant of approximately US$1.66 million to STAE, through UNDP, has taken place at the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) in Timor-Leste.  (Read More)
• Forum to champion economic development for all in Timor-Leste
  06 Feb 2012
  A Forum on Inclusive Growth organized in support of the Government’s efforts to create an economy in Timor-Leste which will strengthen the benefits of society as a whole starts today.  (Read More)

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Featured Projects

• Dancing to the tune of a better-informed citizenry
  For people living in rural Timor-Leste, access to news and information is extremely limited. (Read More)
• Small enterprises offer a creative twist on traditional Timorese products.
  Fisherman Mariano da Cruz stands amongst a vibrant crowd of entrepreneurs in Dili Convention Centre. (Read More)
• On the Road to the Polls 2012
  Stories from the build-up to Timor-Leste National Elections in 2012. (Read More)
• Microfinance Matters – Meeting The Clients In Maliana 
• Delfina Fatima has been running her bakery in Maliana for a year. But she says the $500 loan she received a few months ago from one of Timor-Leste’s microfinance institutions, Tuba Rai Metin, has made a huge difference to her business. (Read More)
• Identifying Vulnerable People in Timor-Leste
  “My wife and I have 6 children under the age of 9. We survive on what little I can farm from public land. We own 2 hens and 2 pigs.” (Read More)