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Timor-Leste Compact

MCC’s Board voted to terminate this program in August 2025.

Financials

Financials as of June 30, 2025

Program Budget

Milestones

  • Signed:
    July 19, 2022
  • Terminated:
    December 19, 2025

Program Projects

  • $40,190,538
    Project Total Amount
  • $0
    Project Amount Committed
  • $0
    Project Amount Expended

The Teaching and Leading the Next generation of Timorese (TALENT) Project aims to improve student learning by investing in teacher and school leader education and training. The TALENT Project will establish the Center of Excellence (CoE) as a training and professional certification center for current and future secondary school teachers and school leaders. The TALENT Project will also include interventions focused on increasing the number of qualified individuals in secondary teaching and leadership positions.

  • $308,205,050
    Project Total Amount
  • $0
    Project Amount Committed
  • $0
    Project Amount Expended

The Water, Sanitation, and Drainage (WSD) Project will reduce disease-causing pathogens in groundwater and piped and stored drinking water through a catalytic infrastructure investment, which will introduce the country’s first centralized wastewater treatment system, improve related drainage, and build a plant to produce disinfectant chemical for the supply of clean drinking water across the capital city of Dili and four nearby municipalities. The Project will also support key policy and institutional reforms for long-term sustainability and introduce social and behavior change interventions to improve household water management and hygiene practices.

As of Fri Dec 19 2025 15:11:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)