[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1157, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "through the WDCs. Women and youth will also be specific beneficiaries of the funds that will be made available for innovative nature-based solutions to resource use issues, and for sustainable economic development activities."}, {"bbox": [97, 231, 1157, 286], "category": "Text", "text": "The activities are in line with the priorities identified in the Country-Level Implementation Plan (CLIP) for the Maldives under the Gender Action Plan (GAP) III, specifically:"}, {"bbox": [97, 286, 1157, 471], "category": "Text", "text": "* **Objective 02:** Strategies and agreements on climate mitigation, adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity are more gender-responsive, at local, national and regional and international level, taking into account the role of women in managing these natural resources. Women will participate at local level in making decisions around and benefiting from the management of natural resources and promotion of biodiversity conservation, including by capacitating WDCs, women's participation in Island and Atoll Councils, and in multi-stakeholder platforms for sustainable management of natural resources and innovative nature-based solutions for green economic development (e.g., Biodiversity Platforms)."}, {"bbox": [97, 471, 1157, 551], "category": "Text", "text": "* **Objective 03:** Women, men, girls and boys, in all their diversity, addressing climate change in their daily lives and preserving the natural environment are supported. The preservation of the natural environment and addressing climate change are key aspects of both Overall and Specific Objectives of the project."}, {"bbox": [97, 551, 1157, 604], "category": "Text", "text": "* **Objective 04:** Women in all their diversity increasingly participate in and have improved access to jobs, entrepreneurship opportunities in the green economy and the circular economy."}, {"bbox": [97, 604, 1157, 657], "category": "Text", "text": "This objective will be targeted through the Specific Objective 1. and its Output 1.2, 1.3 regarding innovative sustainable development activities."}, {"bbox": [97, 688, 242, 715], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [97, 715, 1157, 874], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action includes the protection, promotion and fulfilment of human rights by building the capacity of duty-bearers, i.e. the local state institutions of island and atoll councils, as well as empowering rights holders, i.e. local communities, to collaborate toward project objectives through multi-stakeholder processes (See Output 1.3 as well as Specific Objective 3.). A human rights-based approach will be adopted, i.e., access to a cleaner environment with increased responsibility for the sustainable use of natural resources through participatory decision making and better public access to information."}, {"bbox": [97, 874, 1157, 954], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action in its interventions will pay attention to the situation of persons living in the most vulnerable and marginalised situations (persons living in poverty, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, persons belonging to ethnic minorities, etc.) It shall leave no one behind throughout the programme cycle and the design process."}, {"bbox": [97, 985, 194, 1012], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [97, 1012, 1157, 1118], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this Action is labelled as D0. This implies that the Action is not considered directly relevant as regards the inclusion of persons with disabilities. Nonetheless, when possible the Action is going to invite the organisations representing persons with disabilities and the envisaged interventions will be as much as possible disability responsive and inclusive."}, {"bbox": [97, 1144, 341, 1171], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [97, 1171, 1157, 1277], "category": "Text", "text": "Apart from the reduction of gender inequalities described above in the document, the Action may specifically target the northern parts of the Maldives being a geographically remote and economically disadvantaged region of the island and atoll state. The geographic focus will be determined during the inception phase, and will be guided by criteria to reduce inequalities."}, {"bbox": [97, 1308, 209, 1335], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [97, 1335, 1157, 1389], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action is designed to ensure meaningful and inclusive participation accessible to all of rights holders, including through governance and complaints/accountability structures, and supports local democracy."}, {"bbox": [97, 1414, 485, 1441], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [97, 1441, 1157, 1574], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed Action aims to strengthen the resilience of households, communities and local state institutions (island and atoll councils, WDCs) to progress toward SDG goals around biodiversity conservation and waste management. The Action specifically addresses environmental and economic fragility by protecting coral reefs in a target area at an economic disadvantage because it is geographically remote, using a 'do good' approach. The planned Action is not in a conflict-affected area, though the Maldives context in general has a risk of extremism."}, {"bbox": [97, 1604, 334, 1631], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 24"}]