TIMOR LESTE
Timor-Leste’s most recent NAP runs from 2024-2028 following their first NAP in 2016 (to 2020).
Objectives/Aims of the 2024-2028 NAP:
- Participation - promoting a 30% quota of equal, meaningful and active participation of women in decision making roles across governance, peace and security and humanitarian actions sectors.
- Prevention - integrating gender training into the curriculum for training centres of security and defence forces, civil protection and justice institutions. To review laws and policies on conflict and any that undermine women’s participation in decision making. To conduct a media review with the aim of increasing the capacity to become gender sensitive.
- Protection - To ensure health, psychological, and social support is accessible to survivors of violence in conflict related situations. To ensure women are consulted and actively participate in the design, implementation, and evaluation of peace-building and relief and recovery programs.
- Peace-building - improving access to land, clean water and resources for women. To develop women’s capacity and promote women’s participation in diverse roles in peace-building process and conflict resolution at the community level.
Commentary:
The first NAP implementation ended in 2020 when Covid-19 impeded the development of the NAP. The evaluation of the first NAP found that reaching 38% of seats held in the National Parliament by women showed progress but women’s participation in the community level needs to improve. Additionally, evaluation found that women's participation requires targeted implementation through focused policy dialogue, formulation and implementation and structured engagement with civil society. These findings were used to develop the second NAP, developed by the Ministry of Interior.
There are expected performance indicators for each objective as well as the implementation year which is mostly 2024 but for a few is 2025.
Civil society involvement in development of the NAP:
One of the peace-building objectives is to develop national policies and measures to implement recommendations and provisions of Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconsiliação (CAVR) and Comissão de Verdade e Amizade (CVA) Timor–Leste relating to the rights of women and girls indicating a desire to work with civil society groups.
The NAP working group conducted an in-depth consultation with Civil Society Organisations with eleven NGO’s before developing this NAP. Civil society groups have been engaged at all steps when developing the NAP and continue to be involved in implementation.
UN Peacekeeping Statistics:
As of 31st October 2024, Timor-Leste contributed two experts on missions to UN Peacekeeping, both male personnel.
Women’s role in peacekeeping:
UN data suggests that nearly 8% of deployed peacekeeping troops are female with a target of 11%. The police contributions are more even, with 27% females. Female personnel make up 23% of experts on mission and staff officers, meeting the target of 21%.
References:
Timor Leste’s NAP can be found in English here:
https://timor-leste.gov.tl/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/tl-c636-vi-final-nap1325-020224_english-s.pdf
The latest country contribution by gender can be found at:
The UN Peacekeeping targets can be found on their website:
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/gender
The gender breakdown for each mission can be found here:
https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/07_gender_statistics_79_october_2024.pdf
