Annual Report 2017

World Vision -Leste 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 World Vision Timor-Leste Cont

Foreword 5

About us 6

Our mission and strategy 7

2017 impact:

Health, water and sanitation 9

Education 12

Reducing gender-based violence 16

Resilience and livelihoods 20

Our partners 25

Expenditure overview 26

This Annual Report covers activities and performance for our 2017 financial year: 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2017.

Front cover photo: Nine-year-old Caleb’s family learned about chicken and egg production to help improve their nutrition. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision

Justina can now better provide for her two-year-old daughter Deonisia after joining a savings group. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision ents

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Foreword

I am pleased to present However, the year was not World Vision Timor-Leste’s without its challenges, with new Annual Report for the 2017 leadership, a staff restructure financial year. This year gave and a reduction in funding. us much to celebrate as we Being able to perform with worked towards our vision of less staff and less funding was a life in all its fullness for every major achievement, so I want to child in Timor-Leste. sincerely thank every single staff member for their dedication and Our work with communities for going the extra mile. across four municipalities helped children and families access A big thank you also to our healthcare, clean water, sanitation World Vision Pacific and Timor- and education; reduce gender- Leste leaders and colleagues. based violence; and improve We received incredible livelihoods for vulnerable families. Fabiano Valente Franz support and guidance from our In 2017, World Vision Timor- Country Director fundraising offices in Leste assisted 54,912 people, and New Zealand and their including 13,368 children. respective governments. The year’s highlights included One of those children was two- starting our Better Food I am so grateful for the generous year-old Astrya in Covalima Better Health project in support of our donors, and municipality. Astrya was acutely municipality and conducting am incredibly impressed by the malnourished and dangerously project baseline surveys in three dedication of our local partners thin. But with support from our other municipalities. We also in government and civil society. staff, Astrya received treatment at began work as an implementing Thank you for working alongside a local health post and I am happy partner of the To’os ba Moris us to improve the lives of children to say that she has made a full Di’ak (TOMAK) Farming for and families in Timor-Leste. recovery. You can read Astrya’s Prosperity project. Both projects Finally, I would like to thank the story on page 11 of this report. are supported by the Australian communities we work with for Government and will improve Undernutrition remains a critical trusting us and partnering with the health and nutrition of issue in Timor-Leste and we are us to help Timorese children children and mothers through committed to working with families reach their full potential. We nutrition sensitive agriculture. and communities to help children look forward to continuing our like Astrya survive and thrive. Another highlight for 2017 transformational work with you Learning from previous livelihoods was the production of seven in the future. interventions, this year we quality project evaluations, as Obrigadu wain, narrowed our focus on nutrition we continued to strive for Fabiano Valente Franz sensitive agriculture, which the highest standard of Country Director emphasises the role agriculture program implementation. plays in improving nutrition. World Vision Timor-Leste

“In 2017, World Vision Timor-Leste assisted Children like Elisa, seven months old, are benefiting from improved nutrition in Aileu. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision 54,912 people, including 13,368 children.”

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About us Aileu Our mission and strategy

Baucau Our mission is Labarik saudavel ba komunidade forte – Healthy children for strong communities.

We recognise that children’s health is holistic in nature and includes Bobonaro their physical, mental, intellectual and social wellbeing. We aim to empower Timorese children to transform their lives, in partnership Covalima with their families and communities.

Our four strategic objectives are:

Ensure children enjoy good health, safe water World Vision Timor-Leste is part of the Today, we have three Area Programs implementing and improved sanitation World Vision International partnership – projects in four municipalities: Aileu, , 1. one of the world’s largest non-government Bobonaro and Covalima. humanitarian and development agencies. Timor-Leste is one of six countries under As at September 2017, we had 100 employees. the sub-regional office of World Vision Pacific In this financial year, our donors included: and Timor-Leste, which also includes Papua Ensure children are New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Aktion Deutschland Hilft educated for life Australia and New Zealand. Australian Government Korea International Cooperation Agency 2. World Vision Timor-Leste began its first project in in 1995. Shortly after the New Zealand Aid Programme country’s independence referendum in 1999, Start Network World Vision opened its national office in . UNICEF Reduce gender- World Food Programme 3. based violence Globally through World Vision

Enhance community a family gets water. Every 60 seconds resilience and livelihoods Together we’ve impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty. 4. Over the last five years, 89 percent of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.

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Improving health, water and sanitation

21,754 people, including 12,241 children, supported in 2017

20,519 people supported in maternal and Our Nutrition Education (Community child health and nutrition Management of Acute Malnutrition) project, supported by the World Food Programme and 1,235 people supported in water, Korea International Cooperation Agency, helped sanitation and hygiene to decrease acute malnutrition in Covalima 161 household toilets built in municipality through increased community 3 aldeia (sub-villages) participation in the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition Targeted Supplementary Feeding 1 gravity-fed water system and Program, through community mobilisation and 19 public taps constructed in 3 aldeia sensitisation of community leaders.

In partnership with health centres, Our Timor-Leste Maternal, Newborn and government departments and community Child Health and Nutrition project, supported 2017 impact leaders, we promoted vital health and by the Australian Government through the nutrition behaviours, and increased access to Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), clean water and better sanitation. We aimed to helped to improve the health and nutrition of reduce deaths of children under five and mothers pregnant women and children under two in Aileu by improving nutrition, protecting from infection and Bobonaro municipalities. and disease, and ensuring access to essential health services. Our projects provided safe and reliable Our To’os ba Moris Di’ak (TOMAK) Farming for water supplies, and promoted hand-washing and Prosperity project, supported by the Australian the elimination of open defecation. Government, helped women of reproductive age and children under two in have Our Better Food Better Health project, better nutrition, through improved farming methods supported by the Australian Government through and health and nutrition practices. the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), helped to improve the health and nutrition of Our Water for Future project, supported by the children and mothers by supporting households New Zealand Aid Programme, helped to improve the to grow, eat and sell more nutritious foods, and health of children and families in Baucau municipality encouraging improved health-seeking behaviour in through increased access to clean water and Aileu, Baucau, Bobonaro and Covalima municipalities. sanitation facilities, and improved hygiene behaviour.

Our Bobonaro Mothers Support Group project, supported by UNICEF, helped to improve mother and child health and nutrition knowledge and practice in . Esperansa (left) learned how to improve her children’s health and nutrition by attending parents club sessions run by community health volunteer, Deolinda (right). Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision

Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 09 World Vision Timor-Leste World Vision’s Baltazar da Costa Ximenes measures Astrya’s arm to monitor her health. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

Percentage of children exclusively breastfed until six months old

Aileu Bobonaro

Timor-Leste Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition project

Baseline 2015 Endline 2017

*Percentage of children aged 0-59 months whose height-for-age is below minus two standard deviations from the median (or Astrya now has energy to play less than two standard deviations below the median) as determined by the World Health Organization Child Growth Standards. “The first time I met Astrya, communities in Covalima to arm circumference reached a she was so very thin and she reduce malnutrition through healthy 13.6 centimetres. Percentage of parents or caregivers with appropriate handwashing behaviour had no desire to play,” said mother support groups, cooking “This program is very good, Baltazar da Costa Ximenes, demonstrations, kitchen gardens, I was afraid of Astrya’s World Vision Timor-Leste’s and regular home visits for condition, but this program Nutrition Education Facilitator. nutrition counselling. “She desperately needed made Astrya’s health improve help but her grandfather “Astrya was in a high-risk because she ate the food Bernadino refused World category,” said Dr Raul supplement and we got Vision’s assistance as he Schneider, World Vision’s Senior nutrition information from felt he could treat her with Health Advisor for the Pacific World Vision,” her other “Children traditional medicine.” and Timor-Leste. grandfather Renaldo said. of Astrya’s age with a mid- “Thanks to the dedication of In June 2016, two-year- upper arm circumference the community health workers, old Astrya was acutely measurement of less than growth monitoring on a malnourished. Timor-Leste 11.5 centimetres have been weekly basis, the Plumpy’Nut has one of the highest rates of found to have a mortality rate supplement provided by the malnutrition in the world. In up to nine times higher than project through the World Covalima municipality, where healthy children.” Food Programme and the Astrya lives, persistent food Timor-Leste Government, insecurity, hunger and harmful When Baltazar informed the local Timor-Leste Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition project (Bobonaro) and the nutrition, hygiene and traditional beliefs contribute to health post of Astrya’s condition, sanitation education support Baseline 2013 Endline 2017 high levels of malnutrition. they provided her with a month’s supply of the peanut-based food provided to the caregivers, *Handwashing after toilet use as a marker World Vision’s Nutrition supplement Plumpy’Nut, which is Astrya could make a full Education (Community used to treat acute malnutrition. recovery,” Dr Schneider said. Management of Acute Gradually Astrya’s health “This project probably saved Malnutrition) Project helped improved, and her mid-upper her life.” Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 10 World Vision Timor-Leste

Improving access to quality education

1,328 people, including 514 children, supported in 2017

32 teachers trained in pre- school curriculum

5 ECCD centres handed over for community management, ensuring project sustainability We believe education from an early age is essential to promote a culture of learning within families. It sets the foundation for success in primary school and beyond. Our work helped to improve access to quality education for children under five and primary school children. We supported government and communities to develop culturally appropriate literacy training materials, and trained early childhood educators.

Our Timor-Leste Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) project, supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), helped to establish community and home-based Early Childhood Care and Development centres in Bobonaro municipality.

Hands up who loves school! These primary school students in Baucau sure do. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

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Percentage of children aged 5-6 years who demonstrate they are ready for school

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0 Timor-Leste Early Childhood Care and Development project

Baseline 2015 Endline 2017 Control

Janeta’s joy in learning Jakson, aged four, at an Early Childhood Care and Development centre in Bobonaro. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision Five-year-old Janeta’s smile is her literacy and maths skills as required for school readiness, radiant when she talks about well as participate in dancing, compared to 51 percent at the going to pre-school. “I come to drawing, painting, role playing start of the project. school every day and learn and music. It’s one of 14 centres counting, drawing and I play established in communities and Primary school teacher, Antonio, with my classmates,” she said. homes through the project. has seen the difference firsthand. “Children who were enrolled Janeta attends an Early The project also trained ECCD in ECCD classes are doing Childhood Care and teachers in literacy, numeracy and better than those who Development (ECCD) centre arts activities and games for young weren’t, and their discipline is in Bobonaro municipality, children, as well as classroom better,” he said. established through World management. Janeta’s teacher, Vision’s Early Childhood Care Francisca, was one of them. Nine-year-old Josefo, a former “We and Development Project. ECCD participant, agrees. “This project has benefited are learning material quickly Providing young children like us enormously since it has at primary school because Janeta with proper nutrition improved our skills and of what we learnt in pre- and opportunities to learn knowledge,” Francisca said. “I school,” he said. and play in a safe environment feel confident we will continue is crucial for their physical, to teach the children well.” The project also helped parents emotional, intellectual and develop good parenting practices pasta social development. However in Through ECCD classes, young at home. Parents received aprende Timor-Leste, only 15.5 percent children become better (learning pockets), of children aged 3-5 years are prepared for primary school. A containing books and other literacy enrolled in pre-school. project evaluation found that and numeracy materials like 75 percent of ECCD-enrolled alphabet cards. Both parents and At the ECCD centre, Janeta has children had the language, children enjoyed using the pasta the opportunity to develop problem solving and motor skills aprende to learn together at home.

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Reducing gender- based violence

1,685 people, including 876 children, supported in 2017

736 men and women trained on gender-based violence issues

60 community leaders trained on responding to gender-based violence We work to address gender equity, increase female participation and leadership, and counteract violence against women. Alongside communities, local leaders and government officials, we helped to reduce gender-based violence by changing the attitudes and behaviours of men, women, boys and girls. Our Channels of Hope model explored power relationships that lead to gender discrimination, and provided training and activities for community members, chiefs, faith leaders and key service providers.

Our Reducing Gender-Based Violence project, supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), assisted communities in Aileu municipality to address gender-based violence by focusing on harmful attitudes and behaviours towards women and violence survivors.

Stronger linkages were made between government and communities, enabling survivors of gender-based violence to connect directly with established services and information. Delia and her family found harmony at home after participating in our Reducing Gender-Based Violence project. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 17 World Vision Timor-Leste WorldDomingas Vision Timor-Lestewith her two daughters, 17-year-old Delia (left) and 12-year-old Abrial. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

Domingas finds harmony at home

For many people, home is a afraid to ask for it when they Since then, Marcelino has safe and peaceful place shared needed to,” said Marcelino. undergone a tremendous change with loved ones. However in his attitude as a husband and in Timor-Leste, home isn’t World Vision has helped families father. Now he tries to make his always a safe place for women. like Domingas’ through the home a safe and peaceful place A 2016 survey by the Asia Reducing Gender-Based Violence for his wife and children. Foundation found that two project. The project works with thirds of women aged 15-49 in local leaders, teachers, churches, Domingas has also changed Timor-Leste had experienced organisations and service her behaviour towards her physical and/or sexual violence providers to address the gender daughters. “In the past, when from an intimate partner in norms that produce gender-based my children played around, I their lifetime. violence and child abuse, and showed anger toward them,” strengthen links to community she explained. “However after Domingas, her husband services for women and children the training, when they now Marcelino, and two daughters, who experience violence. fight each other, I counsel Delia and Abrial, didn’t always them to stop.” enjoy peace in their home in Domingas and Marcelino Aileu municipality. Marcelino regularly participated in Channels Twelve-year-old Abrial is also never helped Domingas look of Hope training, a faith-based happy to have harmony at home. “I am happy with my parents after their children or share approach which draws on and I love them. I always help other domestic tasks. He often religious teachings that highlight my mother when I return gambled and was sometimes non-violence and equality from school by cleaning and violent towards Domingas. between women and men. In the training, the couple learned cooking,” she said. “I punched my wife and and shared ideas with others As a Channels of Hope Action Team Leader, Marta raises awareness about gender- children when they tried to ask about how to build a happy and based violence in her community in Aileu. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision for money, so they were always peaceful home.

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Improving community resilience and livelihoods

35,708 people supported in 2017

10,823 people supported in Our Baucau Drought Anticipation project, livelihoods and saving supported by the Start Network, delivered health and disaster risk reduction messaging, 17,934 people supported in and distributed vegetable seeds and rice in disaster management Baucau municipality. 6,951 people supported in Our Baucau Community Economic disaster risk reduction Development project, supported by the 26.2 hectares reforested through Australian Government through the Australian replanting and FMNR NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), helped to increase the economic capacity of producers 13,500 income-producing in poor communities in Baucau municipality, and trees planted enabled them to better provide for their children.

Our work built economically sustainable and Our Bobonaro Acts on Climate Change resilient households. We established village- project, supported by the Australian Government based savings and loan schemes, and trained through the Australian NGO Cooperation producers and farmers to improve their crops, Program (ANCP), helped to improve household overcome market barriers and increase their and community resilience to climate change in profits. We also helped communities adapt Bobonaro municipality. to climate change. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a land restoration Our Bobonaro El Niño Response and Resilience technique which restores trees and shrubs project, supported by Aktion Deutschland Hilft, from living stumps and roots in degraded helped to improve resilience to the impacts of forest areas. By carefully pruning new stems disasters and shocks, including El Niño and La Niña, sprouting from tree stumps, farmers brought on food security, water management, nutrition and new life to seemingly barren land. sustainable livelihoods in Bobonaro municipality.

Rui received seedlings, farming tools and training in Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration to help him increase his income. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision

Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 21 World Vision Timor-Leste Alberto grows vegetables to sell as part of his farmers group. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

Award-winning savings group in Baucau

In April 2017, a savings group from the Baucau Community Economic Development project won the 2017 Presidential Nutrition Award, receiving a US$10,000 prize. Through this award, the President of Timor-Leste recognises communities that demonstrate leadership, mobilise community action, achieve sustainable positive change and share their stories of innovation and leadership with others.

Percentage of parents who can provide well for their children

7 Farmers are growing, selling and earning more 100 0 Life for farming families in “The goal of growing “Through better rural Timor-Leste can be a vegetables or becoming understanding of market 0 struggle. Farmers often lack farmers is to increase our requirements, engaging the agricultural and business family income and if we have in collective selling, and knowhow to grow and sell excess income, it can be used improving negotiation skills, 60 enough produce to provide a to pay for our children to go farmers now receive better good life for their families. to school,” Alberto said. prices for their products,” said Dr Adam Trau, World Vision’s 0 To address this challenge, World The project established market Resilience and Livelihoods Vision’s Baucau Community collection centres where farmers Advisor for the Pacific and Economic Development project groups like Alberto’s sell their Timor-Leste. 20 strengthened farmers’ resilience products. Alberto’s group was and economic opportunities introduced to a supermarket These higher incomes mean through training, collective chain in Dili which now parents are now able to provide 0 production, market access and purchases their produce every a better life for their children. Bobonaro Acts on Climate Change project financial literacy. Tuesday. By selling as a group, Baseline 2016 Endline 2017 each member is now earning Farmers group leader, Alberto, more and can better meet their has increased his income since *‘Providing well’ is defined using survey questions including areas such as income, ability to provide food and adequate families’ needs. dietary diversity where children have enough to eat, more than two sets of clothing, basic school supplies and basic participating in the project. healthcare/medicine. “Our group was established This kind of success has been in 2012, and has continued to widespread. A project evaluation function until now. We are found a 50 percent increase cultivating tomatoes, lettuce, in households earning more sweet potatoes, cauliflower than US$350 annually since and other vegetables,” he said. the project started. At the same time, households earning less than US$249 decreased by a third. Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 22 World Vision Timor-Leste

Our local partners

This year, we strengthened We also worked in strong relationships with our government collaboration with our non- partners at both the national and government partners, including: municipal level, including: Aileu Assemblia de Deus Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Aileu Health Centre

Ministry of Commerce, Industry Aileu Women’s Development and Action and Environment Alola Foundation Ministry of Education Asistensia Legal ba Feto no Labarik Ministry of Health Ba Futuru Ministry of Social Solidarity CARE International Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) Casa Vida National Directorate for Climate Change Catholic Church National Directorate for Water Services Catholic Relief Services National Health Institution Church of Christ Secretary of State for Environment Community leaders Aileu Municipality Administrator Food Plant Solutions Baucau President of the Authority Health posts Bobonaro President of the Authority HIAM Health Covalima Municipality Administrator Institute for Enterprise Development

Instituto Secular Maun Alin Kristo

Mane Ho Visaun Faun

Oxfam International

Plan International

Supermarkets and traders

Timor-Leste Disability Association

Community health volunteers, Deolinda (left) and Teresinha (right), run cooking demonstrations in parents clubs, with the help of World Vision’s Diana da Conceicao Abrantes. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision

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Expenditure overview

World Vision Timor-Leste’s total expenditure in the 2017 financial year wasUS$3,945,067 .

Expenditure by sector

Resilience and livelihoods US$903,137

Reducing gender- based violence US$549,173

Education US$236,188

Health, water and sanitation US$2,256,569

Fabiana, aged seven, (left) and Nelcia, aged 10, and their families are benefiting from improved nutrition in Aileu. Photo: Suzy Sainovski/World Vision

Annual Report: 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 26 Contact us

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Website: wvi.org/timor-leste Country Office:

Av. Dos Direitos Humanos, Estrada de Bidau, Bidau Mota Klaran, PO Box 43, Dili, Timor-Leste

Aileu Office:

Rua Kabas Fatin Malere, Aileu Vila, Aileu, Timor-Leste Baucau Office:

Rua Av. Villa de St. Antonio, Trilolo, Baucau, Timor-Leste

Bobonaro Office:

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