Strenghtening National Capacity to Address the Negative Impacts of Fire - TCP/TIM/3802
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Timor-Leste ranks among the top ten countries most vulnerable to natural disasters, according to a 2017 World Risk Report. Approximately 80 percent of the Timorese population has personally witnessed the consequences of a natural disaster during their lifetime. The country's vulnerability is heightened by a significant lack of institutional and community capacities for coping with and adapting to such events. Findings from the European Union pro-resilience project's (UNJP/GLO/058/EC) 21 village-level hazard, livelihood and vulnerability assessments (HLVAs) reveal that vulnerable communities face multiple risks, including droughts, floods, strong winds, pests, landslides, crocodile attacks and forest fires. Climate change projections for Timor-Leste indicate potential impacts, such as increased crop loss and failure, a decrease in suitable farming land, reduced livestock productivity, diminished water supply and declining water quality.