[{"bbox": [145, 153, 1134, 230], "category": "Text", "text": "INNOQ to adhere to international best practices in terms of procedures, schemes and services so to foster simplification and reduce administrative burdens for stakeholders and traders operating in the priority value chains;"}, {"bbox": [109, 234, 1046, 260], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the adaptation to the EU Regulation on Deforestation towards deforestation-free products;"}, {"bbox": [109, 263, 1133, 315], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the development of financial digital solutions (eg. agri-finance ecosystem platforms, agri-tech SMEs, digital and blockchain solutions);"}, {"bbox": [109, 318, 1134, 424], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support local and European business associations' capacity to advocate for policy reforms aimed at improving the investment climate and promote sustainable investments, support the development of consultative procedures between public and private actors, so to ensure the involvement of the relevant stakeholders in the drafting and implementation of the relevant legislation."}, {"bbox": [109, 436, 1134, 549], "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": [86, 613, 311, 642], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [109, 658, 554, 685], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [109, 698, 1134, 989], "category": "Text", "text": "Environmental and climate change challenges are at the very core of this action which is designed considering the sustainable value-chains – biodiversity conservation– private sector development nexus. The proposed approach links the three dimensions in a coherent way that builds on opportunities to integrate nature-positive value-chains in selected sustainable productive landscapes, addressing and enhancing the drivers of conservation/sustainability. The strategy is to promote and support climate-smart and adapted practices in agriculture production – namely agro-ecology, land restoration/management, soil and water conservation, chemical inputs substitution – with positive impact on biodiversity, as well as responsible production and circular economy principles for SMEs, contributing to climate change mitigation and low carbon development. In this sense, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), “green lists” and taxonomy criteria, as well as financing instruments, will be defined to select and support specific initiatives, ensuring investments’ positive impact on the environment, biodiversity and climate change."}, {"bbox": [109, 1002, 1133, 1053], "category": "Text", "text": "Outcomes of the SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) screening (relevant for budget support and strategic-level interventions)."}, {"bbox": [109, 1067, 1134, 1118], "category": "Text", "text": "An SEA is not required but key environment and climate-related aspects will be addressed during the design of the action."}, {"bbox": [109, 1132, 1133, 1187], "category": "Text", "text": "Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)."}, {"bbox": [109, 1199, 1133, 1252], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA screening classified the action as Category B (not requiring an EIA, but for which environmental aspects will be addressed during the design)."}, {"bbox": [109, 1264, 1133, 1318], "category": "Text", "text": "Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)."}, {"bbox": [109, 1330, 1133, 1383], "category": "Text", "text": "The CRA screening concluded that this action is a low risk project and that no further action is needed. Climate risk aspects will be addressed during the design of the action."}, {"bbox": [109, 1395, 647, 1422], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [109, 1434, 1134, 1620], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this Action is labelled as G1. This implies that gender is not simply mainstreamed as a cross-cutting issue, but it is a central element of the overall strategy. Women play a crucial active role in agriculture in Mozambique, but are often excluded from support, access to inputs and credit, and from decision-making. This Action will target women as its main beneficiary enhancing their capacity and empowering them to play a more active role in the agriculture sector. These activities will include: specific support on inputs, credit facility, contract farming, business linkage and technical assistance for value-chains development, training and skills development, nutrition practices, for women and their"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 26"}]