[{"bbox": [83, 106, 1146, 160], "category": "Text", "text": "rights treaties. Several human rights issues and challenges persist and human rights reforms should be promoted to be up to standards with international human rights treaties and commitments."}, {"bbox": [83, 185, 1146, 503], "category": "Text", "text": "**Protecting the environment and supporting the fight against climate change** is also a vital and shared objective between the European Union and Malaysia. Malaysia is one of the mega-diverse countries in the world, ranking 12th globally. While 52% of Malaysia's total land area is still forested, and 19% of the land are forest reserves, the remaining forests are facing threats from unsustainable logging, illegal removal of forest products and encroachment. Forest Governance in Malaysia is characterised by influential interests groups, a general lack of transparency and numerous large-scale corruption scandals. Problems in forestry are compounded by Malaysia's increasing water shortage; wildlife trafficking; the inadequate land-use planning and issues related to drained peatlands (the burning of which causes high levels of pollution across Malaysia and its neighbours). Malaysia has pledged to maintain 50% of its land area under forest and tree cover, to protect forest ecosystems, to build resilience of the forest to climate change and to increase connectivity between forest reserves. Malaysia contributes to around 17% of emissions in ASEAN (2020) and is particularly vulnerable to flooding. Climate change action becomes increasingly an area of interest of the government."}, {"bbox": [83, 503, 1146, 609], "category": "Text", "text": "Malaysia is party to the Convention on Biological diversity, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on wetlands of international importance and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Malaysia's key strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions is in the energy, waste, and forestry sector."}, {"bbox": [83, 637, 1146, 691], "category": "Text", "text": "**Identification of main stakeholders** and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (*mandates, potential roles, and capacities*) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [83, 702, 1146, 783], "category": "Text", "text": "The facility will be able to respond to requests for support from a variety of stakeholders including the Government of Malaysia at federal and state levels such as the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Competition Authority etc."}, {"bbox": [83, 795, 1146, 848], "category": "Text", "text": "International Financing Institutions, in particular European development financial institutions (DFIs) are not active in Malaysia but will be more closely involved in the coming years."}, {"bbox": [83, 860, 1146, 967], "category": "Text", "text": "Other key stakeholders include civil society organisations in Malaysia especially those involved in work on policies of EU interests, global challenges or fundamental values of the EU, as well as the Malaysian and European private sector, which will play a key role across all priority areas. The Cooperation Facility will maintain an open approach to engage and benefit a wide range of stakeholders as appropriate."}, {"bbox": [83, 979, 1146, 1128], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will support an enabling environment for civil society in line with the civil society roadmap and the country level implementation plan (CLIP) for gender equality. Strengthening the capacity of civil society and ensuring meaning full dialogue and engagement will be sought through different components of the action. Malaysian civil society views the relation with the EU favourably and positively. Support will focus on capacity building, outreach and inclusion of the most marginalised in society. A specific focus will be placed on Youth and Women."}, {"bbox": [73, 1173, 578, 1206], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3. DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [101, 1235, 507, 1266], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1. Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [83, 1305, 926, 1333], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to **enhance the EU-Malaysia partnership**."}, {"bbox": [83, 1358, 606, 1384], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objectives (Outcomes) of this action are to:"}, {"bbox": [146, 1385, 808, 1411], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Continue and reinforce EU-Malaysia relations and policy dialogues;"}, {"bbox": [146, 1412, 1146, 1490], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Promote an increased alignment between EU-Malaysia interests, principles, policies and values, including human rights and gender equality, with a particular focus on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);"}, {"bbox": [146, 1492, 1146, 1541], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. Build increased awareness, understanding and approval of the EU and its role in the country, the region and the world."}, {"bbox": [83, 1570, 1115, 1598], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives (Outcomes) are:"}, {"bbox": [158, 1598, 1050, 1624], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 Contributing to Outcome 1: A Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Facility is established."}, {"bbox": [158, 1624, 885, 1650], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 Contributing to Outcome 2: Strategic partnership on EU-Malaysia interests."}, {"bbox": [1144, 1662, 1158, 1684], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "7"}]