[{"bbox": [95, 152, 1133, 385], "category": "Text", "text": "much as they should. There is also a risk that the governments commitment to a transparent, predictable, and fair regulatory environment may not be equally applied to all stakeholders, and risks pushing out those working in less formalised and resource poor operations. ASM operators face serious financial and technological challenges, with most of them using basic tools such as pickaxes and shovels due to limited financial resources. These limit their ability to economically enhance. The types of environments they are working in also come with exploitation, health and safety risks as well as child labour issues. The environmental impact of mining, in all sectors, is not well regulated in Zambia and as investments in mining increase so will the risks to the environment as well as local communities."}, {"bbox": [95, 417, 1103, 477], "category": "Text", "text": "In the areas of intervention of the programme, the main inequalities are based on access to education, income level, gender and to a lesser extent geographical location."}, {"bbox": [95, 510, 219, 539], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [95, 540, 1133, 598], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will contribute to the improved respect Human Rights and Business and good governance of the mining sector, resulting in transparency of decision making and reducing corruption."}, {"bbox": [95, 626, 522, 655], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [95, 656, 1133, 801], "category": "Text", "text": "Although Zambia is a peaceful country, any actions that contribute to reducing marginalisation, exclusion and inequalities is contributing to further building societal peace and resilience. This particular action aims to increase the resilience of the population in the targeted areas through economic empowerment, with decent chances for both youth and women to act as transformative agents and impact the development of one of the key economic sectors in the country."}, {"bbox": [95, 833, 356, 859], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [95, 862, 1108, 921], "category": "Text", "text": "Specific shock-sensitive solutions, including application of pre-defined DRR/resilience standards and crisis modifiers may be defined under the implementation contracts, wherever necessary and feasible."}, {"bbox": [95, 954, 436, 980], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Other considerations if relevant"}, {"bbox": [95, 984, 153, 1009], "category": "Text", "text": "None"}, {"bbox": [84, 1055, 422, 1083], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 1095, 1167, 1604], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Impact (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>3 – people and the organisation</td><td>Constrained implementation capacity undermines implementation</td><td>Low</td><td>High</td><td>A mix of international organisations, CSOs and technical assistance will be chosen to implement the programme, to bring value added to the specific sub-sectors and diversify the risk. Working through already established programmes like Africa MaVal and PanAfGeo will also reduce this risk, as well as choosing an international organisation with proven track record of working on skills development specifically for the mining sector. Solid monitoring systems will be put in place involving stakeholders, including the Government.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [603, 1652, 627, 1676], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "19"}]