[{"bbox": [95, 151, 1132, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "to pay their energy bills. The key to overcoming the energy challenges faced by people with disabilities lies chiefly in increasing access to affordable electricity, which is one of the objectives of this project."}, {"bbox": [95, 236, 342, 264], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [95, 264, 1132, 662], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will contribute to address the development inequalities in the country and to reduce the infrastructure gap between the North and the South. EU support will allow providing reliable and stable energy to the Northern provinces affected by high levels of poverty, including access to basic services, and by the security related crisis since 2017, which created a large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The rehabilitation of the electricity grid in the Cabo Delgado province will in particular restore socio-economic opportunities in this province. This action is complementary to other Actions developed in past Annual Action Plans since 2022 targeting the North of the country. This is in line with the EU integrated approach for the North combining humanitarian assistance to underserved/under-reached conflict-affected communities in Northern Cabo Delgado, community-level security and community policing, rehabilitation of key public infrastructure for service delivery and productive infrastructure, dialogue for peace and social cohesion, training of the military forces on gender sensitive approaches and protection of civilians, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, establishment of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care services, referral and information services, vocational training to expand employment and income generation opportunities, providing access of women and adolescent girls and youth living in vulnerable situations to economic empowerment, education, literacy and skill-development initiatives."}, {"bbox": [95, 693, 209, 719], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Democracy"}, {"bbox": [95, 719, 1128, 825], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action (especially outcome 4) promotes sound, transparent governance processes which are guided by a participatory and fact-based approach to policy development and decision making. Focussing on decentral solutions furthermore contributes to the democratisation of energy systems (steering away from monopolies with vested interests)."}, {"bbox": [95, 856, 485, 883], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [95, 883, 1132, 1097], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is conflict sensitive and peace oriented addressing drivers of the conflict in the North of Mozambique, such as unequal access to infrastructure and services which increases the likelihood of some groups resorting to violence. Securing energy supply in the North will also improve livelihood opportunities cross-sectionally for IDPs, host communities and returnees and will foster the overall socio-economic development of the region. Further, energy security in displacement settlements will be enhanced through the support towards sustainable off-grid energy services. Valuable experiences gathered from the Operation & Maintenance Guidelines for Displacement Settings in Uganda will be replicated in Mozambique while taking into consideration the different composition of displaced populations in Mozambique (mainly IDPs)."}, {"bbox": [95, 1127, 335, 1152], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [95, 1153, 1132, 1208], "category": "Text", "text": "The action does not specifically target disaster risk reduction. However, attention will be paid that all infrastructure built through this action will be climate-resilient."}, {"bbox": [95, 1253, 438, 1281], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 1295, 1140, 1625], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th>Risks</th><th>Likelihood<br>(High/<br>Medium/<br>Low)</th><th>Impact<br>(High/<br>Medium/<br>Low)</th><th>Mitigating measures</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan=\"4\"><strong>External environment</strong></td></tr><tr><td>The mindset of decision-makers in Mozambique</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Concerns regarding the feasibility of renewable and low-carbon technologies, including doubts about their</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 33"}]