Bonn, Germany: East Timor has been the largest operation ever in the 31-year history of the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV). UN Volunteers were among the first international UN personnel to return to East Timor in October 1999, after weeks of violent fighting between opponents and supporters of independence. Read

Dili, Timor-Leste: On day two of the newly born Democratic Republic of East Timor and only 10 days before the beginning of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, the Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteer programme (UNV), Sharon Capeling-Alakija, officially handed over to the East Timorese Don Carlos Foundation the "Nobel de la Paz" football field, a UNV rehabilitation project. Read

Dili, East Timor: Some 200,000 East Timorese from all parts of the country were gathered at Taci Tolo site in the outskirts of Dili to witness independence celebrations, led by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and President Xanana Gusmao. Read

Dili, East Timor: During the past three years of transition towards independence for East Timor, the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has built up its largest single presence ever. Some 3,000 UN Volunteers from more than 100 countries have supported the East Timor Public Administration, including electoral processes, and carried out a range of activities nationwide as part of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). No other UN operation has made such extensive use of UN Volunteers and their expertise. Read

Dare, East Timor: UN Volunteer district electoral officers (DEOs) and East Timorese colleagues opened 282 polling centres Sunday for East Timor's first-ever presidential elections. It was the third ballot in East Timor since 1999 that was organized with broad support from the Bonn-based UN Volunteers programme (UNV). Read

Dili, East Timor: Seventy-five of the 150 district electoral officers (DEOs) recruited by the Bonn-based UN Volunteers programme (UNV) arrived in East Timor this week to prepare and conduct presidential elections scheduled for 14 April. Read

Dili, East Timor: Mr. Claudio Magno, a local staff member of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), is about to become the first East Timorese national to represent his newly forming nation in serving the United Nations as a UN Volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read

This is not an essay but a history. It is not a history about the "Timorization" of UNTAET reports. It is about REAL and DEEP Timorization. Read

The word "Timorization" was as alien to most of us as the word "Development" in East Timor during its colonial past. Immediately after arriving here, I was deputed to work in the Civil Service Academy and impart training to the local civil servants so that they can have effective system of administration and governance in a time bound manner. In short, the mandate was to do a time bound exercise in Capacity Building for the People of East Timor, who in the words of James Dunn have been betrayed time and again. Read

Bonn, Germany: The Special Representative of the Secretary General and the Transitional Administrator of East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello has met with UN Volunteers Analia Ramos and Jose Benedito together with their Timorese counterparts, Orlando Belo and Manuel da Costa. Read