[{"bbox": [141, 153, 1175, 260], "category": "Text", "text": "country, contributing to displacement and conflicts. Furthermore, the action is expected to encourage the financial sector to provide loans and grants for green investments across the country and to attract additional public and private financial resources in the form of DFI/IFI taking up their activities on green investments in Somalia, together with possibly rising FDI."}, {"bbox": [141, 310, 1175, 365], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)"}, {"bbox": [141, 365, 1175, 417], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [141, 444, 1175, 498], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)"}, {"bbox": [141, 497, 1175, 550], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is no or low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [141, 577, 682, 604], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls**"}, {"bbox": [141, 604, 1170, 764], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that gender equality and women empowerment will be mainstreamed into all activities of the Action. This is even more important in the Somali context since women across the whole country bear an unequal brunt of the hardships occasioned by poverty, conflict and a clan-based culture which promotes strict male hierarchy and authority. This is further exacerbated by religious and cultural limitations on the role and status of women in Somali society, leading to deeply-rooted gender inequality."}, {"bbox": [141, 788, 1170, 1055], "category": "Text", "text": "In the Somali context, exclusionary socioeconomics has been a historic driver of conflict. Given the male-dominated clan system and the absence of a systematic approach to promote inclusivity, Somali women largely remain excluded from key socioeconomics and decision-making processes. They continue to remain underrepresented within national and regional decision and policy-making bodies. It is not surprising that women bear the brunt of lack of access to energy and gender inequality issues will be addressed for sustainable development. Energy sector, which this action will invest, is very important in women's daily lives, especially for serving food to families, lighting for teaching their children at night, and energy for their small food industries and other micro-businesses. The action was designed taking into consideration the recommendations set out in the October 2020 published report funded by EU MS (Sweden) titled \"*Sectoral Assessment of Women's Entrepreneurship Development in the Agriculture and Renewable Energy Sectors in Somalia*\"."}, {"bbox": [141, 1080, 1170, 1294], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender imbalance in economic development, political participation, in leadership and decision-making, is a threat to sustained peace and development. In order to challenge traditional gender roles of men and women and boys and girls, this Action will apply gender transformative approaches, with the purpose of reducing gender inequality, by ensuring that women are largely represented during the overall implementation and that the needs of women and girls are taken into account in all outputs / activities. Based on the available evidence the afore mentioned gender sector analysis from Somalia, specific activities that improve the lives of women and girls will be prioritised: for instance, The action will include a component of professional training in technical and entrepreneurial skills aimed at youth and women, who are largely underrepresented in the formal workforce."}, {"bbox": [141, 1319, 287, 1346], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Human Rights**"}, {"bbox": [141, 1346, 1164, 1558], "category": "Text", "text": "The human rights situation in Somalia is dire and vulnerable groups such as women, children, refugees, internally-displaced people (IDPs) and ethnic minorities face enormous challenges in attaining their human rights. Recent studies have also shown that these vulnerable groups are often excluded from development interventions and humanitarian assistance through discriminatory practices. This action will therefore apply a rights-based and leave-no-one-behind approach throughout the design and implementation of the intervention. Using integrated targeting, the Action will ensure that groups that are systematically excluded from decision-making and often barred from accessing humanitarian and development assistance play an important role in its design and implementation."}, {"bbox": [141, 1583, 238, 1611], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Disability**"}, {"bbox": [968, 1666, 1084, 1691], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 25"}]