Mapping of Municipality Youth Profile

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health and rights agency, expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. It is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

Since 2003, UNFPA Timor-Leste has supported the Government of Timor-Leste to conduct Census and has strongly promoted sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality as key elements to achieve human rights and human dignity. Over the past decade UNFPA assistance has contributed towards establishing basic social services and generating baseline socio-demographic data for Timor-Leste.

The main focus of the programme is to support national efforts to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in line with the UNFPA transformative results to end maternal deaths, unmet need for family planning, and gender-based violence and harmful practices -- responding to the principle of leaving no one behind, focusing on women, adolescents and youth, particularly those living in rural areas, people with disabilities and key population groups.

To support UNFPA in generating a comprehensive youth profile for each municipality of Timor-Leste that will inform evidence-based policies, programmes, and advocacy to advance youth development and empowerment.

Under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Representative and direct supervision of the Youth focal point, in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics (INETL), the Ministry of Youth Sports Art and Culture (MoYSAC), and the UN Youth Working Group, the UN Volunteer will develop youth profiles for all the municipalities by reviewing and analysing the existing data including the 2022 Population and Housing Census, and other surveys. These youth profiles will be used by national and local government stakeholders for planning, implementation and monitoring of youth development policies and programmes in Timor-Leste. This includes compiling and reviewing existing data, selecting data and indicators that are most relevant for planning and programming, designing and developing of “youth profiles” based on consultations and inputs with the government partners, UN, and NGOs, while identifying gaps and opportunities for further data collection. These profiles will be supported by visual products such as maps, infographics, and dashboards to ensure findings are user-friendly, simple, accessible and well-communicated. Finally, the UN Volunteer will consolidate the findings into a national Youth Profile Report with municipal disaggregation. They will also contribute to the development of policy briefs, presentations, and communication materials.