[{"bbox": [85, 151, 616, 180], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.3 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity"}, {"bbox": [96, 193, 1135, 407], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this Action may be implemented in indirect management with **IFAD**. This implementation entails **Output 1.2 \"Food crop deficits are significantly reduced through extension of irrigation\"**. The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria: IFAD experience on irrigation in lowland areas and technical competence; as well as its demonstrated management capacities based on previous phases of the irrigation programme in lowland areas of Ethiopia. It will furthermore allow integrating lessons learnt from the Participatory Small-Scale Irrigation Development Programme (PASIDP) and it will leverage funding from IFAD; BMGF and GOE mobilised for the new phase of this programme that will cover the Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Sidama, Afar and Somali regions."}, {"bbox": [96, 418, 1135, 473], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [85, 497, 616, 525], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.4 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity"}, {"bbox": [96, 540, 1135, 753], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this Action may be implemented in indirect management **with FAO**. This implementation entails **Output 1.3 \"Enhanced release and dissemination of key bio-fortified crop varieties targeting in particular women in reproductive age and children under 5\"**. The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria: FAO experience on agricultural transformation and nutrition in Ethiopia. It has been at the core of the nutrition agenda in the country for many years. It has the human resources, organisational capacity and expertise to carry out the tasks. FAO will be engaged through an extension of the \"FIRST\" Policy Facility¹⁸ beyond 2022 in order to promote a conducive institutional / legal environment across the different subcomponents of the nutrition policy and of this Action."}, {"bbox": [96, 764, 1135, 819], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [85, 843, 616, 871], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.5 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity"}, {"bbox": [96, 885, 1135, 1046], "category": "Text", "text": "**A part of this Action** may be implemented in indirect management by the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – IBRD). This implementation entails **Outputs 2.1 – 2.3: PSNP (Productive Safety Net Program)**. The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria: Experience of the WB, which has been managing the PSNP trust fund since 2005. This component of the Action will be funded through a pool funding (Multi donor Trust Fund), to which various other MS (NL, DE, DK, SE) and other donors (UK) plan to contribute."}, {"bbox": [85, 1058, 1132, 1114], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.6 Changes from indirect to direct management mode (and vice versa) due to exceptional circumstances (one alternative second option)"}, {"bbox": [96, 1142, 143, 1167], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [85, 1195, 803, 1227], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5 Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [96, 1254, 1135, 1335], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply."}, {"bbox": [96, 1346, 1135, 1454], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realization of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 965, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ EU-FAO Food and nutrition security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation programme"}]