Timor-Leste

This report is part of the World Bank’s response to the Government’s request for support in assessing damages as well as longer-term implications for disaster risk management. Cyclone Seroja impacted Timor-Leste on April 4, 2021.

The purpose of this study is to identify the impacts of COVID-19 on individuals, households, and communities, as well as MSMEs in Timor-Leste, and to develop recommendations to inform further recovery interventions.

This document provides an assessment of the floods and landslides damage caused by the 2021 Cyclone Seroja and needs of the affected people in Timor-Leste to inform the country's long term post-floods recovery efforts across multiple sectors.

This second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceeds anything recorded in the past two decades, since the major El Niño of 1997-1998.

This policy aims to guide government objectives and strategies in order to guarantee the security and safety of Timor-Leste's citizens and their property and to safeguard its natural resources against natural or human-induced disasters.