[{"bbox": [107, 160, 1135, 372], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Assist business support institutions to establish a Circular Economy Hub for the Built environment (e.g., hosted by Business Mauritius jointly with others, such as NPCC, AMM, MAA, BACECA, CIBD (now CIA), BCAC) focused on inspiring private-sector action in research, innovation, and proof of concept, piloting, upscaling, while fostering streamlined advocacy through information exchange on circular materials, product design, business models, and value chain innovation. Assist these intermediaries to help their members identify and develop projects showcasing innovative CDW prevention technologies and practices, and assist with networking and matchmaking of (public and private) business partners. Assist with developing articulation mechanism to available (incl. free) mechanisms and resources."}, {"bbox": [107, 386, 1135, 468], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Assist with case studies and matchmaking for peer-to-peer learning between business membership organisations and inspiring European counterparts (e.g. Holland Circular Hotspot, Nordic Circular Hotspot, living labs or clusters, Team Europe Initiatives on the CE, EU business membership organisations)."}, {"bbox": [107, 481, 1135, 800], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Assist key intermediaries (NPCC, Business Mauritius, others) to develop training measures for value chain actors (e.g. construction companies and contractors; demolition contractors, architects and designers; recycling facilities; waste haulers and transporters; material suppliers; research institutions and academia; NGOs and community groups). Assist with training their trainers to educate and raise awareness on circular built environment and facilitate businesses to translate CE principles into operational action (possibility based on a \"CE\" certification scheme for such trainers). Assist with the leveraging of HRDC training funds for the financing of such training measures. Such training measures would also emphasise the need for gender equality and inclusion of the most vulnerable groups including those enlisted in the Social Register which is a national dynamic database used to determine eligibility towards social assistance in the target value chains, which can lead to more decent jobs, better quality and formalisation, for example of the repair sector, the collection and segregation of waste, and more considerate outcomes, e.g., the protection of territories and biodiversity in those areas to which the most vulnerable part of the population is exposed."}, {"bbox": [107, 813, 1135, 867], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Develop and distribute model approaches, guidelines, and tools that can be applied or transferred to other value chains, ensuring broad applicability and adaptability across various industries."}, {"bbox": [97, 878, 393, 906], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Activities relating to Output 2.2"}, {"bbox": [107, 919, 1135, 1132], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Assist an intermediary organisation (e.g. Business Mauritius) to establish and maintain an observatory of funding opportunities (CE Financing Hub), that will serve as a centralized platform for collecting, analysing, and disseminating information on various financing mechanisms (both banking and non-banking finance⁴⁸), successful case studies, and emerging trends in CE project finance, identifying their financing needs (volume, equity/debt) and capacities, matching available project opportunities (small-scale, medium-sized and larger investment projects in the circular economy transition⁴⁹) with suitable funding, as well as the complementary training or technical advice to involved project owners (pitches, compilation of impact-related information) with a focus on women-led projects and projects that employ or benefit women."}, {"bbox": [107, 1145, 1135, 1253], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Technical assistance to the Ministry of Infrastructure in piloting the incorporation of sustainability criteria (circularity, inclusiveness, accessibility, climate-proof, establishing a clear definition for what constitutes a biodiversity-supportive investment) into a public procurement process (e.g. a tender) in the built environment, and in reviewing lessons learnt to inform tools/guidelines and recommendations for broader application."}, {"bbox": [107, 1266, 1135, 1426], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Assist and train accelerators/incubators/venture capital funds, and the National Social Inclusion Foundation (NSIF) with the mainstreaming of circular economy and nature-based solutions to increase the number of gender sensitive, inclusive, accessible circular economy projects, jobs, and investment opportunities led by start-ups and NGOs, including the provision of financial literacy support services, and with an emphasis on women-led initiatives. Actions for people from particularly vulnerable groups (e.g. disabled, ethnic minorities, bottom 40% of the population) as producers or consumers could be prioritised under the NSIF."}, {"bbox": [97, 1437, 393, 1465], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Activities relating to Output 2.3"}, {"bbox": [107, 1479, 1135, 1534], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Assist the CE Hub on the Built Environment with the exemplary facilitation of two demonstration initiatives, support with measuring baselines and achieved impacts."}, {"bbox": [86, 1587, 669, 1607], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴⁸ globally, on the African continent, in the Indian Ocean region, for SIDS, in Mauritius"}, {"bbox": [86, 1607, 1143, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴⁹ These may include environmental and social impact-oriented financing options (climate finance, conservation finance) and instruments for blended finance mechanisms (in kind land/expertise; ecosystem services pay; carbon credit mechanisms, etc.)."}, {"bbox": [1023, 1680, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 38"}]