Community Climate Resilience Analysis for Timor Leste

Project Details

Timor-Leste’s vulnerability to climate change and natural disaster risk is amongst the highest across Asian economies and is expected to worsen. Climate and other disaster impacts will most affect people already experiencing marginalization on the basis of characteristics like gender and disability.

Understanding the challenges climate change and other disasters present to Timor-Leste’s development, and in particular how climate change will impact communities and diverse population groups, is essential for building community resilience and ensuring services can support those most at risk.

Nossal will undertake an analysis of how climate change and other disasters threaten communities, exacerbate current community challenges including gender-based violence, and the pathways for strengthening community resilience to climate change and other threats. This will support continuing work building equitable community resilience in Timor-Leste through the Australian development program, and serve as a basis on which to provide recommendations to enhance gender equity, disability- and socially-inclusive climate responsiveness.