[{"bbox": [134, 152, 1134, 258], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The Ministry of Construction takes the lead in setting policies on construction. It plays a key role in addressing a number of bottlenecks related to planning and implementation of constructions in IPs, industrial symbiosis associated with construction (e.g. using by industrial by-products as land-fill materials)."}, {"bbox": [134, 259, 1134, 340], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The Ministry of Invalids and Social Affairs is an important partner for the promotion of gender equality, responsible business practices, including ensuring better working conditions for industrial and agricultural workers, labour rights, and social security."}, {"bbox": [134, 340, 1134, 420], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The Ministry of Finance is a key interlocutor regarding setting pricing mechanism for utilities (water, electricity), financial mechanisms for energy service companies and tax and financial incentives to promote green investment. It is therefore an important partner of the Action."}, {"bbox": [97, 431, 1055, 458], "category": "Text", "text": "Other ministries might also be relevant to a certain policies and activities and will be engaged as needed."}, {"bbox": [97, 468, 1134, 577], "category": "Text", "text": "At the local level, the Action will work with local authorities of selected provinces, notably the People Committees (PPC) and its relevant departments. The management board of IPs, industrial and agriculture enterprises, male and female household businesses and farmers of the selected value chains are beneficiary with whom the Action will work directly and extensively at the activity level."}, {"bbox": [97, 588, 1134, 748], "category": "Text", "text": "Business associations, trade unions, the Viet Nam Women Union, research & training institutions, business development services (BDS) and technology providers and other relevant public and private bodies will be engaged as relevant for specific policies and activities. Non-state actors such as community based organizations (CBOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs), including women and People with Disabilities (PwD) organisations, play an important role in policy advocacy and capacity building at the grassroots level and the Action will engage them when and where possible."}, {"bbox": [97, 759, 1134, 973], "category": "Text", "text": "EU and EU Member State institutions, respective Development Finance Institutions and businesses²⁸ will be engaged in a Team Europe approach to the maximum extent to share the EU's experiences on the relevant regulatory framework, good practices and models, in line with the Global Gateway strategy focus on soft and regulatory measures. EuroCham and the European business community are important stakeholders of the Action. As the Action will work with the local export sector, which has strong linkages with the European market, working with European business communities is key to ensure the circularity and enforcement of responsible business conducts through our value chains. It will also promote the EU experiences and technologies for RCE through demonstrations and business match-making events."}, {"bbox": [97, 983, 1134, 1062], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will collaborate with banking and financial institutions, including those from the EU and EU member States to facilitate and mobilise finance for bankable projects identified during the implementation of technical assistance at the business level."}, {"bbox": [85, 1092, 607, 1125], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [174, 1158, 597, 1190], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 1205, 1100, 1257], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Overall Objective** of this action is to contribute to the development of a climate neutral, responsible and circular economy in Viet Nam."}, {"bbox": [97, 1257, 570, 1284], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Specific(s) Objective(s) of this action are to:**"}, {"bbox": [174, 1284, 1134, 1338], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Improve the regulatory framework and business environment for the uptake of gender-sensitive, responsible and circular economy practices;"}, {"bbox": [174, 1338, 826, 1364], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Improve the circularity in industrial businesses and industrial parks"}, {"bbox": [97, 1373, 1078, 1400], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives are:**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1400, 586, 1426], "category": "Text", "text": "**Contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1):**"}, {"bbox": [97, 1426, 1134, 1479], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 Policy bottlenecks hindering the implementation of gender-sensitive, responsible and circular economy practices in the industrial sector identified;"}, {"bbox": [97, 1479, 1134, 1533], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2 The public capacity for improving regulatory framework and business environment to support gender-sensitive, responsible and circular economy practices strengthened;"}, {"bbox": [97, 1533, 589, 1559], "category": "Text", "text": "**Contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2):**"}, {"bbox": [85, 1612, 1145, 1679], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁸ In Viet Nam, they include but are not limited to 18 EU Member States, EU DFIs (such as AFD, KFW), EIB, a number of implementing agencies (GIZ, Expertise France, AICS, LuxDev, PROPARCO), and EuroCham with more than 1400 members – representing one of the biggest foreign business community in Viet Nam."}, {"bbox": [1023, 1679, 1145, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 24"}]