TIMOR-LESTE

Social Protection in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste is an island country with a population of 1.3million people as of 2020. Timor-Leste has some social protection schemes in place. Hover over the icons below to see which of these life-cycle risks Timor-Leste is addressing and how.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

  • Poor access to antenatal and post natal care
  • Unsafe birth
  • Poor access to immunisation
  • Stunting, malnutrition and hunger
  • Reduced cognitive development

SCHOOL AGE

  • Malnutrition
  • Unable to access or stay in school
  • Child labour
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Loss of parents or carers

YOUTH

  • Inadequate skills
  • Inability to access training
  • Unemployment and underemployment
  • Gender discrimination
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Alienation

WORKING AGE

  • Unemployment and underemployment
  • Cost of children
  • Lack of childcare
  • Care of parents
  • Debt
  • Gender discrimination
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Domestic violence

OLD AGE

  • Increasing frailty and disability
  • Inability to work
  • Lack of family care
  • Elder abuse
Leading to the following solutions:

EARLY CHILDHOOD

  • Bolsa da Mãe conditional cash transfer

SCHOOL AGE

  • Bolsa da Mãe conditional cash transfer

WORKING AGE

  • General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Maternity or Paternity benefit for formal workers

OLD AGE

  • Social Pension for Elderly (60 years and older)
  • General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Retirement pension (60 years) for formal workers

Timor-Leste has a Social Pension for people with disability and a General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Invalidity benefit for formal workers with disability. Similarly, for people who experience vulnerable times in their lives they can access the National Liberation Combatants and Martyrs' Pension.