[{"bbox": [171, 153, 1134, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "well as government capacity building, including when it comes to creating an enabling environment for\nthe private sector."}, {"bbox": [134, 206, 1134, 260], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Additionally**, (EUR 200 000 indicative maximum amount) for audit and evaluation of ongoing EU projects"}, {"bbox": [97, 288, 433, 315], "category": "Text", "text": "Measures in favour of Civil Society:"}, {"bbox": [134, 344, 1134, 452], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Strengthening the capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the context of the Forest Partnership (EUR 300 000 indicative maximum amount)**. Complementarily to existent and future support to CSOs foreseen under the MIP's specific objectives and fulfilled in the frame of the Amazon Basin Team Europe Initiative, as well as HRD and CSO programmes."}, {"bbox": [97, 479, 551, 506], "category": "Text", "text": "Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy:"}, {"bbox": [134, 535, 1134, 643], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Increase awareness, understanding and perception of the EU's partnership with Guyana through strategic communication and public diplomacy activities (EUR 300 000 indicative maximum amount)** to promote the EU's cooperation with Guyana in a coherent manner and reinforce the image and perception of the Team Europe approach as credible, reliable and solid."}, {"bbox": [85, 699, 335, 731], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 2 RATIONALE"}, {"bbox": [85, 765, 236, 792], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.1 Context"}, {"bbox": [85, 826, 1145, 986], "category": "Text", "text": "Located on the northern coast of South America, Guyana is an Amazonian country given its expanse of tropical rainforest, and it is also a Caribbean nation for its island-like concentration of population in a narrow coastal belt. Guyana's multi-ethnic and multi-cultural characteristics, cobbled with its geographical specificities, provide the country with a double advantage of being both a Caribbean and South American nation of peoples. The country shares a common colonial history and characteristics with other English-speaking neighbours in the Caribbean and hosts the headquarters of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1015, 1145, 1175], "category": "Text", "text": "Drawing it close to South America is the fact that it is part of the world's vital Amazon basin and home to nine indigenous nations, as well as unique biodiversity and ecosystems. It is also amongst one of the 'greenest' countries in the world, with forest covering about 87% of the country's total land area. The country commands globally important carbon stocks (19.5 GtCO2 eq) and is considered as a net carbon sink, whereby forests sequester more carbon than the nation's human activities generate. Climate change mitigation and adaptation is, therefore, crucial for Guyana."}, {"bbox": [85, 1204, 1145, 1364], "category": "Text", "text": "Guyana is transitioning to becoming a high-income country. Its emerging economy grew by 62% of the GDP in 2022, mainly thanks to the revenues of recent oil discoveries. Since 2019, oil production has increased significantly, to 375 000 bpd in 2022, and it is projected to reach 1.2 million bpd by 2027, comparable to Libya. Macro-economically the country will move in GDP per capita from USD 5,000 in 2021 to around 30,000 USD in 2026, but it will continue to face structural challenges such as: climate change, inequalities, regional disparities, domestic resource mobilization, as well as innovation and diversification capacities."}, {"bbox": [85, 1391, 1145, 1525], "category": "Text", "text": "Improved strategic and policy capacities to face this new scenario will, therefore, be needed. In this context, the strengthening of public sector management capacities will therefore be essential during the transition phase of the country (during the first years of the oil boom 2020-2025). Oil revenues have to be carefully managed to avoid environmental pressure, tensions in social cohesion, increased income inequality, corruption, challenges of monetary policy and an oil-dependent economy that would have lost traditional income-earning sectors (agriculture, forestry)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1553, 1145, 1635], "category": "Text", "text": "Guyana is one of few countries worldwide with which the European Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Forest Partnership (FP), which has as purpose to build a like-minded partnership to heighten cooperation on forests and make an important contribution to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, while"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1145, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 15"}]