Poverty Reduction and Achievement of the MDGs 's Ongoing
Projects
Overview
1) Poverty Reduction
Inclusive Finance for Underserved Economy
(INFUSE)
Objective:To increase access to sustainable
financial services by the poor and the low income populations.
(Key Facts)
Supporting gender equality and women's right in Timor Leste (Conditional
cash transfers)
Objective:
The Joint Programme aims to
support the GoTL in improving the conditions of women and girls in
Timor-Leste through the protection of their rights and their
empowerment. UNDP will work
closely with the GoTL, specifically the Ministry of Social Solidarity,
in order to
strengthen its conditional cash transfer scheme which seeks to ensure
the social reintegration of vulnerable groups. This directly supports
the Programme of the IV Constitutional government (2007-2012) that aims
at developing “pilot projects of transferring conditional money, in the
area of health and education for the poorest families” and 2009 National
Priority 4 on Social Protection and Services and Objective ‘Expand
Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes’.
(Key Facts)
2) Achievement of the MDGs
(Pro-Poor Policy)
COMPASS III (Coordination, Monitoring and Planning Assistance for
Timor-Leste National Development Plan Implementation)
Objective: The project aims to introduce an alternative macroeconomic
framework for poverty reduction, based on adequate costing of what it
takes to attain the MDGs at the sectoral level. The project aims to
develop the capacity of policy makers to formulate and design an
MDG-consistent macroeconomic framework. The project will also develop
the capacity of sectoral ministries to cost the resource requirements
for achieving the MDGs.
Duration: May 2009 — May 2013
Location: Dili
Thematic area: MDG-consistent planning
Partners: Ministry of Finance and Ministry of
Economy and Development
Major sources of funding: UNDP (TRAC)
Project document: To be finalized
National Human Development Report (NHDR)
Project
Objective: The project intends to have optimal impact on national
strategies and policies to promote human development in Timor-Leste. By
producing and disseminating the NHDR, the project aims to raise public
awareness and trigger action on key development concerns. The project
also seeks to strengthen national statistical and analytical capacity by
providing concrete and practical assessment of human development
situation and sound policy recommendations. On 21 April 2009,
UNDP, together with the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) set up
a Human Development Centre under the Third NHDR Project. The Human
Development Centre will be a research institution to promote and
up-stream “Human Development” into educational process not only UNTL but
also other higher educational institutions. The principal idea is to
strengthen the national capacities in conducting research and producing
high quality academic and policy papers to address critical human
development issues in Timor-Leste. The Centre will organise training
sessions on human development concepts and measurements to foster young
Timorese to develop their knowledge and skills in human development. In
the future, the sub-national HDRs will be prepared by the Centre.
Duration: January 2008 – December 2009
Location: Dili
Thematic area: Human development
Partners: Ministry of Economy and Development
Major sources of funding: UNDP (TRAC)
Project document: Available
Millennium Development Goal (MDG)
Report/Localizing the MDGs
Objective: The project aims to enhance the capacities of the National
Statistics Directorate (NSD) in monitoring the implementation of poverty
reduction policies and programmes by producing the second national MDG
Report which will provide more accurate and disaggregated data for
stronger analysis in achieving the MDGs. The project also attempts to
localize the MDGs by producing MDG Report focused on a pilot district of Oecussi
Duration: January 2008 – June 2009
Location: Dili and Oecussi district
Thematic area: Millennium Development Goals
Partners: Ministry of Economy and Development
Major sources of funding: Poverty Reduction Trust
Fund
Project document: Available
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