[{"bbox": [214, 151, 1109, 206], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support for local financial institutions, critical in view of building up financial mechanisms for smallholders and SMEs, especially those led by women;"}, {"bbox": [214, 209, 537, 236], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Provision of operational costs."}, {"bbox": [237, 256, 470, 281], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [177, 296, 630, 321], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [177, 323, 1111, 480], "category": "Text", "text": "Environmental protection and climate change are at the core of this action with a clear focus on improved forest governance, management and conservation. In relation to climate change, by increasing the forest cover and protecting the remaining forests, the action will contribute to enhancing Honduras' carbon sequestration capacity and hence to mitigating global climate change. In addition, the restoration of degraded areas through natural regeneration will promote interconnection areas or biodiversity corridors."}, {"bbox": [177, 507, 860, 533], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening:"}, {"bbox": [177, 534, 1110, 584], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [177, 612, 764, 638], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening:"}, {"bbox": [177, 639, 1110, 689], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that the action is at no or at low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [177, 723, 726, 749], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [177, 750, 1110, 828], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that the action recognizes gender equality as an important and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the project/ programme."}, {"bbox": [177, 829, 1110, 1119], "category": "Text", "text": "Therefore, gender equality and empowerment of women and girls will be both mainstreamed throughout and targeted during the implementation of the action. This action will conduct gender sector analysis to ensure mainstreaming across components and will apply an inter-sectional approach (indigenous and Afro-descendant women and girls). At the level of both implementing partners and beneficiaries, due attention will be given to ensuring gender equality in terms of opportunities (training, employment, networks, and entrepreneurship), decision-making (participation in FP and VPA Technical and Political Working groups, leadership) and benefit-sharing. For example, gender balances will be pursued in the envisaged formal trainings and in other capacity building activities. Women will be targeted in the activities related to forest management, sustainable agriculture and ecotourism. Finally, the development of value chains for wood and for NWFP provide ideal opportunities for promoting gender equality in relation to decision-making and benefit-sharing."}, {"bbox": [177, 1151, 325, 1176], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [177, 1177, 1110, 1389], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed action links up with human rights in the aspects of right to work, corresponding respectively to articles 19 and 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And regarding Art. 23, the action-supported development of value chains, will generate a substantial amount of jobs in the formal sector and help to reduce Honduras' current rate of unemployment. The action will apply a human rights-based approach respecting its five working principles: i) Applying all human rights for all; ii) Meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making; iii) Non-discrimination and equality; iv) Accountability and rule of law for all; and v) Transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data."}, {"bbox": [177, 1414, 1110, 1492], "category": "Text", "text": "Honduras has ratified most of the international treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (1983) and International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (2002)."}, {"bbox": [632, 1526, 656, 1548], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "16"}]