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Roads for Development (R4D) - Final Evaluation Summary
Evaluation consultant: Ty Morrissey
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...
Impact brief: key socio-economic benefits
Impact monitoring report - first year end-line survey, October 2015
The report shows that already significant positive changes in the rural people’s livelihood situation occurred a few months after the completion of the rehabilitation works. These changes include an increase in the availability and use of motorized...
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...
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...
Women and rural roads, July 2015
The survey explores the social-economic outcomes for women who live on R4D-rehabilitated roads and provides a gender perspective on the data outlined in the R4D Labourers’ survey report.
Labour availability study, March 2015
The survey findings illustrate that there are large differences between the labour requirements as estimated by the R4D engineers and those estimated by the contractors. This indicates that, despite the pre-bid training given to the contractors,...
Project Brief: Roads for Development program (R4D)
Combining Capacity Building with the Delivery of Capital Investments in Rural Road Works
Roads for Development (R4D) (Timor-Leste)
The R4D project will bring social and economic benefits to women and men in rural Timor-Leste by carrying out rehabilitation and maintenance of rural road networks.