[{"bbox": [81, 146, 1169, 1452], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th>(High/<br>Medium/<br>Low)</th><th>(High/<br>Medium/<br>Low)</th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Political pressure on the Ombudsperson Institute and the NCPT, affecting their independence, ability to implement their mandate and the security of tenure of their Heads</td><td>High</td><td>Medium</td><td>Awareness raising and advocacy about the advantages of strong national human rights institutions.<br>Legislative support to strengthen the independence of the Ombudsperson Institute in line with the Paris Principles embedded in the Action.<br>Political dialogue with government representatives.</td></tr><tr><td>External environment</td><td>Growing influence of radicalisation and/or Conservative approach of state actors with limited to no openness to engage the community residents, especially women and youth</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Engage religious leaders, and traditionalist groups at local and central level in the dialogues through 'positive deviants' among these groups. Open invitation and safe space for key actors (government, local authorities etc) and civil society on jointly searching for new effective ways of planning and operations, including through direct partnership with central level authorities, such as Ministry of Economy, etc.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Significant deterioration in the overall human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, affecting the ability of the NCPT and the Ombudsperson Institute to fulfil their mandates</td><td>Medium</td><td>Low</td><td>Both national human rights institutions have worked in a period (the last five years) marked by a deterioration in the overall human rights situation, so certain coping mechanisms are in place (at least at the NCPT). Reinforcing the Ombudsperson Institute legal basis may be expected to partially mitigate this risk.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Shrinking civic space due to legislative changes, coupled by massive attacks on civil society actors might affect on gender equality, persons with disabilities and youth CSOs.</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Dialogue and joint actions by civil society and state actors to prevent from reverse negative effects. Capacity building of civil society organisations on how to protect the Women, Youth, Persons with disabilities, and Human Rights as well as on how to groom a new generation of actors. Facilitate the creation of new engagement platforms between the state actors and civil society organisations and groups.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 1453, 252, 1476], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 1498, 1162, 1639], "category": "Text", "text": "Awareness raising and advocacy about the advantages of strong national human rights institutions will be a main element of this action. Also, legislative support to strengthen the independence of the Ombudsperson Institute in line with the Paris Principles is embedded in the action. Political pressures which affect the ability of the institutions to protect human rights should be countered by advocacy targeting policy and decision-makers at the highest level, based on existing international human rights obligations (inter alia OPCAT), UPR and other UN human rights mechanisms'"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 14 of 28"}]