[{"bbox": [184, 152, 444, 179], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5. The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [157, 191, 1075, 432], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2021-2027 Regional MIP foresees support to transformative bottom-up and nascent democratic processes in Venezuela, by strengthening the social fabric and promoting the re-establishment of confidence and dialogue at local and community level. The Regional MIP identifies three main priorities of support: (i) protecting and promoting human rights, human dignity and inclusion, (ii) promoting civic values, conflict prevention and resolution, and democratic participation, and (iii) support to community resilience, strengthening sustainable access to basic services, local productive capacities/income generation, and promoting sustainable socio-economic management of natural resources. At the same time, the Regional MIP also foresees addressing the migration / forced displacement from Venezuela."}, {"bbox": [157, 441, 1074, 524], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will implement 2 out of the 3 priorities as established in the Regional MIP, more specifically priority (i): and priority (iii). In order to cover these priority areas, AAP2022 proposes a support package focussing on:"}, {"bbox": [230, 534, 1074, 615], "category": "List-item", "text": "i. Contributing to protecting and promoting human rights through continued support to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR);"}, {"bbox": [230, 626, 1074, 708], "category": "List-item", "text": "ii. Support to community resilience by promoting citizen, in all their diversity, engagement at community level around the prioritisation and rehabilitation/management of basic services."}, {"bbox": [157, 718, 1074, 800], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will address root causes of migration and forced displacement in terms of basic services and human rights as per defined in The European Consensus on Development⁸ and the Regulation establishing the NDICI- Global Europe Instrument."}, {"bbox": [157, 810, 1074, 891], "category": "Text", "text": "Complementary measures financed by thematic programmes on support to Human Rights and Democracy and Civil Society Organisations, will also cover the priority area (i) and (ii) of the Regional MIP."}, {"bbox": [157, 902, 1075, 1222], "category": "Text", "text": "**The first component** of the Action will provide further support to the country presence of the OHCHR Office (O1.2) and increase the capacity of CSO and HRDs (O1.1) to prevent violations of human rights and increase protection and access to justice (SO1), and will thus aim at strengthening civil society resilience and counteracting some of the main restrictions on civic and democratic space. Through the Action, OHCHR will continue its work of documenting attacks against civil society and human rights defenders, allowing the Office to continue to provide regular updates on the situation of defenders and journalists. OHCHR will also monitor and report on the level of respect for public freedoms and political rights in the framework of electoral processes that will take place throughout the upcoming years. Critical assumption is the continued local presence of the office, approved by the Maduro administration. Last approval of the annual Work Programme was given in Sept 2021. The OHCHR in Geneva is in regular contact at high level with government representatives, including through regular visits to the country in order to ensure the continuation of their activities."}, {"bbox": [157, 1233, 1075, 1447], "category": "Text", "text": "**The second component** of the Action will strengthen community resilience by promoting inhabitant in all their diversity engagement at community level (O2.2) around the prioritisation and rehabilitation/management of basic services (O2.1) which will address inequality of access to basic services (SO2). This component will seek to identify at community level, in a participatory and inclusive manner (citizens in all their diversity, private sector and local authorities where possible), basic services to be rehabilitated and could also provide (limited) funding for their renovation. Important conditions allowing the achievement of the objectives are improvements in the political, economic and humanitarian crisis and in civic space."}, {"bbox": [147, 1588, 1017, 1615], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁸ The European Consensus on Development, ‘Our world, our Dignity, our Future’, June 2017, art. 71."}, {"bbox": [966, 1690, 1082, 1715], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 26"}]