[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1135, 340], "category": "Text", "text": "and livestock, climate resilient post-harvest and value addition facilities and technologies, strengthened crop management practices, sustainable land use management practices, irrigation and water management) and mitigation (actions linked to fertilisers efficiency, soil conservation, improved livestock management, compost production). So far, no studies have been conducted on the impact of climate change on persons with disabilities in Rwanda. However, there are some indications of disproportionate burden of climate change and associated extreme weather events on various aspects of life of PWDs¹⁷. The action will contribute to meaningful and equal participation and leadership of women in climate adaptation and mitigation policy and decision-making."}, {"bbox": [96, 364, 644, 392], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls:**"}, {"bbox": [96, 392, 1135, 631], "category": "Text", "text": "This action is labelled as G2. This implies that gender equality is the principal objective of the action. Despite progress made in the last decade in skills development and notably in the agriculture sector, poverty of women is a major outstanding challenge for gender equality, and women continue to be under-represented in economic life. Women have restricted access to skills development initiatives, productive resources such as land, finance, credit and markets, and disparities exist in terms of literacy rates. The Action will be implemented through a set of gender transformative approaches to holistically support women skills development in the agriculture sector, tackling structural barriers such as customary and social constraints preventing women in Rwanda from accessing land ownership, in order to help them gradually shift from subsistence farming to a market-oriented agriculture and open for other arising agriculture opportunities for women."}, {"bbox": [96, 635, 244, 662], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Human Rights**"}, {"bbox": [96, 662, 1135, 954], "category": "Text", "text": "According to the EU and Member States' Human Rights and Democracy Country Strategy for Rwanda, the intention is to pursue a continuous political and policy dialogue with the Government to support their plans for improved access to food and the fight against malnutrition which are addressed in the strategic plans from several ministries and advocate for their readiness to work together since most of the solutions to address these problems are interlinked. As rights-holders, efforts will be made to ensure that farmers are aware of their rights with regards to access to resources (incl. land, water, seeds, etc.), national laws and regulations linked to agricultural production, markets etc., state agricultural and rural support schemes and the possibilities to claim these rights. The Action will aim to ensure that authorities, as duty bearers, are aware of their obligations to fulfil national and international laws and regulations to skills development and decent working conditions. Efforts will be made to ensure the Government of Rwanda can fulfil its obligation to ensure that the population, women, men, girls and boys in all their diversity, has physical and economic access to skills training, leaving no one behind."}, {"bbox": [96, 958, 196, 985], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Disability**"}, {"bbox": [96, 985, 1123, 1064], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. This implies that the action is considered relevant for inclusion of persons with disabilities. It will include people with disability and will ensure social inclusion runs as a red line throughout the action."}, {"bbox": [96, 1064, 1133, 1251], "category": "Text", "text": "Rwanda ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2008. The Rwanda Population and Housing Census of 2012 estimated that 446,453 people aged five years and above had different types of disabilities, 50.4% and 49.6% of whom were female and male, respectively. Promoting the rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is engrained in Rwanda's inclusive and sustainable development agenda. OPDs (Organizations of Persons with Disabilities) (are often consulted on matters affecting persons with disabilities directly – for example the National Disability Policy but largely excluded on general-population matters – for example the Social Protection Policy.¹⁸"}, {"bbox": [96, 1255, 344, 1282], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Reduction of inequalities**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1282, 1135, 1442], "category": "Text", "text": "The aim of the action will be to increase access to agriculture skills trainings, for men and women in all their diversity to participate equally in all parts of the value chain, and to work in collaboration with men to improve their agricultural productivity and economic empowerment. In addition, the action also aims at increasing productivity of the private sector (through modernized infrastructure/equipment and upgraded skills) and creating a gender-responsive business environment, which should in turn contribute to the economic strengthening of (poor) farmer workers, in particular women, and uplift them."}, {"bbox": [96, 1446, 212, 1473], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Democracy**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1473, 1135, 1553], "category": "Text", "text": "A bottom-up, participatory approach to decision making in the agriculture sector and skills development is essential. Building on EU's past approach regarding the agricultural sector, efforts will continue to ensure participatory policy making, and that the voices of farmers, in particular women and women's organisations, are"}, {"bbox": [86, 1597, 1026, 1622], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ Source: Situation Analysis of The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rwanda. UNPRPD Country Report 2021"}, {"bbox": [86, 1621, 1026, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ Source: Situation Analysis of The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rwanda. UNPRPD Country Report 2021"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 32"}]