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Result PSG2 Security
Has the biggest area of progress PSG 1 Legitimate Politics
PSG 5 Revenue and Services Has made some good progress
PSG 3 Justice PSG 4 Economic Foundation
The areas that need more attention in the future for improvement
In the beginning of 2014, the New Deal Country Survey was carried out in Timor-Leste in order to review the progress of and lessons learned from the New Deal Implementation up to the present and to
have a dialogue among stakeholders. This survey was conducted as a joint exercise led by Government of Timor-Leste in collaboration with development partners DPs and civil society in Timor-Leste. The
Government has committed to fully and steadily implement the New Deal by ensuring the fulfillment of FOCUS and TRUST.
Part 3: Improved Development Partnership
3.1 Development Partnership Management Unit
The Development Partnership Management Unit DPMU, Ministry of Finance MoF, was established under the new Organic Law for the MoF in 2012. The DPMU is situated directly under the supervision
of the Minister of Finance. The main responsibility of DPMU is to ensure the effective use of the external assistance provided by DPs to Timor-Leste, so as to guarantee coordination and harmonization
in accordance with the development priorities set by the Government. The DPMU is also responsible for the New Deal Implementation in Timor-Leste and the Director of DPMU is appointed as a focal point
for this purpose.
3.2 Aid Transparency Portal
The ATP https:www.aidtransparency.gov.tl
is based on the Aid Management Platform AMP, which is the system that now forms the central database for all aid information in Timor-Leste. All information
collected in the system is directly inputted into the system by Development Partners. The ATP has enabled the Government to collect more accurate and predictable data and to disseminate the data into
more meaningful reports and analysis. Since 2012, the Budget Book No. 5 and the Development Cooperation Reports have been produced with data from the ATP.
The ATP allows all government ministries and Development Partners to better understand the level of Official Development Assistance to Timor-Leste. Equipped with the ATP, DPMU is able to further
contribute to preparing quality State Budgets. The creation of the ATP allows for ease of access to current information on all DP assistance, by Government beneficiary institution, region, sector, SDP
pillar, DP, providing information on obligations and disbursements. In 2013, a new dynamic mapping feature was added to the ATP that allows donors, Government, and the
public to track where ODA is being channeled within the country. As a result, 2,800 project locations were geo-
coded and are now displayed on the Aid Transparency Portal’s Aidmap.
Part 4: Trend of Development Assistance to Timor-Leste
The amount of external assistance grant to Timor-Leste remains at the level of US250±million per annum from 2011 to 2013. The external assistance as a percentage of the CSB has become smaller,
decreasing from 23.5 in 2010 to 11.0 in 2014 on a planned basis. In 2015, a planned total of US165.5 million in off-budget grant will be provided to Timor-Leste.
A significant downward trend in off budget grant is shown between 2015 and 2019; however, this is due to the non-availability of accurate information on planned expenditure in the medium term by a number
of DPs, and so does not reflect a lack of international support or commitment. New commitments against future years are expected as time passes.
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Source: 2011- 2013 figures are from previous years’ Budge Books. 2014-2019 figures are directly from the Aid Transparency Portal, as of
17 August 2014.
4.2 Development partners in Timor-Leste
