[{"bbox": [157, 150, 1070, 204], "category": "Text", "text": "will support women in rural communities, often struggling to make ends meet through subsistence agriculture, to embark in alternative income generation activities along the ecotourism value chain."}, {"bbox": [157, 217, 301, 244], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [157, 254, 1070, 332], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will apply a human rights-based approach by respecting the 5 working principles: respect to all human rights, participation, non-discrimination, transparency and accountability in every step of the action."}, {"bbox": [157, 387, 253, 414], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [157, 425, 1070, 505], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. This implies that the action will undertake measures to include people with disabilities to the extent possible."}, {"bbox": [157, 518, 402, 545], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [157, 557, 1070, 609], "category": "Text", "text": "Women discrimination is deeply embedded into Malawi social and cultural norms. Women lack or have limited access to assets, to basic services, and are less protected from risks."}, {"bbox": [157, 622, 1070, 702], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will empower women living in rural communities by facilitating access to assets that are required for ecotourism business, being it land or financial services for example. The matching grant scheme and the capacity building interventions will support promotion of women's entrepreneurship."}, {"bbox": [157, 714, 1070, 900], "category": "Text", "text": "To the extent possible the Action will support labour-intensive forms of investments, where community members will be remunerated to develop/maintain infrastructure needed for ecotourism products (ex. access roads). The nature of the action will trigger endogenous development processes, by putting rural community at the heart of the development of their territory. Through awareness and training, as well as by building synergies with other EU funded interventions, the Action will strengthen community's preservation and restoration of natural resources, which will protect people from climate change risks."}, {"bbox": [157, 913, 269, 940], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [157, 952, 198, 975], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [157, 991, 545, 1018], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [157, 1030, 198, 1053], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [157, 1069, 395, 1093], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [157, 1108, 1070, 1214], "category": "Text", "text": "Wherever possible, the Action will include crisis modifiers to ensure sufficient flexibility of activities' implementation vis-à-vis shocks, being them epidemic outbreaks related or natural disasters. Wherever possible, the Action will coordinate with existing ECHO funded disaster risk reduction community-based interventions."}, {"bbox": [146, 1240, 483, 1267], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [146, 1282, 1079, 1610], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood</td><td>Impact</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Malawi hit by extreme weather events, whose frequency and intensity is magnified by climate change</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>The Action will support improved preservation and restoration of natural resource as a basis for the development of ecotourism products but also as a way to reduce the country's vulnerability to extreme weather events and resilience to climate change. To the extent possible, the Action will take place in the districts targeted by the</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [976, 1680, 1079, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 21"}]