[{"bbox": [136, 160, 1134, 294], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Secondary construction material value chain support: Technical assistance to help specific value chain actors organise, digitalise, ensure traceability and compliance, and facilitate access to secondary materials of the built environment. Assistance will be in particular directed towards communities, cooperatives, rural and vulnerable areas, and particularly women, that can take advantage of the emergence of platforms trading in secondary construction materials."}, {"bbox": [136, 306, 1134, 548], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Private or public-private alliance to prevent and decrease the negative impacts from waste on the ecosystem/biodiversity, while offsetting high emissions from carbon intensive industries: Technical assistance to help the CIA (or CIBD in the event that the CIA is not yet operational or alternatively another suitable public or private entity to be defined) with the establishment of a registry of buildings and demolition projects detailing resources and waste type estimates, to support a private or public-private mechanism to facilitate collection of CDW including from uncontrolled dumpsites, to organise logistics of CDW, the segregation of different waste types to serve as feedstock for innovative secondary material valorisation projects by specific companies (e.g., in cement production, in road construction), to support with advocacy and standards development where applicable."}, {"bbox": [86, 606, 312, 637], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [86, 655, 1145, 740], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will support the transformation from a traditional linear to a more circular model and constitute a steppingstone towards attaining a climate-neutral, resource-efficient and competitive economy, which is inclusive and gender equal."}, {"bbox": [86, 747, 1145, 1004], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action contributes principally to SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) – exemplarily applied to the built environment value chain, which contributes to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure). It aims to achieve the benefits that are implied in the CE concept when implemented at upstream value chains level, regarding its positive environmental impact in terms of climate mitigation and climate adaptation/ resilience – SDG 13 (Climate Action) – and biodiversity/ ecosystem protection or restoration both on land and in water resources – SDG 15 (Life on Land), SDG 14 (Life below Water), and its positive social impact in terms of inclusiveness, gender equality, jobs creation – SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic growth), SDG 1 (No poverty). The Action will coordinate with the EU MS in a Team Europe Approach and create complementarities to other development partners: SDG 17 (Partnership for the Goals)."}, {"bbox": [86, 1010, 1145, 1239], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action is aligned with the international dimension of the EU Green Deal, and the EU commitment to “build back better” and will contribute to the Global Europe targets on climate change and to Global Gateway priorities on climate, energy, education, and innovation. The action will contribute to environmental sustainability, lower carbon emission and greater resilience by translating Mauritius commitments taken at the UNFCCC and UNCBD into concrete actions that incorporate the circular economy principles. The Action will demonstrate how the EU supports partners to engage in the EU Circular Economy Action Plan and other EU Green Deal policies and fosters opportunities for several Member States and EU private sector in terms of investment, transfer of technology, academic cooperation, etc."}, {"bbox": [86, 1245, 1145, 1646], "category": "Text", "text": "At policy level, the Action will support gender-responsive policies that promote gender equality and women's empowerment and will support the participation of women associations in the dialogue mechanisms (e.g., Business Women Association, the Federation of Women Association). This will facilitate advocacy for gender-inclusive policies addressing gender-specific challenges, notably in the agriculture, waste prevention and management, handicraft and renewable energy sectors where women play significant roles. At meso level, the Action will contribute addressing systemic barriers hindering women's participation in the circular economy (access to finance, land rights, and training measures). At micro-level, the Action will contribute harnessing the circular economy potential to create diverse employment opportunities that are accessible to women. It will focus on encouraging women entrepreneurship and fostering opportunities to start and grow their businesses, thus empowering women economically and socially and inspiring girls and women to pursue careers and opportunities in related fields. By promoting gender-inclusive hiring practices, circular economy initiatives can contribute to gender equity in the workforce and to highlight the role of women as of agents of change driving the emergence of CE models. It will also enable the sustainable inclusion of women-led informal activities (e.g., waste segregation, collection, local logistics) into supply chains of medium to large corporates, ensuring a more equitable access to natural resources"}, {"bbox": [1023, 1680, 1145, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 38"}]