[{"bbox": [157, 105, 1147, 209], "category": "Text", "text": "budgets, monitoring, accountability, purchases etc.) are concerned, but also in the field of incomes (reduced fiscal gaps, increased fiscal basis, reduced toxic tax exemptions, among other). The Fiscal Transparency Assessment led by the IMF on the basis of fiscal years 2017-2018 should be a key entry point to support PFM in Honduras.³"}, {"bbox": [121, 214, 746, 241], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Honduras' budget does not integrate climate budgeting markers."}, {"bbox": [121, 252, 349, 278], "category": "Text", "text": "**Regarding component 2:**"}, {"bbox": [157, 290, 1147, 451], "category": "Text", "text": "CIVICUS⁴ states the public space for civil society as repressed. Civil society organizations in Honduras are concerned about the increased burden and stricter norms regulating their functioning and operations. These restrictive measures range from administrative and tax sanctions to restrictive and criminal procedures or violent attacks against CSO leaders, critical to government actions. This situation leads to the exclusion of many civil society organizations that lack an appropriate organizational and administrative structure to comply with all the requirements."}, {"bbox": [157, 451, 408, 474], "category": "Text", "text": "*The mains bottlenecks are:*"}, {"bbox": [121, 479, 1147, 585], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Dispersed and restrictive regulatory framework. In Honduras, there are 17 general and 10 specific norms to govern civil society organizations. In addition to that, 7 institutions have a legal mandate to register, to authorize the organizations legal status, and establish its tax requirements, each with jurisdiction over a specific type of CSO."}, {"bbox": [121, 587, 1147, 666], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Rules penalizing critical voices. According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, these rules \"may affect the right to protest and to defend human rights in the country, among others\"."}, {"bbox": [121, 668, 1147, 721], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Weak institutional capacity, scarce personnel and budget to comply with the obligations derived from the legal-regulatory framework."}, {"bbox": [121, 722, 1147, 776], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Increasing tax controls and obligations and other measures regarding anti-evasion, money laundering and audit of accounts by the Superior Court of Accounts."}, {"bbox": [121, 777, 1075, 805], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Excessive and lengthy administrative procedures for the registration and authorization of operations."}, {"bbox": [121, 829, 349, 856], "category": "Text", "text": "**Regarding component 3:**"}, {"bbox": [121, 870, 1147, 923], "category": "List-item", "text": "* In Honduras, fake news and disinformation can negatively influence the perception of citizen about EU actions in the country."}, {"bbox": [121, 925, 1147, 979], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Until 2020 the EUD to Honduras did not have a fully-fledged Political Section, thus limiting PD actions. The situation has been reversed in 2021 therefore reinforcing the future impact of PD initiatives."}, {"bbox": [121, 980, 1147, 1059], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Despite the organisation of an important number a Public Diplomacy events during the last MIP period, those were concentrated on the geographical cooperation by mean of resources allocated in the framework of cooperation programmes."}, {"bbox": [121, 1061, 1147, 1115], "category": "List-item", "text": "* No resources were allocated to plan *long term* public diplomacy initiatives engaging with a selection of local target audiences, influencers and multipliers;"}, {"bbox": [121, 1116, 1147, 1170], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Communication and visibility plans of the geographical and thematic programmes were not integrated in a long-term Public Diplomacy Strategic Plan."}, {"bbox": [121, 1171, 1147, 1225], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU in Honduras didn't yet take advantage of the Team Europe initiative and maintain weaknesses in the coordination with other partners, especially UN (e.g. Spotlight)"}, {"bbox": [83, 1264, 433, 1289], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Identification of main stakeholders:**"}, {"bbox": [83, 1314, 1147, 1369], "category": "Text", "text": "In the framework of component 1, Support Measures may target all government entities relevant for the implementation of the MIP. In particular:"}, {"bbox": [196, 1395, 1147, 1449], "category": "List-item", "text": "* General Coordination of the Government (SCGG) for its attributions on planning, result-oriented budgets and monitoring and evaluation."}, {"bbox": [196, 1450, 877, 1476], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Ministry of Finances (SEFIN) and Tax Administration Service (SAR)."}, {"bbox": [196, 1478, 1147, 1531], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Ministry of Presidency (SP) and Ministry of Foreign and International Cooperation for public diplomacy."}, {"bbox": [72, 1589, 1101, 1638], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2021/07/07/Honduras-Technical-Assistance-ReportFiscal-Transparency-Evaluation-461741"}, {"bbox": [72, 1638, 538, 1663], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ https://civicus.org/state-of-civil-society-report-2021/"}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 18"}]