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Intake near the water source of the irrigation scheme in Fatulia suco (village), surrounded by bioengineering and agroforestry land area. Baucau Municipality, January 2023.
Credit: Jaquelino Magno/UNDP Timor-Leste
Approximately 70 percent of Timor-Leste’s rural population, around 840,000 people, face high vulnerability to climate change, especially due to increased rainfall variability and extreme weather events. Both the remote interior and coastal regions are significantly exposed, with critical infrastructure like water supply systems, embankments, and roads often damaged by intensified climate events, leaving rural communities isolated and without basic services.
With the backing of the Green Climate Fund and UNDP, the Government of Timor-Leste is working to protect vulnerable communities and their assets from climate-induced disasters by addressing institutional, financial, and legislative barriers while enhancing the climate resilience of rural infrastructure.
More than 175,000 people (estimated 15 percent of the total population) will directly benefit from more climate-resilient small-scale infrastructure – 38 new water supply systems, 25 irrigation schemes, 216 kilometres of rural roads, and 20 flood-protection infrastructure – as well as approximately 300 hectares of reforested and rehabilitated land which will act as buffer against climate-induced disasters. The project is also strengthening institutional capacity for climate risk management and integrating climate risk information into planning processes.
These adaptation solutions are aimed at bringing about transformative change in the way in which Timor-Leste plans and develops rural infrastructure, safeguarding lives and livelihoods with social, economic and environmental benefits into the future.
*Associated with the Green Climate Fund-financed UNDP-supported project ‘Safeguarding Rural Communities and Their Physical Assets from Climate-Induced Disasters in Timor-Leste’ (2020-2026)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Description: TAMEST Tours
Date photographed: 06/19/2019
Charge number: 67.GNA67.103
Publication: The Roadrunner
Contact name: Deb Deffenbaugh
Photographed by: Ian McKinney
Department name: Comunications
Division: (67)
Yong Wang, associate professor of biomedical engineering, on April 2, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Mohammad Abidian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, materials science and chemistry on April 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Josep Samitier, associate director of the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), during the networking session.