Climate action accelerated by women engineers in Timor-Leste

Under a UNDP-supported Green Climate Fund-financed project in Timor-Leste, focused on safeguarding rural communities and their physical assets from climate-induced disasters, a training programme is promote nature-based solutions to climate change by equipping local engineers with bioengineering approaches. 

 

In collaboration with Ministry of State Administration, the Ministry of Public Works, and Don Bosco Training Center, 27 national engineers from five different municipalities with various technical backgrounds are developing their theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in agroforestry and soil bioengineering, which leverage sustainable approaches to prepare, respond and recover from climate-induced disasters. 

 

Felizita Da Conceciao Mendoza, 23, is one of five women among the engineering students in the GCF training programme. “I am working as a technical supervisor in the Ministry of Public in Aileu Municipality. My educational background is civil engineering, which motivated me to participate in this training programme” said Felizita.