ABOUT
Sustainable Solutions Timor-Leste (SST) is a partner incorporated entity to the
SSIC consortium and was established in 2016 to provide professional consulting services
across a range of sustainability-related sectors in Timor-Leste.
With a strong network amongst the professional community of Timor-Leste, SST specializes in
grassroots initiatives, community engagement, and turning policies into practice.
SST also aims to raise the profiles of, and provide access to, skilled Timorese individuals,
to further engage with, and promote, sustainable development targets across the nation.
SUPPORT PROGRAMS
PSYCHO-SOCIAL SUPPORT TO ALFELA (WOMEN AND CHILDREN’S LEGAL AID).
SST is piloting an innovative 12-month program to support staff of Timor-Leste’s only legal aid organization that supports women and child survivors of violence. The program involves over 25 staff members and combines self-care, monthly programs and plans for ongoing mentoring of staff involved. This is supported by International Women’s Development Agency who recognize the need to provide care and support to those involve in front-line service provision.
AVANSA AGRIBUSINESS AND HOUSEHOLD SURVEYING.
Implementing the Annual Agribusiness and Household Survey (end of the third year of project implementation) for Avansa Agricultural Project, managed by CARDNO EMERGING MARKETS USA, Ltd. and funded by USAID. Surveying 318 households for agricultural information and 235 for nutritional information, over five districts. Delivering a comprehensive training program for all staff involved, providing ongoing in-field support and conducting all analysis.
SECURITY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC PILOT: MT. RAMELAU.
Continuing on from SST’s work with The Asia Foundation on revising the Community Policing Support Program’s Theory of Change, SST has been engaged to assist in facilitating a management plan for the foremost tourism destination and sacred site of Mt. Ramelau. SST is liaising with national and local stakeholders to ensure that consultations contribute to future management plans being socially inclusive and address community concerns and needs.
DEVELOPING & DELIVERING THE FIRST SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL QUALIFICATION IN-COUNTRY
Managing the development of the first ever national qualification for social services in Timor-Leste: an accredited, Certificate III level, higher education course specifically designed to contribute to providing improved assistance to women and children who have experienced violence. Supported by The Asia Foundation’s Nabilan Program, this process brought together highly skilled international and local consultants with technical skills in vocational training and social services to develop this unique and much needed initiative.
WAVE PROGRAM MID-TERM REFLECTION.
Supporting the ‘Womens Action for Voice and Empowerment’ (WAVE) Mid-Term Reflection for the International Women’s Development Agency, focusing on Timor-Leste’s partners utilizing feminist participatory approaches.
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION & EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ADOPTION
As Timor-Leste enters a potential El Nino year with models predicting a third year of drought conditions, this program is supporting the international NGO community to strengthen collaborative partnerships for mitigation, humanitarian response, and work-planning to ensure ‘no regret’ disaster risk reduction (DRR) mechanisms are effectively implemented.
THE TEAM
Emily Morrison
Sustainable Solutions Timor-Leste LDA, Director
Emily has over 15 years of experience internationally and in Australia, specializing in supporting and strengthening grassroots organizations to adopt long term sustainable solutions and improving community engagement strategies. Emily applies gender and social inclusive principles to foster significant, sustainable change at community and organizational levels. Emily’s work is focused on gender, community and social inclusive approaches, based on a human rights and strengths based framework. Her strengths are in ... Read More
Emily Morrison
Emily has over 15 years of experience internationally and in Australia, specializing in supporting and strengthening grassroots organizations to adopt long term sustainable solutions and improving community engagement strategies. Emily applies gender and social inclusive principles to foster significant, sustainable change at community and organizational levels.
Emily’s work is focused on gender, community and social inclusive approaches, based on a human rights and strengths based framework. Her strengths are in building networks and connections and utilizing existing assets and resources to create sustainable solutions. She is also an experienced facilitator and trainer, able to design programs that best suit individual organizations and groups using a diverse range of adult education techniques. Training and facilitation experience includes strategic planning, research methodologies, participatory action research, community based approaches, human rights, family planning, organizational development, project management and gender and socially inclusive approaches.
Emily holds a Bachelors degree in Youth Studies, and a Masters in Professional Studies, International development, peace, conflict, environment and adult education from the University of New England, Australia.
Social Services Support Team
Four core trainers, within a multi-disciplinary team involving five organizations and engaging over eight national and international consultants.
Climate Change Adaptation Support Team
Dulce Soares and Skye Turner-Walker, SSIC consortium members.
