[{"bbox": [111, 87, 1147, 195], "category": "Text", "text": "infrastructure to be financed through the action will be subject to an Environment Impact Assessment as per (decree 54/2015³⁰) and will abide by national (or international) accessibility standards. Capacity building activities of the provincial and local administration will include the dissemination of the regulation and training in implementing key provisions of the decree."}, {"bbox": [111, 205, 1147, 340], "category": "Text", "text": "Some activities under output 3 aimed at increasing the communities' adaptive capacity shall diminish the pressure on degraded natural resources and preserve ecosystems/biodiversity, reducing the risks of desertification in semi-arid areas, through for example the forest regeneration, mangrove rehabilitation, anti-erosion barrier, nature-based solutions livelihoods opportunities (agroforestry systems, coco trees, mangrove honey, integrated pest management, etc..)"}, {"bbox": [111, 366, 776, 393], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening"}, {"bbox": [111, 393, 1115, 445], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [111, 460, 684, 487], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening"}, {"bbox": [111, 487, 1127, 539], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is no or low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [111, 554, 650, 581], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [111, 581, 1147, 660], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will contribute to the implementation of the Gender Action Plan III, being aligned with its thematic objective of supporting women in all their diversity to influence decision-making processes on environmental conservation and climate change policies and actions."}, {"bbox": [111, 660, 1147, 899], "category": "Text", "text": "Women tend to be more adversely impacted by disasters. Climate change adaptation interventions tend to be led by men and often target men given their frequent head of the households' status. In 2010 the Government of Mozambique approved the Gender, Environment and Climate Change Strategy with the main goal to ensure that there is gender equality in the process of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluating of adaptation and mitigation interventions. This Action will ensure a gender sensitive approach, in line with the LAPs methodology, which also prioritizes wider vulnerability issues in its preliminary assessments. Current implementation of MERCIM shows that LAPs' methodology is delivering solid and sustainable results in the effective inclusion of women in decision-making processes. 60-70% of investments selected and implemented originated from women groups' proposals."}, {"bbox": [111, 910, 1147, 1018], "category": "Text", "text": "The decentralized, participatory approach of MERCIM+ strengthens feelings of inclusiveness and ownership. Through participatory activities, local consultative councils, community representatives – women, men and youth, including those in the most vulnerable situations, such as women and girls with disabilities – identify, prioritize and select the climate-adaptive investments that best respond to their needs."}, {"bbox": [111, 1029, 1147, 1137], "category": "Text", "text": "The MRV will have gender disaggregated indicators and all interventions will be accessed looking at the differentiated impacts and benefits among men and women. Women and girls will be particularly targeted to ensure equity and reduce the gap. Livelihood interventions will access the differentiated needs and capacity of men and women before the start and ensure that a gender-sensitive implementation strategy is in place."}, {"bbox": [111, 1180, 258, 1207], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [111, 1207, 1147, 1260], "category": "Text", "text": "In all districts covered, the Action will integrate all 5 principles of the human rights-based approach: i) transparency, ii) accountability, iii) respect to all human rights, iv) participation and v) non-discrimination."}, {"bbox": [111, 1273, 1147, 1433], "category": "Text", "text": "The Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA) to local development embedded in the initiative shall analyse and facilitate discussions among local governments, local development actors and communities over existing socio-economic inequalities which may jeopardize resilient development progress. The HRBA to local development is embedded in existing national policies and locally led development strategies through a strong participatory approach in the elaboration and prioritization of resilient development interventions within the Local Adaptation Plans and the District Development Plans."}, {"bbox": [111, 1458, 1147, 1590], "category": "Text", "text": "Mozambique has also had experiences of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes, for communities affected by natural resource exploitation, including communities that may be considered indigenous peoples under UN/ILO international standards. This is also linked to the role of CSOs on general accountability and on cross-cutting issues such as rights-based approaches, and due diligence in natural resources issues, including extractive industries."}, {"bbox": [100, 1641, 583, 1666], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³⁰ Integrates climate change and biodiversity off-sets provisions."}, {"bbox": [1040, 1666, 1157, 1690], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 24"}]