[{"bbox": [112, 114, 430, 141], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 2.3:**"}, {"bbox": [112, 142, 1146, 221], "category": "Text", "text": "1. In the Adjacency Zone Belize Guatemala, strengthen cross-border cooperation and coordination and technical consultations between border institutions, support the verification process of incidents in the Adjacency zone. Continue the peace building process between both countries currently facilitated and coordinated by OAS."}, {"bbox": [112, 222, 1145, 271], "category": "Text", "text": "2. Perform monitoring, investigations and verifications of incidents in the Adjacency Zone and mitigate potential conflicts."}, {"bbox": [112, 273, 1091, 301], "category": "Text", "text": "3. Develop specific measures, mechanisms or processes aimed at preventing or resolving conflictive issues."}, {"bbox": [101, 315, 326, 345], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [101, 360, 545, 388], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [101, 406, 765, 433], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening"}, {"bbox": [101, 451, 1158, 507], "category": "Text", "text": "The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category B (not requiring an EIA, but for which environment aspects will be addressed during design)."}, {"bbox": [101, 512, 671, 540], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening"}, {"bbox": [101, 545, 1158, 599], "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": [101, 606, 1159, 863], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD DAC codes, this Action is labelled as 410, implying that **General Environment Protection** is a major purpose. This Action directly contributes to environmental efforts to protect conservation of forest and marine areas in the South of Belize. Through its focus on green territorial development, the action will plan interventions within buffer zones of protected areas (marine and terrestrial) and will contribute to preserve the flora and fauna contributing to Belize's international biodiversity commitments¹⁰. It will also support the capacity building of government institutions, border control and security agencies and NGO/CSOs for enforcing environmental legislation and preventing violations in the conservation areas. Improvement of border control management would also have positive impacts on the fight against environment-related illegal trafficking (e.g., wildlife trafficking and illegal movements of waste and chemicals, including pesticides)."}, {"bbox": [101, 918, 1159, 1147], "category": "Text", "text": "**Climate change** is not identified as a significant component in this Action, even though Southern Belize will inevitably face major climate changes by 2060. The Action will be focused on mobilizing communities and individuals within these communities to implement a series of agro-ecological farming practices (including agro-forestry, layered permaculture farming and integrated farming) aimed at conserving soils and water and gradually improving soil fertility. This will contribute to help rural communities to adapt and improve their overall climate resilience. When designing or investing in new value adding processes or rural infrastructures, design criteria will need to take into account the likely natural hazards associated with the disaster prone profile of the country and expected increased rainfall and temperatures."}, {"bbox": [101, 1211, 640, 1238], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [101, 1256, 1159, 1369], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that Gender equality is a significant objective. The Action is aligned with the EU's Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in External Relations 2020-2025 (GAP III) and the Country Level Implementation Plan of the Gender Action Plan, the National Gender Policy of Belize, the National Gender Based Violence Action Plan."}, {"bbox": [101, 1375, 1159, 1562], "category": "Text", "text": "It will promote gender equality, women and girls' human rights and participation through gender mainstreaming into the planning, assessment, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of all activities. The action will establish a suitable foundation for mainstreaming gender equality in the future, training both women and men, old and young. It will support programme beneficiaries in combating all forms of discrimination. **A sectoral gender analysis will be implemented for each of the two components of the Action at the inception of the respective interventions to gather precise baseline data, stakeholder analysis, inform the design and ensure the interventions adopts a \"do not harm approach,\" including the definition of appropriate gender responsive targets and indicators.**"}, {"bbox": [101, 1641, 956, 1668], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁰ Belize has committed to have 30 % of its territory (land and marine) under protected areas by 2030."}, {"bbox": [1040, 1667, 1158, 1691], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 27"}]