[{"bbox": [144, 149, 1083, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "achieve the National NDC targets for adaptation (building capacity) and mitigation (reforestation and introduction of renewable energy sources)."}, {"bbox": [144, 213, 1086, 590], "category": "Text", "text": "**Gender:** Research and experience in Afghanistan provide evidence that gender consideration in planning and implementing environmental, economic and social interventions greatly increases the prospect of success. Environmental degradation impacts at local level are particularly felt by women. Without reliable access to energy in rural areas, women and children spend most of their day performing basic tasks including physically draining tasks of collecting biomass fuels. Gender issues will be incorporated through a participatory approach in the project inception phase promoting adequate representation of both men and women in all activities. Reporting will also be disaggregated by gender. It is expected that women will play an important role in project activities, including management, training and establishment of alternative livelihood-natural resources related options. Good practices developed by the project will be shared with Ministry of Women's Affairs and other national stakeholders. Finally, the project will ensure mainstreaming gender issues into advocacy and development of learning management system."}, {"bbox": [144, 596, 1086, 827], "category": "Text", "text": "**Good governance and Decentralization:** Improving natural resource management through institutional and individual capacity development at central, district and community level, as well as supporting decentralisation of the Government's Natural resource management strategy will be pursued. Strengthening local governance, through community natural resource management associations, will increase local decision-making and local resilience to current and future climate change risks. The de-centralization process is planned by several Ministries, notably Agriculture and Energy. This is in line with the “bottom up” approach of this action and with the new provincial budgeting policy."}, {"bbox": [144, 833, 1086, 950], "category": "Text", "text": "**Counter-Narcotics:** Poppy cultivation remains an economically relevant component of the current farming system. This programme will contribute to create effective alternatives to illicit crops through labour intensive practices in forestry and post-harvest production related to energy availability."}, {"bbox": [144, 956, 1086, 1100], "category": "Text", "text": "**Job creation and Migration:** Past NSP interventions have increased jobs opportunities in rural areas reducing out-migration from villages⁵. By addressing wide-spread scepticism on future prospects and providing practical tools to open up new opportunities for economic and environmental protection activities in the rural areas, it is also expected that this action will contribute towards reducing internal displacement."}, {"bbox": [144, 1106, 1086, 1164], "category": "Text", "text": "**Rights-based Approach (RBA):** The choice of implementing partners will enable integration of RBA guiding principles in the programme implementation."}, {"bbox": [144, 1191, 494, 1216], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [144, 1232, 396, 1259], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Objectives/results"}, {"bbox": [144, 1273, 1086, 1504], "category": "Text", "text": "This programme addresses environmental, economic and social challenges in the North-Eastern region by contributing to the solution of three key problems: i) increasing impact of climate change on ecosystems and rural communities, causing their reduced resilience; ii) unsustainable use and poor management of rangelands, woodlands and rain-fed arable lands leading to loss of biodiversity, ecosystem services and reduced resilience iii) inefficient use of energy and poor supply of renewable energy in rural areas causing serious pressure on ecosystems. This program's integrated approach reinforces EU and other donors' funded actions in support of climate change adaptation in vulnerable rural areas based on integrated watershed, ecosystem"}, {"bbox": [144, 1541, 532, 1566], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ http://www.nsp-ie.org/reports/finalreport.pdf"}, {"bbox": [598, 1606, 633, 1628], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[12]"}]