Program
Nabilan: Ending Violence Against Women and Children
Reducing Timor Leste’s high rates of violence against women and girls requires comprehensive programming. We help communities, service providers, and institutions prevent violence and improve care for women and children.
Timor-Leste has some of the highest rates of violence against women and children globally, driven by entrenched inequality and harmful social norms.
Nabilan is a partnership between the Governments of Australia and Timor-Leste that engages individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and government institutions to prevent violence by promoting equality and positive social norms. It also strengthens local service providers to ensure women and children experiencing violence can access consistent, high-quality care and support.
Impact
Nabilan strengthened core violence response services outside the formal health sector, supporting more than 17,000 survivors through protection, counseling, legal assistance, and referral services.
Prevention initiatives reached more than 25,000 parents, community members, young people, healthcare graduates, and civil society actors with messages on equality, safety, and respectful relationships.
Government officials, service providers, nonprofit staff, and development practitioners improved skills in violence prevention, survivor support, child protection, counseling, and safe service delivery.
Dozens of social service workers from 25 organizations earned a nationally recognized qualification, strengthening the workforce serving vulnerable populations.
Featured Publication
Prevention Exchange
Event Report: Sharing Best Practices in Primary Prevention Programming to End Violence Against Women and Children
approach
Nabilan combines violence prevention, survivor support, systems strengthening, and leadership development through a locally led and evidence-based approach.
The program integrates trauma-informed practice, behavior change, organizational strengthening, and movement building to address the drivers of violence at individual, family, community, and institutional levels. Recognized internationally for its integrated model, Nabilan adapts proven prevention and response approaches to the Timorese context through long-term partnerships, local leadership, and sustained investment in institutional capacity.