[{"bbox": [86, 153, 326, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3. Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [86, 212, 530, 240], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [86, 267, 1146, 403], "category": "Text", "text": "Environmental protection and climate change are at the core of this action with a clear focus on improved forest governance, management and conservation. In relation to climate change, by protecting the standing forests and harvesting in a sustainable manner, the action will contribute to enhancing Guyana's carbon sequestration and storage capacity and hence to mitigating global climate change. The action contributes directly to implementation of Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy and its revised NDC."}, {"bbox": [86, 429, 1146, 511], "category": "Text", "text": "At the same time, the action contributes significantly to conservation of biological diversity by increasing the application of Guyana's norms and standards for sustainable forest management with gender standards. This includes provisions for maintenance of forest ecosystem health and enhancement of biological diversity in forest ecosystems."}, {"bbox": [86, 539, 757, 567], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening:**"}, {"bbox": [86, 594, 1146, 647], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [86, 677, 1146, 785], "category": "Text", "text": "The action does not concern any physical intervention in forests, but instead focuses on institutional support, such as improved forestry control procedures, the development of guidelines and protocols, as well as capacity development of government staff and private sector actors, to comply with the Timber legality (TLAS) requirements – which includes provisions for good environmental management."}, {"bbox": [86, 812, 663, 840], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening:**"}, {"bbox": [86, 868, 1146, 920], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is at no or low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [86, 950, 1146, 1138], "category": "Text", "text": "The action concerns institutional support for the forest sector and is not directly affected by climate change-related risks. Instead, it will contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of Guyana's forests and thereby to objectives of carbon storage and biodiversity conservation. More specifically, the action contributes to the implementation of the EU-Guyana VPA (Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Legality, Enforcement, Governance and Trade), which is a key element in Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy and in the (revised) Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement on climate change. For this reason, climate change mitigation has been marked as a principal objective of the action."}, {"bbox": [86, 1166, 626, 1194], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [86, 1221, 1146, 1303], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that the action recognizes gender equality as an important and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the project/ programme."}, {"bbox": [86, 1330, 1146, 1517], "category": "Text", "text": "Therefore, gender equality and empowerment of women, will be both mainstreamed throughout and targeted during the implementation of the action. This action will conduct gender sector analysis to ensure mainstreaming across components and will apply an inter-sectional approach. At the level of both stakeholders and beneficiaries, due attention will be given to ensuring gender equality in terms of opportunities (training, employment, networks, and entrepreneurship), decision-making (participation in VPA Technical and Political Working groups, leadership) and benefit-sharing. For example, gender balances will be pursued in the envisaged formal trainings and in other capacity building activities leaving no one behind."}, {"bbox": [86, 1545, 1146, 1626], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender inequality is a concern in Guyana. According to the United Nations Development Programme, women in Guyana earn on average 25% less than men for similar work. Women are also underrepresented in decision-making positions in politics and business. The Gender Development Index, which measures gender inequalities in"}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1146, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 30"}]