[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1134, 339], "category": "Text", "text": "In the framework of the implementation of the Gender Action Plan III, the EUD has elaborated the Country Local Implementation Plan (CLIP) for El Salvador for the 2021-2025 period, in close coordination with EU member states and in consultation with national institutions, civil society and international partners. El Salvador's Gender Inequality Index has improved, from a value of 0.521 in 2000 to 0.383 in 2019. However, women and girls continue to experience serious barriers affecting their possibilities to develop personally and professionally and translate into equality gaps. Financial autonomy remains a challenge for Salvadoran women to make autonomous decisions, develop personally and professionally."}, {"bbox": [97, 351, 1134, 404], "category": "Text", "text": "In accordance with the above, these actions have a strong focus on guaranteeing gender equality in areas such as education, income generation and productive development."}, {"bbox": [97, 417, 244, 444], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [97, 455, 1134, 669], "category": "Text", "text": "According to the Human Rights and Democracy Country Strategy 2021-2024, the EU, together with MS represented in El Salvador, have agreed on the following strategic priorities: Advocating for non-discrimination, gender equality and women's rights. Non-discrimination and equality are key values to strengthen human rights. One of the objectives of the strategy is to promote the participation of women's organisations and networks in health and education sectors. This action contributes to the strategic priorities of the strategy. Overall, the action will apply the working principles of the human rights based approach (HRBA): applying all human rights for all, meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making, non-discrimination and equality, accountability and rule of law for all, and transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data."}, {"bbox": [97, 686, 195, 712], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [97, 724, 1134, 778], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D0. This implies that Disability is not targeted in the principal objective / significant objective."}, {"bbox": [97, 790, 1134, 844], "category": "Text", "text": "Actions under the civil society component may contribute to the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities. Both actions may consider people with disabilities as potential beneficiaries."}, {"bbox": [97, 901, 211, 927], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [97, 939, 1134, 993], "category": "Text", "text": "The strengthening of democratic institutions, participation and the division of powers remain a crosscutting objective of all EU interventions in El Salvador."}, {"bbox": [97, 1004, 1134, 1138], "category": "Text", "text": "During the last three years, increasing concerns have been expressed about democracy in El Salvador: IDEA reported concerning developments on civil liberties, social rights, equality, personal integrity, and security, while the score of Freedom House's Index has decreased from 70/100 in 2018 to 63/100 in 2021, with El Salvador moving from “Free” to “Partly Free”. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index 2020 downgraded El Salvador from “Flawed Democracy” to “Hybrid Regime” following the concentration of power in the executive."}, {"bbox": [97, 1149, 1134, 1230], "category": "Text", "text": "All this underlines the necessity for the EU to strengthen democratic institutions. This action will strengthen the role of civil society, primarily creating spaces for dialogue under component 2 (WorkerTech), where a wide range of stakeholders will discuss policy frameworks that contribute to the provision of labour rights."}, {"bbox": [97, 1247, 487, 1274], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [97, 1286, 1134, 1419], "category": "Text", "text": "In September 2021, HQ launched a Conflict Analysis for El Salvador. Recommendations taken in account from the draft report for this Action are: i) Promoting economic growth through trade and livelihood diversification; ii) Promoting the development of innovative sectors for the youth; iii) Encouraging support towards developing social policies and frameworks, particularly on youth, gender, LGBTIQ persons and disabled peoples issues and addressing drivers of poverty."}, {"bbox": [97, 1437, 337, 1462], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [97, 1474, 1134, 1553], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action does not have significant environmental impacts and is not significantly dependent of environmental constraints; both components are classified as low disaster risk because the occurrence of the hazard event does not affect in the achievement of outcomes."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 27"}]