Timor-Leste

Gender and Power Analysis Report: Water for Women Project, Timor-Leste 2018

Publication Date: 20180515
Sectors: GBV, Gender Equality, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, Women's Economic Empowerment
Languages: English
Country: Timor-Leste
Evaluation Type: Gender Assessment
Keywords: decision-making, Gender Based Violence, Gender Equality, gendered division of labor, WASH

This is a Gender and Power Analysis for the Australian Aid DFAT funded, Water for Women (WfW) Project commencing July 2018-December 2022. The project will be implemented in Manufahi, Liquica municipalities of Timor-Leste by a consortium of Water Aid and CARE International, who both have strong country presence.

The project will equip each municipality to lead gender transformative, nutrition-sensitive, inclusive, sustainable WASH services to contribute to improvements in health, gender equality and social inclusion. The project will mainstream gender equality and social inclusion approaches by developing and implementing gender and inclusion responsive national and sub-national platforms. Addressing gender inequalities and social exclusion is fundamental to WASH and is embedded in each of the four outcomes of the project:

- Gender equality and social inclusion integrated into effective national WASH systems.
- Women and men share roles and responsibilities in decision making in the household and at
the community level, with a particular emphasis on WASH.
- Municipalities use gender transformative approaches to deliver nutrition sensitive, inclusive,
sustainable WASH services.
- Strengthened National WASH sector knowledge management and learning systems, including
effective exchange between relevant sectors.

The purpose of Gender and Power Analysis (GPA) was to validate the activities already considered for the project but also to identify gender equality and social inclusion gaps within the WASH sector that could be further strengthened by the project. Read More...

Safe Motherhood Project

Publication Date: 20170815
Sectors: Maternal|Child Health
Languages: English
Country: Timor-Leste
Evaluation Type: Final

A 26 page evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Endline study that is to serve as a comparative study against the baseline study (completed April 2015). This document reports the current knowledge, attitudes and practices in the areas of maternal and child health in target communities in Ermera and Covalima, Timor-Leste. Read More...

Maka’as final evaluation report

Publication Date: 20150301
Sectors: climate change resilience, Food and Nutrition Security, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Languages: English
Country: Timor-Leste
Evaluation Type: Final
Keywords: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Natural Resources, Resilience, Water

This 62 page evaluation describes the work and impacts of CARE's MAKA'AS program, focusing on water ... Read More...

Gender and Power Analysis: Timor-Leste 2013

Publication Date: 20130515
Sectors: GBV, Gender Equality, Women's Economic Empowerment
Languages: English
Country: Timor-Leste
Evaluation Type: Gender Assessment
Keywords: decision-making, Gender Based Violence, gender based violence, gendered division of labor

In October 2012 CARE International in Timor-Leste (CITL) commenced its transition from a project-based way of working, to a program approach. This Gender and Power Analysis provides part of the evidence base for the new programs being developed by CITL as part of the move to a program approach.

This Gender and Power Analysis is based on the findings of publically available secondary research and CITL's own research (gender analyses, baseline surveys and evaluations). The CARE International Gender Network's Good Practices Framework for Gender Analysis (2012) was used to guide the report and the analysis is structured around the three domains of CARE's Women's Empowerment Framework —agency, structures and relations.

This report should complement, but not replace, program and project-specific gender and power analyses.
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Gender and Power Analysis: Mudansa Klimatika iha Ambiente Seguru (MAKA’AS) Project

Publication Date: 20121215
Sectors: climate change resilience, Gender Equality
Languages: English
Country: Timor-Leste
Evaluation Type: Gender Assessment
Keywords: Climate Change, decision-making, Economic Empowerment, Gender Equality

CARE’s Mudansa Kilimatica iha Ambiente Seguru (MAKA’AS) project aims to build the adaptive capacity of women and men in vulnerable households living in seven sukos in Liquiça District on two highly degraded watersheds. The project goal is to increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through improved water management and water resource protection, improved land management and agricultural practices and micro-to-meso level processes that support natural resource management at the watershed level. The project will be implemented by a consortium led by CARE with WaterAid and four local partners; Centro do Desenvolvimento da Economia Popular (CDEP), Naroman Timor Foun (NTF), Malaidoi, and Hafoun Timor Lorosae (HTL).

The Gender Analysis found that men and women often shared productive workload, although there were some gender specific activities such as fishing for men and seed storage for women. Men and women share the burden of agricultural work, coffee harvesting and caring for home gardens. However, in terms of the domestic or reproductive sphere there is generally little change from traditional gender roles where women care for children, cook and clean and pay attention to household food security. Men are starting to undertake some household tasks such minding children and collecting water but addressing the burden of work shouldered by women within the household is essential in order to enable them to participate in other community activities. Women’s and men’s roles mean they will be affected differently by climate change with women likely to be more concerned with the health and household food security impacts. Read More...