Professional Contract Service for Comprehensive National Risk Assessment & Mapping in Timor Leste

The objective of this exercise is to create an evidence base of the risks facing to the country to feed into national and sector development plans; and to generate baselines for formulating long-term DRM policy, framework and law and programmes in Timor-Leste. The specific objectives of this exercise include: To identify and assess the exposure of people, property, critical facilities, infrastructure, and economic activities to the natural hazards. To assess the potential damage to the identified elements at risk with reference to expected hazard intensities. To create a national multi-hazard risk profile in terms of hazard and sector to be used for identifying priorities for national disaster risk reduction strategies. Risk should be expressed as potential losses (human and financial) rather than relative levels of risk.