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Easter Cyclone: UNDP Timor-Leste’s Emergency Response Reaches over 8,000
While rain was still falling during the Easter Sunday floods, the UNDP began its emergency response to support displaced people with essential humanitarian support.
UNDP, GDS To Cooperate On Expanded Socio-Economic Impact Assessment
As Timor-Leste implements new movement restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19 in border municipalities, the United Nations Development Programme, General Directorate of Statistics (GDS) and…
WhatsApp Stickers Help Timorese Parley With Parliament
UNDP support for the digital transformation of Timor-Leste’s National Parliament is increasing public understanding of democratic processes.
Launch of “Together for Equality” USD 7.7 Million Joint Effort Supporting National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from Four United Nations Agencies and Koica Timor-Leste
Four UN agencies: UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and IOM through the generous funding of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Timor-Leste with the State Secretariat for Equality and Inclusion…
UNDP Helps Digitize School Data in Oé-Cusse.
School inspectors in Timor-Leste's semi-autonomous region of Oé-Cusse will begin digitizing school data, after the UNDP handed over six mobile tablets to the Regional Secretary of Education and Social…
UNDP and Facebook join hands to strengthen efforts on news literacy in Timor-Leste
UNDP and Facebook held a half-day training for journalists and editors as part of their efforts to support the news ecosystem in Timor-Leste. During the session, over 40 participants learned about…
Youth Co:Lab Timor-Leste Youth Forum: Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Youth Co:Lab, jointly organized by the UNDP Accelerator Lab Timor-Leste and Recycling Promotion Pilot Project, facilitated a National Youth Forum on Friday. The forum took place at Novo Turismo and…
Municipal Portal: increasing youth engagement in decision-making through Open Data
Timor-Leste has among the world’s highest percentages of youth population, with almost 75% per cent of the Timorese population under 35 years old. By making demographic and socio-economic data…
UN, KOICA, Commit $7.7m To End Gender-Based Violence
Four UN agencies: UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and IOM will collaborate in a four-year project to enhance efforts to ensure that all women and girls in Timor-Leste can enjoy their right to live free from…
Call For Application-Youth CO:LAB Innovation Challenge 2020
The 2020 Youth Co: Lab Innovation Challenge aims to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem and to promote innovation culture and policies that will support and enable young people to take the…