[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1136, 498], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action focuses on supporting Liberia in achieving a more inclusive and transparent democracy in Liberia and contributes to the overarching priorities of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2020-2024): protecting and empowering individuals; building resilient, inclusive, and democratic societies; promoting a global system for human rights and democracy; and harnessing the opportunities and addressing challenges of new technologies. The Action will support the actors and stakeholders to adhere to and promote international human rights standards. The Action thus adopts a human rights-based approach, leaving no-one behind by focusing on the most vulnerable and marginalised, being adaptable and flexible to cater to changing and unforeseen circumstances, addressing structural issues for lasting results, and ensuring sustainability. The Action seeks to mainstream diversity throughout its activities by working with women organisations, local communities, and Disabled People Organizations (DPOs). New technologies, where feasible, will be used to promote democracy and inclusion, for example with adequate solution for people with disabilities (PWDs) like tactile ballots. To guarantee freedom of expression and right to information, dedicated on-line platform to counteract misinformation and fake news during the electoral process may also be used."}, {"bbox": [96, 508, 1135, 590], "category": "Text", "text": "Through close collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCHR), as subject-matter expert in human rights, the Action seeks to ensure human-rights-based proofing and where needed trainings in human rights for relevant interlocutors, counterparts, and Action staff."}, {"bbox": [96, 621, 196, 647], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [96, 647, 1135, 808], "category": "Text", "text": "PWDs face many challenges in Liberia as cultural approaches to disability remains largely negative. Persons living with disabilities are often excluded or not considered for employment and their specific needs are often not catered for. The Action will specifically focuses on inclusion and promotion of diversity through removal of barriers to equal participation to the electoral and political process. The Action will support logistics during election day to reduce or eliminate physical barriers. Through all the objectives the Action will promote participation to the political process for persons living with disabilities, rural population, and other marginalised groups."}, {"bbox": [96, 839, 211, 865], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [96, 865, 1135, 997], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action contributes to democratic governance, accountability, transparency and to social and human development through a peaceful environment in accordance with the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2020-2024). It will work in synergies with the National Elections Commission, the Legislature, civil society, and all main stakeholders of the country's governance mechanisms to promote a more inclusive and transparent democracy in Liberia."}, {"bbox": [96, 997, 1135, 1183], "category": "Text", "text": "The main SDG targeted is SDG 16 - Peace, Justice, and strong institutions. All the Action's objectives will contribute to this SDG. In particular, the Action will contribute to 16.6 - Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels; 16.A Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime, 16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels and 16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance."}, {"bbox": [96, 1183, 1135, 1289], "category": "Text", "text": "A well-designed and executed knowledge management will be a critical driver for the implementation and delivery of the Action. The Action will place proactive knowledge management and strategic communication at the centre of its implementation. This approach will ensure that the Action remains nimble to the dynamic political narrative of democracy, good governance, inclusive participation of citizens and elections in Liberia."}, {"bbox": [96, 1320, 488, 1348], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [96, 1348, 1135, 1586], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action is aligned with the EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy⁷, which encourages an integrated approach to external conflicts and crises. The EU's integrated approach addresses all policy dimensions of conflict by bringing together a multi-dimensional, multi-phased, multi-lateral and multi-level approach. This approach works towards prevention, peacebuilding, crisis response and stabilisation to contribute to sustainable peace. Through this Action the EU and its partners build sustainable peace and resilience of democratic institutions and actors in Liberia. In particular, the Programming for Peace framework applied to this Action seeks solutions relating to the prevention of electoral and political violence and to support stakeholders in formulating conflict sensitive strategies. In recent years, a range of electoral conflict prevention activities have been developed and implemented in Liberia and those will be further amended and adapted to the challenges of the upcoming electoral"}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 692, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ https://www.eeas.europa.eu/sites/default/files/eugs_review_web_0.pdf."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 25"}]