Safeguarding rural communities and their physical assets from climate induced disasters in Timor Leste

Safeguarding rural communities and their physical assets from climate induced disasters in Timor Leste

January 8, 2019

Timor Leste is a least developed country, a post-conflict society with a fast-growing population that remains dependent upon subsistence agriculture. Approximately 70 percent of Timor Leste’s 1.2 million people who live in rural areas are highly vulnerable to climate change. Impacts of intensified extreme events on critical rural infrastructure which damage and degrade assets, particularly water supply infrastructure, drainage, embankment and river protection structures, and community level feeder roads and bridges leave the rural population without the basic services and in full isolation. The project is seeking to address climate induced hydrometeorological threats to infrastructure and ecosystems in particularly vulnerable catchment areas.

Safeguarding rural communities and their physical assets from climate induced disasters in Timor Leste

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