[{"bbox": [85, 152, 605, 187], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [85, 218, 509, 251], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [95, 264, 1178, 400], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (OO) of this action is to contribute to the reduction of disasters risk and impacts associated with climate change and other natural hazards in Nicaragua. In line with the Sendai Framework's priorities for action and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its SDGs, NIC-ALERT is designed as a comprehensive intervention with a multi-hazard approach, addressing the underlying drivers of disaster risk: hazard exposure, vulnerability, exclusion inclusive disaster prevention, preparedness and response capacities."}, {"bbox": [95, 424, 1178, 559], "category": "Text", "text": "The action's Specific Objective (SO)/Expected Outcome is to increase community resilience to face climate-related impacts in some of the most vulnerable indigenous and afro-descendent communities of the Caribbean regions in Nicaragua, with a focus on women and youth. The implementation strategy is based on strengthening the nexus between humanitarian immediate/short-term response and mid/long-term development cooperation, building on lessons learnt, synergies and complementarity."}, {"bbox": [95, 583, 621, 612], "category": "Text", "text": "This SO will be achieved through the following Outputs:"}, {"bbox": [95, 635, 1178, 717], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 1.1 (OP1.1): Enhanced local community-based preparedness and response capacity to disaster risk with focus on children, people with disabilities and other groups in vulnerable situations, based on their needs, rights and capacities and on women and youth as key actors.**"}, {"bbox": [95, 742, 1178, 953], "category": "Text", "text": "To achieve OP1.1 a comprehensive approach for key disaster risk management actions - strengthening local preparedness and response capacities and governance - will be adopted. It will involve reinforcing the communities' adaptive and coping capacities and mechanisms, mainly the local and municipal DRR committees and traditional structures including women's leadership and engagement of people with disabilities and enhance protection measures for children and the elderly. Traditional environmental knowledge and climatic risk management practices will be reinforced, in coordination with local authorities, CSOs/NGOs, and legitimate governance structures from Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, bearing in mind the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for these communities."}, {"bbox": [95, 980, 1178, 1142], "category": "Text", "text": "In the context of the Intercultural Bilingual Education System (SEAR), the action will support efforts to ensure that each school in the targeted indigenous communities has a school safety plan, teacher training and school safety committee. Provision of safe shelters, emergency management training for the community brigades, and access to drinking water and basic sanitation will complement the European Commission's efforts in terms of humanitarian preparedness and response, including the design, adaptation and implementation of NbS for DRR and climate change adaptation³⁶."}, {"bbox": [95, 1165, 1178, 1221], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 1.2 (OP1.2): Strengthened community-based early warning systems in the face of disaster risk and climate change impacts.**"}, {"bbox": [95, 1243, 913, 1272], "category": "Text", "text": "OP1.2 includes the first three of the four major pillars that make up a multi-hazard EWS:"}, {"bbox": [134, 1297, 562, 1324], "category": "List-item", "text": "(i) Promotion of disaster risk knowledge;"}, {"bbox": [134, 1324, 1036, 1350], "category": "List-item", "text": "(ii) detection, monitoring, analysis and forecasting of hazards and possible consequences; and"}, {"bbox": [134, 1350, 1178, 1403], "category": "List-item", "text": "(iii) warning dissemination and communication (the fourth one, namely preparedness and response capabilities, is dealt with under OP1.1)³⁷."}, {"bbox": [95, 1428, 1178, 1507], "category": "Text", "text": "It also contributes directly to the regional and global efforts in this area - promoted by the EU and the MS, through the support of organisations or programmes such as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), CEPREDENAC or Euroclima+."}, {"bbox": [85, 1557, 1145, 1625], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³⁶ UNDRR. *Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction*. Geneva, 2021. This publication offers practical, how-to-do information on setting up and implementing NbS especially for disaster risk reduction (DRR), but also for climate change adaptation (CCA). It is designed to help implement the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030."}, {"bbox": [85, 1623, 884, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³⁷ World Meteorological Organization (WMO). *Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems: A Checklist*. 2018."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 32"}]