[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1133, 207], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities related to Output 2 - Awareness of population, including youth, women and vulnerable groups, is raised on active citizenship and citizens' contribution to good electoral governance**"}, {"bbox": [135, 231, 1134, 309], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Supporting the **CNE and the Ministry of Education** in updating **comprehensive programmes in schools and media** on human, civic, and political rights and on understanding democratic processes and values."}, {"bbox": [135, 311, 1134, 445], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Supporting CNE and civil society organisations, traditional and religious leaders, academia, the media, and political parties in the design and implementation of **long-term civic education campaigns for citizenship** in the whole country throughout the Action period (2023-2025), including on the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democratic society and on political participation of women, youth, people with disabilities, and other marginalised populations."}, {"bbox": [135, 445, 1134, 521], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Promoting the development and implementation of a **Code of Political Conduct** as well as a **Code of Media Conduct** rejecting hate speech, inflammatory language, intimidation, and the deliberate use of disinformation."}, {"bbox": [135, 523, 1134, 605], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Supporting the use of public art, sporting events and community radio to convey the importance of respecting official election results and the consequences of **violence during and following elections** (particularly on women, children and other socio-economically disadvantaged groups)."}, {"bbox": [86, 630, 312, 661], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 677, 763, 704], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening**"}, {"bbox": [97, 704, 1134, 756], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the Action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [97, 762, 669, 789], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening**"}, {"bbox": [97, 789, 1134, 840], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this Action has no or low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [97, 846, 637, 873], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls**"}, {"bbox": [97, 873, 1134, 1217], "category": "Text", "text": "In accordance with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) codes, this Action is marked G1. This implies that gender equality is a significant objective. The Action will promote gender equality, women's and girls' rights and empowerment and non-discrimination on any grounds, through targeted and mainstreamed interventions. Beyond the inclusion of women, the Action will ensure that gender dynamics, relations of power, conditions of access and differential needs between men and women are analysed, in order to design activities that exploit opportunities and address bottlenecks. The Action aligns with the Gender Action Plan (GAP III)⁵ and its Country Level Implementation Plan (CLIP) for the period 2021-2025, and the Civil Society Roadmap 2021-2025. The equal participation of women and men in decision-making bodies is one of the key principles on which good governance is based, and a guarantee of a nation's sustainable development. Gender issues will be specifically addressed in the trainings provided to the CNE, GTAPE, CSOs and political parties as well as in awareness raising. The Action will also contribute to strengthening women's participation in politics, beyond sensitisation efforts aimed at their effective participation in the electoral process."}, {"bbox": [97, 1217, 1134, 1322], "category": "Text", "text": "Previous EU electoral missions (2014 and 2019) have suggested that, to implement the Constitutional provision of equal rights (art. 24), authorities can resort to adopting temporary special measures aimed at accelerating and achieving de facto equality between men and women in public institutions, including the Electoral Management Bodies."}, {"bbox": [97, 1348, 244, 1375], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Human Rights**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1375, 1134, 1587], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action aims at promoting the fundamental principles of human rights and democracy, protecting and promoting political rights, empowering and promoting the political inclusion of all irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status. The Action integrates the human rights-based approach, which aims at strengthening the capacities of duty bearers to assume their responsibilities and encouraging rights' holders to enforce them. The success of the activities implemented will be evaluated, in particular the respect of the international commitments of the State of Guinea-Bissau in the protection of fundamental human rights. Respect for human rights is more critical in a context of insecurity because vulnerabilities are exacerbated, especially for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), making them more vulnerable"}, {"bbox": [86, 1620, 658, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_2184."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 19"}]