By 2025, institutions and people throughout Timor-Leste in all their diversity, especially women and youth, benefit from sustainable economic opportunities and decent work to reduce poverty.
The WEE Programme works to remove the structural and individual barriers that keep women at the margins of the labour force and decent work. This targets women and youth micro and small to medium enterprise (MSME) owners, recognizing their current exclusion and important role in C-19 recovery, while also working to transform the policy and business environment in which public and private institutions operate so that it can more equitably benefit women and youth entrepreneurs using the WEPs as a guiding framework.
By 2025, institutions and people throughout Timor-Leste in all their diversity, especially women and youth, benefit from sustainable economic opportunities and decent work to reduce poverty.
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
ComplementaryUN Women reports on this indicator in a global scope, signified by "(Desk Review)" at the end of the indicator statement (see the Our Global Results page for the global result)
Common indicators are those that appear verbatim the same in at least two entities' results frameworks and are drawn, where possible, directly from other globally agreed frameworks.
CommonNational and sub-national government entities and private sector have increased knowledge and capacities to advance gender-responsive policies including Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) to promote gender equality and addressing discrimination and barriers to women’s participation in economic and income generation activities
Self-employed women and women-owned MSMEs have enhanced opportunities to develop entrepreneurship skills, benefit from social empowerment and access finance and employment networks (SP Output 9)
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
By 2025, institutions and people throughout Timor-Leste in all their diversity, especially women and youth, benefit from sustainable economic opportunities and decent work to reduce poverty.
UN Women in Timor-Leste is facilitating opportunities and advocating for mitigating impact of fuel crisis and enabling environment that women, especially youth, rural women, and women with disabilities to benefit from economic opportunities and decent work to reduce poverty. 304 Self-employed women and women-owned MSMEs have enhanced understanding and capacity in entrepreneurship skills through learning sessions UN Women delivered in partnership Chamber of Commerce Timor Leste, Timor Aid and Alola Foundation and Baucau Municipal Authority and solar-energy food carts and equipment provided in partnership with UNDP. 121 women owned enterprises in food related business were identified in 3 municipalities Dili, Liquica, and Manatuto and assessed on capacity building and equipment needs to support their business. The Responsible Party is contracted to develop a tailored curriculum and delivery trainings on financial literacy, business plan, and marketing. 36 selected women entrepreneurs completed the training will be provided with equipment and solar panel. 9 selected women through challenge competition will be provided with solar-energy food carts to support their business. 147 weavers (144 women and 3 men) from Baucau, Viqueque and Covalima municipalities have increased their understanding on tais product diversification, use of natural dye, leadership, gender-based violence by participating in the training provided by TAFA. 78 market vendors (39 women and 39 men) in Baucau municipality benefitted from training on financial literacy, GBV and leadership. In addition, UN Women contributed to creating enabling environment for decent work and women’s economic autonomy through strengthening gender-responsive governance for rural women. In 2022, through the support from UN Women Ministry of Public Works and Baucau Municipal Authority have increased their gender-responsive budget in financing their commitments in gender responsive public infrastructure and safety in public spaces.Disclaimer and notes
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