[{"bbox": [144, 148, 1085, 212], "category": "Text", "text": "called productive components of the Programme, that aim at increasing women's access to resources, skills and support;"}, {"bbox": [144, 229, 563, 258], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Support to the National Statistics System"}, {"bbox": [144, 274, 1085, 466], "category": "Text", "text": "For the monitoring of the medium-term results of the budget support the availability of reliable national statistics is essential. Therefore, it is proposed that support shall be provided to the further development of the national statistics system, focusing on areas relevant to the budget support operation such as the national household survey and administrative data, including government's capacity in data collection and analysis and increase information on women's access to resources."}, {"bbox": [144, 486, 556, 515], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### 5.4.1 Procurement (direct management)"}, {"bbox": [155, 525, 1094, 753], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Subject in generic terms, if possible</td><td>Type (works, supplies, services)</td><td>Indicative number of contracts</td><td>Indicative trimester of launch of the procedure</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Short, medium and long term technical cooperation (5.4.1)</td><td>Services</td><td>2</td><td>S1 2019</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [144, 767, 713, 796], "category": "Section-header", "text": "##### 5.4.1.1 Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement"}, {"bbox": [144, 808, 1085, 896], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply."}, {"bbox": [144, 908, 1085, 1053], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility in accordance with Article 9(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 236/2014 on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of products and services in the markets of the countries concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where the eligibility rules would make the realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult."}, {"bbox": [144, 1106, 1085, 1165], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### 5.4.2 Grants: call for proposals \"Supporting women's economic empowerment through entrepreneurship development interventions (direct management)"}, {"bbox": [144, 1176, 1060, 1206], "category": "Text", "text": "(a) Objectives of the grants, fields of intervention, priorities of the year and expected results"}, {"bbox": [144, 1237, 1085, 1432], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The overall objective of the grants is to advance Afghan women's economic empowerment and to maximise their contribution to growth and poverty reduction. The specific objective is to promote female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan, by supporting Afghan women in developing and executing their business ideas, and women-led SMEs in expanding their existing business, through facilitated access to bundled services (inter alia, access to finance, business training, mentorship and support networks, assets transfer, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [144, 1450, 1085, 1546], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The main activities will focus on providing targeted support that enables women to develop and execute their business ideas, or to expand their existing business, and to overcome related challenges. The actions will respond to the following priorities: a) positively"}, {"bbox": [600, 1605, 635, 1628], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[24]"}]