[{"bbox": [82, 119, 1143, 201], "category": "Text", "text": "FAO possesses an indispensable and unique set of technical and functional skills: resilience building; coordination; knowledge management; capacity development; sound financial management; and development of strategic partnerships and alliances to enhance the recovery process and the transition towards sustainable development"}, {"bbox": [82, 211, 1143, 371], "category": "Text", "text": "FAO is the main provider of technical expertise in Yemen to introduce sustainable and efficient practices in agriculture, livestock, and fisheries. It has been training Yemenis for years to improve productivity, resulting in improved incomes and self-employment through value chain development. FAO has developed an extremely efficient system to support local actors in decentralized water management. It empowers Water Users Associations and other local stakeholders in evidence-based water and land management to reduce water use and increase water productivity while avoiding a decline in agricultural production and rural incomes"}, {"bbox": [82, 382, 1143, 438], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [82, 462, 470, 489], "category": "Text", "text": "Exception to the non-retroactivity of costs"}, {"bbox": [82, 490, 1143, 593], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission authorises that the costs incurred may be recognised as eligible as of 1st of September 2021 to ensure business continuity with previous phase of the project and to align the EU co-financing with the contribution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The retroactivity of costs is further justified by the protracted crisis situation in Yemen."}, {"bbox": [108, 640, 807, 672], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [82, 696, 1143, 778], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply."}, {"bbox": [82, 789, 1143, 896], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [108, 926, 347, 957], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5. Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [70, 994, 925, 1607], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th>Indicative Budget components</th><th>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Implementation modalities</strong> – indirect management</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Objective/Outputs 1: Decision makers have access to early warning information and analysis on food, nutrition and livelihood security to better respond to food crises, acute malnutrition and climate change</td><td>3 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Indirect management</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Objective/Outputs 2: Medium to long term strategies on food security, nutrition and agriculture are defined thought better understanding of livelihood profiles</td><td>5 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Indirect management</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Evaluation and Audit</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Evaluation – cf. 5.2</td><td rowspan=\"2\">Will be covered by another Decision</td></tr><tr><td>Audit – cf. 5.3</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Totals</strong></td><td><strong>8 000 000</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1039, 1660, 1155, 1684], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 21"}]