DILI, 16 february 2021 (TATOLI)— Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) provide $7.7 million funding to the UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and IOM to implement the project of “Together for Equality” Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Timor-Leste.
“The launched of the project for “ending gender-based violence” with the total amount of $7.7 million from the Korean Government through the KOICA organization in Timor-Leste for four years projects that will be started in this year. United Nation provided $600.000 for this program,” Maria José da Fonseca Monteiro de Jesus recently told the journalists after launching of the project in the in the UN House in Cacoli.
Maria José da Fonseca Monteiro de Jesus said the program aim at increasing the effort for woman and children in Timor-Leste to use their right to be free from the Gender based Violence and have the right to access to the essential and qualify works.
“The Gender based violence against woman and children has become enormous problem in Timor-Leste. Thus, to eliminate this issue, we need the supports from partners and the state for the project to be sensible for the gender as well as the collaboration from the line of Ministries, including the organization of civil societies that works related to the Gender Based Violence,” She said.
The partnership was signed on November 23, 2020 by the KOICA and 4 UN Agencies (UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and IOM) to beneficiate around two hundred thousand of women and children in TL.
Korea’s Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Kim Jeong Ho said, more vulnerable groups have become more marginalized during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We will promote the project with a dream to create a world that is safe and secure to everyone, where there will be no more violence,” Ambassador Kim Jeong Ho said.
Journalist: Osória Marques
Editor: Cancio Ximenes
