[{"bbox": [177, 182, 275, 206], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [177, 208, 1110, 286], "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 does not include activities that specifically aim at the integration of or care for disabled persons."}, {"bbox": [177, 287, 1110, 391], "category": "Text", "text": "Nonetheless, throughout the implementation of the action, due attention can be given to opportunities for involving disabled persons with disabilities under the “leave no one behind” principle. (for example in the trainings and active participation in the decision-making processes). Honduras has ratified in 2008 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)."}, {"bbox": [177, 425, 291, 449], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [177, 451, 1110, 528], "category": "Text", "text": "Strengthening capacity of state actors and institutions is a major objective in the action. The enhanced capacities should enable them to better comply with their mandates in the areas of forest governance and sustainable forest management."}, {"bbox": [177, 529, 1110, 608], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition, the action will support the effective implementation of participatory forest management arrangements, a modality that is foreseen by the VPA FLEGT, and hence involving local and indigenous communities in managing as well as using public forest resources."}, {"bbox": [177, 609, 1110, 767], "category": "Text", "text": "Local authorities play an important role by facilitating administrative simplification processes for MSEs creation and development. Therefore, the green businesses component will focus in strengthening Territorial Employment Working Groups (*Mesas Territoriales de Empleo*) as a democratic and participative mechanism to boost local economy and promote social dialogue, particularly with local producers, chambers of commerce, financing institutions, and technical education and training suppliers."}, {"bbox": [177, 799, 572, 823], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [177, 825, 1110, 1009], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will address conflicts, linked to the land titling insecurity. Indeed the action will address land titling issues on the whole zone of the project. The recent Conflict Analysis Screening led in February 2023 in Honduras clearly indicated that land insecurity due to the lack of land titling was a major cause of violence throughout the country. This Action will thus contribute to reduce this violence in the area of the project. Conflict prevention opportunities will be sought, not least in the implementation of protocols for Free, Prior and Informed Consent of indigenous peoples and Afrodescendants and through a participatory and inclusive approach."}, {"bbox": [177, 1010, 1110, 1115], "category": "Text", "text": "It is also expected that the implementation of the action will have positive effects on the resilience of local communities and citizens by the promotion of green businesses and ecotourism (value chains, ecotourism), also by assisting them in the management of forests, and by improving the productive capacity of their environment (agroforestry)."}, {"bbox": [177, 1148, 418, 1170], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [177, 1173, 1110, 1277], "category": "Text", "text": "It is recognised that a good forest cover has a regulating effect on the hydrological systems in the area under influence; in that sense, this action – by addressing deforestation and promoting forest restoration – contributes to reducing the risks for flooding as well as for wells and rivers drying up during the dry season."}, {"bbox": [177, 1279, 1110, 1330], "category": "Text", "text": "By supporting reforestation, the action will contribute to reducing the risks of local landslides and erosion as well as ecological systems thinking in and around forests to build resilience."}, {"bbox": [633, 1526, 656, 1547], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "17"}]