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SO4: Increased energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment."}, {"bbox": [97, 290, 1128, 317], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives (Outcomes) are:"}, {"bbox": [97, 326, 1095, 353], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 Improved capacity of the stakeholders at central government level for policy dialogue and policy-making."}, {"bbox": [97, 363, 1133, 417], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 Improved capacity of the Local Government Units for implementing sustainable financing and innovation strategies and projects in collaboration with the private sector and Civil Society organisations representing women and specific groups."}, {"bbox": [97, 427, 1133, 508], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2 Improved capacity of stakeholders for EU-Philippines dialogue and waste management and GHG mitigation projects."}, {"bbox": [97, 518, 1133, 570], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.2 Enhanced capacities of interested Local Government to address their identified challenges in the Circular Plastic Economy transition."}, {"bbox": [97, 580, 1133, 631], "category": "List-item", "text": "3.1 Improved capacity of private sector actors for circular plastics economic and circular economy-related business activities."}, {"bbox": [97, 644, 1133, 694], "category": "List-item", "text": "3.2 Improved capacity of financing organisations and start-ups for microcredits for financing circular plastic businesses."}, {"bbox": [97, 708, 1022, 735], "category": "List-item", "text": "4.1 Enhanced capacities and policy environment to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy."}, {"bbox": [97, 745, 1055, 772], "category": "List-item", "text": "4.2 New private energy sector investments with significant climate change mitigation benefits identified."}, {"bbox": [85, 843, 368, 870], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [97, 889, 536, 916], "category": "Text", "text": "The planned indicative activities are as follows:"}, {"bbox": [97, 950, 1133, 1030], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activities related to Output 1.1:** Strengthen policy formulation and implementation by supporting the development of a National Circular Economy Strategy and Roadmap, the NDCs and Climate Change policy making, and ensuring the application of the human rights based approach and gender mainstreaming."}, {"bbox": [97, 1055, 1133, 1215], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activities related to Output 1.2:** Establish inclusive interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder dialogues via the EU-Philippines Policy Dialogue Platform to facilitate peer-to-peer experience exchange between the EU and Philippines on successful forefront circular economy initiatives that can boost national competitiveness and sustainable growth, and foster technical innovations and economic diversification in cities/regions and in the private sector. The dialogue will also receive targeted support for innovative research/demonstration projects to reduce plastic waste."}, {"bbox": [97, 1241, 1133, 1507], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activities related to Output 2.1:** Support local government units to implement integrated sustainable financing and innovation strategies, in collaboration with the private sector and CSOs. Provide technical assistance to support LGUs to implement integrated sustainable financing and innovation strategies (e.g., City of Baguio, City of Davao, City of Pasig, cluster in Batanes, Palawan etc.). This includes planning and budgeting with a circular economy angle in waste management, business innovation and green public procurement. Ensure the collection of gender and youth sensitive data and mapping on the process, role, impact of the formal and informal waste sector, waste streams, technologies, and skills available at city and municipality level. Empowering LGUs in facilitating a just transition to a circular economy will support capturing the informal workers in the waste sector, junkshops, repair shops, women and youth, etc. Disaster Risk Management and Recovery will feature high in the work with LGUs in Outputs 2.1 and 2.2."}, {"bbox": [97, 1533, 1133, 1640], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activities related to Output 2.2:** Respond to interested local government units to help address their identified challenges in the Circular Plastic Economy transition. This includes a flexible, needs-based support for lower level LGUs through tailor-made peer-to-peer support and/or technical assistance (e.g., advice, events, studies including gender analysis, dissemination of good practice, etc.). Ensure inclusivity and accuracy of the activities by having"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 31"}]