[{"bbox": [81, 145, 1166, 1210], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Risk 1 – Obstructed and shrinking space for civil society</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Promote continuous political and technical dialogue between and within CSOs, public authorities, the EU and other development partners to convey messages on the importance of collaboration between these stakeholders and to cement opportunities for joint-work. Continue making available specialised legal expertise to support public authorities to update the legal framework if needed.</td></tr><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Risk 2 – Mutual distrust between civil society, citizens and public authorities</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Promote mutual understanding and opportunities to jointly partake in capacity building actions;<br/>Promote concrete opportunities for effective collaboration and partnerships to carry out joint decisions from Consultative Councils and Development Observatories.</td></tr><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Risk 3 – Upcoming elections can dictate significant political changes which might hamper gains and lead to disengaging on commitments and efforts</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Carefully plan the timing of activities to ensure that new decision-makers and technical staff are duly involved and inducted to understand and perform their roles and functions;<br/>Plan and deliver joint trainings, including practical work, to foster understanding, communication, trust and partnership.</td></tr><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Risk 4 – Conflict and extreme climate events can hamper the implementation</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Carefully select the geographic scope of the actions and the workplan of activities according to potential risks, ensuring flexible rules to adapt to a rapidly changing context;<br/>Ensure continuous communication with other ongoing actions to better assess risk and threat levels during planning and implementation.<br/>The Call for Proposals will require that the proposals are conflict sensitive and ‘do no harm’.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 1212, 252, 1236], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 1249, 1162, 1622], "category": "Text", "text": "Findings from the current PAANE II participatory assessment and from previous programmes supporting civil society in Mozambique – funded by the EU and other development partners – show that the decentralisation process is a relevant entry-point for promoting a culture of collaboration and partnership between civil society and local public authorities towards enhanced democratic processes, especially at local level due to their proximity. Best results have been achieved when this collaboration is established and performed around common interests, where each part brings added-value to this partnership, building mutual trust. An example is the production of evidence for the monitoring and accountability of public policies and service delivery, as the civil society adds technical expertise and has been able to raise funds to perform it. Partnership has also shown to be more effective and sustainable when producing concrete benefits with spill-over effect which can be replicated, as it was identified especially on social sectors. Furthermore, the achievement of results and their sustainability is directly linked to institutional capacity, which has been reinforced but still requires support for its consolidation. While it was understood that the strong image of the current PAANE II as a programme helped building ownership and increased its political leverage, the weak culture of collaboration among civil society organisations, but also between development partners, reduced the capacity to take advantage of opportunities for synergies and complementarities, limiting the cost-effectiveness of the individual"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1681, 1140, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 21"}]