[{"bbox": [97, 153, 209, 178], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [97, 179, 1161, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "The focus of this Action is on improving education sector governance by strengthening the advocacy capacities of civil society and local communities. This will contribute to increasing the compromised legitimacy of the state. At the same time, effective education quality service delivery, respect of girls' right to education, and the integration of displaced and minority girls into education contributes to improving social cohesion."}, {"bbox": [97, 316, 485, 343], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [97, 344, 1161, 450], "category": "Text", "text": "Conflict sensitivity and a people-centred approach underpin this Action, addressing the root causes of conflicts while social cohesion is mainstreamed throughout. Equally, the Action centrally builds on the findings of the conflict analysis screening (CAS) for Iraq that identified underlying conflict drivers/triggers and provided a series of recommendation for conflict sensitivity and identified specific peace-building opportunities."}, {"bbox": [97, 475, 1161, 608], "category": "Text", "text": "The recommendations of the CAS highlight that education should be inclusive of girls, vulnerable population and minorities, including displaced children. It also stipulates that the education system should be responsive to crises and shocks, as well as cultural and religious diversity. Complementarity is sought also with the EU support to social protection reform that supports families and communities, at national level (conditional social transfers) as poverty is actually the main driver of early marriage."}, {"bbox": [97, 634, 1161, 688], "category": "Text", "text": "A conflict sensitive approach also ensures a balance between educational services provided girls and girls in vulnerable situations as well as children alike to foster social cohesion and inter-group dialogue."}, {"bbox": [97, 700, 1161, 886], "category": "Text", "text": "In terms of peace-building opportunities, this Action directly contributes to four objectives notably *Support genuine reforms by focusing on the most promising change agents and bridging short-term conflict resolution with long-term governance efforts; Accompany dialogue efforts at different levels; Work with the education system to promote inclusive citizenship*; All relevant recommendations for conflict sensitivity *mitigation* measures relating to the themes of *Reinforcing a highly corrupt, underperforming, contested political system; Exacerbating inter-group rivalries; Fuelling the negative perception of international support to Iraq; Sector- and action-specific risks* are taken into account for this action and are fully integrated into the design of the programmes."}, {"bbox": [97, 917, 335, 941], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [97, 944, 1161, 1077], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action aims to improve the shock resilience of national systems and thus contributes to disaster risk reduction. The Action specifically aims to improve the preparedness and shock-responsiveness and the ability of the Iraqi governance mechanisms, labour market, and education system to expand and taper assistance in response to the onset and abatement of crises for the systems to be equipped with tools and capacity to assess needs and expand the coverage as crises such as climate change, conflict or natural hazards-induced disasters occur."}, {"bbox": [85, 1136, 422, 1163], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 1178, 1166, 1636], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High / Medium / Low)</td><td>Impact (High / Medium / Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td rowspan=\"5\">External environment</td><td>Risk 1: A worsening security situation</td><td>High</td><td>Medium</td><td>Political dialogue by the EU (including the European Union Assistance Mission (EUAM) and EU Member States)</td></tr><tr><td>Risk 2: An increasingly unstable political situation</td><td>High</td><td>Medium</td><td>Political dialogue / support to elections by the EU and EU Member States</td></tr><tr><td>Risk 3: Endemic corruption in Government Public Finances impacting service provision</td><td>High</td><td>Low</td><td>Indirect management modality with pillar-assessed organisations reduces fiduciary risk. PFM projects provide reform support.</td></tr><tr><td>Risk 4: Weak capacities of implementing partners and their sub-grantees</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Choice of implementing partner; regular monitoring, assessment and evaluation of the quality of services provided.</td></tr><tr><td>Risk 5: Increased resistance to women empowerment</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Pro-active political outreach, strong coordination and continued policy dialogue</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1141, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 23"}]