Projects funded under the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security

TIMOR-LESTE

Mobilizing Rural Communities in Ainaro and Manatuto

Implementing Agency
UNDP

Collaborating Partners
UNOPS, Government authorities, village-based and local community-based organizations.

Objective
This project seeks to increase food security and incomes of poor households in Ainaro and Manatuto Districts on an environmentally sustainable basis, using community-focused participatory methodologies. More specifically this project seeks to develop sustainable upland farming systems, support irrigation rehabilitation, livestock improvement, local seed multiplication capacity and reforestation.

Beneficiaries
Poor rural households and farming communities of Ainaro and Manatuto districts, vulnerable families including women and children, and district administration personnel.

Activities

  • Provide training to local farmers and farming system facilitators on techniques to improve productivity and sustainability of lowland and upland farming.
  • In coordination with local communities, plan and engage in the rehabilitation of irrigation systems.
  • Improve livestock management through training on animal nutrition, husbandry and health care.
  • Support seed-multiplication capacity.
  • Reverse severe upland environmental degradation through processes of soil conservation and reforestation.
  • Contribute to community empowerment with improved standards of community nutrition and health.

Outputs (including distinctive aspects of the project)

  • 24 self-help and community groups formed in Ainaro and Manatuto engaged in soil conservation and reforestation, agricultural extension, and community-driven income-generation initiatives.
  • Revenues of selected communities lifted through the establishment and local management of tree seedling nurseries.
  • Improvement of rice-paddy yields (300% increase), supporting food security and income generation, through agricultural training and environmental rehabilitation.


Other projects in Timor-Leste

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  • 100 Schools Project: Securing lifelines and livelihoods for the children of Timor-Leste. [More...]

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