[{"bbox": [97, 141, 1160, 196], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 2:** Improved resilience among target population groups to prepare for, respond to, and reduce the risk of shocks caused by climate change, and natural hazards and disasters."}, {"bbox": [97, 208, 519, 235], "category": "Text", "text": "**Indicative Activities include among others:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 235, 1160, 315], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support socio-economic development and livelihood programmes including basic services related to food security, health, education and water, sanitation and hygiene, that empower youth, women and girls, and IPs and strengthen the resilience of persons living in vulnerable situations."}, {"bbox": [97, 314, 1125, 341], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Link BARMM's community socio-economic enterprises to the whole of Mindanao's domestic value chains."}, {"bbox": [97, 341, 1160, 420], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Ensure that aqua- and agriculture economic development programmes include ways to make farmers and fishermen and their communities more climate-resilient with an emphasis on marginalised persons and communities living in vulnerable situations."}, {"bbox": [97, 420, 1160, 500], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Strengthen existing community-based organisations and mechanisms focused on identifying risks, preventing, and responding to shocks caused by climate change natural hazards and disasters and link them to LGU risk reduction strategies."}, {"bbox": [97, 500, 1160, 633], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Partner with or support research including graduate students and professors at the local universities in BARMM and Mindanao on topics related to environmental protection, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and land and natural resource management including, for example, data collection and analysis of the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change and environmental degradation to inform gender-responsive policies and action in the region."}, {"bbox": [97, 633, 1160, 819], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support political, economic and social rights of IP women in Mindanao Crosscutting set up a Nexus Response Mechanism - Conflict Analysis and Research facility (NRM - CAR). This independent facility could be responsible for ensuring third-party monitoring and reporting from a gender- and conflict-sensitive, environmental protection and climate change impacts perspective. The facility would also be responsible for providing similar services in relation to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Outcomes 1 and 2. This mechanism will link to existing research institutes and think tanks to avoid overlap with existing work and to ensure complimentarity."}, {"bbox": [100, 832, 342, 864], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 879, 1160, 1170], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action is based on a comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis of the context, capacities, risks and vulnerabilities. For example, a conflict analysis was conducted in 2022 and a team consisting of justice, governance, private sector, gender and vulnerable groups, and post-conflict development experts conducted additional assessments in 2023 to ensure that the Action and its components integrate a resilience approach, are conflict-sensitive, take into account conflict prevention and peacebuilding, and are guided by the principles of “do no harm” and gender equality and women empowerment. Gender and conflict sensitivity will be mainstreamed throughout the implementation and evaluation process, using gender-disaggregated data and gender-sensitive indicators. The needs, rights and challenges faced by people living in vulnerable situations, including women, children and youth, IPs, PWDs, IDPs, people living in poverty, especially extremely poor and in lon- term poverty, and persons living in natural hazard-prone and conflict-affected areas and areas exposed to climate change impacts will also be mainstreamed."}, {"bbox": [97, 1183, 1160, 1477], "category": "Text", "text": "**Environmental Protection & Climate Change:** In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change, the 2007 Lisbon Treaty, and other EU policies, environmental protection and climate change will be mainstreamed throughout the programme cycle including the programming, identification and formulation, implementation, and evaluation phases. This Action is not likely to have adverse impacts on the environment, nor will it result in significant emission of greenhouse gases or the degradation of carbon sinks. The feasibility and effectiveness of the Action is not vulnerable to environmental degradation or climate variability and climate change. The Action will seize opportunities to maximise environmental benefits by enhancing ecosystems through nature-based solutions whenever possible. It will also seize opportunities to contribute to low-carbon development, build climate resilience and it will seek opportunities to contribute to disaster risk reduction including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). The environmental and climate risk screening indicated that neither a SEA, an Environmental Impact Assessment nor a Climate Risk Assessment are required."}, {"bbox": [97, 1487, 1160, 1596], "category": "Text", "text": "**Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls:** As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is a significant crosscutting objective and will be applied throughout the programme cycle including the programming, identification and formulation, implementation, and evaluation phases. Recognizing the long-term benefits of"}, {"bbox": [983, 1636, 1100, 1662], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 28"}]