[{"bbox": [85, 147, 708, 178], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [85, 213, 382, 242], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [97, 259, 1125, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this action, it is not envisaged to conclude a financing agreement with the partner country."}, {"bbox": [85, 300, 510, 330], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [97, 347, 1134, 431], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicative operational implementation period of this action, during which the activities described in section 3 will be carried out and the corresponding contracts and agreements implemented, is 84 months from the date of adoption by the Commission of this Financing Decision."}, {"bbox": [97, 450, 1132, 503], "category": "Text", "text": "Extensions of the implementation period may be agreed by the Commission's responsible authorising officer by amending this Financing Decision and the relevant contracts and agreements."}, {"bbox": [85, 536, 440, 566], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [97, 594, 1131, 671], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will ensure that the EU appropriate rules and procedures for providing financing to third parties are respected, including review procedures, where appropriate, and compliance of the action with EU restrictive measures¹²."}, {"bbox": [85, 705, 613, 732], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.1 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity"}, {"bbox": [97, 759, 1134, 1078], "category": "Text", "text": "Part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with Expertise France (EF). EF is the French international technical cooperation agency, subsidiary of the Agence française de développement Group (AFD Group). This implementation entails support at national level across all specific objectives, including institutional support, technical assistance and capacity building for PNG's comprehensive FCCB policies involving multiple stakeholders. This part will focus on the national/central government level, with spill-over inclusion of pilot provincial levels and several small to midsize grants (totalling between 9-11m EUR) at community/conservation and protected area levels to upscale existing FCCB related initiatives. The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria: the implementing partner should preferably, but not necessarily, belong to an EU MS, in line with the requirements of the Team Europe Initiative; it should have specific mandate and/or technical capacity on climate change and forestry related issues in the Pacific. Ideally, the capacity of the agency to implement actions of this nature at the scale envisioned in this Action Document should have been tested and acknowledged by the EU in prior collaborations."}, {"bbox": [97, 1090, 1134, 1408], "category": "Text", "text": "Part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with the CIFOR¹³. This entails support at community/conservation area level across all specific objectives, focussing on the Managalas Plateau, PNG's largest conservation area. Substantial preparatory work notably with CIFOR support has been carried out in this area for the conservation and restoration of land and forest, combined with land stewardship, ecosystem services and green, deforestation-free livelihoods and jobs, with spill-over inclusion of adjacent subnational entities. The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria: CIFOR is a pillar-assessed multilateral organization with extensive and acknowledged experience in implementing FCCB related activities at community levels in various parts of the world, and a nascent presence in PNG. More generally, the selected agency should preferably have prior experience working in the Pacific region, ideally at the national and provincial government level, as well as with landowner communities. If possible, the selected implementing partner should be able to mobilize additional third-party funding and therefore contribute to increase the overall financial capacity of the action. The selected partner should ideally hold research, development, delivery, policy and advocacy mandates and/or"}, {"bbox": [85, 1470, 1144, 1544], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² www.sanctionsmap.eu. Please note that the sanctions map is an IT tool for identifying the sanctions regimes. The source of the sanctions stems from legal acts published in the Official Journal (OJ). In case of discrepancy between the published legal acts and the updates on the website it is the OJ version that prevails."}, {"bbox": [85, 1543, 1144, 1610], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹³ Fully supported by the PNG national and respective provincial governments and landowners, CIFOR has initiated a partnership with PNG's Oro province to support a comprehensive FCCB agenda in Managalas, PNG's largest conservation areas. Complemented by upscaling of existing FCCB forestry related conservation actions by international environmental CSOs."}, {"bbox": [85, 1657, 203, 1681], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 29 of 32"}]