[{"bbox": [128, 151, 857, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [139, 210, 1131, 291], "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": [139, 301, 1131, 409], "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 realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [128, 435, 383, 466], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5 Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [128, 478, 1140, 1150], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th>Indicative Budget components<sup>14</sup></th><th>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</th><th>Third-party contribution, in currency identified</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Implementation modalities – cf. section 4.3</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Objective 1. Stakeholders are enabled and effectively practise sustainable and climate resilient natural resource management and environment conservation.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4.3.1 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity</td><td>16 000 000</td><td>16 000 000 EUR</td></tr><tr><td>Objective 2. Municipalities have adopted gender responsive climate change adaptation measures.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4.3.1 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity</td><td>5 500 000</td><td>1 200 000 USD<br>4 000 000 EUR</td></tr><tr><td>Evaluation – cf. section 5.2</td><td>200 000</td><td>N.A.</td></tr><tr><td>Audit – cf. section 5.3</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Contingencies<sup>15</sup></td><td>300 000</td><td>N.A.</td></tr><tr><td>Totals</td><td>22 000 000</td><td>20 000 000 EUR<br>1 200 000 USD</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [128, 1164, 649, 1196], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.6 Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [139, 1211, 1131, 1345], "category": "Text", "text": "Selected municipalities are responsible for the planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of the programmes in their area, in the form of municipal sub-projects. Agreements between each partner municipality, concerned ministries in the province, will be signed defining roles and responsibilities of each party. The Municipality Council is the ultimate decision-making body above, in all matters related to implementation of the sub-projects."}, {"bbox": [139, 1355, 1131, 1463], "category": "Text", "text": "A Project Steering Committee/Project Board will be established and co-chaired by the EU, relevant Nepali and development partner counterparts. The selected implementing partner will also provide the secretariat. This committee, which may also be joined by other development partners if contributing to the same overall objective, will in principle meet twice a year and will be instrumental both to ensure policy dialogue and"}, {"bbox": [128, 1499, 1130, 1578], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁴ N.B: The final text on audit/verification depends on the outcome of ongoing discussions on pooling of funding in (one or a limited number of) Decision(s) and the subsequent financial management, i.e. for the conclusion of audit contracts and payments."}, {"bbox": [128, 1596, 1140, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁵ Consider that for contracts where no financing agreement is concluded, contingencies must be covered by individual and legal commitments by 31 December of N+1."}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1140, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 19 of 21"}]