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Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste: What the heck is it?
25 September 2010
Well if you ever wondered what the heck this Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste project is all about......
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From One Island to the Next: Brigida Soares is Back
7 September 2010
Catching up with Brigida Soares, now that we have her back in the office after her voyage to Hawaii, has been a pleasure. She was fortunate and deserving enough to be one of t...
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President Ramos-Horta visits Peace Dividend Trust
1 September 2010
The Peace Dividend Trust office was abuzz yesterday as it received a visit from perhaps its most prestigious supporter, President Ramos-Horta....
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Insuring the growth of Timor-Leste’s Economy
24 August 2010
My Senior Advisor at Peace Dividend Trust, Edward Rees, was blogging yesterday about the signs of growth in the Timorese economy. So, in between reconciling the number of busi...
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Calling on all entrepreneurs to apply for the 2010 SEED Award!
19 August 2010
Are you a start-up entrepreneur? Does your business or business idea integrate sustainable development, solving pressing social and environmental issues? Do you need support t...
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Buyer Workshop in the District of Bobonaro
12 August 2010
On August 4, 2010 Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) the local government and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) for the Bobonaro district conducted a one day workshop for po...
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Two years on – What’s happening with PDT registered businesses?
27 July 2010
Back in 2008, when the PDM-TL team was first getting established in Timor-Leste, the three businesses owned by Timorese business woman Maria Carla Consalves Tilman, Carla Mans...
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Peace Dividend Trust at ‘Bringing Supply and Demand Together for Kitan’ Conference
30 June 2010
Last week was pretty busy for myself and colleagues Ilidio Ximenes (Deputy director – PDT Dili) and Edward Rees (Senior Advisor – PDT), with Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) rec...
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Matchmaking: On the Hoof Again. Bucks for Rural Business.
17 June 2010
Over the past couple of months Peace Dividend Trust's (PDT) matchmaking team in Cova Lima District (Antonio "Fahik" Alves, Angelita Guterres and District Representative Doming...
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“Buy Local” Spreads: Supply Meets Demand
14 June 2010
Well local [Timorese] suppliers are all the rage in some quarters these days. A cool new initiative is coming down the tracks next week as a result of an oil find in the Timo...
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Bad news. Our high-impact and award-winning Marketplace project in Timor-Leste is shutting down due to a cut in donor funding
4 June 2010
Effective 1 July 2010 the award-winning Timor Marketplace project, and the "Buy Local, Build Timor-Leste" campaign operated by Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) will begin to phase o...
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Bad story turned good: Jakarta Dua
26 May 2010
In the old days the name "Jakarta Dua" had very bad connotations in Timor-Leste.
Sometimes during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste clandestine pro-independence acti...
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Peace Dividend Trust Business Matchmaking Services is approaching West Timor, Indonesia for cross border trade
21 May 2010
Peace Dividend Trust’s Business Matchmaking team traveled to Kupang, West Timor or NTT province of Indonesia a few weeks ago to negotiate on the cross border trade between ...
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PDT in the News and a Chance to Buy Local
27 April 2010
Remember this chicken farm? PDM-TL's verification team took a trip out to Railako last month and now local news agencies like Tempo Semanal are following suit. Tempo Semanal f...
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Hitting the Waves – “Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste” Takes a Nautical Turn
26 March 2010
“Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste” at sea. Aside from finishing a total of 102 tiga roda, the painting crew at Creative Sablon interspersed their efforts on land...
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Let the Painting Begin!
17 March 2010
The “Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste” stencil. This morning marked the first day of the painting of approximately 100 tiga roda, or pushcarts, around Dili. Today, sta...
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Viqueque Farmers Secure $1,028 in Exchange for Peanuts
8 March 2010
A Raitahu farmer tying off a bag of peanuts before it is transferred to Mr.Mario da Costa. Back in touch with Mr. Mario da Costa, a Seed Production Officer from the Seed...
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Rural Businesses Advocate “Buy Local, Build Timor-Leste”
15 February 2010
You can see it painted on billboards, advertised in restaurants, lining the sides of cars, motorbikes and trolleys, and positioned in front of PDT‘s four offices in Bauc...
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Featured Business – Centro Bambu Timor-Leste
20 January 2010
Centro Bambu Timor-Leste (CBTL) was founded in 2009 as a group owned carpentry outfit with the innovative approach of using bamboo as the basic working material. With both fin...
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PDT Supports Development of a Timorese Venture into Wood/Stone Carving.
14 December 2009
On 12-13 December 2009 PDT faciliated a visit by the owner of Dili based Baniuaga Furniture makers to master carvers in Mas and Singakerta in central Bali. Baniuaga has an i...
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Timor Business Overview Word Cloud
11 December 2009
Blog linked to full Timor Business Overview report...
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Viqueque Snake Fruit – Salak Midar Teb-Tebes
4 December 2009
Interested in buying some Snake Fruit fruit? This fruit, often known by its Indonesian name Salak, comes in both sour and sweet varieties. The Business Verification and Micro ...
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Timor Business
21 November 2009
Slick new page for Timor-Leste Business Overview. Share:Blog this!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upShare on LinkedinShare on Posterousshare vi...
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PDT Timor-Leste and its Growing Web Presence.
16 November 2009
A. The Timor-Leste Online Procurement Database (soon to be known as Timor-Leste Business Portal) www.buy-in-timor.org Between its launch on 20 May 2008 and 5 November 2009 (17...
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Atauro’s Manu-Koko Makes the Cover of the Jakarta Globe!
9 November 2009
In April 2008, Peace Dividend Trust assisted Antonio Saldanha a wood carver from Atauro in setting a web platform via blogger.com in order to be able to market his carvings. T...
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PDT Tender Distribution Service Passes the $5 Million Mark
22 October 2009
Peace Dividend Trust Tender Distribution Service recently broke the $5 million mark....
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An Alternative Type of Agriculture in Timor-Leste
8 October 2009
Recently constructed greenhouses in Lequitura, Aileu The USAID operated program “Private Sector Development” is developing a different sort of agriculture in Timor...
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Serbisu Iha Timor-Leste Captures over 100,000 Views
14 September 2009
Serbisu Iha Timor-Leste, or Jobs in Timor-Leste, has recently passed the 100,000 page view milestone since its creation in December of 2008. This blog, founded and operated by...
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Riders, PDT Committed to Building Timor-Leste
3 September 2009
Riders pass in front of PDT banner. The international attention captured by Tour de Timor offered a wider audience the chance to see the direct impact of buying local. Peace D...
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Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao visits PDT Booth at the Dili International Trade Expo
17 August 2009
On 15 August 2009 Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao visited the PDT booth at the Dili International Trade Expo organised by the Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry (MTCI). M...
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PDT Tender Distribution $1 Million Success
4 August 2009
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) issued a tender in collaboration with the Government of Timor-Leste for the construction of a new National Post Office Headquart...
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PDT Buy Local Website www.buildingmarkets.org goes over 10,000 visit, and 57,000 hits.
23 July 2009
Showing graph of the Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste buildingmarkets website hits over a period from May 19, 2008- July 21, 2009...
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Peace Dividend Trust Breaks Ground with the Use of SMS.
19 June 2009
English translation below. Ba Publikasaun Emidiatu: Dili – Timor-Leste Peace Dividend Trust Breaks Ground Liu Husi SMS. Hahu husi fulan Fevreiro 2008 Peace Dividend Trust (P...
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Micro Matchmaking Innovations towards KIOS Asela
28 May 2009
On March 12, 2009, Micro Matchmaking District Representative for Covalima, Mr. Alberto de Araujo met Mr. Marcelo dos Santos owner of the local business “KIOS Asela”...
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Just cut the Cabbage.
24 September 2010
However, some time ago I was driving through the central region of Timor-Leste and came across a mountainside of cabbage. The real thing. It was near Atara in the Atsabe area...
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Numbers do not Lie: BuildingMarkets.org is taking off.
28 August 2010
Well its been sometime since I was trying to get some of my colleagues to take web statistics seriously. However, it ended up being easy once I showed them the “numbers” a...
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Batako Bulls Eye. Real Private Sector Development/Conflict Prevention.
23 August 2010
Well there is no shortage of debate and criticsim about how things are going in Timor-Leste when it comes to economic growth....
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PDT and UNDP Team Up to Run Construction Industry Training Session
19 August 2010
Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) and the United Nations Development Program Timor-Leste (UNDP) will jointly run a training seminar today, Thursday, 19 August, for construction busi...
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Vice Director of Micro Matchmaking and Public Relations Ilidio Ximenes da Costa interviewed by the UN Piblic Information Office
10 August 2010
On Monday August 9, 2010 PDT's Vice Director of Micro Matchmaking and Public Relations Ilidio Ximenes da Costa was interviewed by Mr. Rohit Kohlir and Amaral Sarmento from the...
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Time to start using PDT’s new and improved business portal!
9 July 2010
When I was offered the placement at Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) at the start of this year through the Australian Youth Ambassador for Development (AYAD) program, I was sent do...
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PDM-TL on Facebook: Tops 2,000 fans.
20 June 2010
Well popularity is hardly a full proof way to evaluate a project's value. But its heartening to see that the the PDM-TL Facebook fanpage has just gone over 2,000 fans in the ...
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From Chancery Lane to Ainaro – The Need for Information Is Still The Same.
16 June 2010
It’s a long commute from my old office in Chancery Lane, London in the UK, to the town of Ainaro, Timor-Leste, especially when you throw in a quick stop over at my parents...
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Viqueque Match Yields Big Money for Local Laborers
9 June 2010
In a district like Viqueque, doing business can be quite a challenge. Cell phones are few, internet is for all intents and purposes non-existent, and resources for business de...
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Available Now – Business Community in Timor-Leste Part Two: Employment Landscape
31 May 2010
This paper represents part two of a report written by Peace Dividend Trust on the Timor-Leste's private sector. The first paper, written in October 2009, provided a general ov...
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A Letter to Timor-Leste’s Business Community
25 May 2010
Dear Businesses in Timor-Leste,
You are invited to participate in a short online survey. The purpose of the survey is to gain feedback for Peace Dividend Trust’s Tender ...
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Sneak Preview! The New Timor-Leste Building Markets website
20 May 2010
Building Markets Timor-Leste is Getting a New Look!
The Timor-Leste Building Markets site will soon adopt PDT’s new Business Portal look and feel. The changes will make t...
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“Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste” Marketing Campaign Odds and Ends
13 April 2010
The team at Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste (PDM-TL) welcomes a new member into its folds as the Marketing Associate, Mr. Miguel Alves. Mr. Alves joined PDT just befor...
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Featured Business Profile – Garcia Farm
24 March 2010
Chicken coops at Garcia Farm in Railaco, Ermera. At the end of a bumpy and heavily eroding road, across hills, fields and streams, sits the expansive chicken farm Garcia Farm....
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Cattle Exportation: Linking East Timor to West
15 March 2010
Bobonaro cattle ready for exportation. Peace Dividend Trust Matchmaking (MM) assistants in the district of Bobonaro continue to link Timor-Leste’s cattle traders to buye...
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Featured Business – Sao Jose Carpintaria
24 February 2010
Owner Mr. Gagu with his personally crafted product, model Timorese traditional houses. Located in the small town of Hatolia in the District of Ermera, Mr. Julito Gagu&#...
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A $1,460 Deal for Manatuto Soybean Farmer
9 February 2010
With the aid of PDT’s district Matchmaking (MM) team, local Manatuto farmer Abilio Joao Martins was able to find a buyer for 2,921kg of soybeans worth $1,460.50. Gilber...
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PDT wins Skoll Award
15 December 2009
We have great news. PDT has been awarded one of the 2010 Skoll Awards! Jeff Skoll, the founder of eBay, created the Skoll Foundation to drive large-scale change by investing i...
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Featured Business – Energia Bio-Briquette
14 December 2009
Founded by the Haburas Foundation in 2009, Energia Bio-Briquette directly responds to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ recommendation that trees not be cut down an...
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Featured Business – Carpintaria Citra Mandiri, Ermera
7 December 2009
On 19 November 2009 PDT’s Business Verification Team discovered a new business named Carpintaria Citra Mandiri (Profile found here) in Ermera district. Recently es...
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Musing on New Funding
2 December 2009
PDT's Edward Rees is tired after a 1 week long, but very necessary, and valuable, AusAID Evaluation....
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UNMIT Procurement Plans: $54 million USD in 2009 and 2010
17 November 2009
The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) Procurement Acquisition Plan is now public and online. This Acquisition Plan details how UNMIT intends to purchas...
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Atauro Day – A Chance to Support Local Commerce
11 November 2009
Journey over to Atauro Island on Saturday the 14th of November to partake in “Atauro Day”, an opportunity to appreciate and celebrate the local culture, as we...
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Buy Local with SMS – English, Tetum and Bahasa Indonesia Translations
4 November 2009
Buy Local With SMS: Connecting Suppliers with Humanitarian Operations in East Timor and AfghanistanPost Date 10.21.09 Author Sara Moreira East Timor is studded with internatio...
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PDT Pioneers SMS application in Post Conflict Timor-Leste
22 October 2009
View blog blurb to read full article about SMS application in Timor-Leste...
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Programs to Build Timor-Leste
1 October 2009
AusAID is currently promoting three programs geared towards stimulating private sector growth in Timor-Leste. Two of these, East Timor Community Assistance Scheme (ETCAS) and ...
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Where did the Billions Go?
8 September 2009
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PDT Promotes Local Business Development at Expo
26 August 2009
In conjunction with the Dili International Trade Expo, Peace Dividend Trust has hosted and facilitated several types of activities geared towards cultivating the local economy...
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Tour de Timor Open Letter
6 August 2009
OPEN LETTER: Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste Dear Tour de Timor Participants, Support Teams, Media and others, Peace Dividend Trust (PDT) is an organisation based in Timor-Leste ...
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One of Timor-Leste National Racing Jersey’s for Tour de Timor
1 August 2009
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PDT Timor-Leste on BBC Radio in 2008
9 July 2009
For the radio story associated with this internet BBC story on PDT click here. Share:Blog this!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upShare on Linke...
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Flyer Beach Craft fair 2009 Tetum and English 20 June 09
17 June 2009
View blog blurb to read the details about Beach Craft fair 2009...
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Signs of Tour de Timor 2010 – Buy Local Build Timor-Leste
16 September 2010
As mentioned in a previous post, Peace Dividend Trust and the race organizers had been working on cool new signs to point the way on this year's Tour de Timor. In case you're ...
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Gearing Up for Tour de Timor
3 September 2010
I arrived in Timor-Leste in August of last year, coincidentally just a few weeks before the riders of the first Tour de Timor (TdT) began the grueling trek across the country...
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Timor-Leste coming to New York
24 August 2010
Missing Timor-Leste everyday and feeling that I left a little piece of my heart there during my first (and only so far!) visit back in March this year finally a piece of Timor...
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PDT and UNDP Construction Industry Training Session – How did we go???
20 August 2010
As mentioned on our blog spot yesterday, Peace Dividend Trust Timor-Leste (PDT) and the United Nations Development Program Timor-Leste (UNDP) ran a joint training session with...
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PDT is hiring!
16 August 2010
Calling all Guerrilla blogging-Platoon commanding-Mad visionaries! If you can convince us that you can write, and write WELL then PDT (Peace Dividend Trust) wants you!!...
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PDT’s Brigida Soares attends the East-West Centre ‘Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar’
10 August 2010
When former PDT’er Mike Leach contacted the Dili office to find out if there was a staff member that would be suitable to attend the East-West Centre’s ‘Changing Faces: ...
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Get Ready to Get Sporty
6 July 2010
Many believe that sports and politics are intrinsically intertwined. Whether it’s one country exerting its prowess and glory through an opening ceremony (thank you, CGI Fire...
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Dili Marathon Expo – Come meet the PDT team!
18 June 2010
In Dili tomorrow? Are you here for city's very first 'Dili - City of Peace - Marathon'? ... Race day is Sunday, but racers and non racers alike are welcome to come check out M...
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PDT Buy Local Website www.buy-in-timor.org goes over 100,000 hits
14 June 2010
With 78,896 unique views the Peace Dividend Marketplace online business portal www.buy-in-timor.org now has more 100,000 hits registered. This business portal features over 2...
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2.1 million bucks for rural cattle owners in Timor?
7 June 2010
Alot of PDM TL's work focuses on getting the international community to spend their dosh inside Timor-Leste - driving economic development. However, increasingly the buyers a...
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Good Year now in Timor-Leste
28 May 2010
Goodyear is the biggest supplier of tires worldwide and has obtained a reputation as a provider of excellent quality products. Goodyear commenced operations in America in 1898...
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Press Release: PDM-TL’s Matchmaking Team is Saying Goodbye to Ainaro and Manufahi
25 May 2010
Since its inception, Peace Dividend Trust's business matchmaking service in Timor-Leste has been a vital resource for linking buyers with local suppliers in Timor-Leste. It co...
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Success for Carpenter leads to Training the Community
11 May 2010
Raimundo Assa, a Timorese man who knows how a community can benefit from the success of a individual run one of the few carpentry businesses in Covalima. With skills requested...
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Entrepreneurial Spirit and Success in Bobonaro District
7 April 2010
Josefina Vicente of Maliana, Bobonaro could be called the quintessential business woman. With an entrepreneurial spirit and $300 in capital, she opened up a small business in ...
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Announcing New Facebook Fanpage. Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste
18 March 2010
Peace Dividend Trust is excited to announce the new Facebook fanpage – Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste! The Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste (PDM-TL) is one...
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PDT Timor. Over 2,500 businesses, and up to 22 million USD in business.
9 March 2010
The Timor-Leste Online Procurement Database surpassed for the first time the 2,500 mark with 2,557 individual businesses featured. While the Tender Distribution Services progr...
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Two Tender Wins Creates 26 New Jobs for Medina Construction
19 February 2010
Medina Construction was founded in January of last year and had little experience in applying for tenders. However, after two visits to Peace Dividend Trust‘s Tender Dis...
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Success for Rice Farmers in District of Viqueque
1 February 2010
Peace Dividend Trust‘s Micro Matchmaking Assistants in the district of Viqueque Gilberto Amaral, Antonio do Rosario and Vasco Maria Perreira have worked together over th...
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Timor’s Future. Buy Local – Build Their Future
15 December 2009
Timor-Leste's Future.
Buy Local - Build Their Future!...
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Featured Business – Flower Rosas Batik
14 December 2009
Miss Maria Purificacao was a married woman with four children working for the National University of Timor Lorosa’e. To compensate for her limited salary, Ms. Purificacao ha...
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$18,750 of Viqueque Soybeans
4 December 2009
In September 2009 PDT’s Micromatchmaking (M3) Team in Viqueque District in eastern Timor-Leste were influential in assisting a local farmer make a large business trans...
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Timorese Cattle – a domestic product for an international market.
21 November 2009
Peace Dividend Trust’s (PDT) Micro Matchmaking (M3) rural business development and facilitation team has been working on facilitating the sale of Timorese cattle to Indo...
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Peace Dividend Trust Launches a Report on the Nuts and Bolts of Businesses in Timor-Leste.
16 November 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dili, Timor-Leste, 16 November 2009 This Timor-Leste Business Community Overview is Part One of a two part series. The report is intended to provide a ...
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Tempo Semanal Publishes PDT SMS Story
9 November 2009
On the 3rd of November, Tempo Semanal published a Tetun translation of Sara Moreira’s article describing PDT‘s (Peace Dividend Trust) unique usage of&nbs...
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Providing the US Military a Chance to Buy Local
29 October 2009
Local vendors organized by PDT sell their handicrafts to visiting US troops. Peace Dividend Trust’s (PDT) micro-matchmaking (M3) Manatuto district representatives Benigno Um...
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Introducing Dili’s Newest Form of Transit Service – FlyBus, a Business on the Move.
9 October 2009
Running a small guesthouse in Taibessi, Dili, Mr. Carlos Alberto Soares and Mrs. Maria João Soares often found their patrons requesting a reliable method of transportation to...
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PDT Welcomes New MTCI Members to Verification Team
16 September 2009
After successfully completing a six month training program with Peace Dividend Trust (PDT), two staff from the Ministry of Tourism, Trade, and Industry (MTCI) return back to t...
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PDT Timor-Leste Releases District Business Guide for Oecusse District
7 September 2009
Traveling to the district of Oecusse? Don’t go without PDT’s newly released District Business Guide available in both English and Tetum. In this guide, you will fi...
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PDT Timor-Leste Releases District Business Guide for Manatuto District
25 August 2009
Browsing for goods and services in Manatuto? Look no further without the help of the newly released PDT District Business Guide for Manatuto district, available in both Englis...
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President Horta Supports “Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste”
6 August 2009
View blog blurb to read President Ramos Horta's endorsement letter to Peace Dividend Trust...
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Horta Says Buy Local
29 July 2009
Ramos Horta asks where $3bn in aid has goneCaroline Overington July 28, 2009Article from: The AustralianEAST Timor has reportedly received more than $3 billion in foreign aid ...
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Matchmaking-Dili $113,000.00 Transaction Success
26 June 2009
Matchmaking-Dili successfully facilitated transaction at value US$ 113,000.00 Servisu Suporta Ligasaun (M2)-Dili facilita ho sucesu tranzasaun ho valor US $ 113,000.00 In Sept...
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Recruiting New Staff for Cova Lima
10 June 2009
Conducting computer test for new Micromatchmaking staff in Suai, Cova Lima District. Cova Lima M3 micromatchmaking staff are among the most successful in the country - having ...
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