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Monitoring and evaluation on gender equality: the gender equality-based approach will be mainstreamed into the monitoring and evaluation of the project."}, {"bbox": [96, 230, 1133, 284], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is well-aligned with the EU Gender Action Plan 2021-2025 (GAP III), in particular with two thematic areas:"}, {"bbox": [134, 289, 952, 317], "category": "List-item", "text": "i) Strengthening economic and social rights and empowering girls and women, and"}, {"bbox": [134, 317, 1133, 369], "category": "List-item", "text": "ii) Addressing the challenges and harnessing the opportunities offered by the green transition and digital transformation."}, {"bbox": [96, 375, 246, 403], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [96, 402, 1135, 614], "category": "Text", "text": "Pakistan has ratified several key human rights instruments including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976). It is also signatory to the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) conventions on equal wages, equitable work standards, and participation. However, gaps continue to exist in Pakistan's performance on critical socio-economic indicators, e.g., women's economic participation (Pakistan has ranked 145 out of 146 on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2022²⁰), youth unemployment, and overall standards of living (Pakistan has ranked 161 amongst 189 countries on the UN's Human Development Index 2021²¹)."}, {"bbox": [96, 639, 1135, 722], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is designed taking into account the need to uphold national and international human rights and safeguarding obligations, recognising the right of every person, without discrimination, to survival, well-being and development, as well as to be protected from harm."}, {"bbox": [96, 746, 964, 774], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is aligned with the EU's Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024."}, {"bbox": [96, 778, 197, 805], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [96, 804, 1135, 939], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D0. Nonetheless, the action will ensure that the rights of women and men with disabilities are going to be respected, and the envisaged interventions are disability responsive and inclusive. The action is going to invite the organisations representing persons with disabilities when possible and it will make sure that (at least physical) accessibility of planned events is guaranteed."}, {"bbox": [96, 964, 345, 992], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [96, 990, 1135, 1069], "category": "Text", "text": "Discrimination against women and girls' discrimination is deeply embedded in Pakistani social and cultural norms. Women in their diversity lack or have limited access to assets, to market, to basic services, and are less protected from risks as the PNDA assessment evidenced."}, {"bbox": [96, 1095, 1135, 1227], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will contribute to the empowerment of women living in rural communities by facilitating access to assets and information that are required to improve their soft and hard skills in the livestock value chain, in addition further support is envisaged to provide access to targeted financial services. The action will pay attention to the multiple disadvantages faced by women based on their age, disability or refugee status and those in socioeconomic difficulties."}, {"bbox": [96, 1254, 1135, 1387], "category": "Text", "text": "The nature of the action aims to trigger endogenous development processes, by putting rural community at the heart of the development and the care of their territory. Through the early warning system and the training to manage the natural resources, as well as by building synergies with other EU funded interventions, the action will strengthen community's resilience to climate (and other) shocks and provide economic support to build back better the livestock sector."}, {"bbox": [96, 1414, 213, 1442], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [96, 1441, 1135, 1548], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation approach ensures that the action aligns with the principles of Accountability to Affected Populations and that the human rights and interests of communities are actively promoted and safeguarded throughout the project cycle. Tested participatory methodologies in which community level institutions are the key stakeholder will be used to ensuring inclusiveness in the support provided to farmers organisations benefitting"}, {"bbox": [85, 1595, 581, 1622], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁰ https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2022.pdf"}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 721, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²¹ https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 29"}]