[{"bbox": [83, 105, 1147, 159], "category": "Text", "text": "situations (including student mothers and their children benefitting from day-care services); businesses and women and men job seekers in the renewable energy sector."}, {"bbox": [83, 184, 1147, 372], "category": "Text", "text": "Government will coordinate with the relevant key stakeholders the efforts to reach the agreed performance requirements under the respective variable tranches. The key stakeholders include the Ministry of Finance, the National Tax Authority (DNRE), the Court of Auditors, the National Statistics Institute, the Parliamentary Accounts Committee, the Ministry of Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Social Inclusion and Family, the CNPS (national centre for social protection), the ICIEG (national institute for gender equality), major municipalities, the Ministry of Education, the three National Chambers of Commerce, energy sector companies (private sector) and civil society representing the different voices of the society."}, {"bbox": [83, 395, 1147, 610], "category": "Text", "text": "Based on the already existing policy dialogue and the results obtained through the previous 11th EDF budget support, this action will underpin a continued EU engagement on transversal issues including gender, inclusiveness, green energy and energy efficiency. Since the Mid Term Review of the previous programme, the gender dimension became more prominent in the policy dialogue, covering inter alia the Parity Law, gender based violence and social protection. Actions will be developed and implemented from a human-rights based approach. CSO's can be further engaged on policy based budgeting and transparency, including the open budget initiative, which is not yet initiated in Cabo Verde. In synergy with CV-EU Special Partnership, selected dimensions from the key pillars of the partnership will receive particular attention, including security, technical and normative conversion with EU standards."}, {"bbox": [109, 644, 499, 672], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.3 Additional Areas of Assessment"}, {"bbox": [147, 691, 601, 718], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.1 Pre-condition on Fundamental Values"}, {"bbox": [83, 728, 1147, 783], "category": "Text", "text": "The national development policy is built on the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Mutual respect for these fundamental values is recognized as an important basis of the CV - EU Special Partnership, created in 2007."}, {"bbox": [83, 807, 1147, 939], "category": "Text", "text": "The high level of respect for fundamental values, human rights and democratic governance in CV are at the basis of the Special Partnership between Cabo Verde and the EU. The country shares core democratic values and principles with the EU. CV is a party to the main International Humanitarian Law conventions and has ratified the main UN conventions on Human Rights protection. In 2017 the country was almost unique in Africa to publicly defend the Rome Statute."}, {"bbox": [83, 966, 1147, 1177], "category": "Text", "text": "Furthermore, CV is the only African country to benefit of preferential trade access to the EU in the framework of the General System of Preferences Plus +. Its status is conditional on the ratification, implementation and reporting on 27 UN Conventions on Human Rights, Gender, Labour Rights and Environment issues. In September 2020, CV satisfactorily replied to a detailed list of issues related to the implementation of those conventions. The good performance of the country, despite the severe impact of the COVID-19 crisis, was highlighted in the reply of ECVP Dombrovskis on 13/01/2021 and was confirmed by preparatory studies on the Human rights situation, and ongoing studies on Labour Rights. Further assessment missions have been delayed due to COVID 19 but could be resumed in a near future."}, {"bbox": [83, 1205, 914, 1232], "category": "Text", "text": "**Based on the above, the fundamental values pre-condition is considered as being met.**"}, {"bbox": [147, 1268, 358, 1297], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.2 Public Policy"}, {"bbox": [83, 1358, 1150, 1415], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is aligned with Cabo Verde's Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development (Plano Estratégico de Desenvolvimento Sustentável – PEDS) covering the period 2017/2021. https://peds.gov.cv"}, {"bbox": [83, 1432, 1147, 1513], "category": "Text", "text": "The PEDS, which is aligned with and built upon several axes of the Sustainable Development Goals, provides the medium-term growth policy of the Government and redefines the country's position in the regional and global economy and aims for progress on four objectives:"}, {"bbox": [83, 1513, 530, 1539], "category": "List-item", "text": "- an open economy based in the middle Atlantic;"}, {"bbox": [83, 1540, 563, 1566], "category": "List-item", "text": "- ensure economic and environmental sustainability;"}, {"bbox": [83, 1566, 808, 1593], "category": "List-item", "text": "- social inclusion and reduction of inequalities including the gender dimension;"}, {"bbox": [1051, 1662, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 28"}]