[{"bbox": [99, 152, 1134, 234], "category": "Text", "text": "(BDS) providers, Business Membership Organisations (BMOs), and research institutes will be targeted. These will provide technical services and advice to businesses willing to invest in more sustainable and gender-responsive practices and technologies."}, {"bbox": [99, 243, 1134, 351], "category": "Text", "text": "**Sri Lankan government authorities (duty-bearers):** The Ministry of Agriculture is the lead ministry for the implementation of activities, including its various departments. Other Ministries will be included for certain activities, e.g. the Ministry of Education for the school activities; the Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, and Local Government for the cooperation with local Government actors."}, {"bbox": [99, 363, 1134, 550], "category": "Text", "text": "**Schools - teachers and students (as rights-holders)**, will be at the core of activities related to promoting nature based and sustainable agriculture practices. For improving the capacity of school children on sustainable agriculture and fostering entrepreneurial skills, school students, principals, teachers, and parents, among others, will be covered by this action. Technical Development Service providers will provide technical support in developing digital tools and enhancing the capacity of stakeholders in maintaining the digital tools. Effective use of social media platform will be made for wide diffusion of knowledge and experience and accessibility will be taken into account to attend the specific needs of students with disabilities, if relevant."}, {"bbox": [99, 560, 1134, 643], "category": "Text", "text": "**Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)** will play a key role in the intervention, particularly in coordinating the logistics of the intervention along with creating awareness about accessible and gender-responsive nature-based school programmes."}, {"bbox": [99, 652, 1134, 761], "category": "Text", "text": "**Women headed households (as rights-holders)**, practicing agriculture, will be at the core of activities related to establishing and maintaining productive home production (e.g. gardens). Capacity building, provision of inputs, improving market linkages and promoting meaningful participation in additional income-generating activities will be covered by this action."}, {"bbox": [85, 785, 480, 810], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [85, 824, 475, 853], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [96, 877, 1134, 955], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Overall Objective (OO)** is to support the transition to green economic growth, ensuring inclusive sustainable consumption and production practices, poverty alleviation, food security and nutrition, especially for youth and women."}, {"bbox": [96, 969, 1134, 1024], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Specific Objective(s) (SOs)** is to catalyse a shift to more sustainable and environmentally responsible agricultural practices in selected value chains and with special attention to youth (school children) and women."}, {"bbox": [96, 1035, 572, 1063], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Outputs** to be delivered by this action include:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1074, 1108, 1129], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 1:** Increased application of sustainable agricultural production practices capacity by small-scale maize producers;"}, {"bbox": [96, 1139, 1010, 1168], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 2:** Increased number of sustainable agricultural production school programmes established;"}, {"bbox": [96, 1179, 1073, 1233], "category": "Text", "text": "**Output 3:** Improved capacity of women for practicing sustainable home-based production, processing and marketing."}, {"bbox": [96, 1244, 423, 1272], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will indicatively target:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1283, 1055, 1312], "category": "Text", "text": "* regarding Output 1, farmers in the maize growing areas in the dry and intermediate zones of Sri Lanka ³;"}, {"bbox": [96, 1322, 1086, 1404], "category": "Text", "text": "* regarding output 2, schools in the locations covered by Output 1 as well as locations in the central highlands which are targeted by the parallel AAP 2024 Action \"Fostering Sustainable Economic Recovery through Improved Biodiversity and Sustainable Waste Management\";"}, {"bbox": [96, 1414, 1113, 1470], "category": "Text", "text": "* and Output 3 will target the vulnerable population in the same priority areas as for Outputs 1 and 2, which may be complemented by others depending on needs, e.g. women headed households in ex-conflict areas."}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 931, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ Including indicatively Anuradhapura, Ampara, Badulla, Moneragala, Matale and Batticaloa districts"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1660, 1145, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 19"}]