Foreign aid to Timor-Leste

Timor Leste, since its creation in 1999, has received aid from many different parts of the International Community to help stabilise this new country.

After the East Timor Special Autonomy Referendum, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor administered the country to ensure the proper creation of the government.

Since then, similar coalitions of forces have had to intervene in the 2006 East Timorese crisis in Operation Astute.

The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste, initially mandated to run through 2008[1] was extended twice, first through 2009[2] then 2010.

[4] USAID began supporting the development of effective democratic electoral and political processes in Timor-Leste in 1999.