[{"bbox": [195, 153, 599, 179], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Strengthen the social protection system."}, {"bbox": [195, 180, 1134, 230], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Improve the relevance and accountability of public financial management for the delivery of essential services to the citizens."}, {"bbox": [97, 259, 1134, 337], "category": "Text", "text": "Throughout the implementation of this SRBC contract, a continued policy dialogue will be conducted, both bilaterally and in the context of the semi-annual joint Budget Support reviews (to which member States present in The Gambia will be invited)."}, {"bbox": [97, 366, 1134, 442], "category": "Text", "text": "Disbursements will occur annually based on a request by government authorities substantiating progress on the general conditions and performance indicators and the subsequent assessment by the European Commission thereof."}, {"bbox": [97, 471, 1044, 498], "category": "Text", "text": "The **complementary support measures** will mainly focus on Activities relating to result areas 3 and 4:"}, {"bbox": [97, 525, 231, 549], "category": "Text", "text": "Result area 3 :"}, {"bbox": [97, 551, 925, 577], "category": "Text", "text": "- Technical assistance provided in the area of social protection policy and implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 578, 1134, 631], "category": "Text", "text": "- A pilot social protection action is implemented supporting categorical targeting for universal social protection, focusing on particularly vulnerable groups, such as persons with disabilities."}, {"bbox": [97, 657, 231, 680], "category": "Text", "text": "Result area 4 :"}, {"bbox": [97, 683, 998, 710], "category": "Text", "text": "- Technical assistance provided in the area of public finance management implementation reforms."}, {"bbox": [97, 737, 1134, 866], "category": "Text", "text": "Regular operational, strategic and political policy dialogue sessions, involving EU, EU Member States, government (ministries and agencies), are carried out at different levels of responsibility, including where relevant CSOs, Women’s Organisations and other stakeholders. In this context the donor reform monitoring group meets regularly to enable Gambian government’s effective monitoring of progress made on the implementation of the matrix of indicators."}, {"bbox": [86, 911, 312, 940], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 957, 542, 983], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Environmental Protection & Climate Change**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1010, 784, 1037], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Outcomes of the SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) screening"}, {"bbox": [97, 1037, 1134, 1089], "category": "Text", "text": "Given its nature, a SEA is not required. The Action will not provide support to environmentally sensitive sectors at a strategic level."}, {"bbox": [97, 1116, 668, 1143], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening"}, {"bbox": [97, 1143, 1134, 1193], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is associated with no or low risk (no need for further assessment)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1222, 637, 1249], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [97, 1249, 1134, 1407], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that gender is a significant objective of the action, and gender equality is an important and deliberate objective of this programme. The programme is informed by the Gender Action Plan (GAP) for The Gambia and the draft Country Level Implementation Plan (CLIP), as well as the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025. It is also in line with the EU roadmap for engagement with civil society in The Gambia for the period 2021-2023."}, {"bbox": [97, 1434, 1134, 1566], "category": "Text", "text": "Women will be specifically targeted in activities. Across all objectives, targets aim at 50% participation of women where relevant (see logframe), especially as regards activities related to Specific Objective 3 (strengthening of the social protection system) and Specific Objective 1, where gender perspective is strongly present in specific White Paper commitments. This is expected to strengthen the rule of law, reduce gender disparities promote gender equality, increase inclusion and empowerment of women, and prevent sexual and gender-based violence."}, {"bbox": [97, 1593, 1044, 1620], "category": "Text", "text": "Specific interventions that explicitly aim to empower women and reduce gender inequality will include:"}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 28"}]