[{"bbox": [96, 153, 1134, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "hence their livelihood opportunities, the Action will contribute to decreasing inequalities. Women-headed households will be given particular attention, as well as youth."}, {"bbox": [96, 219, 1134, 299], "category": "Text", "text": "As mentioned above, in horticultural farms 80% of the unskilled workforce is made up of women. The intervention will include activities related to prevention of gender-based violence at the workplace, as well as equal pay and equal access to management posts for women."}, {"bbox": [96, 310, 1134, 365], "category": "Text", "text": "Women, girls and people at risk of exclusion (especially internally displaced persons) will furthermore be targeted as beneficiaries and empowered to foster their active contribution to the PURE sector development."}, {"bbox": [96, 376, 1134, 535], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will furthermore play a role in ensuring compliance with workers' rights. Workers are usually unprotected with very low salaries, no access to health services and have to work under conditions that do not respect health and safety provisions. Ensuring compliance with European due diligence legislation as well and with other legal provisions will mitigate this problem. The Action will moreover apply a do no harm approach promoting participation, particularly of disadvantaged groups, and will aim at integrating conflict management systems into the local communities."}, {"bbox": [96, 554, 211, 580], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [96, 592, 1134, 672], "category": "Text", "text": "A human rights-based approach was followed in the design of the present action, and the five principles will further be applied in the formulation and implementation of the project: participation, accountability, non-discrimination, transparency and legality."}, {"bbox": [96, 690, 488, 716], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [96, 728, 1134, 836], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed action will apply a do no harm and conflict sensitivity approach to ensure that all processes and actions minimise negative and maximise positive effects within a given context, ensuring that no particular region or ethnicity is receiving more support than others - to the extent possible - (in line with the Do No Harm principle), while maintaining due consideration for the needs of the population."}, {"bbox": [96, 847, 1134, 1008], "category": "Text", "text": "Given that the locations of implementation of the Action include conflict prone areas, every effort will be made to follow a conflict-sensitive approach throughout all stages of project implementation. It will pursue a strategy of multi-stakeholder participation, seeking to strengthen existing systems, structures and capacities at local and national level. This will include ensuring that efforts are articulated in coherence with existing national policy frameworks, such as the National Policy and Strategy on Disaster Risk Management, as well as local customary conflict resolution practices."}, {"bbox": [96, 1025, 337, 1049], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [96, 1062, 1134, 1223], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Policy and Strategy on Disaster Risk Management (NPDRM) provides direction for dealing with response, preparedness and prevention of multi-hazards and disaster risks in the country. The strategy envisions reducing the impact of disasters through the establishment of a comprehensive and integrated DRM system within the context of sustainable development and the decentralization agenda. The interventions under this action strongly consider the mainstreaming of Disaster Risk Management in terms of promoting climate resistance agriculture with availability of drought resistant/adaptable varieties in drought prone areas."}, {"bbox": [96, 1240, 412, 1265], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Other considerations if relevant"}, {"bbox": [96, 1279, 193, 1303], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Nutrition"}, {"bbox": [96, 1312, 1134, 1445], "category": "Text", "text": "Enhanced nutrition of children under 5 years of age and women of reproductive age is an additional important outcome of this Action, aimed at increasing food security in general. Nutrition is furthermore mainstreamed in all the agriculture related activities, such as in the selection of the crops for which innovation projects will be supported, and on targeting primarily female-headed households with many children as well as in integrating prevention of GBV in output 3 of this intervention."}, {"bbox": [96, 1457, 168, 1483], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Digital"}, {"bbox": [96, 1495, 1125, 1602], "category": "Text", "text": "Digital technologies are used to leverage the Action's effect on supporting Ethiopia's agro-food systems. As such, digital solutions will be integrated to improve several components of the action, such as sustainable food systems development (cf. EUDR compliance & data-driven decision-making) and accelerating/facilitating the integration of agri-business value chains. In addition, digital solutions will be mobilised to address the reduction"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 34"}]