[{"bbox": [85, 156, 1143, 210], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support craftsmen in the housing sector in offering energy-efficient construction services in order to improve living standards for households: recruitment of craftsmen and strengthening craftsmen business models;"}, {"bbox": [85, 213, 1143, 268], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Enhance access to energy-efficient products of quality for e.g. rural households: identify products, test efficiency and install a quality assurance process;"}, {"bbox": [85, 270, 1143, 326], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Provide co-financing grants to rural households to lower the acquisition barrier to energy-efficient products, in particular for vulnerable and women-headed households;"}, {"bbox": [85, 328, 1131, 355], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Provide access to working capital for women distribution networks to enable them to develop their businesses;"}, {"bbox": [85, 357, 1143, 413], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Pilot a Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) treatment and recycling facility to improve collection, treatment and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) at the end of their lifecycle¹⁵."}, {"bbox": [85, 444, 466, 469], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Indicative activities related to output 3"}, {"bbox": [85, 472, 1143, 525], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Set-up a workforce planning (jobs and skills) based on assessment surveys of the economic actors involved in this action;"}, {"bbox": [85, 529, 1143, 585], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Set-up a training program including vocational training and work-based learning for economic actors to improve their businesses (output 1). Gender-inclusion will be emphasised;"}, {"bbox": [85, 588, 1143, 643], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Set-up a vocational training programme to train individuals engaged in green jobs connected to the action (e.g. women entrepreneurs, technicians and craftsmen of the housing sector). Gender-inclusion will be emphasised;"}, {"bbox": [85, 645, 1143, 700], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Providing hard and soft support to training centres (technical equipment, design/improvement of training curricula, technical advice on gender-inclusion and accessibility-inclusion) and mobile training units;"}, {"bbox": [85, 703, 967, 730], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Conduct awareness raising campaigns to facilitate the adoption of energy-efficient products;"}, {"bbox": [85, 732, 1143, 759], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Conduct awareness raising for end-users to encourage proper use and maintenance of energy-efficient products."}, {"bbox": [85, 777, 311, 807], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [98, 824, 542, 849], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [98, 850, 1147, 1058], "category": "Text", "text": "This action considers climate change and environmental issues as main priorities in its design, implementation and evaluation phases. The promotion and use of renewable electricity will avoid carbon emissions and local air pollution compared to the use of fossil-fuel based generators; the promotion of clean cook stoves will result in a significant reduction of biomass fuel use as well as a reduction in indoor and ambient air pollution. The progressive adoption of better energy-efficient building practices will deliver a number of environmental benefits. An energy-efficient building will have the advantage of lower energy, water, and maintenance costs. Lower emissions and overall environmental impact: energy-efficient buildings have lower greenhouse gas emissions due to their reduced reliance on fossil fuels."}, {"bbox": [98, 1088, 1147, 1192], "category": "Text", "text": "Assessing the emergence of a WEEE scheme is in line with the same goal. Few of the anticipated activities are likely to have significant environmental consequences, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. In micro hydro project (<100kW), an environmental commitment plan validated by the community impacted will be established. Protection of the environment will be mainstreamed into all activities."}, {"bbox": [98, 1221, 1098, 1275], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)"}, {"bbox": [98, 1276, 1098, 1325], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [98, 1353, 1129, 1406], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)"}, {"bbox": [98, 1407, 1112, 1458], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is no or low risk (no need for further assessment)"}, {"bbox": [98, 1486, 637, 1513], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [85, 1572, 1143, 1644], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁵ When writing the document, there is no framework or capacity for recycling of WEEE in Myanmar. Taking advantage of the distribution network also as a possible collection network, the action envisions exploring avenues to set-up a WEEE recycling chain."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 20"}]