[{"bbox": [135, 154, 1133, 205], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Capacity building of local CBOs, including those leaded by women, to improve their role in the nutrition sector."}, {"bbox": [135, 210, 1133, 262], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Develop operational gender transformative and inclusive research and innovative work to support the implementation of MSNP-III."}, {"bbox": [135, 265, 1077, 291], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Outreach, information and dissemination campaigns and advocacy to end all forms of malnutrition."}, {"bbox": [86, 332, 311, 362], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 378, 541, 404], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [97, 406, 1098, 432], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening:** Category C: an EIA is not required."}, {"bbox": [97, 432, 1133, 484], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening:** Climate low-risk project: no further action; climate risk aspects will be addressed during the design of the action."}, {"bbox": [97, 511, 636, 537], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [97, 538, 1133, 617], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that gender equality is an important and deliberate objective of the programme and mainstreamed throughout the activities of the programme."}, {"bbox": [97, 629, 1133, 868], "category": "Text", "text": "Recognising that gender discrimination and social exclusion are major drivers of poverty and malnutrition, gender equality is among the core values that MSNP-III is committed to contribute to. Women's control over decision-making in general, and on health and nutrition related issues in particular is low, and this is worsened by intersecting forms of discrimination. MSNP-III has adopted a gender transformative approach over the gender-sensitive approach undertaken by MSNP-II, as a part of a continuum of gender integration into all aspects of the nutrition programme and policy development, implementation, and evaluation. This approach has been embraced to address the existing gender inequality in accessing and utilizing health and nutrition-related services, challenge harmful gender norms that affect the utilisation of services, promote gender-equitable attitudes and behaviours, and increase women's access to resources and decision-making power."}, {"bbox": [97, 880, 1133, 986], "category": "Text", "text": "As highlighted by the detailed EU country level Sector Gender Analysis (2022) these challenges can be considered as root causes and hence prerequisites for ending malnutrition and strengthening the gender responsiveness of sectors beyond a narrow approach that primarily concentrates on improved nutrition services for women in the context of their reproductive roles as mothers⁵."}, {"bbox": [97, 998, 1133, 1053], "category": "Text", "text": "Therefore, the action contributes to the EU Gender Action Plan III, in particular to the thematic areas “Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women” and “Promoting equal participation and leadership”."}, {"bbox": [97, 1084, 243, 1109], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [97, 1110, 1133, 1190], "category": "Text", "text": "The Constitution of Nepal has enshrined the right to food and the right to basic health care services as fundamental human rights. MSNP-III explicitly highlights ‘respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights’ as a core value and guiding principle for implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 1202, 1133, 1441], "category": "Text", "text": "Given that the root causes of malnutrition include multi-dimensional poverty, inequality and discrimination, the proposed action builds on the commitment of the Commission to adopt a human rights-based approach to development cooperation by applying its five working principles from the implementation to the evaluation of the action paying particular attention to ensure that the action: contributes to build the capacities of duty-bearers to fulfil human rights obligations and gender equality commitments; raises awareness of rights holders about their rights and strengthens their capacities to claim them rights (in particular in relation to nutrition and food security); strengthens a meaningful participation and cooperation; incorporates a ‘do no harm’ approach to prevent harmful outcomes; and promotes transparency and equal access to information (including disaggregated data at least by sex, age and disability status)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1458, 194, 1484], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Disability"}, {"bbox": [86, 1596, 1142, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ As the study pointed out, unfortunately the situation of ‘men’s indifference to nutrition’ persists and there is a pressing need to sensitise men to engage in and assume co-responsibility for the nutrition agenda"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 13"}]