[{"bbox": [68, 100, 1156, 502], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>communication and information.</td><td>gender transformative approaches including human rights based approach.</td><td>gender responsive targets will be introduced in the variable tranche indicators. Periodic reviews and policy dialogue will ensure gender equality and equal participation as a main agenda for discussion.<br/><br/>Given the targeted population groups, special attention will be required to ensure equal participation of women and groups living in vulnerable situations.-Monitoring will be based on sex, age, disability and group -disaggregated data in order to strengthen non-discrimination and equal access.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [79, 504, 239, 528], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [79, 530, 1147, 663], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed AAP 2021 for Bhutan builds on the lessons learnt from the current EU Budget Support programme on Rural Development and Climate Change Response (RDCCR), expected to be completed in 2021. The RDCCR programme has supported the RNR sector, since 2012, in the implementation of 11th and 12th Five Year Plans, with an overall objective to reduce poverty and develop sustainable rural livelihoods resilient to climate change impacts. Lessons from the implementation of the programme indicated the need to:"}, {"bbox": [79, 689, 1080, 715], "category": "List-item", "text": "- strengthen the RNR sector through scaling up climate resilient approaches to production and conservation"}, {"bbox": [79, 716, 1147, 768], "category": "List-item", "text": "- strengthen efforts to develop agribusinesses and increase agricultural productivity, by investing in the downstream value chain activities as well as converting fallow lands for production."}, {"bbox": [79, 769, 1147, 823], "category": "List-item", "text": "- facilitate opportunities for economic diversification through promoting private sector participation or promoting public-private partnership by engaging with the state owned enterprises promoted by the government,"}, {"bbox": [79, 823, 463, 848], "category": "List-item", "text": "- mainstream gender in the RNR sector"}, {"bbox": [79, 849, 1147, 902], "category": "List-item", "text": "- strengthen the national statistic capacity to ensure credible monitoring, reporting and verification of data and data quality systems"}, {"bbox": [79, 902, 425, 928], "category": "List-item", "text": "- reinforce engagement with CSOs."}, {"bbox": [79, 965, 1147, 1153], "category": "Text", "text": "The earlier budget sector support contributed to the country's achievement of **food self-sufficiency**²² with respect to egg and milk production and progressed well with respect to vegetable and fruit production. It further contributed to a number of important policy reforms including National Climate Change Policy (2020), National Disaster Risk Management Strategy (2017), National Gender Equality Policy (2020), RNR Marketing Policy (2018), RNR enterprise and value chain guidelines (2018), the establishment of RNR statistics division (2017), the conduct of a RNR Census at national level (2019/20) and Agriculture Contingency Plan (2020/21) to mitigate the impact of Covid19 pandemic."}, {"bbox": [79, 1164, 1147, 1298], "category": "Text", "text": "Objectives related to **food and nutrition security, climate resilience and economic diversification** are longer term in nature and need continued support to achieve transformational impacts. The newly proposed action aims at scaling up RGoB's capacities ensuring national food and nutritional security, while laying emphasis on commercialisation and market intensification programmes in the RNR sector. It is expected to contribute to increased green employment opportunities and economic activities in the rural areas of Bhutan, contributing to the country's GDP."}, {"bbox": [79, 1322, 1147, 1536], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition, there is a need to revive the **donor / development partner coordination** in the country in order to ensure complementarity of similar projects and programmes as well as to jointly review the sector performance at Ministry level on an annual basis. It is also felt that engaging with UN agencies especially WFP, UNDP, FAO, IFAD, WMO and UNICEF besides the IMF, World Bank and ADB is important both for providing technical assistance as well as for pursuing the RNR sector policy reform agenda in a coherent and synergetic way. It becomes extremely challenging to implement a technical assistance project in the post-COVID19 context due to the difficulty of mobilizing international experts. Hence, engaging with country-based stakeholders including UN agencies and CSOs are important elements to be considered when planning for the delivery of the complementary support"}, {"bbox": [71, 1617, 1155, 1641], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²² Food Self Sufficiency - 2019/20: Rice 33.67 %, Maize - 74.37 %, Vegetable 84.57%, Meat 44.95 %, Fish 17.62 %, Egg 100 %, Dairy - 92.29."}, {"bbox": [1039, 1662, 1155, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 25"}]