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Official Development Assistance ODA to Timor-Leste Fiscal Year 2016
12 expenditure in the medium term by a number of DPs, and so does not reflect a lack of
international support or commitment. In addition, it is important to note that the Government of Australia has reduced aid to Timor-Leste by 5 for 2016-17. In addition,
planned disbursements for UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNDP are not included in this dataset as the agreements for the next coming years have only recently come into force.
Therefore, individual project plans have not yet been finalized for the next coming years. New commitments against future years are expected as time passes.
Source: The 2012 and 2013 figures are from previous budget books; 2014 data on is from the Aid Transparency Portal as of 28 August 2015.
As can be seen below, DP actual provided support, when compared to its planned support is still a point of concern for the DPMU. In 2014 alone, the difference between the
committed amount and the actual amount nearly reached US100 million. This is a problem that arises from the lack of proper budgeting and planning cycles for DP projects
and, in some cases, poor reporting on the part of Development Partners. Steps are being explored to address this issue.
Official Development Assistance ODA to Timor-Leste Fiscal Year 2016
13
Planned Disbursements: 2011-2014 from previous Budget Books, Actual Disbursements: 2011-2013 from previous
Budget Books, 2014 actual from ATP.