[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1133, 232], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project): The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [96, 257, 1133, 337], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project): The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is no or low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [96, 363, 636, 391], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls**"}, {"bbox": [96, 391, 1133, 550], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that, in alignment with the III EU Gender Action Plan (in particular, the thematic area - Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women) and the CLIP Sri Lanka gender equality is a cross-cutting issue that will be mainstreamed throughout the different activities and envisioned outputs and outcomes of the Action. In particular, local civil society organisations working on gender equality and women's rights in Sri Lanka will be targeted both in the context of dialogue/consultations and of the capacity-building activities."}, {"bbox": [96, 581, 243, 608], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Human Rights**"}, {"bbox": [96, 608, 1133, 820], "category": "Text", "text": "Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is an essential component of the proposed action since one key component is for the EU to better understand, monitor and discuss the country developments and trends as regards the state of the civic space and the enabling environment for civil society organisations (including women's organisations, human rights defenders and activists, youth organisations, organisations working for disability inclusion) to operate. The Action adopts a human rights-based approach and its working principles of applying all human rights for all, meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making, non-discrimination and equality, accountability and rule of law for all and transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data."}, {"bbox": [96, 820, 1079, 846], "category": "Text", "text": "Besides, local rights-based organisations will be privileged interlocutors and beneficiaries under this action."}, {"bbox": [96, 877, 193, 904], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Disability**"}, {"bbox": [96, 904, 1133, 1012], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. This implies that, in alignment with the 2021-2030 EU Disability Strategy, efforts will be made to identify and actively involve local CSOs working for disability inclusion in the scope of the structure dialogue. Furthermore, capacity-building activities supported by the action will be accessible and addressed also to these organisations."}, {"bbox": [96, 1037, 341, 1064], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Reduction of inequalities**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1064, 1133, 1144], "category": "Text", "text": "Local CSOs often play an important role as actors of development at the local level, including in terms of providing essential services in remote areas/to communities living in most vulnerable situations and hence contributing to the reduction of inequalities."}, {"bbox": [96, 1149, 208, 1176], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Democracy**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1176, 1133, 1255], "category": "Text", "text": "The main objective of the proposed action is to strengthen the role of civil society (in its whole diversity) as an actor of development and governance in Sri Lanka, so that CSOs can also perform their oversight/watchdog role and participate meaningfully in policy-making, planning and accountability processes."}, {"bbox": [96, 1260, 485, 1287], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1287, 1095, 1367], "category": "Text", "text": "Several societal topics are sensitive in the Sri Lankan society. Conflict-sensitive approaches will be adopted when mapping/identifying the targeted civil society organisations to be covered by the action as well as when designing and rolling-out the capacity-building activities."}, {"bbox": [96, 1398, 334, 1423], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Disaster Risk Reduction**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1424, 140, 1448], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [96, 1456, 409, 1481], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Other considerations if relevant**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1482, 140, 1506], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1653, 1142, 1681], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 13"}]