[{"bbox": [85, 153, 1123, 313], "category": "Text", "text": "development: clean energy, energy efficiency and climate change. In addition, the action will support the negotiations of trade and investments agreement which will allow for environmental and social concerns to be adequately addressed/taken into account during the negotiations. The initiative will also reinforce the EU Circular Economy Action Plan particularly in terms of contributing to the reduction of harmful environmental and health practises/impacts. Finally, the enhanced cooperation on innovation and digitalisation will directly contribute to promoting more efficient technologies and processes in sectors related to the green transition."}, {"bbox": [85, 338, 626, 366], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [85, 366, 1123, 605], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that Gender equality is an important and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the programme. On one hand it will promote the participation of women from relevant ministries, private sector organisations and networks, and CSOs in workshops and events to ensure equal opportunity is provided to women stakeholders to learn and contribute to the various policy discussions. On the other hand, the project will encourage and support EU's line DGs, India's ministries (Energy; Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Commerce and Industry) and local stakeholders to undertake specific gender analysis (impact of international trade on gender equality in the context of trade negotiation e.g.), foster gender-transformative policies and identify specific gender equality activities."}, {"bbox": [85, 661, 232, 688], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [85, 689, 1123, 875], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed action will emphasise and promote compliance with UN/ILO convention and EU fundamental values including that of “no one is left behind’. The action will reinforce active engagement with CSOs and private sector organisations in policy dialogue and development processes, advocating a participatory and inclusive approach. Efforts will be made to include representatives of the populations living in the most vulnerable and marginalised situations. This will be of particular relevance in terms of consultations on climate change, energy but also on trade and investment. The action will also aim to promote human rights due diligence standards among businesses and their supply chains."}, {"bbox": [85, 879, 183, 906], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [85, 907, 1114, 1013], "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 does not have a focus on disability, at main or significant objective level. However as the action promotes inclusive development and adopts ‘no one leave behind approach’, people affected by disability will indirectly benefits from the action and will not be discriminated on any grounds."}, {"bbox": [85, 1044, 331, 1071], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [85, 1071, 1123, 1177], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the Inequality Marker, the Action Document has been labelled as an I-1. The overall objective of the Action is to advance women's economic empowerment in India, and this is aimed to be done through strengthening economic and social rights for women and girls in India, including on the bottom 40 per cent/socioeconomically disadvantaged female population."}, {"bbox": [85, 1202, 1123, 1363], "category": "Text", "text": "Even though poverty rates have been declining over the past years in India, inequality has been rising. According to a 2017 OXFAM study, the top 10% of the Indian population holds 77% of the total national wealth. 73% of the wealth generated in 2017 went to the richest 1%, while 670 million Indians who comprise the poorest half of the population saw only a 1% increase in their wealth. India ranks 132 out of 191 countries and territories on the 2021/22 Human Development Index, with a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.633, it decreases to 0.475 when adjusting the HDI to inequality (IHDI)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1388, 1123, 1628], "category": "Text", "text": "India continues to display poor performance when looking at Gender Equality and Women Empowerment indicators. Women political representation is low - as of February 2021, only 14.4% of seats in parliament were held by women, and women's Labour Force Participation (LFP) has been declining over the past 20 years. In India, gender inequality runs deep and intersects with other forms of exclusion and inequalities based on caste, religion, cultural ethnicity, wealth and income, marital status, sexual identity and disability. Culture, norms and beliefs are patriarchal in nature and act as barriers to Gender Equality and Women Economic Empowerment. By addressing directly gender inequalities, the action will also apply the 'leaving no one behind' principle to ensure that women and girls targeted by the action are not excluded on the basis of their religion, social, marital and disability status, or ethnicity, etc"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 24"}]