[{"bbox": [97, 154, 1135, 235], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support the provincial and municipal authorities to establish comprehensive solid waste management monitoring systems, including tools to smooth the progress of fiscalisation¹⁵ of waste operators' performance and a provincial exchanges platform to share experiences, best practices and lessons learnt."}, {"bbox": [97, 236, 1135, 290], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Develop a waste management value chain data collection system (supply and demand sides) on the recycling supply chains to track market information, waste flows and related PESGRU's implementation outcomes."}, {"bbox": [97, 290, 1135, 372], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support the setup of a coordination instrument involving all the actors (key governmental authorities, public and private operators, citizens representatives, business customers, development partners) to share experiences and issue policy and regulatory recommendations."}, {"bbox": [97, 375, 398, 403], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 3.1."}, {"bbox": [97, 405, 584, 433], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Conduct a private waste sector market screening."}, {"bbox": [97, 434, 630, 461], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Carry out a plastic circularity opportunity assessment."}, {"bbox": [97, 462, 783, 489], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Conduct a Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) market opportunity assessment."}, {"bbox": [97, 493, 398, 521], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 3.2."}, {"bbox": [97, 522, 1135, 576], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Evaluation and structuring of appropriate mechanisms and subsidy needed for the establishment of a facility to cover viability gap funding for private sector participation in waste infrastructure projects."}, {"bbox": [97, 577, 1135, 631], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Implementation of the mechanisms to cover viability gap funding for private sector participation in waste infrastructure projects."}, {"bbox": [97, 632, 414, 659], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Financing of the first projects."}, {"bbox": [97, 663, 398, 691], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 4.1."}, {"bbox": [97, 692, 1135, 746], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Conduct awareness raising campaigns on the advantages of joining and/or setting up formal associations, cooperatives and MSMEs."}, {"bbox": [97, 747, 1135, 801], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Propose simplified legal and/or financial statutes for waste-picking and aggregating activities as a way to formalise the activity offering advantages."}, {"bbox": [97, 802, 1135, 882], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support financial institutions to develop lending and financing products, sensitisation materials and trainings, for MSMEs, associations and cooperatives working in solid waste management with special incentives to those led by women."}, {"bbox": [97, 883, 1135, 937], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Set up a credit line, fiscal incentives, and support the execution of local pilot projects where associations, cooperatives or local MSMEs can launch operations (with special incentives to the women-led entities)."}, {"bbox": [97, 938, 1135, 991], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Provide trainings for members of associations, cooperatives and MSMEs (finance management, managerial skills, digital abilities, business planning, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [97, 996, 398, 1024], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 4.2."}, {"bbox": [97, 1025, 1135, 1078], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Map and assess the capacity and readiness of financial institutions to support market-based solutions for the uptake of circular economy business models and/or their deployment in line with the market (demand/offer)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1079, 1135, 1158], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Establish clear rules of the game between voluntary organisations, associations, cooperatives, MSMEs and anchor firms / private operators (e.g. including a mandatory percentage of active women for the organisations to benefit from contracts, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1160, 1135, 1241], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Provide a technical and legal support as well as a mediation platform to collectors, aggregators, associations, cooperatives and MSMEs, to establish a legal, fair and transparent contracting with anchor firms / private operators."}, {"bbox": [97, 1242, 1135, 1321], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Create the formal business opportunities for these cooperatives/associations (e.g. by enforcing waste management enterprises to only work with formal sector and/or require they do subcontract to them part of their activities)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1327, 1135, 1435], "category": "Text", "text": "The commitment of the EU's contribution to the Team Europe Initiative (TEI) to which this action refers, will be complemented by other contributions from Team Europe members. It is subject to the formal confirmation of each respective member's meaningful contribution as early as possible. In case the TEIs and/or these contributions do not materialise, the EU action may continue outside a TEI framework."}, {"bbox": [82, 1454, 309, 1485], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 1507, 544, 1535], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [97, 1539, 1135, 1593], "category": "Text", "text": "Environmental protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation are central objectives of the transition towards a green and circular economy and are the main focus of the Action. Fully in line with the European Green"}, {"bbox": [86, 1623, 624, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁵ Fiscalisation means ensuring the fulfilment of the terms of a contract."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 26"}]