[{"bbox": [757, 104, 1144, 210], "category": "Page-header", "text": "All key stakeholders will be meaningfully consulted and heard, prior to activities. They will participate in monitoring the action."}, {"bbox": [79, 240, 240, 264], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Lessons Learnt:**"}, {"bbox": [79, 271, 1149, 458], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation of the LIFT programme in 2019 showed that after ten years of operation, LIFT has had a substantial positive impact on livelihoods of poor rural people, with a strong focus on women. It was also found that LIFT should pay more attention to the inclusion of Climate-Smart Agriculture as a standard approach in projects, whenever relevant and feasible, as Myanmar is highly vulnerable to extreme climatic conditions. LIFT was also guided by conflict sensitivity principles to be applied systematically. Before Myanmar's democratic transition, the EU operated in Myanmar through large trust funds managed by the UN, as INGOs were not well established in Myanmar and the UN was the main partner to access civil society."}, {"bbox": [79, 463, 1149, 571], "category": "Text", "text": "The Eurocham grant provided by the EU which helped the establishment of the chamber in 2014, was ended in 2020. Eurocham had gathered by then more than 100 members of European companies. EuroCham Myanmar's role has been growing in the wake of the two successive crises offering more updates, providing advice on travel into Myanmar as well as operational advice to companies and organising regular meetings with the EU Delegation."}, {"bbox": [79, 576, 1149, 710], "category": "Text", "text": "An evaluation of the SMART programme in 2019 concluded that the project had gained a high profile and a very good reputation in the garment sector in Myanmar. On the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, sequa gmbH temporarily reallocated its SMART project team and set up and run the Myan Ku Fund, as a rapid response measure to alleviate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the predominantly female garment workers from all over Myanmar who lost their jobs due to the crisis. It provided support to more than 100,000 garment workers."}, {"bbox": [101, 734, 401, 765], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5. The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [83, 777, 1170, 857], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that IF livelihoods in both rural and urban areas are supported THEN the effects of the combined COVID-19 and coup d'état crises on poverty rates in Myanmar will be reduced. This overall logical statement lies on the following assertions:"}, {"bbox": [121, 859, 1170, 962], "category": "List-item", "text": "* IF the most vulnerable rural communities, with a special focus on women, have good farming techniques that make their crops more resilient to climate shocks and provide more income in times of crisis, THEN they will recover faster from ongoing economic crises and from possible future climate crises, and food security will be ensured."}, {"bbox": [121, 966, 1170, 1046], "category": "List-item", "text": "* IF the most responsible businesses that emerged in Myanmar in the last ten years remain responsible, abide by due diligence and conflict sensitivity, AND stay in Myanmar, THEN the most vulnerable urban communities still have access to decent jobs and urban communities have access to a cleaner environment."}, {"bbox": [83, 1073, 318, 1097], "category": "Text", "text": "This action assumes that:"}, {"bbox": [121, 1100, 1066, 1128], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU cannot engage with the military regime, directly or indirectly through its economic entities"}, {"bbox": [121, 1129, 703, 1157], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU remains committed to supporting Myanmar people"}, {"bbox": [121, 1158, 613, 1185], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Some responsible businesses remain in Myanmar"}, {"bbox": [83, 1184, 1170, 1236], "category": "Text", "text": "NGOs, CSOs and community groups are able to engage with relevant stakeholders and to access the population for the provision of services related to sustainable resilience"}, {"bbox": [1040, 1663, 1159, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 20"}]