Employment
TIMOR-LESTE: Working to Tackle Unemployment
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011DILI – Tackling unemployment has been one of the main stumbling blocks in the statebuilding process in Timor-Leste, a half-island nation of about 1.1 million people.
Nowhere is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of achieving decent employment for men, women and young people more crucial than for a young, post-conflict nation like Timor-Leste, [...]
East Timor’s ‘Nuniversity’
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011The Irrawaddy
By MATT CROOK
JANUARY 18, 2010
LAUTEM — The nuns were creating an almighty din. In one room there was a sister getting down with a keyboard, while in another there were a couple of nuns bashing out chords on guitars.
While not the most gifted musicians of the Catholic Church, the sisters’ real talents lie in [...]
Road repairs a boon to villages
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010DILI, 22 November 2010 (IRIN) – Timor-Leste’s government is engaging rural communities to improve the country’s road network, which is almost 60 percent unpaved, to create jobs and develop vital infrastructure.
The TIM-Works Project, being implemented by the Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment, with technical assistance from the International Labour Organization (ILO), is [...]
Snipping Away at Youth Unemployment
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010DILI, Nov 11, 2010 (IPS) – In a small city where most of the 22,000 inhabitants rely on subsistence farming to put food on the table, one young woman has gone against the grain with a business venture that embodies the changing times in Timor-Leste, South-east Asia’s newest and poorest nation.
‘I’ve felt a big change [...]
Together, we make a difference
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010International Labour Organization Together, we make a difference: Strengthening the Framework of Employment Creation in Timor-Leste PDF
Indonesia’s landfill workers
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Indonesia’s landfill workers fulfil a vital but little recognised role, collecting up to 50kg of saleable waste on a good day, which makes about 500 rupiah per kilogram – less than $3 a day. Matt Crook meets them
Guardian Weekly, March 22, 2010
Siswando is 14 years old. He doesn’t go to school and every day he [...]
Timor-Leste: On the road to future prosperity
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Matt Crook reports on a government project that’s tackling two of Timor-Leste’s biggest problems: bad roads and high unemployment
Guardian Weekly, November 18, 2009
School was out in Ermera, a district in the western part of Timor-Leste, but for 17-year-old Natalia de Jesus de Nascimento, there was no time to waste as she got to work on [...]
High hopes for bio-briquettes
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, 3 November 2009 (IRIN) – Bio-briquettes, a cheap and environmentally friendly fuel, could have the twin benefit of mitigating unemployment and deforestation in Timor-Leste – two significant problems in one of Asia’s poorest nations.
“We’re increasing our capacity for our future,” said Mateus Tame, one of a group of young workers learning the art of [...]
Blacksmith’s business forges ahead
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, 25 August 2009 (IRIN) – In three years, Manuel Gaspar’s blacksmith business has gone from producing seven tools a week with a handful of helpers to 140 tools a day and 23 permanent staff.
Job opportunities in Baucau District of Timor-Leste are limited, but with some help, Gaspar was able to transform an ailing family [...]
Women get WISE to self-employment
Friday, April 2nd, 2010IRIN
DILI, 19 February 2009 (IRIN) – Natercia da Costa, 40, lives in Baucau District with her husband and four children. She used to battle to find the cash for food and school fees but now a 20-strong women’s enterprise to sell fruit and vegetable chips offers hope.
In 2002, Da Costa was given a US$50 loan [...]