The Nusa Tenggara Association (Nta)

www. nta.org. au

The NTA is an Australian not-for-profit NGO committed to improving livelihoods in the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) located immediately to the north of Australia. Nusa Tenggara Timur is the poorest region in Indonesia, and one of the poorest in the world.

The NTA collaborates with local NGOs, and engages the community by co-ordinating a consensus (musyawarah) process where local people identify the most essential projects. This means that the people affected by the development have ownership of the processes, which are then overseen and regularly monitored by NTA staff. The NTA supports around 150 to 200 small activities at any given time, within our three program areas:

(1) small scale infrastructures - where we supply crop fencing, toilets, water tanks and wells;
(2) education - where we provide books and teacher training; and
(3) income-generating activities - where we provide mentoring and training in new agricultural technologies and operate a modest microcredit program for local farmers growing vegetables, cocoa, seaweed and other crops.