New Poverty Maps Pinpoint Gender Disparity in Timor-Leste

DILI, March 27, 2019 - policy makers now have access to powerful visual tools to establish areas of poverty and gender disparity with more advantageous accuracy. The Gender-sensitive perception of Poverty Mapping for Timor-Leste is a brand new set of poverty data with a view to enable governments, civil society and development companions to pinpoint areas the place development outcomes are lagging.

the use of information from the 2014 Survey of dwelling standards, the 2015 Census, and the 2016 Demographic and health Survey, the report has recognized, for the primary time, areas of excessive poverty and gender disparity the entire strategy to the village degree.

“Timor-Leste has made staggering development in cutting back countrywide poverty degrees,” stated Macmillan Anyanwu, World bank country representative for Timor-Leste. “Geographically, however, this progress has been totally uneven across the nation. These maps seize areas of poverty at the village level and highlight gender gaps based on access to financial actions, schooling, fitness, and vigour and agency. we are completely happy that the executive of Timor-Leste has set a goal of eradicating extreme poverty via introducing more socially inclusive and gender-delicate policies and programs.”The Poverty Maps reveal that there is a much wider edition in poverty rates within districts than be came previously wide-spread. for example, whereas the overall Dili district level poverty price is 29 percent, the price for native villages inside Dili levels from 8 to eighty p.c. On gender concerns, the file finds that female hazards in education and levels of domestic violence against girls are greater in poorer areas of Timor-Leste.

The record is the outcome of shut collaboration between the world financial institution and the generic Directorate of facts Timor-Leste and funded by the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality, a multi-donor believe fund dedicated to gender recommended policy making.