World Vision in -Leste Contents Foreword 2 This Annual Report covers activities and About us 3 performance for our 2018 financial year: Our mission and strategy 4 1 October 2017 – 30 September 2018 2018 impact: Health, water and sanitation 6 Front cover image: Beatriz, aged 9 from Covalima, Reducing violence against women and children likes to eat porridge made from moringa and eggs – 8 two of the highly nutritious superfoods we promote Resilience and livelihoods 10 through our Better Food Better Health project. Our partners 12 Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision Expenditure overview 12 Foreword I am pleased to share World Vision proportion of households using In 2018, we sought to foster in Timor-Leste’s 2018 Annual an improved drinking water source innovation by starting work on Report. This year, World Vision increased from 23 percent to 92 Kartaun Bele, a digital cash platform assisted 87,890 people across four percent in project areas. This is a that will help rural households municipalities. This report shows wonderful result for community access financial services. As we how we helped children and members, particularly women and move towards a pilot and expansion families access improved healthcare, girls who no longer have to walk in the coming year, I’m very excited clean water and sanitation; reduced long distances to collect clean water. about the potential of Kartaun Bele violence against women and to promote financial inclusion and children; and improved household Our Reducing Gender-Based transform lives in Timor-Leste. livelihoods and resilience, especially Violence project in Aileu also in times of natural disasters. ended this year, with the evaluation To our partners, including the finding that the proportion of Government of Timor-Leste at the "This year, World Vision adults at the household level who national and municipal levels, and to in Timor-Leste assisted think a husband is justified in hitting our donors, including the Australian 87,890 people." or beating his wife decreased from and New Zealand Governments, 92 percent to seven percent. We I want to thank you for your We continued our core nutrition- know that changing behaviours is tremendous and vital support as sensitive agriculture programming a long and complex process, so we work alongside communities through our Better Food Better our work continues through our to improve the lives of girls, boys, Health and To’os ba Moris Di’ak new Towards a Future Free from women and men in Timor-Leste. (TOMAK) Farming for Prosperity Violence project which aims to Obrigadu wain. projects, which worked to improve ensure that women, men, boys and the health and nutrition of children girls are equal, safe and mutually and families through better farming respected in Aileu and practices. As Timor-Leste has one of Municipalities. This integrated gender the highest rates of undernutrition and child protection approach is globally, this is incredibly important another of our core programming and life-changing work. models. Also this year, we launched our internal ‘It Takes a World to End Our Baucau Water for Future Violence Against Children’ advocacy project completed its fourth campaign in preparation for our Fabiano Valente Franz and final year of implementation. external launch in . Country Director The project evaluation found the World Vision in Timor-Leste

2 About us

World Vision program areas

World Vision in Timor-Leste is part of the World independence referendum in 1999, World Vision Vision International partnership – one of the opened its national office in Dili. Today, we have world’s largest non-government humanitarian and three Area Programs implementing projects in four development agencies. World Vision in Timor-Leste municipalities: Aileu, Baucau, Bobonaro and Covalima. is one of six countries under the sub-regional office of World Vision Pacific and Timor-Leste, which also As at September 2018, we had 96 employees, includes the Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands including 92 local and four international staff, and two and Vanuatu national offices, and Australia and New volunteers. In this financial year, our major donors Zealand fundraising offices. included the Australian Government, New Zealand Government and Aktion Deutschland Hilft. World Vision in Timor-Leste began its first project in in 1995. Shortly after the country’s

Globally through World Vision

Every 60 seconds a family gets water. Together we’ve impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty.

Over the last five years,89 percent of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.

3 Our mission and strategy

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 their physical, mental, intellectual and social wellbeing. We aim to empower Timorese children to transform their lives, in partnership with their families and communities.

Our three strategic objectives:

Ensure children enjoy Reduce violence Enhance community good health, safe water against women and resilience and and improved sanitation children livelihoods

We work with the most vulnerable children and families, including those with a disability. Four-year- old Jenevio's parents are learning how to grow more nutritious vegetables through our TOMAK project. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

4 2018 impact

Nine-year-old Devia washes her hands at the new toilet constructed at her house through our Baucau Water for Future project. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

5 Improving health, water and sanitation

16,602 people supported, including 7,345 children

86 community health volunteers Our Better Food Better Health project, supported to deliver health services supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation constructed 2 water systems Program (ANCP) and Dove Charitable Trust, serving 3 aldeia (sub-village) used this approach to improve nutrition in Aileu, Baucau, Bobonaro and Covalima municipalities. 273 household toilets built As an implementing partner of the To’os ba Moris Di’ak (TOMAK) Farming for In partnership with health centres, government Prosperity project in Baucau, supported by and community leaders, World Vision promoted the Australian Government, World Vision also vital health and nutrition practices. We aimed to used this approach. improve the health of children under five and their mothers by improving nutrition, protecting We also worked to increase access to safe and from infection and disease, and ensuring access reliable water supplies, and promoted hand- to essential health services. washing and the elimination of open defecation. Our Baucau Water for Future project, Our nutrition-sensitive agriculture approach supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme, helped to improve the nutrition of children and completed its final year and helped to improve mothers by supporting rural households to grow, community health and hygiene by constructing eat and sell locally available, highly nutritious water systems, installing toilets and increasing 'superfoods', including orange sweet potato, soy knowledge of good hygiene practices. bean, red kidney bean, mung bean, moringa and egg.

Proportion of households using Proportion of households an improved drinking water source with an improved toilet (Baucau Water for Future project) (Baucau Water for Future project)

100% 100% 92% 90%

80% 80%

60% 60%

40% 40% 30% 23% 20% 20%

0% 0%

■ 2015 baseline ■ 2018 evaluation

6 Terezinha leads a food processing group that produces and sells nutritious snacks. Left to right: Flogensia, Veronica, Terezinha, and Lulita. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

Terezinha takes the lead to improve child nutrition

Terezinha always has a The Better Food Better Health "Now I train other groups welcoming smile and, although project also supports Terezinha in food processing, health busy with sons Jordanio, 4, as a community health promotion about nutritious and João, 2, she is dedicated volunteer to run superfood food, and cooking training for to supporting other families in cooking demonstrations for men," she said. her community. This mother parents, visit households to from Aileu is also a community monitor malnourished children, "I have created jobs for myself health volunteer and leader of and connect families with local and others. And I have ideas to a food processing group that is health services. do more small business activities producing and selling nutritious to process superfoods in other snacks at local markets and "Before I had no capacity to locations to improve household shops. lead people, but after the incomes," she said. training I got the self-confidence The food processing group she to lead other women. I am Terezinha’s food processing leads has 10 members – six always close to them to help group earns up to US$20 every women and four men – that change their mentality and week from selling their products. meet twice a week to process provide advice to them, and I On market day, Terezinha isn’t nutritious superfoods like always encourage them to join shy to use a megaphone to sell orange sweet potato, soy bean the group sessions," the 28-year- her group’s crackers, tofu and and egg into crackers, tofu and old said. cakes. And while she’s at it, she omelettes to sell. "I received also promotes the benefits of training from World Vision staff With the skills and knowledge eating nutritious superfoods. about local superfoods and she has learned, Terezinha is processing food," she said. creating a better life not just for herself and her family, but also for other families.

7 Reducing violence against women and children

2,198 people supported

1,483 people exposed to advocacy initiatives about violence and harmful cultural practices

We worked to address gender equity, explored power relationships that lead to increase female participation and leadership, gender discrimination, and provided training and counteract violence against women and activities for community members, chiefs, and children. Alongside communities, local faith leaders and key service providers. leaders and government officials, we helped to reduce gender-based violence by changing While this project ended in June, our new the attitudes and behaviours of men, women, Towards a Future Free from Violence boys and girls. project commenced in July. The project works with parents, teachers, youth and Our Reducing Gender-Based Violence community leaders to reduce violence against project helped communities in Aileu to women and children in the home and at address gender-based violence by focusing school. Both projects were supported by the on harmful attitudes and behaviours towards Australian Government through the Australian women and violence survivors. Through NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). our Channels of Hope model, the project

Adults at household level who think a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife under certain circumstances (Reducing Gender-Based Violence project, Aileu)

100% 92%

80% *While changes in attitudes don’t always lead to behaviour change, 60% this is a positive and crucial step in changing social norms.

40%

20% 7% 0%

■ 2015 baseline ■ 2018 evaluation

8 Celestino received training about reducing gender-based violence. Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

A family reunited

Celestino used to experience address gender-based violence, João, Celestino’s father, shared conflict at home. "My parents with support from religious and how his family’s lives have changed. had problems, including shouting community leaders and local "The neighbours always knew our and not accepting each other’s NGOs. internal problems, and this made ideas, and it led to them living us very embarrassed. However, separately," the 27-year-old said. Celestino received training on today we live in peace, happiness gender, conflict resolution and and have no more problems ... I "As long as our parents lived reducing domestic violence am also very proud after being separately, I immediately felt through the Rural Youth Unifying involved in the training because negative effects because I could Group Centre, supported by my mentality has changed," he said. not get the love and affection of World Vision. The centre then my parents," his 15-year-old sister selected Celestino to become Celestino’s mother, Joana, is also Juliana added. a member of the Ekipa Hadomi happy about the change. "My past Família. problem was so serious that I Celestino convinced his mother to decided to break away from my return home, however his parents After the training, Celestino knew family, but after the training, my still could not communicate how to help solve his family’s mentality and thinking has changed. with each other and their issues problems. "I advised my parents I realise that family is a wonderful remained unresolved. "There to attend the gender training. hope for my life," she said. was still a sense of resentment I observed that while on the between them," Celestino said. training, my parents were very For Celestino, the training has happy and wanted to solve their transformed a culture of conflict Through the Reducing Gender- own problems because they into a culture of peace within his Based Violence project, World thought that it was not good for family. "Now there are no more Vision established Community the family and their children’s problems and my family has been Action Teams (Ekipa Hadomi future," he said. living peacefully," he said. Familia) to raise awareness and

9 Improving community resilience and livelihoods

13,700 people supported

52 savings groups established 729 savings group members

Our work built economically sustainable and communities strengthen disaster preparedness resilient households. We established village-based and resilience by identifying risks and developing savings and loan schemes, and trained producers response plans. This project is supported by the and farmers to improve their crops, overcome Australian Government, and World Vision is a market barriers and increase their profits. We project consortium partner along with CARE also helped communities adapt to climate change International, Plan International and Oxfam. and reduce their vulnerability to natural disasters. To promote financial inclusion for the rural poor, The 2015-2016 El Niño crisis drastically World Vision started work on an innovative affected Timor-Leste with low rainfall causing initiative called Kartaun Bele. A digital cash crop failure and food and water shortages. In platform providing payments, transfers and response, our Bobonaro El Niño Response storage, Kartaun Bele will enable rural households and Resilience project, supported by to better access financial services. While currently Aktion Deutschland Hilft, worked to increase in its early stages, in the future Kartaun Bele will community resilience to disasters through climate help World Vision facilitate digital cash transfer adaptive farming practices, water management, programs to beneficiaries in both long-term and access to savings and markets. Our new development projects and emergency response. Disaster READY project also helped

Households earning income from selling superfoods (Better Food Better Health project, Aileu)

30% 27%

25%

20% 20%

15% 12%

10% 7% 7%

5% 3% 0% 1% 0% Red kidney Orange sweet Soy bean Mung bean and bean potato moringa

■ 2017 baseline ■ 2018 annual monitoring

10 Julio and Judit with three of their daughters, Jara (left), Vitania (centre) and Sandra (right). Photo: Jaime dos Reis/World Vision

More crops, more income for Julio’s family

Julio and his wife Judit live with how to plant trees, manage "I feel there is a significant change their four daughters in Bobonaro. nurseries, and grow and sell in my family’s life because we The 2015-2016 El Niño severely nutritious vegetables. As the leader have enough income after getting impacted Julio’s family, causing of his farmer’s group, he then involved in this project," Judit their crops to fail. shared this knowledge with the said. "I have been cooking highly other group members. nutritious meals for my children, Julio used to struggle to grow using local food from my own enough produce to provide for his "We are now planting more farm." family. "Before I was involved with orange sweet potato, moringa, the World Vision project, I had rockmelon and mung bean. These Their children have also seen a little, even zero, as my monthly will provide additional revenue for positive change. "Our parents have income," he said. us this year," he said. His farmer’s the ability to buy school stationery, group now also grows mahogany, give us pocket money when we His children’s nutrition suffered as breadfruit, papaya, eggplant, go to school, and we eat a variety a result. "We found it hard to eat tomato, sweet tamarind and corn. of vegetables. We feel that our nutritious foods, so we just ate health has improved compared to pumpkin leaves and papaya. There "Our group has sold vegetables the past," Sandra said. was no other variety of foods," his to Balibo market and around 13-year-old daughter Sandra said. the village. The group earned "Now I have enough income to US$1,400 in 2017. So far in 2018, guarantee a decent life for my World Vision’s Bobonaro El Niño our group has harvested more family," Julio said. He and Judit will Response and Resilience Project than 1,000kg of mung beans. So, grow more crops to increase their helped families like Julio’s become the group’s income has reached income, so their daughters can go more resilient to natural disasters around US$1,000-1,500 for the to university. by improving food security and last two months [March to April]," water management. Julio learned Julio explained.

11 Our local partners

Government Civil society and private sector

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries AI-Com Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment Aileu Assemblia de Deus Ministry of Education Aileu Health Centre Ministry of Health Aileu Women’s Development and Action Ministry of Interior Alola Foundation Ministry of Social Solidarity Asistensia Legal ba Feto no Labarik Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) Ba Futuru National Directorate for Climate Change CARE International National Directorate for Water Services Casa Vida National Health Institution Catholic Church Secretary of State for Environment Catholic Relief Services Aileu Municipality Administrator Church of Christ Baucau President of the Authority Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste Bobonaro President of the Authority Institute for Enterprise Development Covalima Municipality Administrator Instituto Secular Maun Alin Kristo Mane Ho Visaun Faun Oxfam International Plan International Ra'es Hadomi Timor Oan Expenditure overview

World Vision in Timor-Leste’s total expenditure in the 2018 financial year wasUS$4,451,820

Expenditure by sector

Faith and Health, water development and sanitation 4% US$159,150 US$3,622,119 5% 81% Resilience and 10% Reducing violence against livelihoods women and children US$240,362 US$430,189

Contact us

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