[{"bbox": [82, 146, 1144, 673], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>7. Inclusiveness/ participation</td><td>Needs of women, youth and people living in vulnerable situations not considered.</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>CSOs representing people living in vulnerable situations, including women and youth, will be consulted in activities related to outputs 1 and 2. Gender analysis will be conducted to support activities and ensure gender-responsiveness. Sex-disaggregated data collection and analysis will be supported.</td></tr><tr><td>8. Coordination</td><td>Too many donor funded energy projects with overlapping activities.</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Close coordination with several important programmes (CASE funded by GIZ, SEA Energy Transition Partnership programme in the Philippines, USAID Energy Secure Philippines, etc) at early stages in project formulation, to find complementarities/synergies, avoid creation of unnecessary parallel structures, and increase impact.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 674, 253, 698], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 718, 1137, 918], "category": "Text", "text": "This is the first circular green economy project by the European Union in the Philippines but builds on previous work on sustainable development and sustainable consumption and production (e.g., EU SWITCH Asia Programme)²⁴, waste and litter reduction (Reducing Plastic Leakage into the Ocean, 2018-2021)²⁵, the EU-Philippines Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (ASEP)²⁶, as well as at ASEAN-level (E-READI²⁷, Reducing Plastic Waste and Marine Litter in East and South East Asia²⁸). Stakeholders that act upon the risk mitigation have been added in the respective risk mitigation measure. Further, lessons from partners in the country include support to CSOs, decentralisation, financial policy reform and disaster-risk reduction."}, {"bbox": [85, 996, 398, 1027], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [95, 1043, 1133, 1124], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action intends to move towards a green economy in the Philippines to tackle the inefficient plastic economy and dysfunctional waste management system through providing access to knowledge and experience gained in Europe and increase energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment to support climate change mitigation."}, {"bbox": [95, 1135, 898, 1163], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objectives of the Action will be delivered through a **three-level** approach:"}, {"bbox": [133, 1188, 849, 1216], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 1) Policy formulation/implementation and dialogue platform (first level)"}, {"bbox": [95, 1230, 1133, 1365], "category": "Text", "text": "The Policy Dialogue Forum will **mobilise the EU expertise on circular economy from EU stakeholders and Member States** (national and local governments, business, universities/research institutes, civil society). The dialogue will be with the central government and key departments of the ministries (interior, science, environment, and development) and with cities involved in the action. The capacities of stakeholders at central government level for policy making and dialogue will be improved."}, {"bbox": [95, 1377, 1133, 1457], "category": "Text", "text": "The objective of the platform is to facilitate **policy formulation, improve city to city collaboration through supporting the development of a National Circular Economy Strategy and Roadmap and to apply the dialogue's outcome in concrete projects and peer-to-peer cooperation.**"}, {"bbox": [85, 1530, 276, 1551], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁴ Decision C(2021)9580"}, {"bbox": [85, 1553, 482, 1577], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁵ https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/89696.html"}, {"bbox": [85, 1577, 288, 1598], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁶ Decision 2014 / 035-111"}, {"bbox": [85, 1599, 342, 1621], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁷ Decision ACA/2014/037-572"}, {"bbox": [85, 1622, 607, 1644], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁸ Partnership Instrument AAP 2018 Annex 1 Decision 2018/041-560"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1141, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 31"}]