[{"bbox": [87, 153, 399, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [97, 199, 1160, 341], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is to contribute to South Africa's efforts to tackle inequality and SA's energy transition through improved delivery of service that have an impact on climate, environmental and gender targets. The action aims to do this by providing direct support and capacity building to municipalities, districts, and institutions that support local authorities for the provision of gender responsive services related to energy and water efficiency, waste management and transport and gender budgeting, accessible and disability sensitive."}, {"bbox": [97, 359, 1160, 472], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will support selected South African cities to address some of these key service delivery challenges while focusing on smart and green solutions, enabled by digitalisation and the use of technologies. It will help build adaptive capacity and capabilities in the face of climate change, resource depletion, financial shocks, growing inequality and poverty, in particular inequality in sustainable access to (greener) water, energy or waste management services."}, {"bbox": [97, 490, 1160, 631], "category": "Text", "text": "It will address these challenges by providing direct support, advisory services, capability and capacity building to municipalities, districts, and institutions that support local authorities, including on energy and water efficiency, waste management and transport, inclusive, disability sensitive and gender responsive service delivery and gender budgeting, using problem-led interventions, policy development, social and performance audits, research, awareness-raising and demonstration projects."}, {"bbox": [97, 649, 1160, 877], "category": "Text", "text": "By providing support to local communities and civil society, the action will ensure that citizens, including women and groups in vulnerable situations, participate in municipal decision-making, governance, monitoring or accountability and that the solutions adopted ensure sustainable, integrated, transparent, accessible and participative processes. It will also support integrated management approaches that connect surrounding communities and other stakeholders with natural assets and thereby improve quality of life and building opportunities for communities in disadvantaged situations, strengthening community participation or volunteerism. Activities will also aim to support communities to adopt innovative, adaptive ways to tackle issues and to catalyse new green and social entrepreneurial opportunities."}, {"bbox": [97, 896, 1160, 1009], "category": "Text", "text": "Sustainable and inclusive service delivery interventions that will be facilitated through the actions shall promote (local) innovation and allow the promotion and development of solutions and strategies that can improve access to public and private funds by providing grants to blend with loans from DFIs (including South African). The intervention will also potentially leverage EFSD+ guarantee portfolio, including RECIDE¹¹, AEGF¹² and others."}, {"bbox": [97, 1026, 1160, 1166], "category": "Text", "text": "Specific activities may include rolling out sustainable and inclusive service delivery pilots in selected municipalities/district municipalities, thus providing a proof-of-concept, experience and a body of knowledge for replication. It is envisaged that the programme targets a selected number of cities and nodes along the Durban-Lusaka corridors in order to create green investment linkages as EU, government and private sector mobilisation takes place on this axis."}, {"bbox": [97, 1186, 1160, 1242], "category": "Text", "text": "The support will also target facilitating policies and facilitating cooperation between cities and districts within South Africa as well as between SA and European cities and sharing experiences."}, {"bbox": [97, 1260, 1160, 1373], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action aims to build adaptive capacity in the face of climate change, resource depletion, financial shocks, growing inequality and poverty. The greening of municipal services would allow local government to provide quality services more efficiently, in a way that reaches more people and mitigates against the negative outcomes of climate change."}, {"bbox": [97, 1391, 1140, 1445], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicators to measure progress will be aligned with the logframe of the MIP, and be human rights and gender-sensitive."}, {"bbox": [87, 1549, 1143, 1597], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹¹ Resilient City Development (RECIDE): https://ec.europa.eu/eu-external-investment-plan/projects/resilient-city-development-recide_en"}, {"bbox": [87, 1597, 1143, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² African Energy Guarantee Facility (AEGF): https://ec.europa.eu/eu-external-investment-plan/projects/african-energy-guarantee-facility-aegf_en"}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 25"}]