[{"bbox": [96, 120, 1135, 279], "category": "Text", "text": "civic participation and democratic dialogue of the population (right holders) through organised civil society, with a focus on youth and women, as well as other groups with specific needs and interests, inclusion and participation. Finally, the Action will pro-actively cater for linguistic diversity and diverse literacy levels in relation to civic education, electoral materials, and media campaigns, etc., essential for the inclusion and effective participation of indigenous peoples, women, and other vulnerable sectors of society (people with disabilities, youth without a formal education, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [96, 292, 1135, 476], "category": "Text", "text": "Through the specific objective 2, the Action will support the police force to fulfil their role of protecting the population with integrity, promoting human rights standards and accountability in their action. It will also empower right-holders by strengthening and disseminating the channels for reporting inappropriate behavior by police officers and for filing complaint mechanisms for corruption acts. It will promote corruption prevention measures, strengthening institutional transparency and internal and external accountability. This will contribute to increase the Bolivian population's (right holders) trust towards the police institution and other actors of the corruption criminal chain."}, {"bbox": [96, 490, 1135, 570], "category": "Text", "text": "Overall, the action will contribute to the implementation of the Human Rights Based Approach working principles, in particular by promoting meaningful and inclusive participation, non-discrimination, accountability and the rule of law, and transparency and access to information."}, {"bbox": [96, 583, 195, 609], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [96, 609, 1135, 796], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action 1 is labelled as D1- significant objective. The specific objective 1 of the action will incorporate specific activities targeting persons with disabilities, such as specific civil society public outreach projects and/or monitoring for these populations and a guide to both inform populations with disabilities on the electoral procedures, as well as to prepare the polling station officers to adequately serve and communicate with these persons. Regarding specific objective 2 the Action will ensure that complaint mechanisms against corruption acts by the FELCN are inclusive for persons with disabilities. Whenever applicable, the use of data disaggregated by disability status will be promoted."}, {"bbox": [96, 812, 211, 839], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [96, 839, 1135, 1105], "category": "Text", "text": "Democracy is at the centre of the proposed Action, in line with the Human Rights and Democracy Country Strategy for Bolivia for 2021-2024 and the EEM recommendations. As regards specific objective 1, this Action contributes to enhance the Electoral Management Body's (EMB) technical capacity to organise credible and professional elections, being the key tool to designate democratic governments. Another particular element that contributes to the quality of participatory democracy is the level of civic engagement, including citizen's observation and accountability exercises. To this end the Action combines support to the EMB with a strong component of support to civil society organisations in their roles of electoral observation and public outreach actors, contributing to a more informed and participatory democracy. Regarding specific objective 2, the Action aims at strengthening prevention and fight against corruption within the Bolivian police, therefore contributing to democracy though enhanced law enforcement, increased institutional transparency and a strengthened rule of law."}, {"bbox": [96, 1122, 488, 1149], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [96, 1160, 1135, 1450], "category": "Text", "text": "Specific objective 1 will have a specific focus on conflict prevention and peace culture promotion. The 2020-2021 EU funded electoral assistance project implemented by UNDP contributed to conflict mitigation through shielding the electoral process, as well as supporting dialogue processes to promote mutual understanding and trust among electoral stakeholders, as well as political debates, public information events, and electoral education. This Action intends to continue strengthening the EMB as a key actor institution to promote an electoral-based solution for conflictivity. It will continue promoting dialogue processes that contribute to a peaceful electoral environment and supporting CSOs as outreach actors and electoral observers. The Action will also include a permanent risk assessment system, which will have a specific component on conflict analysis, prevention and management. It will be managed by the implementing partner by UNDP but regularly discussed with the EU and other members of the international community. This analysis will be one of the basis for considering further support for 2025 elections under AAP 24."}, {"bbox": [96, 1465, 1135, 1625], "category": "Text", "text": "Regarding specific objective 2, the action entails risks related to institutional fragility in the Bolivian Police and to links to corruption and criminal organisations which can imply strong reticence to implement the and generate conflict. The Action will implement a conflict-sensitive approach that minimises tensions within the beneficiary (Police/FELCN) by increasing internal awareness of the benefits to address corruption and increase trust in the Police institution, by securing the buy-in of the highest authorities' and by emphasising the aspects of the Action related to corruption prevention."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 25"}]