[{"bbox": [96, 151, 1162, 233], "category": "Text", "text": "Security Strategy 2015-2026, the Disabled Persons' Rights and Protection Action Plan 2018. The Action will ensure that rights of persons with disabilities will be respected, and the planned activities are disability responsive and inclusive. The Action will seek to invite organisations representing people with disabilities when possible."}, {"bbox": [96, 263, 341, 290], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [96, 290, 1162, 529], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the Inequality Marker, the proposed action is labelled as I-1. The dust and air pollution caused by bricks kilns not only have a detrimental effect on public health, but it also negatively affects plant life and soil fertility. The use of top soil for bricks reduces the amount of arable land. So, while the kilns might provide revenues for the poorest segments of society in the short term, it only impoverishes local communities as a whole in the longer run. Brick kilns are typically financed by local elites for whom these facilities are a reasonably straightforward way to generate income as soil is procured or coerced from local farmers. These elites have the ability to move operations once the brick kilns are at the end of its life span (<10 years) while the local communities stay behind more impoverished. The action aims to introduce models which cause less environmental degradation, and which would leave the potential for local economic development intact."}, {"bbox": [96, 560, 208, 586], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Democracy"}, {"bbox": [96, 587, 1162, 694], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is not strictly linked to the promotion of democracy, but is expected to strengthen consultative processes between private sector actors, civil society and public authorities. This will enable private sector and civil society organisations to speak out on issues where the state should act, and it will make public authorities more responsive to the specific challenges within the sector."}, {"bbox": [96, 724, 485, 750], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [96, 751, 1162, 830], "category": "Text", "text": "The action addresses the negative impacts of unbalanced economic growth. It focuses on a sector, in which vulnerable population groups are exploited under particularly onerous working conditions, affecting the environment and ultimately diminishing the potential to create or sustain livelihoods for local communities."}, {"bbox": [96, 831, 1162, 910], "category": "Text", "text": "By regularising the sector, phasing out the most harmful production methods for bricks, creating safeguards for workers, and exploring the potential for sustainable business models communities are becoming more resilient, reducing potential for conflict over scarce resources."}, {"bbox": [96, 936, 1162, 1069], "category": "Text", "text": "One risk factor in which the action might be associated with local protest or opposition is in case of forced closure by government of existing traditional brick kilns. The risk for this are low to moderate. Kilns are not permanent employers. They provide temporary employment (5 months per year) at best, and stay in operation for a maximum of 10 years. Mitigating measures included in the action are support to alternative income generating activities for those unable to be re-employed."}, {"bbox": [96, 1074, 334, 1098], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [96, 1100, 1162, 1233], "category": "Text", "text": "Disaster Risk Reduction will be mainstreamed in the implementation of the action. It is not directly addressed in this action, but there are elements within the action which would need further scrutiny in particular: a. the use of sand and clay from riverbeds for certain types of bricks. Ensuring that government has the appropriate policies in place to consider the effects of sand and clay mining from river beds and the risks of erosion, b. the planning of infrastructure/investment as part of the business models to be piloted."}, {"bbox": [85, 1248, 422, 1276], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 1291, 1167, 1475], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Impact (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 30"}]