[{"bbox": [85, 147, 1168, 531], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>digital connectivity</td><td>☐</td><td>☒</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>energy</td><td>☐</td><td>☒</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>transport</td><td>☐</td><td>☒</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>health</td><td>☐</td><td>☒</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>education and research</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Migration @<br>(methodology for tagging under development)</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Reduction of Inequalities<br>(methodology for marker and tagging under<br>development)</td><td>☐</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Covid-19</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [491, 533, 765, 557], "category": "Section-header", "text": "BUDGET INFORMATION"}, {"bbox": [95, 579, 223, 630], "category": "Section-header", "text": "12. Amounts concerned"}, {"bbox": [336, 590, 954, 618], "category": "Text", "text": "Budget line(s) (article, item): BGUE-B2022-14.020120-C1-INTPA"}, {"bbox": [336, 637, 690, 661], "category": "Text", "text": "Total estimated cost: EUR 15 000 000"}, {"bbox": [336, 677, 865, 703], "category": "Text", "text": "Total amount of EU budget contribution EUR 15 000 000"}, {"bbox": [336, 724, 1162, 807], "category": "Text", "text": "With an indicative amount of EUR 29 000 000 to be committed in 2022, Germany supports the TEI \"Smart, Green and Digital Recovery in Ghana\" with a focus on local governance, revenue mobilisation, public financial management and accountability"}, {"bbox": [402, 828, 856, 851], "category": "Section-header", "text": "MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION"}, {"bbox": [95, 879, 310, 907], "category": "Section-header", "text": "13. Type of financing¹"}, {"bbox": [336, 879, 1136, 930], "category": "Text", "text": "Indirect management with the entity(ies) to be selected in accordance with the criteria set out in section 4.4.1"}, {"bbox": [87, 954, 401, 983], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.2 Summary of the Action"}, {"bbox": [95, 1000, 1132, 1051], "category": "Text", "text": "Through the implementation of the Joint Programming Ghana 2021-2027, the EU will support the development of more sustainable and inclusive cities."}, {"bbox": [95, 1066, 1132, 1198], "category": "Text", "text": "Unplanned spatial expansion of urban and metropolitan areas and their limited integration within and across Ghana's regions is a challenge to economic efficiency. It increases social and environmental costs, inadequate and unequal access to basic services, health risks and ecological damages. Climate change will further hamper development gains in cities. Finally, significant wealth gaps exist in Ghana, with northern regions disproportionately poor, unequal, and poorly covered in critical services."}, {"bbox": [95, 1211, 1132, 1288], "category": "Text", "text": "An integrated two phases programme is proposed to address those challenges by working both on the institutional framework at national and local level, and by improving urban services delivery and infrastructure provision to meet the demand of citizens."}, {"bbox": [95, 1303, 1132, 1515], "category": "Text", "text": "The action proposed in the AAP 2022 (first phase) will address the need for improved institutional coordination, capacity building and data collection through the provision of technical assistance and the establishment of an Urban Observatory. The Observatory aims to provide an institutional and technical platform to facilitate coordination and dialogue between the central government, local authorities and civil society, including women organisations and those representing the rights of the most vulnerable, such as people living with disabilities. Building technical and institutional capacity, providing smart planning tools with digital technologies, and facilitating citizen engagement, the programme will support the development of planning policies at the local level towards sustainable, inclusive and green urban development of Ghanaian cities."}, {"bbox": [87, 1620, 220, 1642], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹ Art. 27 NDICI"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1142, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 3 of 25"}]