Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Works (TIM-Works) in Timor-Leste

As Timor-Leste is embarking on a process of sustainable economic and social development, the lack of a national transport network is a key impediment to any efforts to deliver basic and development services. Roads linking communities to social,economic, and administrative centers must be built. This will require high budget investments. But roads are not the only urgent need of the country. Timorese people are living in poverty and their need for income is not negligible. A sensible approach to reduce community isolation and widespread poverty is to make employment central in any infrastructure investments.