[{"bbox": [147, 152, 460, 181], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.2 Summary of the Action"}, {"bbox": [157, 208, 1074, 450], "category": "Text", "text": "In 2021, the Commission launched the Global Gateway strategy that is materialising in the LAC region at the country and regional level, mostly integrated into the EU-CELAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, announced during the 2023 EU-CELAC Summit. In the case of Colombia, the Global Gateway Investment Agenda has been translated into four priority sectors: 1) Digital: strengthening connections and helping Colombia address the digital divide and integrate the global digital ecosystem; 2) Climate & Energy: supporting investments in climate mitigation and resilience, as well as clean energy; 3) Sustainable Transport: Promoting infrastructure investments that create sustainable, smart, resilient, inclusive and safe networks; 4) Green Finance: to increase level of financial flows from the public and private sector to sustainable development priorities."}, {"bbox": [157, 459, 1074, 542], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the Global Gateway strategy, the Global Gateway Facility for Colombia aims to strengthen EU-Colombia investment relations by effectively implementing the Global Gateway Investment Agenda (GGIA)."}, {"bbox": [157, 551, 1074, 686], "category": "Text", "text": "Using a Team Europe Approach, the Action will aim to enhance the EU's investment potential by implementing the Global Gateway Flagships. In this regard, operationalising the GGIA in Colombia requires structuring the ideas and making them mature into investable projects. This requires expert support to be present in the target sectors, coordinate with stakeholders, steer the process, and support a level playing field for European investors."}, {"bbox": [157, 696, 1074, 805], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition to infrastructure investments, the Global Gateway Facility for Colombia will also contribute to promoting an enabling environment in the sectors of interest under the Global Gateway Investment Agenda (GGIA) by improving the legal, regulatory, and policy framework and building local capacity through integrated value chains."}, {"bbox": [157, 814, 1074, 950], "category": "Text", "text": "The Global Gateway Facility for Colombia will showcase and build on the EU's leading role in sustainable growth, fair trade, high environmental standards, responsible business, and cutting-edge technologies. To this end, the Delegation will work hand in hand with the Colombian Government and Colombian stakeholders and, in particular, promote European interests along with European Chambers of Commerce and EU companies with interests in Colombia."}, {"bbox": [157, 959, 1074, 1096], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will also contribute to the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Gender Equality 2021-2025 GAP III¹², in particular to its thematic areas of engagement “Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women” and “Addressing the challenges and seizing the opportunities of the green transition and the digital transformation”, as well as to the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024³."}, {"bbox": [157, 1105, 1074, 1215], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU Roadmap for engagement with civil society in Colombia will be the principal mechanism for an effective inclusion of CSOs in the GG facility. Moreover, the follow-up committee of the road map which is fully operating at a country level will engage with the GG facility to provide sectorial outputs and support the localisation of the GG strategy⁴."}, {"bbox": [147, 1420, 909, 1447], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹ https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/gender-action-plan-iii-towards-gender-equal-world_en"}, {"bbox": [147, 1445, 1082, 1516], "category": "Footnote", "text": "² EU Gender Equality Action Plan (GAP) III adopted by the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and welcomed through EU Presidency Conclusions by 24 EU Member States.”"}, {"bbox": [147, 1516, 1043, 1566], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ https://www.eeas.europa.eu/sites/default/files/eu_action_plan_on_humanRights_andDemocracy_2020-2024.pdf"}, {"bbox": [147, 1565, 1018, 1616], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/colombia/hoja-de-ruta-de-la-uni%C3%B3n-europea-para-el-compromiso-con-la-sociedad-civil-en-los-pa%C3%ADses-socios-2021_und_es?_s=160"}, {"bbox": [966, 1640, 1082, 1667], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 21"}]