[{"bbox": [95, 151, 1162, 232], "category": "Text", "text": "instability and conflict. This will be pursued by focusing on achieving long-term political settlements on key state-building issues and supporting locally led reconciliation processes and expanding civic and political participation to a broader and more inclusive cross-section of society."}, {"bbox": [95, 256, 1162, 338], "category": "Text", "text": "Political and social reconciliation activities that are designed to include a wider group of stakeholders and focus on bottom-up democratisation processes will strengthen legitimacy and should help accelerate the stalled state-building processes, which will contribute to increased resilience of state and local institutions and to overall stability."}, {"bbox": [95, 368, 336, 394], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [95, 394, 1162, 450], "category": "Text", "text": "Through support to reconciliation processes and by building the capacities of local administrations, the Action aims to strengthen the capacities of communities and local governments to respond to climate related disasters and conflicts."}, {"bbox": [85, 489, 423, 518], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 532, 1167, 1590], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Impact (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Political</td><td>The complex political settlement challenges at the subnational level lend itself to interference from external actors, including federal government and elites.</td><td>M/H</td><td>M/H</td><td>The programmatic approaches will emphasize the inclusion of a broad sector of local stakeholders, link back to inclusive politics at the subnational and national levels, and be based on rolling contextual analysis and reconciliation support.</td></tr><tr><td>Security</td><td>Insecurity from violent community conflicts and the threat of Al Shabaab prevents or stalls implementation at the local level.</td><td>M</td><td>H</td><td>Together with international partners the EU will continue to support the FGS to expand and deepen areas of stability. Partners will develop clear criteria before commencing activities in an area. In addition, ensuring locally-led and consensus programming can mitigate against conflict impacting activities.</td></tr><tr><td>Societal</td><td>Lack of responsiveness and inability to provide services by the state constrains state legitimacy, allowing Al Shabaab to maintain broad influence.</td><td>H</td><td>M</td><td>To strengthen the responsiveness of the state, specifically by helping to establish local and district councils and by strengthening the capacities of legitimate local authorities to deliver services.</td></tr><tr><td>Societal</td><td>Strong cultural norms and existing power networks work against efforts to expand political participation of women and combat marginalization.</td><td>M</td><td>H</td><td>The programme will seek to sensitize key influencers (traditional and religious leaders, politicians) on the value and importance of more representative government at the local and state levels.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1142, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 26"}]