[{"bbox": [97, 151, 1134, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "**Civil Society Organisations** (CSOs - including women's and youth organisations, grassroots and community-based organisations):"}, {"bbox": [97, 206, 1134, 392], "category": "Text", "text": "These actors can participate in capacity building initiatives to enhance their ability to monitor and observe electoral processes, such as training on how to report irregularities and violations of electoral laws. They can also promote transparency in electoral processes by monitoring the accuracy of voter lists and the transparency of vote counting procedures. Moreover, they can promote the inclusion of underrepresented groups by conducting voter education campaigns targeted at women and minorities. Furthermore, they can advocate for the inclusion of gender-sensitive provisions in electoral laws and policies. Finally, they can conduct voter education campaigns on peaceful behaviour and advocate for peaceful elections."}, {"bbox": [97, 418, 260, 445], "category": "Text", "text": "**Political parties:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 446, 1134, 673], "category": "Text", "text": "Given that these institutions are essential to representative democracy and to the process of democratisation, and taking into account their influence in all aspects of political life in Honduras, political parties will participate in the Action with the objective of expanding the participation of underrepresented groups (women, youth, ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTIQ+ groups). They will be involved from grassroots members to the governing boards of majority and minority parties. Political parties will promote processes of capacity strengthening, exchanges and integration of gender equality into the parties' vision and the strategic missions and plans and develop internal accountability mechanisms to ensure compliance with the gender equality objectives."}, {"bbox": [97, 699, 223, 724], "category": "Text", "text": "**Universities:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 726, 1134, 910], "category": "Text", "text": "Universities can provide technical assistance and research to support capacity building efforts, such as developing training materials and conducting impact assessments of capacity building programmes. They can also be involved in research and analysis of the transparency of electoral processes, such as conducting surveys on the public's perception of transparency in elections. In terms of inclusion, they can study the impact of affirmative action policies on voter turnout. Universities also have a role to play in the study of the impact of gender on voter behaviour and candidate selection. Finally, they can analyse the role of conflict prevention measures in reducing electoral violence."}, {"bbox": [97, 940, 1134, 1154], "category": "Text", "text": "**Media:** As the media are essential for democracy, particularly during the electoral process, the media and journalists will be involved through actions that increase the participation of voters and underrepresented groups in public debates. They will provide adequate information about parties, policies, candidates and the election process to allow citizens to make informed choices. In the same way, the media are expected to promote awareness of gender inequality in politics by implementing tools to combat incorrect information (especially during election times) and making women more visible in public forums in radio and television broadcasts. Through special trainings, public commitments and the implementation of toolkits, the mainstream media are expected to be a crucial watchdog to democratic elections, safeguarding the transparency of the electoral process."}, {"bbox": [85, 1207, 604, 1241], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [85, 1272, 508, 1305], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 1319, 1134, 1400], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective of this action is to promote peaceful, inclusive, transparent credible elections in Honduras. This will be achieved through a comprehensive approach for electoral cycle (capacity strengthening, transparency, inclusion, gender and culture of peace) divided into two Specific Objectives:"}, {"bbox": [97, 1425, 555, 1453], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Specific Objectives (SO) of this action are:**"}, {"bbox": [144, 1478, 1134, 1558], "category": "Text", "text": "**SO1:** Electoral bodies, relevant public institutions have improved their electoral **operational strategies, integrity and accuracy of electoral processes** in the exercise of their mandates (*capacity building and transparency*)."}, {"bbox": [144, 1558, 1134, 1613], "category": "Text", "text": "**SO2:** Underrepresented groups of populations (young people, women, LGBTIQ+, the elderly, internally displaced people, people with disabilities, indigenous and Afro-Honduran communities) **lead processes of**"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 24"}]