[{"bbox": [81, 145, 1142, 815], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>3 (People and the organisation)</td><td>Risk 6: Absence of necessary skills and expertise to support the energy sector upgrade.</td><td>Medium</td><td>Low</td><td>-Technical assistance such as market studies and baseline assessments could be provided through either central Dutch government funding or through the technical assistance earmarked in this Action.</td></tr><tr><td>5 (Communication and information)</td><td>Risk 7: Positive mentality shift in the local population to accommodate the necessary environmental changes are slow to come.</td><td>Low</td><td>Low</td><td>-Regular policy dialogues with authorities are in place to position the EU as a partner of reference for Saba.<br/>-Communication and visibility to promote cooperation and raise awareness on the benefits of sustainable energy could be reinforced through the mobilisation of another decision.</td></tr><tr><td>4 (Legality and regularity aspects</td><td>Risk 8: Difficulties integrating a gender approach into the implementation of the programme</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Gender expertise will be brought in to conduct a sectoral gender analysis that will be supported by Technical Assistance.<br/>Awareness raising and capacity building of key actors may be organised.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 815, 253, 839], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 858, 1134, 972], "category": "Text", "text": "Saba has benefited from European Development Fund (EDF) allocations, notably in the projects 'Urban Infrastructures for socially deprived areas' (9th EDF), 'Regional Response to HIV/Aids' and 'Regional Risk Reduction Initiative, R3i' (9th EDF) as well as in the budget support programmes 'Social Housing Sector Reform' (10th EDF) and 'Energy Sector Reform' (11th EDF)."}, {"bbox": [92, 990, 1134, 1161], "category": "Text", "text": "The selection of the project modality in the past aimed at mitigating capacity constraints of the new administration of Saba as a public entity of the Netherlands, after the restructuring in 2010. These capacity constraints of the new administration decreased during 2014 and therefore, as conditions were met, the budget support modality was used since 2017. Despite delays at the beginning of the implementation, the 11th EDF budget support was successfully finalised, even exceeding some expectations. However, it was also observed that technical assistance complementing a budget support operation would enhance its impact."}, {"bbox": [92, 1179, 1134, 1235], "category": "Text", "text": "Capacities were further strengthened during the formulation phase of this Action, as budget support training was provided prior to the start of the programme."}, {"bbox": [92, 1253, 1134, 1362], "category": "Text", "text": "Sustainable energy also continues to be supported through the 11th EDF regional OCT programme, Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity (RESEMBID)¹³, as well as the OCT thematic programme Green Overseas (GO). Lessons-learnt from these programmes will be taken into account in the implementation of this Action."}, {"bbox": [92, 1384, 1134, 1469], "category": "Text", "text": "Strong attention on visibility and communication of the impact of the Action by Saba will have to be ensured, as it is also a lesson-learnt from past cooperation. It is foreseen to further enhance the understanding of the EU and the promotion of the EU-OCT partnership (please refer to the section 6)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1621, 269, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹³ https://resembid.org/"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1142, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 22"}]