[{"bbox": [87, 180, 381, 210], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [83, 225, 962, 251], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed action aims at enhancing the multiple functions of the forests in Uganda (impact)."}, {"bbox": [83, 277, 1170, 436], "category": "Text", "text": "A first function that will be addressed is the economic function (outcome 1), whereby the contribution of forests and forest products to the national economy will be increased, amongst others by the creation of opportunities for jobs and therefore generate income for the private sector stakeholders (formal jobs), for rural communities (livelihoods) as well as for the state (fiscal revenues). In particular, the work on the wood value chain will build on the EU Delegation's 15 years' experience in commercial forestry and will focus on value addition, while the interventions on agro-forestry will aim at creating stronger business opportunities for selected products."}, {"bbox": [83, 462, 1170, 675], "category": "Text", "text": "Secondly, the action will enhance the ecosystem service functions of Uganda's forests which include: carbon sequestration, enhancing functionality of the water cycle through increasing and conserving forest cover, provision of habitat to fauna and flora, eco-system services to neighbouring agricultural communities and landscape amenity value (outcome 2). To enhance these ecosystem service functions, the action aims to increase forest cover both by reducing the current deforestation rates and by actively restoring deforested and degraded forest landscapes. The action will also target selected neighbouring agricultural and other forest-based livelihood communities to sustainably function within existing eco-systems. It will also contribute to more transparency in the management of forest reserves by supporting surveying and boundary openings of selected reserves as well as by improving their management plans."}, {"bbox": [83, 701, 1170, 886], "category": "Text", "text": "The two outcomes are interlinked in the following ways: (1) participatory forest management and protection (CFM/CLA) (output 2.1) will involve local livelihood development (output 1.2, and eventually also output 1.1) with PES mechanisms as a livelihood option (output 1.3); (2) the development of a viable wood value chain (output 1.1) will incentivise the further establishment of commercial forest plantations by existing tree growers as well as newcomers, and hence increase forest cover and natural forest protection by producing alternative wood supply (outcome 2). The governance around forest reserves will provide the necessary security for the adjacent communities as well as the transparency needed for investments. The forest finance will be mobilised for both outcomes."}, {"bbox": [83, 913, 1170, 1019], "category": "Text", "text": "Outcome 3 focuses on strengthening the institutional capacity of the mandated public forest services in complying with their tasks related to forest governance, management, and protection. While contributing to the enhancement of the multiple functions of Uganda's forests in the long term and with increased national ownership, it is also directly supporting the achievement and particularly the sustainability of outcomes 1 and 2."}, {"bbox": [83, 1046, 1170, 1099], "category": "Text", "text": "The three components will support the roll-out of the Forest Partnership between the European Union and the Government of Uganda."}, {"bbox": [1041, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 23"}]