The Humanitarian Update (HU) aims at providing a periodic analysis of current humanitarian issues, facts and policy developments in Timor-Leste with primary attention given to internally displaced people (IDPs). The HU is based on voluntary information inputs from UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes, NGO members of the Humanitarian Coordination Committee and other partners. It analyses information from a variety of sector coordination meetings involving Timorese authorities. The HU is coordinated and issued by the OCHA/UNMIT Integrated Humanitarian Coordination Team (IHCT), on a fortnightly basis. Contributions and comments can be sent to the OCHA/UMMIT IHCT in Dili, Focal Points: medhurst@un.org (mobile: +670 736 55 78) and hadin@un.org, (mobile +670 731 16 43).
OF NOTE
- Camp Movements: On 8 September, movement out of Dom Bosco IDP camp commenced. For further details, please see p.4.
- On 1 September, the Secretary of State for Social Assistance, Jacinto Rigoberto Gomes announced that each of the 15 MSS verification teams would be accompanied by two PNTL officers from the Dili Task Force.
- On 11 September, at a ceremony in Viqueque, the Secretary of State for Social Assistance and Natural Disasters, Jacinto Rigoberto Gomes, announced that 383 victims of the crisis in Viqueque and 56 in Baucau, would be able to receive their recovery grants through bank accounts at the Banco Nacional Ultra-Marino (BNU).
- International Day of Peace will take place on 21 September. This year's theme in Timor-Leste is 'What are you doing for Peace?'