[{"bbox": [135, 154, 1135, 234], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Sector dialogue on Education and Health, and other related sectors, with a focus on mainstreaming gender equality and inclusion of all vulnerable categories as well as gender-responsive and participatory sector budgeting;"}, {"bbox": [135, 235, 1135, 287], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Construction, rehabilitation and upgrading primary and secondary schools and school-related auxiliary infrastructure;"}, {"bbox": [135, 290, 1135, 344], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Supporting the adoption of critical legislation for the advancement of the local pharmaceutical manufacturing initiative;"}, {"bbox": [135, 345, 973, 372], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Improving PFM performance across government, and in the social sectors in particular;"}, {"bbox": [135, 373, 1098, 401], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Coordination, at various governmental institutions level, of the procurement practices and procedures"}, {"bbox": [97, 426, 347, 454], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Complementary Support"}, {"bbox": [97, 478, 1135, 666], "category": "Text", "text": "The complementary support will aim at facilitating technical expertise to the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health/ZAMRA. This technical assistance will complement existing supports provided by Cooperating Partners. The technical assistance (TA) will be provided under direct management, according to the following principles: (i) ensuring a country-led capacity development planning and management process; (ii) generating long term perspectives on the sectors' capacity development needs; (iii) minimise parallel provision of technical cooperation in the sector; and (iv) complementing as much as possible existing technical assistance, and coordinating TA provision with Member States and other Cooperating Partners."}, {"bbox": [97, 690, 1135, 826], "category": "Text", "text": "The main activities under this component will be focusing on: (i) improving technical, managerial and coordination capacities at targeted institution level; (ii) analysing and proposing process and practice improvements; (iii) strengthening quality assurance capacities and standards enforcement (notably for newly built infrastructure); (iv) proposing solutions for better planning and budgeting for targeted social sectors, including gender responsive budgeting."}, {"bbox": [97, 849, 1135, 956], "category": "Text", "text": "The commitment of the EU's contribution to the Joint-European Strategy to which this action refers, will be complemented by other contributions from Team Europe members. It is subject to the formal confirmation of each respective member's meaningful contribution as early as possible. In the event that the regional TEI and/or these contributions do not materialise, the EU action may continue outside a TEI framework."}, {"bbox": [86, 996, 313, 1027], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 1044, 544, 1071], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [97, 1096, 973, 1124], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Outcomes of the SEA screening (relevant for budget support and strategic-level interventions)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1124, 1061, 1151], "category": "Text", "text": "The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) screening concluded that no further action was required."}, {"bbox": [97, 1176, 1135, 1440], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed Resilience Building Contract does not require a Strategic Environmental Assessment and does not directly address the EU or Zambia's climate commitments. The impact that this action could have on the environment and on climate is minimal and indirect (e.g. having in mind the long term objective of developing a pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in the country). On the contrary, a number of elements of this programme could be directly or indirectly linked to environmental and climate benefits. As an example, improvement of education conditions would lead to better raising awareness of children, parents and communities on effects of climate change and environmental deterioration, as well on the benefits of adapted practices and conservation actions. Climate-smart access to energy and water is also embedded, whenever relevant, in the proposed action, directly contributing to improving adaptation of the education sector, as foreseen in the country's National Determined Contribution."}, {"bbox": [97, 1467, 1135, 1521], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1521, 1135, 1573], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1680, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 33"}]