[{"bbox": [67, 99, 1157, 957], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>Political stability</td><td>The political environment is unstable and cooperation can be volatile.</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Flexibility under the Cooperation Facility will allow us to respond and adapt to these changes and to include new or rapidly expanding areas of potential cooperation.</td></tr><tr><td>Involvement</td><td>Stakeholders disengage in the dialogue</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>To ensure the engagement of Turkmen authorities, joint priorities will be established in close cooperation with high level representatives of the Turkmen government</td></tr><tr><td>Credibility</td><td>Public diplomacy efforts lack credibility</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Strategic communication and public diplomacy actions are more effective and credible if they are directed to carefully selected target audience (e.g. youth, women) and appeal to concrete interests/needs/challenges of targeted population groups. Therefore particular attention will be paid to the design of messages and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). If feasible, these activities could be implemented in partnership with local stakeholders.</td></tr><tr><td>Coordination</td><td>Multi-country programmes duplicate activities and/or do not effectively supplement country specific projects</td><td>Low</td><td>Medium</td><td>The effective coordination with other, including regional projects, programmes and initiatives, will be facilitated through the disciplined implementation of the regional coordination mechanism for Central Asia organised in Planet, People &amp; Prosperity and Peace programme clusters.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [79, 958, 239, 982], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [79, 1009, 1148, 1118], "category": "Text", "text": "The Cooperation Facility should be used as an enabler for dialogue with the government in a very closed and authoritarian regime. Realistically, not much transformational impact should be expected on the ground. However, by aligning our limited support with the priorities of Turkmenistan's National Development Plan 2019-2025, such as increasing Turkmenistan's competitiveness through private sector development, we increase the chances for uptake."}, {"bbox": [79, 1142, 1148, 1303], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU is in a better position to make a difference in Turkmenistan by joining forces with the European Financial Institutions, especially the EBRD. Thus, it will be able to supplement the Cooperation Facility with support for investment projects through EFSD+ blending and guarantees. The Action aims to leverage such green catalytic investments. The involvement of IFIs in the past programming phase (2014-2020) has shown to be fruitful and to contribute, through the leverage effect of grants-loans combination, to the achievement of the country's development priorities."}, {"bbox": [218, 1347, 516, 1378], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5. The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [82, 1416, 1167, 1576], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action intends to enhance the EU-Turkmenistan cooperation policy. The Cooperation Facility will enable the EU to promote its values and pursue strategic interests and coherent policy outreach and dialogue with the government involving other important partners. It will provide the funding to foster meaningful engagement with Turkmenistan in a flexible manner. Such increased and coherent engagement will allow leveraging additional funding from EU Member States and European finance institutions to create greater impact in policy fields of EU and joint interest, in particular relating to the Green Deal."}, {"bbox": [1039, 1661, 1157, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 18"}]