[{"bbox": [87, 153, 312, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 200, 636, 226], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls**"}, {"bbox": [97, 226, 1134, 306], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. The desired impact of PLEAD II will not be realised without a special emphasis on gender and the rights of women, in all their diversity. The action will thus apply a gender lens to all of its activities and its internal decision-making."}, {"bbox": [97, 317, 1134, 477], "category": "Text", "text": "Policy development and training activities will put a particular emphasis on how these impact women and men, boys and girls, including those with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. Action plans and strategies will be conducted in a gender-sensitive and inclusive manner. The action will include activities aimed at combatting SGBV and enhancing the rights of female offenders and both custodial and non-custodial sentences. The action will consider gendered differences in opportunities to participate in corrupt behaviour and will also consider the gendered impact of corruption."}, {"bbox": [97, 522, 243, 547], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Human Rights**"}, {"bbox": [97, 548, 1134, 627], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is aligned with the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024, on the fair administration of justice and democratic institutions, while supporting the implementation of the Human Rights and Democracy country strategy 2021-2024."}, {"bbox": [97, 639, 1134, 746], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will be designed and implemented with a rights-based approach, focusing on a rights-holder/user-centric approach to access to justice and service delivery. It will directly contribute to improved access to justice and realisation of rights, notably the right to a fair trial, rights of offenders, including their rights to privacy and due process, and rights of victims, in particular of women and children/juveniles."}, {"bbox": [97, 791, 195, 816], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Disability**"}, {"bbox": [97, 817, 1134, 894], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1 This implies that there will be an emphasis to facilitate access to justice for groups in vulnerable situations, including for people with disabilities."}, {"bbox": [97, 929, 210, 954], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Democracy**"}, {"bbox": [97, 955, 1134, 1087], "category": "Text", "text": "Following the reforms of the 2010 Constitution in Kenya, the historically under-resourced justice sector has seen a redirection of public resources to the Judiciary and prosecution services. Public resource allocation to the Judiciary has become politically contentious in the context of numerous judgements, including ones touching upon elections, which have been unfavourable to the Executive, undermining judicial independence, a central principle of democracy and the rule of law. This programme seeks to strengthen this arm of the government."}, {"bbox": [97, 1120, 411, 1144], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Other considerations if relevant**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1159, 1134, 1292], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Digitalisation.** The action will address the digital governance pillar of the Team Europe Initiative on Digitalisation, notably on effective service delivery and modernisation of justice through inclusive and accessible digital technologies. Technology will thus be a key component in the implementation of the action, including in design and delivery of activities. For instance, the use of online meeting applications will be preferred over in-person workshops, which will save time and resources."}, {"bbox": [97, 1306, 1134, 1466], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Integrity and the fight against corruption.** PLEAD II will seek to ensure that issues related to integrity are considered across all of the action's interventions. This will complement its focused work on integrity training, accountability mechanisms and measures against corruption. It will, among other things, mean that issues of integrity are considered in the design of other measures, such as policy development, in an effort to ensure the highest level of integrity among criminal justice practitioners in Kenya. It should be remembered that institutions that have integrity and accountability will provide effective responses and access to justice."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 33"}]