[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1134, 206], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Indicative activities relating to Output 2.2 - Further develop parliamentary committees' capacity to exercise their oversight function"}, {"bbox": [134, 206, 1134, 259], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Training of parliamentary committees on parliamentary oversight principles, mechanisms and processes on the basis of the parliamentary oversight manuals previously developed for each committee;"}, {"bbox": [134, 259, 793, 287], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Training of parliamentary committees on drafting oversight reports."}, {"bbox": [87, 300, 313, 331], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 347, 544, 375], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [97, 385, 1134, 439], "category": "Text", "text": "Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project): N/A."}, {"bbox": [97, 439, 1134, 493], "category": "Text", "text": "Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project): N/A."}, {"bbox": [97, 498, 1134, 632], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action does not have direct effects on climate action except regarding potential greenhouse gases emissions caused by travels inside Mozambique, and exceptionally from/to Europe, which will be mitigated by a specific strategy and measures to curb air travelling that shall be designed and implemented during the inception and implementation phases. One central element to be included in said strategy is the usage of ICT tools whenever applicable."}, {"bbox": [97, 656, 1134, 791], "category": "Text", "text": "Due to the proneness of Mozambique to climate change and natural hazards, like strong cyclones which are\naffecting the country with an increased regularity, the Action is vulnerable to climate variability and the impacts\nof climate change which could affect the elections operations in certain areas, making access to some polling\nstation more difficult or impossible. The action includes support to the electoral management bodies to better plan\nincluding in context of conflict, climate change related events, pandemics, etc."}, {"bbox": [97, 822, 639, 849], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [97, 849, 1134, 1220], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1 as gender equality is a significant objective. Mozambique ranks 5 in Africa and 19 in the world in terms of women representation in Parliament, ahead of many established Western democracies⁵. However, women are underrepresented when it comes to the leadership positions, particularly at the lower-levels of government. In Mozambique women are worse off than men in any sphere of life (e.g. education, health, employment) and women parlamentarians do not necessarily represent women's interests in the Assembly. The Action will provide strategic guidance and technical advice to ensure that the EMBs can better communicate with voters and stakeholders on gender mainstreaming and will support effort to increase women's political participation and representation. It will also provide support in designing a mechanism to monitor violence against women during elections. One of the members of Integridade is the Núcleo das Associações Femininas da Zambézia (NAFEZA), which will provide guidance and support to the mainstreaming of gender equality in the consortium's work of observation and civic education. Implementing partners and grantees' staff will be required to be selected according to gender parity at management and field observer levels. The support to the Assembly of the Republic, headed by a woman and where 40 % are women, will include also activities involving the women caucus."}, {"bbox": [97, 1250, 246, 1277], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [97, 1277, 1134, 1491], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action supports the exercise of civil and political rights enshrined in instruments ratified by Mozambique, notably: the right to vote and to stand for election, as well as the right to participate in government (Article 25 of the ICCPR and Article 13 of the African Charter for Human and Peoples' Rights). More specifically, the Action supports the right of national civil society to observe elections, as stipulated by Article 22 of the African Charter of Democracy. Parliament's legislative agenda encompasses several proposals critical to the respect for human rights in Mozambique, including an NGO law and media laws. The Constitution provides that CSOs can challenge the constitutionality of adopted legislation with the Constitutional Court through a petition procedure supported by 2000 signatures. Parliament's First Committee is also mandated with protecting human rights."}, {"bbox": [97, 1521, 197, 1548], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Disability"}, {"bbox": [87, 1620, 582, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking?month=1&year=2023"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 25"}]