[{"bbox": [85, 151, 1145, 366], "category": "Text", "text": "Nonetheless, throughout the implementation of the Action, due attention can be given to opportunities for involving persons with disabilities under the “leave no one behind” principle. (e.g. in the training sessions and active participation in the decision-making processes, consulting with disability organizations, encouraging inclusive communication, facilitating accessibility to premises used (or supported or build), or providing reasonable accommodation to facilitate their participation). Guyana has ratified in 2014 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) therefore 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 invite to attend to organisations representing persons with disabilities (DPOs) when possible."}, {"bbox": [85, 393, 1145, 450], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will be in line with the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, and the EU Guidance Note Disability inclusion in EU external action."}, {"bbox": [85, 480, 332, 508], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [85, 535, 1145, 642], "category": "Text", "text": "Guyana is a country with high income inequality. According to the World Bank, the Gini coefficient, which measures income distribution, was 44.6 in 2016, suggesting that income is distributed very unequally, with a large gap between the richest and poorest households. According to the World Bank, the top 10% of the population in Guyana accounted for 43% of the total income in 2016, while the bottom 40% accounted for only 14.5% of the total income.¹⁶"}, {"bbox": [85, 670, 1145, 805], "category": "Text", "text": "There are also significant regional inequalities in Guyana. The interior regions of the country, which are largely inhabited by Indigenous communities, tend to have lower levels of development and access to services than the coastal regions, where the majority of the population lives. According to the 2018 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, poverty rates are highest in the interior regions of Guyana, particularly in Region 9 (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo; border with Brazil), where poverty rates are estimated to be over 80%.¹⁷"}, {"bbox": [85, 832, 1145, 1047], "category": "Text", "text": "Access to education is also unequally distributed in Guyana. While primary school enrolment rates are high, access to secondary and tertiary education is limited, particularly in the hinterland. Indigenous communities also face cultural and linguistic barriers to education and some communities are lobbying for the inclusion of their ancestral languages in the national school curriculum. According to the World Bank, the net enrolment rate in secondary education was 53% in 2017, with significant disparities between regions and socio-economic groups. In the hinterland regions, the net enrolment rate was only 26%, compared to 72% in the coastal regions. Despite these disparities, the literacy rate in Guyana is pegged above 85% of the overall population¹⁸, whereas illiteracy affects more women than men (age 15 and over)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1075, 200, 1102], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [85, 1129, 1145, 1212], "category": "Text", "text": "Strengthening the institutional capacity of state actors is a major objective in the action. The enhanced capacities should enable them to better comply with their mandates in the areas of forest governance and sustainable forest management."}, {"bbox": [85, 1239, 1145, 1320], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition, the action will support the effective implementation of participatory forest management arrangements, a modality that is foreseen by the VPA FLEGT, and hence involving local and indigenous communities, women and men in all their diversity in managing as well as using public forest resources."}, {"bbox": [85, 1349, 476, 1376], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [85, 1403, 223, 1431], "category": "Text", "text": "Not applicable"}, {"bbox": [85, 1586, 577, 1607], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁶ Source: World Bank - Guyana: Systematic Country Diagnostic, 2016"}, {"bbox": [85, 1607, 696, 1628], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ Source: UNICEF - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2018 Development Report, 2019"}, {"bbox": [85, 1626, 325, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ UNESCO statistics for Guyana"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1682, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 30"}]