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More specifically, it develops specific activities to promote gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment for gender transformative change by increasing access to RE and EE solutions."}, {"bbox": [84, 343, 483, 371], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA)"}, {"bbox": [84, 382, 1147, 596], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will design dedicated activities and allocate resources for governance intervention and adopt the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) and its five working principles: 1) applying all human rights for all; 2) meaningful and inclusive participation and access to decision-making; 3) non-discrimination and equality; 4) accountability and rule of law for all; and 5) transparency and access to information supported by disaggregated data. It will ensure specific activities targeting women-led groups and cooperatives, giving them the opportunity to address renewable energy needs and products that will bring significant changes in their living conditions. The Action will have dedicated governance activities to work with duty bearers (supply side) and right holders (demand side) in governance."}, {"bbox": [84, 607, 1147, 768], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action is to extend support to the energy sector, which needs to respect Free, Prior and Informed Consent approach as well as the displacement of people and properties, especially Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and persons with disabilities. Therefore, the Actions will ensure that they will have negligible or very limited impact on IPs, mitigate negative impacts, foster respect for human rights, dignity, and culture of IPs, and promote development benefits by developing appropriate activities during the design phase of the action, including ensuring Free, Prior and Informed Consent where applicable."}, {"bbox": [84, 779, 181, 807], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [84, 817, 1147, 952], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in Section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1. The Action will develop specific activities during the design phase to include persons with disabilities, following the principles of leaving no one behind throughout the programme cycle. The Action will allocate resources and design dedicated activities to increase access for women, DAG to green energy solutions including the creation of inclusive spaces that foster the active participation of all groups."}, {"bbox": [84, 963, 329, 991], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [84, 1001, 1147, 1057], "category": "Text", "text": "By aiming at an improved access to energy for the marginalised communities, this programme will reduce inequalities."}, {"bbox": [84, 1068, 197, 1096], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [84, 1106, 1147, 1267], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will enhance communication, participation, and feedback throughout the implementation of the action in order to ensure meaningful and inclusive participation of the rights holders. Their voice and participation will be increased so that they are able to influence local government in the allocation of resources and implementation in a responsive manner, such that the Action will enable right holders to have stronger governance at the three levels of government, increased and effective oversight functions, and become meaningful partners in the dialogue with government."}, {"bbox": [84, 1277, 1147, 1493], "category": "Text", "text": "Further, the Action builds on the recommendations of the conflict sensitivity analysis conducted by the EU Delegation in 2021 and will address key recommendations such as using incentives to promote win-win solutions, harnessing the potential of innovation and new technologies to improve equitable access to resources, promoting inter-group collaboration, dialogue, and sharing, strengthening community-centred climate change resilience, and reducing conflict over natural resources while ensuring social cohesion amongst various social groups and between the citizen and the state. There will be a functional complaints responsive mechanism to deal with grievances in a timely manner, and the action will enhance communities, including minority groups, for feedback and communications during the identification and execution phases."}, {"bbox": [84, 1502, 1147, 1558], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action also relevant to mitigate horizontal inequalities and promote a participatory and inclusive model of development."}, {"bbox": [892, 1627, 1010, 1651], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 22"}]