Timor Leste

1/ Improving water and sanitation services in rural areas of Timor-Leste

• Funding: EuropeAid (European Commission), AFD (Agence Française de Développement)
• Global budget: €1, 793,161
• Duration: 36 months (May 2011 – April 2014)
• Number of beneficiaries: 10,147 people
• Partners: National Directorate of Water and Sanitation Services
                  NTF (Naroman Timor Foun), Timorese NGO

Since its first survey mission in 2004, Triangle G H has developed several programs on drinking water supply and sanitation in different regions of the country.
This program covers the Oecusse enclave, where the situation is most critical, only 10 to 15% of the population having access to sanitation facilities, and 14.8% to drinking water resources.
For the 13 villages identified and selected as part of this project, with an estimated total population of 10,147 inhabitants, the coverage is 2% for sanitation facilities, and 20% for drinking water resources.
A preparatory phase aiming at updating and verifying social data and selected technical choices will first be carried out, which will result in a participatory definition of the implementation of activities in each village.

The program then will unfold around three core areas:

• Improving access to water
• Improving the sanitary environment with an increased access to basic sanitary infrastructures and the development of the knowledge and good practices related to hygiene
• Capacity building of the actors in charge of equipment

2/ Support Caméa Vocational Training in Partnership with SEFOPE (Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment).