CRISIS PREVENTION AND RECOVERY UNITsupports national efforts for reducing the impact of natural disasters, preventing conflict and restoring the basic foundations for post-crisis recovery. Its interventions bridge between humanitarian response and long-term development work.

On-going projects

 

 

 

 

Communication Outreach for Recovery Project

The outbreak of violence that began in April 2006 led to the displacement of an estimated 145,000 people who took temporary refuge in camps scattered around Dili and in the districts outside the capital. Providing assistance for the recovery process for the Internally Displaced People (IDP) is a priority. Access to accurate and reliable information for IDPs is essential to long term and sustainable recovery.

From July 2006 through until the end of March 2007 UNDP, in conjunction with the former Ministry of Labour and Community reinsertion, implemented a project aimed at building and strengthening reliable networks to disseminate information into IDP centres and to IDPs throughout the districts. This present project will continue the work of the former project, as well as building upon already identified networks of information dissemination to ensure that accurate and reliable information is relayed to IDPs on issues that are topical to their well being and the recovery process.

This project focuses on completing the rehabilitation of the community radio stations in every district throughout Timor-Leste, supporting in parallel the distribution of wind-up radios to rural villages with radio coverage in Timor-Leste. Moreover, the project focuses on strengthening the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s outreach capacity to IDPs by supporting the creation and production of written and audio information for distribution, sourcing and compiling important information from other sources, distributing information regularly to IDPs in Dili and in the districts and supporting the outreach needs of the MSS Regional Centre in Baucau.

Duration:	April – December 2007
Location:	All the Districts
Thematic area:	Crisis Prevention & Recovery
Partners:	Ministry of Social Solidarity
Sources of funding:	SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

 

 

 

 

 

Support to Government for IDP Reintegration Project

A series of violent events between April and June 2006 have had severe consequences for the civilian population of Dili and other districts as well as for the urban environment, resulting in an estimated 3,500 houses and buildings destroyed completely or partially. The government has indicated its commitment to support the reconstruction activities. However reconstruction cannot begin without a proper assessment of the damages and a recovery plan.

Through this project UNDP aims at providing technical support to the Government of Timor-Leste to complete a reliable and unbiased assessment of the destruction; and to support some of the strategies already developed by some of the Ministries involved.

By providing a coordinated programme of support to the Government of Timor-Leste to enable the development of operational plans, strategies and guidelines, the project will allow the Government of Timor-Leste to be better equipped to deliver assistance to the 70,000 people thought to have been displaced by the recent violence in the country.

Duration:	April – December 2007
Location:	Dili
Thematic area:	Crisis Prevention & Recovery
Partners:	Ministry of Social Solidarity, Ministry of Infrastructures and National Directorate of Land and Property Office under the Ministry of Justice
Sources of funding:	SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

New project

WISE – Women In Self-Employment Project

The WISE Project will contribute to ease the burden of returnees on the host communities’ economy by promoting the creation of self-employment opportunities for women potential entrepreneurs in Baucau, Viqueque and Lautem districts. More than half of the displaced people that are living with host communities in the districts were forced to resettle in these three eastern districts of the country. These districts were also the most affected by the civil unrest that occurred in connection with the announcement of the new government on the 6th of August 2007 following the 30th of June parliamentary elections.

Through strategic partnerships with local organisations / institutions, the project will provide selected vulnerable women with resources and practical skills for immediate business start-up.

The WISE Project will underpin the policies of the Gender Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment and will create mechanisms of articulation with and other ILO / UNDP initiatives. Being a project with a focus on enhancing women livelihoods, it will also address some of the particular barriers faced by women entrepreneurs.

The sustainability of the WISE Project will be ensured by the follow-up that the UNDP / ILO STAGE (Skills Training for Gainful Employment) Programme will provide to further support the newly-established enterprises.

Duration:	January – June 2008
Location:	Baucau, Viqueque and Lautem Districts
Thematic area:	Crisis Prevention & Recovery
Partners:	ILO & Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment
Sources of funding:	UNDP – Gender Window of Crisis Prevention & Recovery Thematic Trust Fund