[{"bbox": [85, 153, 415, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [85, 197, 1145, 303], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that the local population of Petén will recognise that conservation and sustainable exploitation of the still abundant natural resources constitutes its highest value once such values are converted into direct economic benefit of their families and communities. Consequently, the willingness of the people and the local administration will increase towards a social and economic behaviour respectful with the environment."}, {"bbox": [85, 330, 1145, 438], "category": "Text", "text": "By applying the Territorial Approach for Local Development (TALD), the institutional and socio-economic frameworks of the Petén region will be enabled to ensure coherence between and sustainability of environmental and economic policies. The logic behind is to achieve higher participation and better appropriation of proposed green transformation by local partners."}, {"bbox": [85, 463, 1145, 543], "category": "Text", "text": "By promoting Green business development, with a focus on the adoption of sustainable consumption and production practices, and providing access to Green finance and investments, capacities and practices of both businesses and finance institutions will be improved to finance the Green economy transition."}, {"bbox": [85, 569, 1145, 678], "category": "Text", "text": "By delivering good livestock management as part of sustainable farming and by protecting the boundaries and biodiversity of the forests, farming and forestry will be complementary safeguards for the remaining forest and regenerate what has been lost. In this regard, the action has a clear vision of zero deforestation and livestock reconciliation."}, {"bbox": [85, 699, 1145, 834], "category": "Text", "text": "There is ample analytical and programmatic evidence to illustrate that without a targeted social and economic green transition and without support to sustainable and green employment for Petén's population and governance actors, the risk of entrenching of social, economic, security and environmental problems is substantial and acute. The logic of this action is to enable green transition in different sectors through decoupling the socio-economic development of Petén from environmental degradation."}, {"bbox": [85, 858, 1145, 1019], "category": "Text", "text": "To achieve this, and following an integrated and territorial intervention logic, the proposed action opts to intervene in two ways. On the one hand, working jointly and in a coordinated manner in the three main economic sectors of the region (forestry, agriculture and tourism), promoting the necessary balance between economic development and environmental protection, a green transition will be achieved. Concretely, by strengthening existing and developing new wood processing value chains and non-timber products based on sustainable forest management, support climate agro-ecological agriculture for climate resilience and agro-forest systems and contrive a respectful tourism sector."}, {"bbox": [85, 1044, 1145, 1231], "category": "Text", "text": "On the other hand, the lack of access to public services, especially **water and sanitation and solid waste management**, coupled with increasing internal migration, is having a growing impact on ecosystems and environmental degradation. Therefore, investment in water, sanitation and solid waste infrastructure that are made based on improved watershed management plans around most populated municipality of Flores and the surrounding municipalities of Lago Petén-Itza, will provide basic assurances to communities that they too can profit from sustainable development and economic opportunities in the medium term. This also calls for a component aiming at strengthening the municipalities and public entities, which are responsible for the management of these services."}, {"bbox": [85, 1258, 1145, 1422], "category": "Text", "text": "The action also sees local governance actors in Petén lead such processes, to foster a culture of good governance, mutual accountability, institutional strengthening and territorial integrity – notably towards the rest of the country. Thus, the action will also provide capacity building to the Petén Authorities' governmental and no governmental bodies, namely Development Council of Petén (CODEDE) and the 14 municipalities. It will strengthen their abilities to mobilise national revenues for increasing public investment and to conduct plans and activities for complying with Guatemala's green policies, hence to deliver on their commitments to serve the Petén population."}, {"bbox": [85, 1448, 1145, 1556], "category": "Text", "text": "However, for the proposed action to bear fruit, number assumptions must hold true. The EU and International Community must continue to show political leadership to remain programmatically and politically engaged with the Green Deal¹⁷ and ready to take the necessary political and financial risks. Similarly, Guatemalan stakeholders at local, regional and central governance level must demonstrate technical capacity as well as both political vision to"}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 657, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ The European Green Deal, COM(2019) 640 (final) of 11/12/2019"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1145, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 30"}]