TIMOR-LESTE

Social Protection in Timor-Leste

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 Early Childhood
EARLY CHILDHOOD
  • Poor access to antenatal and post natal care
  • Unsafe birth
  • Poor access to immunisation
  • Stunting, malnutrition and hunger
  • Reduced cognitive development
  • Bolsa da Mãe conditional cash transfer
School Age School Age
SCHOOL AGE
  • Malnutrition
  • Unable to access or stay in school
  • Child labour
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Loss of parents or carers
  • Bolsa da Mãe conditional cash transfer
Youth Youth
YOUTH
  • Inadequate skills
  • Inability to access training
  • Unemployment and underemployment
  • Gender discrimination
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Alienation
Working Age Working Age
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
  • General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Maternity or Paternity benefit for formal workers
Old Age Old age
OLD AGE
  • Increasing frailty and disability
  • Inability to work
  • Lack of family care
  • Elder abuse
  • Social Pension for Elderly (60 years and older)
  • General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Retirement pension (60 years) for formal workers
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EARLY CHILDHOOD
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
School Age
  • Malnutrition
  • Unable to access or stay in school
  • Child labour
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Loss of parents or carers
YOUTH
Youth
  • Inadequate skills
  • Inability to access training
  • Unemployment and underemployment
  • Gender discrimination
  • Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Alienation
WORKING AGE
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
Old Age
  • Increasing frailty and disability
  • Inability to work
  • Lack of family care
  • Elder abuse
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EARLY CHILDHOOD
Early Childhood
  • Bolsa da Mãe conditional cash transfer
SCHOOL AGE
School Age
  • Bolsa da Mãe conditional cash transfer
WORKING AGE
Working Age
  • General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Maternity or Paternity benefit for formal workers
OLD AGE
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.

See also the Timor-Leste Poster Series
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