2009 Timor-Leste and Development Partners Meeting

"Goodbye Conflict, Welcome Development"

Dili, 2-4 April 2009

In order to make information about the 2009 Timor-Leste Development Partners Meeting (TLDPM) more available, La'o Hamutuk has collected materials relating to the meeting on this web page. We will be glad to include any additional, relevant materials that we are informed about. All are in English except where indicated. 

In early June, the RDTL Ministry of Finance posted many TLDPM documents to its website at http://www.mof.gov.tl/en/ae/TLDPM/tldpm2009.htm.

For information on last year's (2008) TLDPM, click here.

Documents

• Joint NGO background paper for Timor Leste Development Partners Meeting

• Press Release and statements on seven National Priorities, UNMIT

• Report on Millennium Development Goals, RDTL & UNDP
  Prime Minister's statement on releasing this report  (also Portuguese and Tetum), 3 April 2009

• Overview of Development Partners in TL in 2008, RDTL MOF
  Also spreadsheets by country/agency and ministry/district

• World Bank Peer Review of RDTL 2008 National Priorities

Speeches

• NGO Forum Director Dinorah Granadeiro
  Summarizes more comprehensive joint NGO Statement

• Rede Feto (Women's Network)
  Refers to the Timor-Leste Women's Congress Platform of Action.

• President Jose Ramos-Horta keynote address

• Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão opening statement

• UN Secretary-General's Special Representative Atul Khare (also Tetum) opening statement

• World Bank Country Director Nigel Roberts opening statement

• International Monetary Fund (includes selected social and economic indicators)

• Summary Record (summaries of delegation and civil society presentations, Government presentations on National Priority Areas and discussion)

• Australia

• China

• Japan

• New Zealand

• Norway

• Spain

• Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão closing statement (also Portuguese)

Press releases

• NGOs call for criminal justice and rural development.  Timor-Leste NGO Forum, 3 April 2009

• Despite the global financial crisis, Timor-Leste is firmly fixed upon The radar of Development Partners. RDTL, 4 April 2009

News reports

• International Donors Meet In East Timor To Push Development. AFP, 2 April 2009

• East Timor hit over 'dirty' power plants. Age, 4 April 2009

• Konferensia Doadores 2009. La'o Hamutuk Radio Program, 12 April 2009 (13 MB audio file)

• NGO’s Appeal to Donors for Aid to Development of East Timor, New Australia Media 7 May 2009

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