[{"bbox": [86, 153, 399, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [100, 209, 1160, 263], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will support the GoU to decouple economic growth from environmental and climate degradation. (Impact)"}, {"bbox": [100, 274, 1160, 355], "category": "Text", "text": "To that end, the Action will finance the capacities, tools and coordination mechanisms necessary to lay the groundwork for a green growth strategy centred on the mutual reinforcing aspects of economic and environmental policy as well as addressing some of the key elements towards improved chemical waste management in Uzbekistan."}, {"bbox": [100, 366, 1160, 527], "category": "Text", "text": "Particular emphasis will be put towards designing tools to test or assess policy options (e.g. macroeconomic model, strategic environmental evaluations), consolidating data to monitor results and providing capacity building to create a common language across institutions in charge of implementation. Assuming that human resources trained throughout the programme suffer no significant attrition and that the stakeholders' convening power induce agencies to cooperate, these outputs will foster **an enabling framework for an IGE ensuring coherence between economic and environmental policies (Outcome 1)**."}, {"bbox": [100, 538, 1160, 698], "category": "Text", "text": "In parallel, the Action will help to understand the size of the problem in terms of both legacy waste (volumes of obsolete (POPs) pesticides and other materials like contaminated soils) and annual arising to be managed. Based on these data, a national strategy to manage these hazardous wastes can be developed (output 3) defining how the wastes should be treated, what regulations need to be completed, technical infrastructure to be put in place, and how the costs of the system are covered. All these elements together contribute to a long-term strategy on how to establish a hazardous waste management system and some initial technical capacity for it (Outcome 3)."}, {"bbox": [100, 709, 1160, 897], "category": "Text", "text": "A green budgeting framework will be designed, piloted and scaled-up to assess the degree of alignment of public tax and expenditures with the GESF. Last, public entities holding states assets (mostly MoF, State Assets Management Agency (SAMA) and UzAssets) will be trained and tooled to align the corporate objectives and systems of the enterprises they supervise with the GESF targets. If all the beneficiaries of these activities (i.e. budget officers, contracting entities, SOE boards and managers) buy-into the new systems – and if the data produced through those system really affect the decision making of policy-maker – these outputs will create **public financial management systems supporting the delivery of public services and investments aligned with green goals (Outcome 2)**."}, {"bbox": [100, 908, 1160, 1096], "category": "Text", "text": "On the basis of these green PFM systems, the Action will work with GoU policymakers to align sector expenditure and investment plans with GESF targets. At the same time, a series of green tax policy proposal will be formulated to either increase the cost of activities harmful to the environment and increase the comparative return of green investments. Assuming no external shock crowds out green expenditures and that the GoU demonstrates sustained political will to upset the current political economy by phasing out existing support measures and creating new taxes, these outputs will lead to **new fiscal policies inducing the government, firms and consumers to reallocate consumption, capital and technologies towards greener activities (Outcome 2)**."}, {"bbox": [100, 1107, 1160, 1266], "category": "Text", "text": "For Intervention 2, inventories will allow to understand the size of the problem in terms of both legacy wastes (volumes of obsolete (POPs) pesticides and other materials like contaminated soils) and annual arisings to be managed. Based on these data, a national strategy to manage these hazardous wastes can be developed defining how the wastes should be treated, what regulations need to be completed, and how the costs of the system are covered. All these elements together contribute to a long-term strategy on how to establish a hazardous waste management system and some initial technical capacity to do so (SO 3.1 and 3.2)."}, {"bbox": [100, 1277, 1160, 1464], "category": "Text", "text": "To prevent future accumulation of new volumes of waste to be treated and recycled, **improved agricultural practices** relying on the use of less toxic pesticides are to be promoted (output 6). Agricultural practices will be more resource-efficient in general, applying precision-farming, reducing water losses and recovering nutrients. Awareness raising contributes to the better understanding and behavioural changes needed so that people put themselves less at risk of chemicals. Gender considerations are important as male and female farmers are often involved in different types of agricultural activities and have unequal access to trainings and protection materials. All these elements together to contribute to a better protection of health and the environment (outcome 3)."}, {"bbox": [100, 1475, 1160, 1609], "category": "Text", "text": "Finally, the Government regulating role and capacity must be strengthened. Accessing and participating in the four global waste conventions provides the political and institutional framework for reducing risks from international chemical trade (output 3.1). For the government to be able to fulfil its regulatory and monitoring function, institutional, but also technical capacity has to be strengthened (output 3.2). This all contributes to better life-cycle management of hazardous chemicals (Outcome 3)."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 24"}]