[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1134, 234], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Specific Objective** is to improve the protection of biodiversity and management of waste. The Action intends to focus at national level on policy issues and on districts in selected areas which received other EU support previously⁷."}, {"bbox": [96, 259, 884, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Outputs** to be delivered by this Action contributing to the Specific Objective are:"}, {"bbox": [96, 286, 1134, 392], "category": "Text", "text": "1.1 **Improved effectiveness of protection and management of high-value biodiversity sites:** This output may be applied within or outside formal protected areas. Biodiversity sites outside the formal government system may include community conservation areas, protected areas on tea plantations (e.g. existing initiative to create leopard corridors), and partnerships in nature-based tourism sites, e.g. Pekoe Trail or other)."}, {"bbox": [96, 392, 1134, 472], "category": "Text", "text": "1.2 **Increased economic viability and sustainability of site management plan or action:** This output establishes gender-responsive business models and attracts private sector investment for sustainable and inclusive solutions that are not reliant on government funds, whether applied in or outside of the formal system."}, {"bbox": [96, 472, 1134, 551], "category": "Text", "text": "1.3 **Reduced plastic and solid waste:** this output will help reduce litter in terrestrial, freshwater and marine areas, as well as contributing to a decrease in the amount of waste going to dumps and landfills, including through reduction of consumption."}, {"bbox": [96, 551, 1134, 708], "category": "Text", "text": "1.4 **Improved processes for effectiveness of solid waste value addition and management:** This output enables government administrators to work more effectively in partnership with communities and the private sector to analyse and streamline systems, ultimately reducing the amount of generated waste that ends up in open dumps or in rivers. It also ensures that organic waste is being composted or turned to biogas, which plastics are being recycled, with benefits to enterprises with a focus on MSMEs (including those leaded or engaging youth and women)."}, {"bbox": [96, 708, 1134, 843], "category": "Text", "text": "1.5 **Improved meaningful participation of local communities and the private sector in governance of natural resources including for nature-based tourism, waste management:** This output ensures that local communities, including local enterprises and civil society organisations (including women's rights organisations and those organisations representing the rights of people in most vulnerable situations), have a stake in and benefit from resource governance while improving territorial governance overall."}, {"bbox": [86, 882, 347, 910], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [96, 929, 950, 957], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1.1 (Improved protection and management of biodiversity sites):"}, {"bbox": [135, 958, 1134, 1065], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Convene relevant stakeholders (community, government, private sector) for developing and implementing the sites management plans; facilitation of non-traditional/non-governmental stakeholders for biodiversity protection e.g., for example community conservation areas, involvement of SME tourism stakeholders private sector partnerships."}, {"bbox": [135, 1065, 1134, 1145], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Technical support for the creation and/or revision of inclusive and gender-responsive management plans, including problem identification and analysis on basis of robust information (including a gender analysis from an intersectional approach)."}, {"bbox": [135, 1145, 1134, 1201], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Accessible and gender-responsive training and capacity-building for implementation of the plan or a primary target activity under the plan."}, {"bbox": [135, 1201, 1134, 1254], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Apply community-based protection and management innovations that benefit vulnerable people, in all their diversity."}, {"bbox": [96, 1254, 750, 1282], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1.2 (Improved economic viability of plan):"}, {"bbox": [135, 1282, 1134, 1362], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Facilitate partnerships with private sector for gender-responsive and inclusive participation in governance or management of activities, creation of human-rights based business models and/or financing of management plans."}, {"bbox": [135, 1362, 1134, 1521], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Establish a fund to facilitate/build capacity for development of sustainable and gender-responsive/inclusive business models or bankable proposals for achievement of goals in management plans and protection of biodiversity and waste management (linking Output 1.2 and 1.3); trainings, exposure visits, workshops. Focus on potential financial incentives or gains for economically vulnerable populations such as women, youth or people with disabilities (who are also those who might otherwise tend to encroach on sensitive habitats)."}, {"bbox": [86, 1600, 588, 1628], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ For example: https://www.thepekoetrailsrilanka.com/"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 20"}]