[{"bbox": [82, 104, 1145, 291], "category": "Text", "text": "The action adopts conflict sensitivity and social cohesion approach to promote trust, citizen-state compact and socio-economic space to maximise economic opportunities, particularly for poor and disadvantaged communities, including People with Disabilities (PwDs). The action will explore the broader context and mitigate potential negative impacts on the social, economic and environment, the three pillars of sustainability, in line with the “do-no-harm” principles. The action conducts awareness raising campaigns, provide appropriate assistive devices to improve the mobility of PwDs, job placement, skill and vocational trainings, including assistive devices and providing PwD friendly environment in the office as part of the Decent work approach."}, {"bbox": [82, 322, 321, 346], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [82, 349, 1145, 428], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will assess the necessity of integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, mainly the lessons learned from the EU Disaster Preparedness actions in line with the Sendai Framework, as well as build on existing resilience capacities, integrating the lessons learned from the EU's humanitarian-development-aid nexus in Nepal."}, {"bbox": [82, 460, 395, 484], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Other considerations if relevant"}, {"bbox": [82, 487, 1145, 566], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is in line with the priorities set by various EU policies and actions plans to reduce GHG emissions by promoting energy efficiency while supplying clean, affordable and renewable energy sources decarbonising the economy."}, {"bbox": [82, 584, 391, 612], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and lessons learnt"}, {"bbox": [68, 624, 1156, 1409], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood</td><td>Impact</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Increasing political power struggles and unresolved ethnic, social, and regional conflicts or tensions in relation to natural resources and land may escalate. Return of general strikes, riots, and violent clashes.</td><td>Risk 1</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Mechanisms for coordination between the various stakeholders and acting as an honest broker. A systematic, participatory do-no-harm approach will be adopted to ensure that no unintentional harmful impacts occur, that inequalities are not worsened and due diligence is implemented.</td></tr><tr><td>Nepal will remain severely affected by COVID 19. The health care situation is inadequate. Limited availability of vaccines, herd immunity earliest 12/2023.</td><td>Risk 2</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Special attention on staff safety in implementation. Corona safeguard measures and restrictions will be enforced by implementing partners and promoted to all stakeholders.</td></tr><tr><td>Short-term changes in political priorities, reduced decision-making capacities, low resource allocations and reduced ability to act must be expected.</td><td>Risk 3</td><td>High</td><td>Medium</td><td>Steering and implementation of the action will be designed flexibly to allow for short adjustment to changing project environments.</td></tr><tr><td>Risk of corruption and nepotism when, weaknesses in commercial standards of partners, audit complaints, time-consuming and costly follow-up management.</td><td>Risk 4</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Use transparent award processes and concrete decision-making criteria. Additional personnel resources to safeguard compliance with commercial standards.</td></tr><tr><td>Movement and transport restrictions reduce access of project personnel to partners, delay procurement processes and jeopardize timely implementation.</td><td>Risk 5</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Conceptualization and design of the action will allow for no-cost extension.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [80, 1410, 1145, 1647], "category": "Text", "text": "The action builds on the experience of the Nepal Energy Efficiency Program (NEEP) and the Renewable Energy in Rural Areas project (RERA). NEEP activities have improved the readiness to engage in an efficient and sustainable use of energy, however, there is still a lack of demonstrated implementations of economically advantageous industrial resource and energy efficiency measures. Macroeconomic projections show the potential savings for electrical and thermal energy for the eight most energy intensive sectors at around 155,000 MWh and 8,000,000 GJ. Progress has been made in the RE promotion at local governments, provinces and in private sector financing. However, current national subsidy mechanisms are inefficient, costly and do not lead to sustainable RE projects, resulting in renewable energy systems costing more, being of low quality, and coming without reliable after-sale-service than in comparable countries. Hence, the action introduces market-based incentive mechanisms, leveraging larger sums of private"}, {"bbox": [1039, 1662, 1156, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 20"}]