Country page - Timor Leste

Updated on 30 January 2024

HAZARD

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS

Sea-level rise

Limited capacity to address loss and damage
Support in training for data collection, analysis, harmonization, and processing, such as geospatial and hydrometeorological data. Provide tools for risk analysis. Assist with quantification of economic and non-economic losses and climate projections. Support with quantification of economic and non-economic losses and damages. Support for local governments and universities to connect with international research institutes.

Gender sensitive data and financing
Develop gender and environment statistics. Develop gender and L&D strategy and guidelines. Integrate gender considerations into L&D finance instruments.

Immediate humanitarian assistance
Facilitate humanitarian assistance immediate response in local communities following the occurrence of a climate-induced disaster.

Lack of dedicated funding
Develop guidelines for local leaders or affected communities to access funding directly. Provide support for accessing funding arrangements and funds for loss and damage to support countries in times of need, such as floods, droughts, landslides, etc. Ensure easy accessibility of funds, avoiding the obstacles faced by organizations like GEF and GCF.

Climate risk finance and insurance
Provide support for accessing funds to finance the instrument. Assist in designing the climate risk finance instrument. Facilitate the exchange of experiences with countries that have expertise in these instruments.

Lack of reliable climate information and cooperation
Establish a local data station (hub/integrated data platform) that is publicly accessible. Provide access to international data (hub for SIDS and LDCs). Build capacity among public officials and scientific institutions to utilize this knowledge. Develop a user-friendly digital solution to map hazards and vulnerabilities, to help governments make informed decisions. Provide information and maps to support the writing of proposals for funding requests.

Multi-hazard early warning system
Develop an integrated and user-friendly application for different hazards such as floods, landslides, droughts, sea level rise, etc., in coordination with different sectors. Support the improvement of inter-ministerial coordination to better prepare for and disseminate information.

Loss of biodiversity
Conduct a climate risk assessment for ecosystems that considers the impacts on livelihoods. Create a climate risk management plan for ecosystems that support local livelihoods. Develop a methodology for quantifying biodiversity losses and ecosystem services. Perform ecological modeling.

  • Hera and Pantai Kelapa Vulnerability Assessment
  • Natural Hazard Risk Assessment Synthesis report

Preemptive adaptation:

  • Sea wall construction for reducing loss and damage in the area of infrastructure and cities
  • Mangrove rehabilitation for coastal zone management in dealing with sea level rise
  • Afforestation and reforestation for restoring spring water in dealing with drought
  • Contingency plan or emergency fund for reallocation and rehabilitation after disaster
  • Risk Assessment and risk mapping

Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.

  • Emergency respond fund from the government of Timor Leste

Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:

N/A

Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:

  • Disaster Risk Management Policy
  • Draft Law on Disaster Risk Management
  • Emergency fund for climate related disasters
  • Disaster risk management tool books
  • Draft of National Climate Change Policy

Transformative actions (which could include any such actions already mentioned above):

  • Providing social assistance for the victims from climate related disasters
  • Training for DRM at all levels
  • Early warning system via mobile phone for the key people
  • Developing manual for training on DRM for all government officials
  • Actions on rehabilitation and rebuilding after the disasters supported by the government and development partners
  • Actions on emergency evacuation facilitated by the Ministry of Interior, especially the Secretariat of State for Civil protection

Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):

  • Reconstruction of historical climate databases including data rescue from old paper records to support climate information services.
  • Use of space technologies in systematic observations and geospatial analyses.
  • Establishment of a baseline on non-economic and social loss and damage, as well as regarding culture, territory, indigenous knowledge systems, ecosystem services.
  • Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.
  • Setting up a registry/Mapping of at-risk populations to assess sea level rise induced relocation costs for coastal communities.

Analyses of data and information (including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):

  • Development of local to national climate change scenarios and production of projections of climate risk.
  • Conduct of pilot loss and damage assessments for certain key agricultural commodities which are vulnerable to climate change, such as rice, aquaculture, and fruits.
  • Construction of multivariate impacts and loss databases to support assessments and reporting including through the use of bigdata methods.
  •  Design of shared database systems to support different ministries and other stakeholders in the country including data collection, storage and sharing protocols and policies.
  • Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.
  • Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
  • Methods for automated and semi-automated inventorying of infrastructure and assets such as involving geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence.
  • Estimation and outreach on future climate change risks to inform investor decisions.
  • Development of standardized set of risk assessment guidelines for community/subnational level to prepare and maintain inventories of at-risk assets.
  • National-scale site characterization to support hazard mapping, zoning and other land use planning.

Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:

  • Setting up cross-ministerial/sectoral coordination mechanism for the dissemination and linking warnings with early action, and the deployment of emergency assistance for communities.
  • Linking national systematic observations and monitoring to regional and global efforts (for relevant variables, hazards and systems).
  • Development of protocols (legal, social, financial, institutional) for relocation to ensure effective buy-in of all stakeholders.
  • Development of alternative livelihood programs, livelihood transformation programs, and vocational training for coastal communities and other at-risk population groups.
  • Development of infrastructure and plans for relocation/resettlement of households and communities from frequently affected areas.
  • Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.
  • Development of funding proposals related to the strategic workstreams of the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee.
  • Optimal design of sustainable public works (drainage, transportation and other critical and protective infrastructure).
  • Optimizing land use based on available resources (e.g. water resources, energy, etc).
  • Optimizing financing between different measures to address risk comprehensively/trade-off analyses in deciding on balance between investment in preemptive measures and measures to address residual risk.
  • Protection of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
  • Sustainable landscape management including nature-based solutions.

 Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):

  • Design of combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
  • Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
  • Design and financing of social protection measures.
  • Development of different insurance mechanisms.
  • Design of national trust/contingency/recovery funds.
  • Development of national finance instruments (bonds, etc).
  • Development of regional finance instruments (regional risk facilities, etc).
  • Development of legal instruments to manage planned migration.
  • Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.

Other activities not covered by the above entries:

  • Undertaking climate risk assessment training.
  • Training on Climate modelling and loss and damage prediction for the future scenario.
  • Cop modelling linking to future drought and foods.
  • Loss and damage data base and upgrading the current website for climate change and loss and damage for facilitating data sharing
  • Capacity building for national climate change and DRR experts to deal with climate change and risk analysis
  • Financial and technical support for expanding sea wall construction
  • Technology for expanding early warning system
  • Expansion of civil protection fund
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