Summary (English)

Within the framework of the project ACTION/Portugal - Strengthening the Social Protection Systems of the PALOP and Timor-Leste -, the ILO, the UN and the Ministry of Social Solidarity of Timor-Leste have launched the publication "Challenges and Ways Forward to Extend Social Protection to All in Timor-Leste: Assessment-Based National Dialogue report".

This report presents the current development challenges for social protection in Timor-Leste. It covers the social protection schemes in place for each of the four social protection floor guarantees, the policy gaps and implementation issues, recommendations, a rapid costing exercise to estimate the cost of advancing the social protection floor and a microsimulation exercise to estimate the potential impacts of reforms.