[{"bbox": [284, 152, 474, 524], "category": "Text", "text": "government and the\nlegal personality of\nthe government's\npolitical party,\nweaken the\ncapacity of the new\nauthorities to\nimplement their\nplans and advance a\nbroader\ngovernability and\ngood governance\nagenda."}, {"bbox": [93, 567, 253, 591], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [93, 620, 1161, 728], "category": "Text", "text": "While Guatemala benefited during decades from substantial grant funds from the European Union, there has been a significant reduction of financial resources allocated to the country during the last programming cycle. This makes it even more important to take into consideration valuable past experiences and lessons learnt, to maximise the impact and effectiveness of our current support."}, {"bbox": [131, 752, 1161, 805], "category": "List-item", "text": "* It is necessary to avoid financing of small individual and ad hoc interventions with no or limited impact and focus on actions aligned with joint national and EU priorities that can bring about structural changes."}, {"bbox": [131, 806, 1161, 858], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The support measures need to have sufficient flexibility to respond to the needs that are identified and respond to common priorities in all areas of the GGIA and present in the MIP 2021-2027,"}, {"bbox": [131, 858, 1161, 1017], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Despite efforts on communicating results in all the projects funded in the country, there are still big sectors of the population that are not aware of many of the achievements accomplished through EU assistance. In order to further strength visibility and communication activities, ensure constant presence of EU activity in media and social networks and effectively explain EU policy priorities to the population, it is necessary to plan activities of communication in advance, that would cover the emblematic dates of Human Rights as well as the overall range of activities of the EU Delegation in Guatemala,"}, {"bbox": [131, 1018, 1161, 1204], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The Public Administration Support Facility (PASF) currently under its final evaluation, aimed at institutional strengthening of public finances, coordination and monitoring of public policies, and participation of Guatemala in the EU-Central America Association Agreement has shown that well-targeted and demand-driven assistance achieves process improvement, capacity building and prepares the public administration for a more active participation in EU cooperation actions. In this regard, the first component of the action will follow the same approach as PASF, offering the main stakeholders targeted technical assistance and support based on their weaknesses and needs to achieve the expected results."}, {"bbox": [93, 1228, 644, 1255], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Regarding Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy:"}, {"bbox": [131, 1280, 1161, 1333], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Through the communication & visibility contract, the EUD built a strong corporate image essentially oriented to cooperation priorities."}, {"bbox": [131, 1333, 1161, 1413], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Visibility has been essentially linked to specific cooperation programmes or projects, need to be more demanding with our beneficiaries in particular with the UN agencies to accord the necessary visibility to EU actions implemented by other agencies."}, {"bbox": [93, 1437, 1161, 1521], "category": "Text", "text": "The current Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy will facilitate a more solid and articulated strategy and a closer integration of Commission and EEAS actions. However, need to articulate the EU Strategic Communication within the EUD (Cooperation Section and Political Section) and outside (EUD + MS) on a long-term strategic horizon."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 17"}]