[{"bbox": [129, 162, 753, 195], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [129, 227, 427, 258], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [140, 274, 1117, 325], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this Action, it is envisaged to conclude a Financing Agreement with the Republic of Liberia."}, {"bbox": [129, 353, 555, 385], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [140, 401, 1134, 481], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicative operational implementation period of this Action, during which the activities described in section 3 will be carried out and the corresponding contracts and agreements implemented, is 72 months from the date of entry into force of the Financing Agreement."}, {"bbox": [140, 481, 1134, 534], "category": "Text", "text": "Extensions of the implementation period may be agreed by the Commission's responsible authorising officer by amending this Financing Decision and the relevant contracts and agreements."}, {"bbox": [129, 560, 742, 592], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation of the Budget Support Component"}, {"bbox": [140, 608, 185, 632], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [129, 660, 485, 692], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [140, 706, 1134, 785], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will ensure that the EU appropriate rules and procedures for providing financing to third parties are respected, including review procedures, where appropriate, and compliance of the action with EU restrictive measures³⁷."}, {"bbox": [140, 799, 1134, 933], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action comprises interventions on land resources suitability mapping, seed production and certification, as well as food safety (serving domestic and export markets), which will be implemented as grants (direct awards under direct and indirect management). Natural resources (including climate) concerns are directly addressed, while gender and youth as well as tertiary education considerations will be integrated in technical assistance programmes (service procurement) and the above-mentioned thematic programmes."}, {"bbox": [129, 958, 472, 985], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1 Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [129, 1000, 684, 1026], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### 4.4.1.1 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)"}, {"bbox": [140, 1031, 423, 1058], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Grants (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [140, 1064, 402, 1091], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [140, 1096, 1134, 1203], "category": "Text", "text": "Improve land knowledge, concretely, build a soil and water information system, to facilitate planning and decisions on land use and management for sustainable food production and food systems governance (cf. Output 1.1, Section 3.1) – in line with ‘Output – Land knowledge improved’ (in the indicative budget/Section 4.6)."}, {"bbox": [140, 1215, 464, 1242], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Justification of a direct grant**"}, {"bbox": [140, 1253, 1134, 1334], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the responsibility of the Commission's authorising officer responsible, the grant may be awarded without a call for proposals to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), member of CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)."}, {"bbox": [184, 1345, 1134, 1506], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Under the responsibility of the Commission's authorising officer responsible, the recourse to an award of a grant without a call for proposals is justified because of the very specific and technical nature of the activities to be implemented. The implementing partner(s) has to be adapted to the specific challenges of Liberia's operational and governance context (weak private sector and enabling environment). Both criteria call for a specific type of beneficiary on account of its technical competence (e.g. soil and water survey/mapping and analysis), its high degree of specialisation"}, {"bbox": [129, 1572, 1143, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³⁷ www.sanctionsmap.eu. Please note that the sanctions map is an IT tool for identifying the sanctions regimes. The source of the sanctions stems from legal acts published in the Official Journal (OJ). In case of discrepancy between the published legal acts and the updates on the website it is the OJ version that prevails."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 22 of 28"}]