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.