[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1134, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "The Responsible Business Fund (RBF), a part of Danish Development Assistance to Myanmar, was established to leverage local private sector abilities to deliver economic and environmental development results in a sustainable manner. RBF is a DKK 125 Million 'Challenge Fund' to \"increase the competitiveness and responsible behaviour of Myanmar enterprises\" by providing partial grants to MSMEs to implement projects with the potential to demonstrate 'Responsible Technologies/Business Practices'."}, {"bbox": [97, 313, 1134, 366], "category": "Text", "text": "**Political actors will not be engaged in the implementation, which will depend on the evolution of the conflict.**\n**The Action will adopt a conflict-sensitive approach.**"}, {"bbox": [97, 393, 1134, 446], "category": "Text", "text": "**Any engagement with Myanmar private sector will require a thorough due diligence and conflict sensitive approach, with a strong focus on Do-No-Harm and compliance with EU sanctions regime.**"}, {"bbox": [86, 529, 603, 560], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [248, 594, 669, 624], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 686, 1134, 739], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective of this action is to reduce inequality by strengthening the socio-economic resilience of populations in rural and peri-urban Myanmar."}, {"bbox": [97, 766, 545, 792], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific(s) Objective(s) of this action are to:"}, {"bbox": [173, 792, 1134, 844], "category": "Text", "text": "1. Improve livelihoods and food security of populations living in the most vulnerable situations, whilst supporting their resilience to climate change;"}, {"bbox": [173, 845, 1134, 895], "category": "Text", "text": "2. Promote inclusive growth of MSMEs in local agricultural value chains, to enhance their economic resilience."}, {"bbox": [97, 924, 1134, 1030], "category": "Text", "text": "For economic viability, the sustainability and responsible practices (e.g. quality standards) targeted through Specific Objective 2 will be complementary to activities under Specific Objective 1 so that synergies are embedded from the outset, and there is systematic engagement with both input and output markets rather than a narrower focus on increasing productivity at the farmer level."}, {"bbox": [97, 1057, 1016, 1083], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives are:"}, {"bbox": [136, 1083, 1134, 1135], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1) Rural communities living in vulnerable situations become more resilient against climatic, economic and social shocks."}, {"bbox": [136, 1136, 1134, 1190], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2) MSMEs in agricultural value chains improve their resilience by adopting environmentally sustainable solutions and responsible business practices."}, {"bbox": [97, 1216, 1134, 1401], "category": "Text", "text": "Geographic priority focus for Specific Objective 1 will be both on conflict affected areas, and areas that are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis. Tentatively, these are the Delta (Ayeyarwady plus), Rakhine, Chin, the dry zone (Magway and Sagaing), the Southeast (Karen, Kayah), Shan and Kachin. Yangon may also be included if relevant to the intervention logic. For Specific Objective 2, the Action will be open to support MSMEs nationwide, with a substantial portion of the support earmarked for initiatives in commercially weaker states which are affected by the conflict. For this specific allocation, Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin and Rakhine are tentatively identified as commercially weaker states."}, {"bbox": [248, 1471, 528, 1498], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [97, 1563, 379, 1588], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1:"}, {"bbox": [97, 1590, 1134, 1643], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Improve household and community food production of women and men smallholder farmers in conflict-affected areas from a food security and climate change adaptation perspective through technical trainings,"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 27"}]