[{"bbox": [78, 126, 1145, 178], "category": "Text", "text": "a Green Deal turns climate change and environmental resilience a crosscutting issue for most of the EU supported actions."}, {"bbox": [78, 191, 1145, 406], "category": "Text", "text": "The country's vulnerability to climate change and the degradation of its natural resources, due to both natural and man-made causes, brings serious risks of deforestation, overexploitation of fisheries' resources and negative impacts on ecosystems dynamics and biodiversity conservation. In turn, this also raises serious socioeconomic concerns, as many communities depend on the enhancement of and on the interaction with such ecosystems. The MIP 2021-2027 foresees to support more transparent legal frameworks and reinforce accountability mechanisms, including for environmental protection and biodiversity conservation, as well as exploitation of natural resources. The action will facilitate capacity building and reforms in the public sector to improve overall governance to integrate environment and climate change dimension across all areas of policy-making."}, {"bbox": [78, 444, 620, 472], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [78, 481, 1145, 563], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Gender policy marker identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that gender equality and women's empowerment issues will be taken into account in the identification, formulation and implementation phases of the EU interventions supported under the CF."}, {"bbox": [78, 574, 1145, 762], "category": "Text", "text": "Violence against women, other harmful practices and child marriages remain major concerns in the country. Female genital mutilation is prohibited since 2011, but Guinea-Bissau still witnesses clandestine mutilation practices – that even increased during the 2020 according to the Bissau Guinean League for Human Rights - in remote areas where authorities confront some popular resistance. Steps forward seem to depend on the international community's capacity to support further projects aimed at developing prevention and protection systems for the victims. The EU has financed a recent study on the situation of women in the country, which could provide a solid basis for the international community's coming interventions."}, {"bbox": [78, 800, 226, 827], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [78, 838, 1145, 973], "category": "Text", "text": "Access to basic economic, social and cultural rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), remains a global challenge for Guinea-Bissau. Rights to education, food, housing, health, justice etc. are still narrowly related to national budgetary capacity. To access these rights, the continuous efforts of international cooperation help to maintain a progressive pathway but further results will also need to be driven by economic growth and better governance."}, {"bbox": [78, 983, 1145, 1118], "category": "Text", "text": "Guinea-Bissau is known for the high-level political awareness of its population that is culturally much implicated when the fundamental rights of the people are questioned. There is a dynamic human rights network covering various fields and gathering several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as “Casa dos Direitos”, active in the field of human rights protection; RENLUV, a network of organisations focusing on domestic violence against women and children; and “Associação dos Amigos das Crianças”, which is the main body fighting child abuse."}, {"bbox": [78, 1128, 1145, 1210], "category": "Text", "text": "In line with the Freedom of Expression principle and with the Human Rights and Democracy Country Strategy report there is a consensus among the international community that major improvements on the human rights situation need further support to progress in the right direction."}, {"bbox": [78, 1220, 1145, 1276], "category": "Text", "text": "Therefore the human rights-based approach will be taken into account in the identification, formulation and implementation phases of the EU interventions supported under the CF."}, {"bbox": [78, 1314, 176, 1341], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [78, 1351, 1145, 1434], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. This implies that disability issues will be taken into account in the identification, formulation and implementation phases of the EU interventions supported under the CF."}, {"bbox": [78, 1444, 1145, 1552], "category": "Text", "text": "In the context of Guinea-Bissau, this transversal approach is particularly relevant. Disability is a traditional area for EU support, including actions in the fields of political participation and representation (through advocacy and raising awareness), and the right to health (promoting fair access to groups living in vulnerable situations to health care services, including sexual and reproductive health and rights)."}, {"bbox": [78, 1562, 1145, 1645], "category": "Text", "text": "The CF, as a horizontal measure, will accompany the implementation of the MIP 2021-2027 priority sectors of Education and Health, providing the means to design relevant interventions to address disability as well as facilitating the engagement in inclusive dialogue with national authorities and civil society regarding national policy."}, {"bbox": [1048, 1689, 1156, 1715], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 17"}]