[{"bbox": [111, 112, 1147, 166], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 2:** Capacities and facilities of local entities (municipalities, districts and communities) for inclusive climate change adaptation and risk reduction are strengthened"}, {"bbox": [111, 178, 1147, 258], "category": "Text", "text": "The main activities are related to the support of local entities (municipalities, districts and communities) to be better able to respond to climate change adaptation needs and to the provision of decentralised finance to build climate resilient, socio-economic infrastructures in targeted districts."}, {"bbox": [108, 284, 1147, 338], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Local entities (municipal, district and communities) are better able to respond to communities climate change adaptation needs:"}, {"bbox": [111, 338, 1147, 389], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Build technical capacity of provinces and district services to plan, budget and implement climate adaptation investments;"}, {"bbox": [111, 390, 1023, 418], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support LAPs mainstreaming exercises into the local annual planning and budgeting (PESOD);"}, {"bbox": [111, 418, 1147, 471], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Align provincial and district level monitoring and reporting systems with national MRV system, supporting the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data and gender-sensitive indicators."}, {"bbox": [108, 496, 1147, 523], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Provision of decentralised finance to build climate resilient, socio-economic infrastructures in targeted districts:"}, {"bbox": [111, 523, 1028, 549], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Establish an Effective Performance-based Climate Resilient Grant system (finance mechanism);"}, {"bbox": [111, 549, 1147, 603], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Develop inclusive, (gender) responsive, effective and accountable Climate Change planning & budgeting processes at district level;"}, {"bbox": [111, 603, 1147, 656], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Establish Monitoring and Evaluation system and document lessons learned to inform policies and integrate Climate Change in all steps of PFM processes & improvements;"}, {"bbox": [111, 656, 1088, 684], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Complete roll-out plans and provide capacity building to new districts/provinces covered by the action."}, {"bbox": [111, 709, 1147, 763], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outputs 3:** Communities' preparedness, response and adaptive capacities to weather related hazards are strengthened to ensure women and men, in all their diversity, participate in climate change solutions."}, {"bbox": [111, 774, 1147, 854], "category": "Text", "text": "The main activities are related to establishing and improving emergency response and coping strategies at community level and to invest in income generation solutions based on the sustainable management of natural resources and preservation of ecosystems and their biodiversity."}, {"bbox": [111, 868, 1147, 921], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Equip and train Local Committees for Risk Reduction and Management (CLGRC) and for gender-responsive Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM);"}, {"bbox": [111, 921, 576, 948], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Early warning systems developed and tested²⁹;"}, {"bbox": [111, 948, 895, 974], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Conduct environment sensitization campaigns at community and provincial level;"}, {"bbox": [111, 974, 1147, 1027], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Implement income generating activities based on Nature-Based solutions, benefiting women and men in all their diversity;"}, {"bbox": [111, 1027, 835, 1053], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Further disseminate climate-smart and conservation agriculture techniques;"}, {"bbox": [111, 1053, 1095, 1081], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support people in the most vulnerable situations affected by climate disasters to restore their asset base;"}, {"bbox": [111, 1081, 1071, 1107], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Provide access to climate information and knowledge to small-holder farmers, both women and men."}, {"bbox": [111, 1132, 1117, 1240], "category": "Text", "text": "The commitment of the EU's contribution to the Team Europe Initiative to which this action refers, will be complemented by other contributions from Team Europe members. It is subject to the formal confirmation of each respective member's meaningful contribution as early as possible. In the event that the TEIs and/or these contributions do not materialise, the EU action may continue outside a TEI framework."}, {"bbox": [100, 1253, 326, 1284], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [111, 1300, 574, 1327], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Environmental Protection and Climate Change**"}, {"bbox": [111, 1327, 1147, 1381], "category": "Text", "text": "MERCIM + is a climate change specific programme essentially targeted towards increasing adaptive capacity, disaster preparedness and resilience of the population in targeted districts."}, {"bbox": [111, 1391, 1147, 1552], "category": "Text", "text": "Under output 1, in line with the national commitments stated in the updated NDC, the establishment of MRV system will help measuring the contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation of key sectors of the economy and overall public policy. The updated NDC is aligned with sector policies and foresees to support climate smart practices in both adaptation and mitigation aspects. An efficient MRV system shall enable to track of investments and practices in agriculture, forestry and biodiversity (including fisheries) contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts."}, {"bbox": [111, 1564, 1147, 1618], "category": "Text", "text": "At district level (output 2), climate adaptation will be mainstreamed through the integration of the Local Adaptation Plans (LAPs) into local territorial planning and budgeting processes. All prioritized climate-proof/resilient"}, {"bbox": [100, 1643, 1084, 1668], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁹ Establish synergies with JRC climate change data and tools as well as EU Copernicus Earth Observation Programme Copernicus."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1666, 1157, 1690], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 24"}]