[{"bbox": [85, 151, 1145, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "achievement in health, education, and income, was 0.913 for males and 0.804 for females in Guyana in 2019, indicating a significant gender gap.¹²"}, {"bbox": [85, 233, 1145, 342], "category": "Text", "text": "According to the 2020 Global Gender Gap Report, Guyana ranks 80th out of 153 countries in terms of gender equality. The report notes that women in Guyana have lower levels of political empowerment and economic participation than men.¹³ Globally, some progress on women's rights has been achieved. For instance, in 2023 35% of seats in parliament are held by women."}, {"bbox": [85, 369, 1145, 501], "category": "Text", "text": "However, work still needs to be done in Guyana to achieve gender equality. 30.2% of women aged 20–24 years old were married or in a union before age 18. In 2018, 10.5% of women aged 15–49 years reported that they had been subject to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months. Maternal health care in Guyana also suggests disparities that affect women in the health care system (17 deaths in the maternity wards in 2022)."}, {"bbox": [85, 531, 1145, 718], "category": "Text", "text": "As of December 2020, only 35.2% of indicators needed to monitor the SDGs from a gender perspective were available, with gaps in key areas, in particular: unpaid care and domestic work and information and communications technology skills. In addition, many areas – such as gender and poverty, physical and sexual harassment, women's access to assets (including land), and gender and the environment – lack comparable methodologies for regular monitoring. Closing these gender data gaps is essential for achieving gender-related SDG commitments in Guyana. The information and data gaps on gender equality, especially in the forestry sector, constituted a significant setback in understanding the disparities that could exist in the forestry sector.¹⁴"}, {"bbox": [85, 746, 1145, 854], "category": "Text", "text": "This action will seek to apply indirectly a rights-based approach by zooming in on women in all their diversity, people with disabilities, in the wood industry value chain¹⁵, as well as indigenous and small Forest Sector Operators (FSOs), and civil society organisations (women's organizations working in human rights and gender equality, youth organizations, Disability organizations) involved in the wood industry. The method is inclusive and participatory."}, {"bbox": [85, 881, 1145, 966], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will be gender mainstreamed and aligned with the Gender Action Plan III (GAP III), namely to the thematic area of engagement: ‘Addressing the challenges and harnessing the opportunities offered by the green transition and the digital transformation: Part Climate Change’."}, {"bbox": [85, 997, 233, 1024], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [85, 1052, 1145, 1210], "category": "Text", "text": "This programme contributes to the enhancement of legal compliance of all Forest Sector Operators (FSOs) in the Guyanese wood industry. Therefore, achieving the FLEGT licensing standard means that all FSOs (saw millers, exporters, small and large concessionaires, loggers) and their employees will adhere to local legislation in force, including labour laws and regulations. By extent, it is anticipated that working conditions and labour rights will have improved for FSOs and workers throughout the wood industry with support from this programme under the purview of the FLEGT VPA."}, {"bbox": [85, 1240, 1145, 1349], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will apply a human rights-based approach respecting its five working principles: i) Applying all human rights for all; ii) Meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making; iii) Non-discrimination and equality; iv) Accountability and rule of law for all; and v) Transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data."}, {"bbox": [85, 1377, 184, 1403], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [85, 1431, 1145, 1486], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. This implies that the action does not include activities that specifically aim at the persons with disabilities."}, {"bbox": [85, 1550, 622, 1573], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² Source: UNDP Guyana - Human Development Report, 2019"}, {"bbox": [85, 1573, 683, 1598], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹³ Source: World Economic Forum - Global Gender Gap Report, 2020"}, {"bbox": [85, 1598, 554, 1622], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁴ Country Level Implementation Plan – CLIP Guyana"}, {"bbox": [85, 1622, 642, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁵ Taking into account all their diversity (intersectional approach)"}, {"bbox": [1028, 1682, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 30"}]