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Tourism development

Improving the tourism potential of Atauro Island, Timor-Leste

Atauro is a small island close to Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste. The country is located in the Coral Triangle known for its rich and abundant marine life. The pristine natural environment is its biggest draw. With rugged mountains and a long...

Enterprise development

Felix Manuel: “I aspire to make my clothing label famous”

“I aspire to open a ready-to-wear clothing store with my own label in Timor-Leste, and I desire to make my label, Hare Cloth Apparel, famous in this country,” said 26-year-old Felix Manuel de Jesus Amarel, showing his determination to achieve his...

Fundamental Conventions

Timor-Leste ratified the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No.100) and the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) 1958 (No. 111)

Young entrepreneur of Timor-Leste

University student’s canteen business opportunity

Becoming an entrepreneur is the dream of a 20-year-old girl named Maria Mazarela Lay. This beautiful, tall girl has started a canteen business in Timor-Leste’s State University, where she is studying economy management. The canteen specializes in...

Innovative business

Jaime Lemos’s innovative chicken business

Age is no barrier to starting an innovative new business. At the age of 60, Jaime Lemos C. Moris founded and opened a kampong chicken business in the Lautem district, Timor-Leste, called Copanhia Panirasa Dinaste Lda.

Business development

Talho Moris’ Butcher Shop: Fresh meat business in Timor-Leste

A cool and clean atmosphere welcomes customers entering Talho Moris’ butcher shop at Bemori Street in Dili, Timor-Leste. A refrigerated display unit showcasing the various fresh meat cuts helps the consumers to choose what they need. Unsurprisingly,...

The first local woman recruited to manage construction site administration

A key objective of the Roads for Development Programme (R4D) in Timor-Leste is to build capacities of local contract companies to stimulate the growth of a strong local contractors’ industry.

Women are capable of working on rural road works

The Roads for Development Programme (R4D) utilises ‘labour-based technologies’ in the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads in Timor-Leste. To date 500,000 labour days have been generated for local labourers – 150,000 labour days for women...

ILO’s rural road programme in Timor-Leste is featured by European Union

The works of ILO’s rural roads development programme in Timor-Leste called Enhancing Rural Access (ERA), funded by the European Union, has been featured in the new inspiring video on European Union – Timor-Leste Cooperation.

Timor-Leste to showcase road projects using labour-based works in Benin

Representatives from the National Directorate of Roads, Bridges and Flood Control (DRBFC) of the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MPWTC) of Timor-Leste, together with staff from the Roads for Development (R4D) and Enhancing...

Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste visited the R4D rehabilitated road

The Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Peter Doyle, visited the Boile-Uatabo road in Bacau Municipality, Timor-Leste, on 6 October 2015. The 5.2 kilometer road connects the city to the beach, contributing to the development of the tourism...

Rural development

Timor-Leste: A road gives life to a community

Coffee farmer Pedro Soares de Fatima used to carry a huge coffee sack on his back to get to the nearest market. It was a ten-hour return journey, until an ILO project built high quality rural roads in Timor-Leste.

Contractors’ Tracer Study

In July 2014 R4D completed a Baseline Contractors’ Tracer Study and is currently undertaking the End-line Contractors’ Tracer Study to verify to what extent R4D’s objectives related to capacity development of local civil works contractors have been...

Impact Stories

ERA Stories: Proving Women Can

When Rosa Sarmento announced to her husband that she was would be a community overseer on a road building project for a difficult and mountainous road in her village of Metagou, she might have well announced that she was flying to the moon.

Impact Stories

ERA Stories: Opening up remote communities in Timor-Leste

Sitting on a brand new motorbike, in front of his newly constructed house, Gilberto Baptista, a busy motorcycle taxi driver, admits he owes all his recent good fortune to the newly rehabilitated Leohitu road, Timor-Leste.

Decent work high on ILO Director-General’s agenda in Timor-Leste

Guy Ryder to address major decent work issues in meetings with employers, workers and government during a 3-day visit

Media Advisory - The ILO Director General to Meet with Vice Prime Minister and Key Labour Actors in Timor-Leste

The Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Mr Guy Ryder, will visit Timor-Leste from 14 to 16 December 2014. This visit marks the first time that a Director General of the ILO will visit the country.

Official launch of the R4D movie

H. E. The Minister of Public Works, Sr. Gastão Francisco de Sousa, hosted a high-level event to officially launch a movie about the Roads for Development Program (R4D). Senior dignitaries from the Government of Timor-Leste, Donors and Development...

Promoting rural entrepreneurship through improved rural road access in Timor-Leste

Income-generating opportunities are available to very few people in rural areas of Timor-Leste where the local economy relies mostly on subsistence agriculture. Severe infrastructure constraints, in particular poor rural roads access, limit...

Small Island Developing States

Gaining skills for a new life in Timor Leste

Empowering youth through education and training is key to achieving sustainable development in small island developing states like Timor Leste, where youth unemployment has reached 21.6 per cent.