[{"bbox": [82, 147, 1167, 368], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>Planning process and systems</td><td>Disconnection between government, civil society and private sector, weaknesses in the PPD</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Engagement with the different stakeholders. The Action will benefit from platforms and dialogue that will be strengthened through the Green Dialogue Facility (AAP 2021). Sector/industry/value chain specific dedicated PPD will also be established.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 370, 253, 394], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 414, 1161, 575], "category": "Text", "text": "Previous EU interventions on the circular economy funded through SWITCH-Asia, which pilots innovative solutions, were not always scaled up or replicated by local MSMEs due to the lack of adequate financing opportunities. The current Action will focus on specific local industrial value chains and offer targeted access to finance that could scale-up/replicate successful past and present sustainable production and consumption solutions and support an overall green recovery. To ensure sustainability and transformation, circular economy interventions need to be underpinned by an effective policy dialogue which will take place under the EU Green Policy Dialogue Facility (AAP 2021)."}, {"bbox": [92, 587, 1161, 643], "category": "Text", "text": "Other development partners, such as AFD, GIZ, USAID, that have experience with circular economy projects and/or specific waste management have singled out the following lessons learnt:"}, {"bbox": [130, 663, 1107, 689], "category": "List-item", "text": "* A general lack of integration among the public, private, education, research, and development partners."}, {"bbox": [130, 691, 1161, 770], "category": "List-item", "text": "* A lack of awareness across all strata of the community (general public, schools, universities, higher education institutes, companies, government & non-government organisations) of the need for prevention and for managing the waste that cannot be avoided in an environmentally sound manner."}, {"bbox": [130, 772, 1161, 824], "category": "List-item", "text": "* A lack of mobilisation of businesses and other stakeholders that are keen to engage and to adopt CE measures and share the results and benefits with other stakeholders to sensitize them to adopt similar measures."}, {"bbox": [130, 826, 1161, 906], "category": "List-item", "text": "* A lack of available and appropriate technologies and technical skills in the workforce for an effective and efficient waste reduction, collection and/or treatment. The country is lacking research & development facilities, to conduct research, to close the information and knowledge gaps."}, {"bbox": [130, 908, 1161, 961], "category": "List-item", "text": "* A lack of financial products which incentivise economic operators to investment in skilled workforce, solutions and technologies to improve their resources and production management efficiency."}, {"bbox": [130, 963, 1161, 1042], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Inequal division of labour: female waste collectors or recyclers lack time, safety, decent work conditions, and childcare facilities, these issues should be considered while involving women and women's organisations into the waste collection and recycling."}, {"bbox": [85, 1105, 397, 1136], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [85, 1154, 1143, 1315], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic is that by promoting a **CE and SCP** to **reduce and recover food waste and single use plastic packaging in the food industry**, the EU will not only contribute in **building economic resilience** and **improving food security and nutrition** (targeting those in most precarious situations) in a period of (post-) crisis but also in **reducing impact** of human activities **on human and animal health, the environment and biodiversity** (including by reducing marine litter) and more generally **on the climate** (since plastic/food production, transportation and disposal contribute to greenhouse gas emissions)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1330, 1143, 1464], "category": "Text", "text": "In the short and medium-term, to address the consequences of the economic crisis on the most vulnerable population and to improve resilience to the food crises, the action will **improve the food surplus/waste recovery system (outcome 1)**. Building on activities implemented under component 1 - creating an enabling business environment for adoption of sustainable consumption and production businesses - this component will introduce more circularity into the food value chain through recovery and recycling of food surplus and waste by-products back into the value chain."}, {"bbox": [85, 1489, 1143, 1569], "category": "Text", "text": "Food waste will be avoided by supporting technically and financially businesses **to inventorize, collect and redistribute surplus at the end of the food value chain to the most vulnerable consumers, ensuring their food security (output 1.1)** or to **food producers to process it for human consumption or farming inputs (output 1.2)**."}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1143, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 22"}]