[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1135, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "main canals and water courses are designed to carry the water both for power generation and for irrigation, were also damaged or washed away by the floods."}, {"bbox": [97, 218, 1135, 484], "category": "Text", "text": "Even though the unprecedented magnitude of 2022 floods explains to a great extent the serious damages on MHPPs and small irrigation schemes, more stringent feasibility studies catering for the likely increasing occurrence of extreme climate events will be necessary to live up to the build back better principle. More importantly, only an integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach that mainstreams gender and environmental sustainability translated into concrete investments in reforestation and afforestation with the participation of the local communities and involving land use planning will ensure sustainability in the face of increased climate related risks. Tapping in a climate resilient and environmentally and gender sustainable way the whole potential of water resources in these mountainous districts of KP, including the most rugged areas in the Newly Merged Districts, might the best and closest opportunity for human an economic development in a region still struggling to leave behind political conflict and violence."}, {"bbox": [97, 497, 1074, 551], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [97, 551, 1135, 840], "category": "Text", "text": "The main rightholders of the action are the rural populations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province living in remote areas in the Hindu Kush, Kohistan, Swat, and Dir Mountain Ranges, corresponding roughly to Malakand Division, Mardan Division, and Kohistan district, as well as in the mountainous areas of the Newly Merged Districts. Within the targeted areas, this includes particularly women, youth and the most marginalised households and communities. Over 2 million people across the programme area will benefit from improved access to clean energy and strengthened natural resources management, enhancing the long-term resilience of rural communities. A do-not harm approach will be applied through all the phases of the action to ensure proper engagement with the different religious and ethnic communities and to make sure GBV risks and are not exacerbated. Civil society organisations and communities will be involved in the planning, implementation and handover processes representing different communities and groups, including business associations, women and those living in vulnerable situations."}, {"bbox": [97, 853, 1135, 1120], "category": "Text", "text": "A key stakeholder will be the Energy & Power Department (E&P), Government of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through its implementing arm Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation (PEDO), which have purview on energy provision within the region and will be the final recipient of the power infrastructures built by the action. Irrigation, Agriculture, and Forest Departments in the provincial government have established a forward-looking strategy to leverage agriculture assets to contribute to local economic development while preserving biodiversity and reverting environmental degradation. They will play a coordination role in all the project activities relating to natural resources management, along with WAPDA, the provincial Water and Power Development Authority, with the mandate to provide efficient and sustainable management of water and power resources. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority as well as District Administrations will be major stakeholders, together with local communities, for strengthening early warning systems."}, {"bbox": [97, 1131, 1135, 1359], "category": "Text", "text": "The nature of the activities in response to the specific challenges of the action area demands solid implementing partners with proven capacities and recognition by local governments and communities. The main part of the action should be implemented by a non-governmental organisation with a proven record as implementing partner for the EU working to alleviate poverty in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and extensive outreach into communities. The implementing partner must be able to ensure the continuity of the technical and managerial support required by community-managed micro hydropower plants (MHHPs) that the provincial government is not in a position to offer. Significant experience in economic development, natural resources management, basic services provision, and capacity building with local communities and governments is also required."}, {"bbox": [97, 1371, 1135, 1504], "category": "Text", "text": "During the inception phase a further stakeholder analysis will be conducted, with a particular emphasis on gender, with which relevant capabilities will be assessed: the capabilities of duty-bearers to fulfil their obligations towards rights-holders (regulations, systems, monitoring mechanisms, etc.) and rights-holders' capacities to claim their rights related to the sector (i.e. access to information, access to services, capacity to pay for electricity, discrimination)."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 24"}]