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Responsibility for facilitated processing of low-risk bona fide travellers, and for maintaining robust measures to combat and apprehend unlawful attempts to cross the border, such as undocumented migrants, document fraud or migration-related crime as migrant smuggling or trafficking in women and children."}, {"bbox": [150, 371, 1147, 450], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Belize Border Management Agency** who reports to the Minister of Tourism. The function is to operate and manage the border stations at Belize's three official sea and land border crossings and collect the border management fees charged to non-residents who visit Belize."}, {"bbox": [150, 452, 1147, 585], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Forest Department** reports to the Ministry of Sustainable Development. It plays a key role in environmental protection in border areas. It prevents and combats illicit trans-border trafficking of endangered species, in line with CITES international obligations. Enforces laws and regulations in the protected areas along the border. Roving mobile teams in the border areas, individually or in joint teams with other Integrated Border Management (IBM) agencies."}, {"bbox": [150, 586, 1147, 640], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA)** regulates and inspects the imports, exports and transit of plants, animals, and food products and by-products."}, {"bbox": [150, 641, 1147, 694], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Belize Defence Force (BDF)** provides support to mobile inter-agency border surveillance teams when necessary."}, {"bbox": [150, 696, 1147, 746], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Belize Police Department** plays a key role in mobile patrols in the border area to prevent and combat trans-border threats."}, {"bbox": [112, 775, 1147, 909], "category": "Text", "text": "CSOs with specialized expertise in human rights, protection and gender equality, will be associated under the integrated border management priority in activities related to human rights training and education, among others. Furthermore, CSOs will be associated to ensure monitoring and compliance with international human rights standards in border operations by all border and security agencies concerned and overall accountability in the implementation of the EU funded programme."}, {"bbox": [112, 932, 1147, 986], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Organization of American States (OAS)** has been playing an active role in dispute resolution, conflict prevention, and peace building in the Adjacency Zone (AZ)."}, {"bbox": [100, 1014, 620, 1047], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [100, 1080, 523, 1111], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [100, 1125, 483, 1152], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective of this action is to:"}, {"bbox": [100, 1170, 1074, 1198], "category": "Text", "text": "- Reduce inequality and enhance the sustainable management of the southern and western regions of Belize."}, {"bbox": [100, 1216, 486, 1243], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objectives of this action are:"}, {"bbox": [176, 1261, 1159, 1315], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. A coordinated and inclusive development, in particular with regards to women, youth, and indigenous people is promoted based on a green model and a territorial approach;"}, {"bbox": [176, 1315, 1116, 1341], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Border management capacities, security and facilitation are increased at land and maritime borders"}, {"bbox": [100, 1368, 1019, 1395], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives are:"}, {"bbox": [100, 1412, 1159, 1466], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 An inclusive, rights-based gender responsive local development planning and land use is developed and implemented."}, {"bbox": [100, 1466, 1159, 1493], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2 Community based gender and indigenous responsive landscape/seascape preservation is planned and developed."}, {"bbox": [100, 1493, 763, 1519], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.3 Community Development facilitation and local skills are developed."}, {"bbox": [100, 1547, 1089, 1574], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 Effective Integrated Border Management (IBM) governance and inter-agency cooperation strengthened."}, {"bbox": [100, 1576, 956, 1603], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.2 Enhanced regulatory framework and procedures for commercial and regional integration."}, {"bbox": [100, 1605, 1159, 1632], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.3 Strengthened confidence and relations between Belize and Guatemala maintaining peace in the Adjacency Zone."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1667, 1159, 1692], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 27"}]