[{"bbox": [81, 121, 1147, 300], "category": "Text", "text": "specific thematic areas, and ensure complementary programming, looking especially at the Team Europe partners. Furthermore, they highlight that more adequate levels of local ownership and capacities, as well as long-term benefits arising from EU support, are ensured when project design takes into due account existing capacities in the partner countries and ensure that capacity development measures are integrated in project design, as needed. At the same time, they recall they importance of validating project design with the local stakeholders, ensuring that EU support is well aligned with local needs and priorities."}, {"bbox": [81, 316, 1147, 405], "category": "Text", "text": "Previous experience in Ghana also confirms the importance of disaster preparedness and contingency planning in a country where there is instability in neighbouring countries (e.g. Burkina Faso may lead to abrupt inflows of displaced people)."}, {"bbox": [81, 420, 1147, 677], "category": "Text", "text": "The Covid-19 crisis as well as the security crisis in the Sahel region have shown not only that development projects could adapt with the necessary flexibility and continue implementation, but they could also actively contribute to the mitigation of the effects of the pandemic (e.g. the Green project supported WASH infrastructures which were not initially planned). Migration is a sensitive political issue, requiring the careful building of local ownership for new Actions and the Government validation of their design. For example, at the beginning of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration, the Government of Ghana was not in favour of participating in the Project Steering Committee because it could have been perceived by Ghanaians as an indication that the Government was supporting forced returns. The relationship between the EU and the Government is now very positive, especially following the start of the Migration Political Dialogue in January 2019."}, {"bbox": [85, 698, 399, 728], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [81, 751, 596, 778], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this Action is that:"}, {"bbox": [96, 793, 1147, 845], "category": "List-item", "text": "- If the institutional framework, policy dialogue, and operational preparedness to manage migration and displacement are enhanced;"}, {"bbox": [96, 846, 1019, 872], "category": "List-item", "text": "- If the quality and availability of data and information on migration and displacement are improved;"}, {"bbox": [96, 873, 1036, 900], "category": "List-item", "text": "- If the Ghanaian capacity to provide social assistance to the most vulnerable migrants is strengthened;"}, {"bbox": [96, 912, 597, 939], "category": "Text", "text": "Then, the migration governance is improved in Ghana."}, {"bbox": [96, 954, 261, 978], "category": "Text", "text": "At the same time:"}, {"bbox": [96, 995, 1147, 1074], "category": "List-item", "text": "- If the service systems, both at central and local level, supporting the economic (re)integration of returnees, IDPs, asylum seekers & refugees, and selected vulnerable persons from host communities are improved in migration source regions;"}, {"bbox": [96, 1076, 723, 1101], "category": "List-item", "text": "- If legal pathways for labour migration and mobility are broadened;"}, {"bbox": [96, 1102, 938, 1129], "category": "List-item", "text": "- If diaspora contributions for the social and economic development of Ghana are increased;"}, {"bbox": [96, 1141, 968, 1168], "category": "Text", "text": "Then, the benefits of migration and mobility for the development of Ghana would be enhanced."}, {"bbox": [96, 1183, 171, 1207], "category": "Text", "text": "Thus, if"}, {"bbox": [90, 1224, 600, 1249], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The migration governance in Ghana is improved; and"}, {"bbox": [90, 1250, 819, 1277], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The development benefits of migration and mobility are enhanced for Ghana;"}, {"bbox": [81, 1290, 1135, 1345], "category": "Text", "text": "Then, Ghanaian capacities to ensure orderly, human rights based and mutually beneficial migration and mobility of people from and to Ghana would be strengthened."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 24"}]