 disaster risk reduction project through building community resilience in Timor-Leste has been implemented by IOM under the financial support of the USAID. One of the effective ways to increase the community knowledge, understanding and skills on the RR is by having them directly involved in activities implemented in their areas. Training is one of them where the community members and local officials gather to learn and share the knowledge and information about issues of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Demo risk training is one basic concept of DRR, climate change, emergency response and simulation exercise were introduced to the 12 communities in the five target districts of Timor-Leste, like Govnaru, Hermera, Manitoto, Rao Kao and Laotan. DRR radio programming, IAC materials and billboards are also useful ways to have the DRR and CCCA information widely reaching out to the public. Meanwhile, maintaining active presence in national and district meetings related to disaster risk management and coordination was also important. Prevention, preparedness and mitigation rather than response should be the center of our efforts if we want to see the community is resilient to disaster. Keyhole Garden is a new farming technique which has been successful in preparing the community to face the impacts of the disasters and climate change in the future. For it to test the preparedness of the community and their local first responders to face in the disasters a series of emergency response simulations were done. During the simulation, the voluntary teams previously established within the communities were able to put in practice the knowledge and skills they have gained during the previous workshop to assist the immediate fellow villagers and leaders in the simulated emergencies. The exercises were afterwards actively and jointly evaluated by locals and their leaders, many gaps bound to the wheels for further improvement.