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The project will fully fund the mobilisation of these experts, potentially including:"}, {"bbox": [134, 472, 1133, 529], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support tailored to address specific project needs like marketing, financial management, or technology adoption strategies."}, {"bbox": [134, 529, 1133, 584], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Monitoring and evaluation guidance to track progress and measure impact on smallholder farmers."}, {"bbox": [134, 587, 1133, 673], "category": "List-item", "text": "* This comprehensive approach equips applicants for success, from initial vision to project implementation, ultimately maximising their positive impact on the smallholder farmer community."}, {"bbox": [86, 688, 298, 718], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 732, 582, 761], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [97, 761, 1133, 963], "category": "Text", "text": "Aid to environment and climate change adaptation are significant objectives of this Action, as it will promote sustainable, integrated and climate-smart agriculture practices, and the adoption of more droughts resistant practices and crops through their access to markets. Environmental protection is an induced area of attention by promoting agroecology and agroforestry management and addressing aspects such as soil cover, adoption of less soil depleting crops, organic fertiliser use and reducing land degradation. Promotion of pest and disease control will be promoted, focusing on integrated management techniques and including environmental safeguards for biodiversity conservation."}, {"bbox": [97, 991, 1050, 1020], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the SEA screening** (relevant for budget support and strategic-level interventions)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1021, 1133, 1050], "category": "Text", "text": "The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) screening concluded that no further action was required."}, {"bbox": [97, 1078, 1133, 1195], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project). The EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) screening classified the action as Category B (not requiring an EIA, but for which environment aspects will be addressed during design)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1223, 1133, 1281], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcome of the CRA (Climate Risk Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project)"}, {"bbox": [97, 1281, 1133, 1338], "category": "Text", "text": "The Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) screening concluded that this action is no or low risk (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [97, 1367, 686, 1396], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls"}, {"bbox": [97, 1396, 1133, 1628], "category": "Text", "text": "As per the OECD Gender DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as G1. This implies that the Action will contribute to social and economic rights and will focus on *increased access for women in all their diversity to financial services and products, and productive resources as well as ensuring that women and men increasingly participate in and have improved access to jobs, entrepreneurship opportunities and alternative livelihoods*. This will particularly support initiatives to improve access to markets and financial services and will contribute to address the root causes of gender inequalities, based mainly on discriminatory socio-cultural norms. As mentioned before, and in alignment with CLIP for the country, the Action will contribute to the GAP III, in particular to the"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 32"}]