[{"bbox": [85, 153, 1145, 298], "category": "Text", "text": "resources for economic empowerment and capacity building trainings, which allowed them to set up various businesses including honey production, tourism activities and mangrove cultivation. The active participation of women even led to the establishment of a women-led volunteer organisation for mangrove awareness and restoration as well as the ‘Mangrove Cooperative Society’ to support other women with training and resources on beekeeping.”⁹"}, {"bbox": [85, 326, 233, 355], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [85, 386, 1145, 474], "category": "Text", "text": "Human rights protection and promotion (which comprises among other gender equality, indigenous rights, persons with disabilities) will be mainstreamed throughout the action. Several EU documents will help to incorporate a human rights based approach in future cooperation activities, such as:"}, {"bbox": [124, 502, 823, 530], "category": "List-item", "text": "(i) The EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024"}, {"bbox": [124, 532, 509, 559], "category": "List-item", "text": "(ii) The Gender Action Plan (GAP III)"}, {"bbox": [124, 561, 740, 590], "category": "List-item", "text": "(iii) The Human Rights and Democracy Country Strategy, and"}, {"bbox": [124, 590, 750, 619], "category": "List-item", "text": "(iv) The CSO-LA Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society"}, {"bbox": [85, 648, 1145, 771], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will apply the working principles of the human rights based approach (HRBA): applying all human rights for all, meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making, non-discrimination and equality, accountability and rule of law for all, and transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data."}, {"bbox": [85, 802, 186, 830], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [85, 861, 1145, 920], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D0. This implies that the action is not considered relevant for inclusion of persons with disabilities."}, {"bbox": [85, 950, 491, 978], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [85, 1010, 1145, 1212], "category": "Text", "text": "The action strengthens resilience of the coastal population and assets by reducing the climate change-induced risks of flooding, erosion and salt intrusion they are currently facing. Strengthened resilience will also result from the activities focused on value chains development. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, it should be highlighted that the action will contribute to enhancing Guyana’s overall resilience, also in terms of withstanding the corona-induced economic crisis and in protecting its population against the disease, by restoring ecosystems, mitigating climate change, reducing the risk of natural disasters, creating jobs and sustainable value chains."}, {"bbox": [85, 1242, 330, 1269], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [85, 1302, 1145, 1447], "category": "Text", "text": "Environment and climate change are at the core of the action, embedded throughout the intervention logic. As mentioned above, the action also strengthens resilience of the coastal population, by limiting the risks of among other flooding. Specifically, environment and climate change are addressed through efforts in the fields of (1) mangrove conservation, (2) adaptation to sea level rise and storm surges as effect of climate change, and (4) enhancing carbon sequestration through mangrove restoration."}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 809, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁹ https://www.iucn.org/news/forests/201707/gender-equity-key-mangrove-restoration"}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1145, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 27"}]