[{"bbox": [83, 105, 1146, 187], "category": "Text", "text": "Women and girls will be the primary and end beneficiary group of all projects of this action. Gender equality in access to quality services (civic documentation, education, social protection and jobs) as well as the adaptation of services to the needs of female beneficiaries will be pro-actively advanced through this action."}, {"bbox": [83, 211, 1146, 318], "category": "Text", "text": "Girls and Youth in general are at the centre of this Action, with interventions seeking to involve and engage them as much as possible considering the growing young population of Iraq and their contribution to the sustainable development of Iraq. The action will produce gender analysis when needed, as well as sex-disaggregated data when available and it will monitor and evaluate the results of the gender sensitive indicators."}, {"bbox": [83, 344, 1146, 396], "category": "Text", "text": "In this sense, the Action is fully aligned with the forthcoming implementation plan for Iraq under the EU Gender Action Plan III for 2021-2024¹⁴."}, {"bbox": [83, 429, 230, 456], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [83, 456, 1146, 642], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action is based on the forthcoming implementation plan for Iraq under the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2021-2024)¹⁵, applicable human rights covenants and the international conventions such as the ILO Conventions and applicable UN frameworks. The Action takes a rights-based approach putting economic, social, civic rights at the forefront, focusing specifically on safeguarding and promoting the rights of women and children, displaced persons, minorities, persons with disabilities and workers in the informal sector and/or in informal work situations. The action will adopt a human rights-based approach by focusing on capacity building of the duty-bearers and the rights holders and by fostering the working principles of applying human rights for all."}, {"bbox": [83, 674, 181, 700], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [83, 700, 1146, 807], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this Action is labelled as D1. This implies that disabled persons will be an important beneficiary group of all projects of this action. Access to quality services (civic documentation, education, social protection and jobs) for disabled persons as well as the adaptation of services to the needs of disabled beneficiaries will be pro-actively advanced through this action."}, {"bbox": [83, 838, 197, 864], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [83, 864, 1146, 1021], "category": "Text", "text": "The focus of this Action is on improving governance across all four intervention areas and thereby contributing to addressing Iraq's notoriously weak governance, widespread corruption and a lack of accountability and oversight. This will contribute to increasing the compromised legitimacy of the state. At the same time, effective service delivery and the integration of displaced populations will contribute to improving social cohesion. Supporting the Iraqi authorities' capacity to durable solutions for displaced populations is crucial to advance reconciliation and stabilisation."}, {"bbox": [83, 1054, 474, 1081], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [83, 1081, 1146, 1188], "category": "Text", "text": "Conflict sensitivity and a people-centred approach underpin this Action, addressing the root causes of conflicts while social cohesion is mainstreamed throughout. Equally, the Action centrally builds on the findings of the conflict analysis screening for Iraq that identified underlying conflict drivers/triggers and provided a series of recommendation for conflict sensitivity and identified specific peace-building opportunities."}, {"bbox": [83, 1214, 1146, 1426], "category": "Text", "text": "In terms of peace-building opportunities, this Action directly contributes to four objectives notably *Support genuine reforms by focusing on the most promising change agents and bridging short-term conflict resolution with long-term governance efforts; Accompany dialogue efforts at different levels; Work with the education system to promote inclusive citizenship; Further areas for peacebuilding engagements* – specifically *Empower women and Promote inclusive social and labour protection*. All relevant recommendations for conflict sensitivity *mitigation* measures relating to the themes of *Reinforcing a highly corrupt, underperforming, contested political system; Exacerbating inter-group rivalries; Fuelling the negative perception of international support to Iraq; Sector- and action-specific risks* are taken into account for this Action and will be fully integrated into the design of the programmes."}, {"bbox": [83, 1457, 322, 1481], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [83, 1483, 1128, 1510], "category": "Text", "text": "The action aims to improve the shock resilience of national systems and thus contributes to disaster risk reduction."}, {"bbox": [72, 1566, 1157, 1617], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁴ Joint Communication on the EU Gender Action Plan III from November 2020, JOIN (2020) 17. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/system/files/join-2020-17-final_en.pdf"}, {"bbox": [72, 1615, 1157, 1664], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁵ Joint Communication on the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024, JOIN (2020) 7. Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:e9112a36-6e95-11ea-b735-01aa75ed71a1.0002.02/DOC_3&format=PDF"}, {"bbox": [1040, 1664, 1157, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 30"}]