[{"bbox": [85, 146, 1141, 1641], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>Supporting the renewable energy sector and private sector health care.</td><td>The Action will support resilient businesses, which may include renewable energy and health care services.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan=\"3\">ROM (2023)</td><td>All interventions have been affected by delays in implementation. The common causes that apply to all interventions include the difficult operational environment, growing basic needs of the population, restrictions on women and girls, and MoU requirements for the implementing partners with the Taliban de facto authorities.</td><td>The Action foresees an implementation period of 48 months, which should allow sufficient time for implementing partners to achieve the planned results.</td></tr><tr><td>Adolescent girls of Afghanistan are at highest risk. Banned from school and with growing hunger and rampant poverty, global evidence shows, and Afghanistan will not be the exception, that their risk of being trafficked or early married is exponential.</td><td>Adolescent girls are considered a target group for access to basic services, skills and vocational trainings, as well as household livelihoods support.</td></tr><tr><td>The support to soft skills appears difficult to be incorporated into practices if not directly linked to the availability of the material conditions needed, and this is a reality for all interventions including health, education and support to the business sector.</td><td>The Action develops an integrated approach or comprehensive support packages in the targeted sectors of health, education, private sector and livelihoods.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan=\"2\">Team Europe+ joint analyses (January 2023)</td><td>Community level economic development should be supported and does not contradict the sanctions regime. Though community development alone is not likely to be sustainable. Following international aid effectiveness principle such interventions benefit from support from and interaction with meso-level sector institutions (e.g. training centres, chambers of commerce).</td><td>A community-based approach is mainstreamed throughout the Action. Whenever feasible, support will be provided to meso-level actors engaged in basic services delivery, private sector support, and climate resilience.</td></tr><tr><td>Develop and defend gender rights and roles based on pragmatic solutions to problems.</td><td>The Action adopts a rights-based approach in the design and implementation of activities. In accordance with the principled approach, experience gained with the implementation of the 2022 special measure showed that implementing partners have succeeded in finding pragmatic solutions to defend gender rights.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan=\"2\">EU Political and Security Committee retreat on lessons learnt for Afghanistan (July 2023)</td><td>Within the framework of the Council Conclusions, the EU should consider what could be done despite rather than through the Taliban, and for the benefit of the Afghan people. Areas to consider could be CSO support, support to women-led businesses, mitigating climate change, crops substitution, and increased support to livelihoods, including the agriculture sector.</td><td>The Action covers all recommended support areas, such as women-led businesses, climate change, agriculture, and livelihoods. International implementing partners quite systematically work with local CSOs and the latter may also participate as grant applicants, if eligible. More specific local CSO support is however provided by the EU through the EU thematic funding programme.</td></tr><tr><td>While the situation in Afghanistan is grim, it is not impossible to support the Afghan people and the EU should explore what options are within this constantly evolving context.</td><td>The Action foresees sufficient flexibility to seize opportunities when they arise and shift intervention focus as needed.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 23 of 33"}]