[{"bbox": [85, 146, 1140, 1597], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>- Support to the private sector and women's economic empowerment with notably access to credit, investment in value chains, and support to market linkages;<br/>- Climate resilience.<br/>Strong advocacy for direct financial support to local NGOs and private sector.</td><td>International implementing partners will be encouraged to build the capacity or implement activities with the local civil society or community-based organisations. The Action also foresees the possibility of providing funding to private sector operators.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The ARTF was identified as a key vehicle to coordinate and finance programmes in Afghanistan, increasing the overall impact.</td><td>The Action will support the ARTF at strategic and project implementation levels.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan=\"7\">Thematic evaluation of the private sector support in Afghanistan (June 2023)</td><td>Complex projects with multiple inter-related components or dependencies on other related projects face higher risk of failure.</td><td>Whenever feasible and relevant, the Action will encourage strategic consortia notably under direct management (grants).</td></tr><tr><td>Enterprise level support is likely to be more sustainable when provided to more established and resilient businesses.</td><td>The Action includes a specific objective on economic opportunities and private sector, which will focus primarily on resilient businesses.</td></tr><tr><td>Projects that consciously and determinedly target women beneficiaries can successfully promote gender equity despite discriminatory social norms.</td><td>Women and girls are the priority population group for beneficiary targeting.</td></tr><tr><td>Moving from emergency support to businesses towards more development oriented support for market systems.</td><td>The Action promotes a value chain approach from production to market to consumer.</td></tr><tr><td>Supporting the recovery of the financial sector.</td><td>The Action will support access to microfinance services.</td></tr><tr><td>Supporting private sector agriculture. The EU should develop a programme of private sector support in the agriculture sector, including livestock and poultry, which focuses on supporting private sector providers involved in input supply, agricultural processing, transport, logistics and cold storage, marketing and certification. Such interventions should employ a value chain approach which analyses and addresses bottlenecks and opportunities along the production, processing and marketing chain.</td><td>In the Action, agriculture is a key sector for strengthening private sector, inclusive and sustainable value chains, as well as livelihoods.</td></tr><tr><td>Supporting skills development in rural areas. The EU should consider applying experience from successful technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programmes in urban areas to rural sectors, including agricultural processing. Without a functioning national system for youth training, support for SMEs to take on apprentices and trainees may currently be a more practical and sustainable approach to skills development.</td><td>Skills development and TVET, notably in rural areas, will be integrated in inclusive and sustainable value chain, private sector and livelihoods support.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 22 of 33"}]